In the past 2 years I have removed the country station presets on my car radios. There has been nothing good coming out. Country Rock has been around a long time and there was still a lot of good very creative artists that kept a good balance for a couple decades but it slowly degraded to where there is not much country left and artists have little creativity. Then the Hollywood element started to have more influence on artists and nose dive it went. The CMA awards are a joke. Toby Keith figured that out long ago.
Kieth Urban wins country entertainer of the year. Watta joke. She occasionally wears a cowboy hat, that's as country as it gits. Little too sensitive for real cowboys. Luke Bryan , I don't understand his POP-ularity either. Going on forty , singin bout pickin up teenagers. Watta stud.... Just goes to show ya, promote the hell outta dogshit and turds will be trending. Jim
By nature of my job I am the old salt (30) surrounded by mostly 18-21 years old. The stuff that gets passed as country these days. I feel like every song is the same thing “ hey baby gurl tan legs get in my brand new Chevy”. That crap and the mumble rap! I have revoked mustache privelages to any of the Marines who don’t know who Burt Reynolds is!
Saw Barbara M at the West Palm Beach Auditorium (the "leaky tepee" as it was known) in the early 1970's and she was amazing. She plays ALL the instruments and very well, at that. She is a real musician with a very good voice. As for Country Music, it was invaded by younger and younger people who melded it with rock long ago. Roy Clark, Buck Owens, Hank Williams (the REAL one), Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, for goodness sake!, Merle, George Jones, and all those who came before THEM-- the people who invented the music) have passed it on and I don't think young country people appreciate what it was. They have the newer singers now--Kacey Musgraves, etc. Gotta just put the old ones on and forget about what it has become, I guess.
It all ended with Hank Wilson's back... ws https://www.google.com/search?q=alb...gNreAhUS26wKHXreD_gQ_AUIDigB&biw=1536&bih=750
What about David Allen Coe's song " The Perfect Country Western Song" he mentions the song writers name, saying he hadn't written the perfect country western song because he didn't say anything about mama or trains or trucks or prison or getting drunk. Bob H.
