In a message dated 3/5/99 12:11:16 PM EST, don yates writes:
for those interested in hearing actual country music -- as opposed to
roots-rock, f*lk, etc. -- you're still quite likely to run into it on
mainstream country radio. And you're certainly gonna hear a lot more of
it there than you
After wrappin' up Swingin' Doors last night, I tuned to one of Seattle's
commercial country stations. They were playin' John Anderson's "Straight
Tequila Night," one of my favorite country songs of the '90s -- alt. or
otherwise. While it's true that modern country radio's programming is
s are rife with it. Most is as cliched as the
worst country stuff. I guess that's academia for you.
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Subject: Re: country radio
Date: Fri, Mar 5, 1999, 11:20 AM
In a message dated 3/5/99 12:11:16 PM EST, don yates writes:
half the time I either laugh out loud at the cliches or think, "cripes it
sounds like lawrence welk!!".
Lots of people have been doing that for as long as I've been listening to
country music.
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On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Jennifer Sperandeo wrote:
half the time I either laugh out loud at the cliches or think, "cripes
it sounds like lawrence welk!!".
Which is pretty much what folks outside the traditional country music
audience were doin' back in the '50s and '60s when listening to country
alow me to update:
"cripes, it sounds like Billy Ocean!"
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From: Don Yates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "passenger side" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: country radio
Date: Fri, Mar 5, 1999, 12:07 PM
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Jennifer Sperandeo wrote:
half the time I e
half the time I either laugh out loud at the cliches or think, "cripes it
sounds like lawrence welk!!".
Lots of people have been doing that for as long as I've been listening to
country music.
On a totally different tangent, I have been listening to the upcoming Spade
Cooley record that
"Caribbean Queen" was a swell song.
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From: Jennifer Sperandeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: passenger side [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: country radio
alow me to update:
"cripes, it sounds like Billy Ocean!"
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On a totally different tangent, I have been listening to the
upcoming Spade
Cooley record that Bloodshot is releasing soon and my first reaction was
"This sounds like Lawrence Welk!" Maybe not as cheesy but the
accordion and
the western swing arrangements have that "champagne" sound. I must
