CMA awards last night

Ricky Thibodeaux · Post by **Ricky Thibodeaux** » 12 Nov 2009 3:50 pm

Taylor Swift=Entertainer of the year award. HAHA what a joke.
Today's so called country music=!@*# if you know what I mean.

Chris LeDrew · Post by **Chris LeDrew** » 12 Nov 2009 3:59 pm

Ricky, there's a witch hunt over in the Music section if you wanna check it out.

Charlie Shifflett · Post by **Charlie Shifflett** » 13 Nov 2009 2:49 pm

Charlie here If thats country ive been playing
the wrong stuff I thought Ray Price and George
and Alan and the rest of the country singers.
Taylor ha ha Charlie

Shorty Smith · Post by **Shorty Smith** » 15 Nov 2009 6:17 pm

75% of the show was an insult to country music, thats the way I feel about it, its really a shame they call it the Country Music Awards, Shorty

Brian Henry · Post by **Brian Henry** » 15 Nov 2009 6:35 pm

Taylor Swift is now entertainer of the year!! Apparently the youngest ever at 19 years of age. She is one of my favorites. Just follow this link to youtube and watch and listen to the lyrics and great steel guitar backup. Country music is so much more than the two chord, drinkin, cheatin, lyin songs of Hank Williams. It is important for us to adapt to change - the dinosaur failed to do this and is not with us any more!! Here is the link - enjoy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AHzIq_n-DQ_________________

Brian Henry · Post by **Brian Henry** » 15 Nov 2009 6:47 pm

Sorry for such a quick response but since there appears to be such ignorance regarding the definition of country music - here is a short tutorial:

Country music (or country and western) is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, gospel music and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s.[1]

The term country music began to be used in the 1940s when the earlier term hillbilly music was deemed to be degrading and the term was widely embraced in the 1970s, while country and Western has declined in use since that time, except in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where it is still commonly used.[1]

In the Southwestern United States a different mix of ethnic groups created the music that became the Western music of the term country and Western. The term "country music" is used today to describe many styles and subgenres.

Country music has produced two of the top selling solo artists of all time. Elvis Presley, who was known early on as “the Hillbilly Cat” and was a regular on the radio program Louisiana Hayride,[2] went on to become a defining figure in the emergence of rock and roll. Contemporary musician Garth Brooks, with 220 million albums sold, is the top-selling solo artist in U.S. history.[3]

While album sales of most musical genres have declined, country music experienced one of its best years in 2006, when, during the first six months, U.S. sales of country albums increased by 17.7 percent to 36 million. Moreover, country music listening nationwide has remained steady for almost a decade, reaching 77.3 million adults every week, according to the radio-ratings agency Arbitron, Inc.

Roual Ranes · Post by **Roual Ranes** » 15 Nov 2009 7:21 pm

They committed murder - down on music row!

Brian Henry · Post by **Brian Henry** » 15 Nov 2009 7:27 pm

Yeah! I guess they did commit murder on music row, but maybe it was overdue. Let's welcome the birth of the new baby with open arms!!

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 15 Nov 2009 7:43 pm

tbhenry wrote:Taylor Swift is now entertainer of the year!! Apparently the youngest ever at 19 years of age. She is one of my favorites. Just follow this link to youtube and watch and listen to the lyrics and great steel guitar backup. Country music is so much more than the two chord, drinkin, cheatin, lyin songs of Hank Williams. It is important for us to adapt to change - the dinosaur failed to do this and is not with us any more!! Here is the link - enjoy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AHzIq_n-DQ_________________

Nathan Chapman plays steel guitar on "You Belong With Me". He's a multi instrumentalist and plays different instruments, including steel guitar.

Brett

Charles Davidson · Post by **Charles Davidson** » 15 Nov 2009 8:45 pm

TBHENRY, What was that movie where they welcomed a new baby.Oh yeah, think it was called THE OMEN. Just because it's NEW means nothing. My wife bought some NEW microwave biscuits the other day they damn sure was'nt as good as grandma made 60 years ago.Same goes for country [music ?] today. YOU BETCHA, DYK?BC.

