I'm a HUGE country music fan, and if you look outside of Nashville, there's still a fair number of absolutely outstanding acts to be discovered...
Here's an album I recorded and released on my (meanwhile retired) record label in 2007: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/billydonburns The recordings were made in my living room, and that's my sofa on the cover. Billy Don Burns is an outlaw, a rebel, an addict and utterly crazy, but it's guys like him who still keep the spirit of REAL country alive. If you look into his biography, Billy Don has been all over the place, Willie Nelson recorded one of this songs, his co-operation with Hank Cochran actually kicked Johnny Cash's UNCHAINED off the #1 position in Gavin's Americana album charts in 1996, and today he COULD be one of the great names in country music, yet he managed to screw it all up, and as it is, hardly anybody outside the professional crowd even remembers his name. To quote another one of my country music heroes, David Allan Coe: 'If that ain't country, you can kiss my ass!' Helmut Am 09.06.2012 um 18:36 schrieb Rix Posterz: > Being a songwriter (lyricist) myself---and having written dozens of country > songs, mostly in the early 90's---the use of imperfect rhymes in every > contemporary Country song is a true pet peeve of mine. The current Country > music songwriters go out of their way to make every single rhyme an imperfect > one---ie: rhyming "back" with "that" or "pit" with "this". Hey, if this > occurred occasionally or even semi-frequently, it wouldn't bother me so > much...but nowadays it's always the case...always. And I'm not alone in > feeling the way I do. Years ago, the legendary lyricist Sammy Cahn said it > was his personal pet peeve as well...and that was decades before contemporary > Country music started thoroughly dumbing-down the songwriting process. A few > years ago, I met the great songwriter Paul Williams at a friend's Christmas > party and we got into a long conversation about this subject...and he agreed > with me completely. > In Country music as well as Pop music, these days more often than not > songs are "cloned"---somebody has a monster hit, causing songwriters to > scramble in an effort to write a song that's just close enough to the hit > where they won't get their asses sued for plagiarism. I'm sure this same type > of practice takes place all the time in the TV and movie industries as well. > I think Country music had a renaissance of sorts in the late 80's and early > 90's and has gone downhill ever since. Just my two cents, whatever that's > worth... > Rick > > In a message dated 6/9/2012 8:57:27 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > ki...@movieart.net writes: > The greatest moment in the history of country music was when Johnny Cash's > stepdaughter, Carlene Carter, said that she was "going to put the cunt back > in country."* It's > been all downhill after that. > > > *In 1979, during a concert at New York's Bottom Line, Carlene Carter > introduced a song about mate-swapping called Swap-Meat Rag by stating, "If > this song don't put the cunt back in country, I don't know what will." > > Yours sincerely, > Pat Boone > > > On Jun 9, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Diana and/or Morris Everett Jr wrote: > >> We are indeed! And the boots I would be scootin' in are custom made Paul >> Bonds with my initials inlaid front and back! We're serious about this >> stuff, by golly! You should have seen the show tonight. Blake Shelton and >> Jake Owen made me swoon, Carrie Underwood who is sheer perfection in every >> way certainly had Mo's attention, and the National Anthem was sung to >> perfection by The Oak Ridge Boys. That's what I'm talking' about: Yee Haw! >> >> As for the "porn" you sent Morrie, Kirby you nut, those were some great >> shots of movie poster stuff from back in the day. Mo is hanging his head >> for not getting back to you the moment he watched it. I really enjoyed >> seeing Mo bidding in that auction. He says THANK YOU!! >> >> Okay, so I have no input as to how to get great - or even good- tickets to >> next year's CMA event. Bummer, dudes. >> >> 'Night- By the way, here is my favorite, hands down, no question about it, >> FOREVER AND EVER favorite country music video. Mo loves it too. We both wish >> we could have participated!! Watch it standing up and HAVE A GOOD TIME!!! >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSROm-vgVRk >> >> From: Kirby McDaniel <ki...@movieart.net> >> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU >> Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 2:33 PM >> Subject: Re: [MOPO] Off topic: but oh boy would I love a favor..... >> >> They're boot-scooters! They should move to Texas. Like Stephen McNally and >> the Indians in APACHE DRUMS, we are >> surrounded by those people. Yee hah. >> >> K. >> On Jun 8, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art wrote: >> >>> At 07:03 AM 6/8/2012, Diana and/or Morris Everett Jr wrote: >>> >>>> I am a huge ( okay, bigger than huge) country music fan, and Mo has been >>>> a willing convert. >>> >>> >>> Poor Morrie >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com >>> ___________________________________________________________________ >>> How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List >>> Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu >>> In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L >>> The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. >>> >> >> Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List >> Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu >> In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L >> The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. >> >> > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
