Please tell me this isn't the CMT Awards!
Sure doesn't sound like Country Music to me!
NO!
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Gear_Junky
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What is that tune that croons about "I wish that grandpas never died, I wish that country music was still played on country radioooo" 
You might be thinking about "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?"Gear_Junky wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 4:03 pm What is that tune that croons about "I wish that grandpas never died, I wish that country music was still played on country radioooo"
Gandalf the Intonationer
I generally avoid what the media (or music business, etc.) "brings" to me or presents me with. Been doing it for years, and I haven't missed out on anything worthwhile yet.
"Real" examples of all music genres still exist, they just don't make the headlines because they aren't promoted by the industry. They're doing what they have always done - trying to sell what they think the mainstream youth will like.
Seek out and support those artists who make the music you want to hear, and they'll keep going. Go throw love at the ones you would rather see performing at the CMTs. Chances are - they really need your love and support right now.
"Real" examples of all music genres still exist, they just don't make the headlines because they aren't promoted by the industry. They're doing what they have always done - trying to sell what they think the mainstream youth will like.
Seek out and support those artists who make the music you want to hear, and they'll keep going. Go throw love at the ones you would rather see performing at the CMTs. Chances are - they really need your love and support right now.
"What is this place? Where am I?"
a not all that great (lazy) list song that is bordering on bro-country...Gear_Junky wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 4:03 pm What is that tune that croons about "I wish that grandpas never died, I wish that country music was still played on country radioooo"
10 years, 2 months, and 8 days of blissful ignorance ruined by that snake in the grass Major Tom.
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I have no doubt of your assessmenthonyock wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 8:04 pma not all that great (lazy) list song that is bordering on bro-country...Gear_Junky wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 4:03 pm What is that tune that croons about "I wish that grandpas never died, I wish that country music was still played on country radioooo"
I know very little about country, that's just something I heard on the radio. Even since moving into a rural setting I like to tune in to "country" music occasionally, just for kicks. But I'd say that even I can spot the modern, overprocessed, fake drawl songs and the more genuine, original stuff. I just don't hear it a lot. I think I can also hear "direct placement" in the songs - I hear things like "crown and sprite", "jack and coke", etc. and I just know someone got paid to write that.
I heard a guy singing it at the local bar before COVID, thought it was a bit shallow. Lots of call backs to ideas with no real development of any of them. It is basically typical radio country to me, like a ripoff of a Tim McGraw song done in a little different way.Gear_Junky wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 12:51 amI have no doubt of your assessmenthonyock wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 8:04 pma not all that great (lazy) list song that is bordering on bro-country...Gear_Junky wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 4:03 pm What is that tune that croons about "I wish that grandpas never died, I wish that country music was still played on country radioooo"
I know very little about country, that's just something I heard on the radio. Even since moving into a rural setting I like to tune in to "country" music occasionally, just for kicks. But I'd say that even I can spot the modern, overprocessed, fake drawl songs and the more genuine, original stuff. I just don't hear it a lot. I think I can also hear "direct placement" in the songs - I hear things like "crown and sprite", "jack and coke", etc. and I just know someone got paid to write that.
I have seen a few amazing small-time acts like Ward Davis, Whitey Morgan, and Sturgill Simpson before he really blew up and had a little run at the Grammys a few years back.
Ward Davis was especially good because his bass player was one hell of a singer in his own right. He is a pretty good writer.
Whitey was just good old fashioned Honky Tonk.
Sturgilll is my favorite artist, he just put out a Bluegrass album re-imagining 20 of his songs that I have been listening to non-stop on my way to and from work all week.
10 years, 2 months, and 8 days of blissful ignorance ruined by that snake in the grass Major Tom.
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True, nice body in it (or so it appears) but the so-called music was gawdawful!
Gandalf the Intonationer
not the real thing, but the Gilbert Gottfried recitation was hilarious
10 years, 2 months, and 8 days of blissful ignorance ruined by that snake in the grass Major Tom.
Now I am going to have to Google that and lose several more minutes of my life that I won’t get back.
