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Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 14 Nov 2008 12:52 pm

Ray Minich wrote:
she is now free of Mutt Lange
Is Shania "available"?

Not to you

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We ALL know we're gonna be enraged, inflamed, whatever, by these shows. They are not designed for us! Why bother watching? It's like going to a football game, already knowing that your team is gonna lose by 50 points. Well, not quite right. You can show SUPPORT for your team. But the only "country" teams I support have at least one person on the "dead" list.
Watch Oprah...

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 14 Nov 2008 1:05 pm

Would the CMA be better off changing their logo to the RMA? $:\$

Seems like a lot of sign changing... $:\$ I remember years ago at a CMA after party I was grabbing a scotch and water and talking to Hank Thompson. When I walked away a man and his wife supposedly CMA members from LA, asked me who the man was I was talking to? I knew the music was in trouble right then and there..I resisted the temptation to tell them it was Charlie Pride. :lol How come the CMA hasn,t in a long while inducted any women into the HOF? or Long over due Gene Watson..

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 14 Nov 2008 1:19 pm

How come the CMA hasn,t in a long while inducted any women into the HOF?

Well, Emmylou Harris was in fact mentioned during the show as recently being inducted.

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 14 Nov 2008 3:11 pm

I thought that while the sound was better than usual, the instruments were turned up, most of the vocals were buried.. and in some cases that was a good thing.
I liked the show, even tho it's a politically motivated thing. Every suit in the audience stood up and applauded for every artist. I wonder why!
Bantars were everywhere, as were new listeners to country radio and music buyers.
I was amazed that Lazy Antebellum won... since they only had one song released, twice.
While I totally adore Linda Davis, her kid... so far is only a fair back up singer. I look for way better stuff from her.
I agree that most of it was rock oriented..but I still dig it, it's music, it's what WE do.

While I didn't like the Kid Rock number, he has a tune on his new cd, mostly written by a friend of mine that I may be working for in 2009, and it's a killer tune! If it brings new listeners to the fold, I am all for it.

I really don't care what they call it, it's music!

LJ Eiffert · Post by **LJ Eiffert** » 14 Nov 2008 10:50 pm

Bring back the Compton Brothers with Rockin Razzy Bailey and you'll know why Conway Twitty was to Dic Go for the CMA years ago. But now ,it's all here in todays music. I think Otis Redding would be a Country Super Star today. Even with the ACM. LJ

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 14 Nov 2008 11:47 pm

Conway Twitty was to Dic Go

Huh?

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 15 Nov 2008 2:28 am

Mark Eaton wrote:
Conway Twitty was to Dic Go
Huh?

you had to be there.

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 15 Nov 2008 7:54 am

I forgot Emmy Lou got in and what a putrid way to honor inductees as "Oh by the way". But I was thinking of Names that will never come up now because of waning popularity and age and having been too Country.. Like Rose Maddox,Jean Shepard,Wanda Jackson.

LJ Eiffert · Post by **LJ Eiffert** » 15 Nov 2008 8:57 am

Just go listen to Conway Twitty's " Grass Band " song and fellow the bass lines. LJ

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 17 Nov 2008 8:57 pm

LJ:I believe you meant "Boogie Grass Band" written by Ronnie Reno..Good size hit for Conway.

LJ Eiffert · Post by **LJ Eiffert** » 17 Nov 2008 10:36 pm

Hey Joe,you got it. That's the song " Boogie Grass Band ". That song had a lot of Dic Go feel in it before they found the trend, called Dic Go. LJ