there was a steel guitar back there in the bank of synthesizers.
Patsy Cline woulda worn a vinyl bustier if they were available. Sure she
would!
-----Original Message-----
From: vgs399 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: passenger side <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: Grammyszzzzzzzzz....
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>>Not to beat a dead horse, but could someone who saw Shania's performance
>>tonight, puh-leeze explain to me what she's got to do with country music?
>>Oh it must be the twin fiddles in the band. <g>
>>Jim, smilin'
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>Label affiliation? I suspect Nashville would easily let her go as one of
>"theirs" if it were not for the millions she generates in sales. She has
>done some songs which are more country than her current output - Any Man Of
>Mine and Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under for instance, but a lot of
>her "charm" IS with the pop audience. She's a marketer's dream, don't you
>think? With Lange in tow, it could be a bit like Pygmalion and Galatea
<g>.
>Anyway, what I personally think is that so much "bad" press ( people said
>she can't sing etc;) only fueled the interest of those who probably
wouldn't
>have taken a second look anyway. Yet, if she's able to stir interest in
>more people delving into country music, then I don't see any harm. I do
>know several people who never listened to country music before, but since
>Twain and some others with a pop/rock bent came along, they're now looking
>into other kinds of country music...
>But, what I wonder...if she had been originally marketed as "pop", sans
>fiddle in the mix, would she have ever charted? Was Nashville just a
>convenient vehicle?
>Tera
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