Brian Henry · Post by **Brian Henry** » 16 Nov 2009 1:52 am

I bet the new biscuits had less fat, sugar and othe cancer and diabetes causing substances than thos 60 year old biscuits!!

Charles Davidson · Post by **Charles Davidson** » 16 Nov 2009 2:29 am

Maybe,but I ate a two mule wagen full of grandma's biscuits and country cured ham,soghum syrup,fried chicken,and pecan pie,going on 71 and STILL kicking high running up and down the interstate with a five piece band,never miss a gig,the first one on the bus ready to ride,no glasses,no hearing aid,no complaints from my young bride,just MAYBE it could have been grandma's OLD cathead biscuits. YOU BETCHA, DYK?BC.

Roual Ranes · Post by **Roual Ranes** » 16 Nov 2009 5:32 am

tb,
You can stand in a garage but that don't make you a car.
Every band I have ever been in play a little of everything but we called the material what it was.
Country, pop, jazz, swing or rock and roll was just that.
Some good has come of this. I know a few youngsters that have "discovered" Hank Williams Sr. and think that is great music. Maybe in their search for "country" music more will discover the source. I think the ignorance lies in the younger set not knowing or being able to hear the earlier music.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 16 Nov 2009 12:53 pm

why do the youngsters all wear funny hats?

Bill Moran · Post by **Bill Moran** » 16 Nov 2009 1:10 pm

No one lives forever. Pass me another biscuit, Granmaw !

Kenny Martin · Post by **Kenny Martin** » 16 Nov 2009 1:35 pm

Just because Chicken Salad and Chicken Poop come from the same place doesn't mean you can eat both of them!

Wait a minute, there are some that do over at CMA!

Charles Davidson · Post by **Charles Davidson** » 16 Nov 2009 3:29 pm

More young people are turning to classic country than you think. A couple of years ago was on the road with a young artist [Joey Allcorn] check out his site. We played Cash,Faron,Webb,Buck,etc with a heavy rock-a- billy style. all so a LOT of original tunes along the same line.We played six or seven southern states, Most of the clubs were PUNK rock clubs. What did they go crazy over ? Hank Sr.,Webb,Faron,Wenn,Earnest,Cash was their favorite.It freaked me out to start with when these kids with green and purple hair with nose rings asking for these classic country artist. We played Tootsies often and this stuff we did went over well. Joey has a new CD out that's really good with some great pickers on it, Mr. Don Helms,Johnny Hiland,Lloyd Green,etc. check it out. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.

Walter Bowden · Post by **Walter Bowden** » 16 Nov 2009 5:30 pm

A very big difference I notice between old "classic" country live shows and what is out there now, with a few exceptions, is the widespread use of sequenced tracks accompanying the talent as well as digital devices and other sound production stuff greatly enhancing a live performance. Back then, what you heard was what you got, but now a days I'm not sure what I'm hearing, so I don't know what I've got. "Is it live or is it Memorex?"

Rick Campbell · Post by **Rick Campbell** » 16 Nov 2009 5:44 pm

Walter,

I know what you're talking about. I think it's all about the show nowdays, fog, lights, etc.... I'm not sure that the music is strong enough to stand on it's own two feet the way it used to. $:\$

Tommy Shown · Post by **Tommy Shown** » 17 Nov 2009 1:46 pm

I was listening to a morning radio show on the local radio station, the morning after. The jocks said the only way they could tell it was country, was there was a few wearing cowboy hats. That's the deal now put a steel guitar in a song and it's a country song, please don't get me started. But that's what happens when you get some suit in LA, or New York, telling some program director at a station in Witchita, play this song it's country when it's not.
Tommy Shown

Alan Miller · Post by **Alan Miller** » 17 Nov 2009 5:29 pm

The definition of country music that tbhenry talks about seems to have its emphasis on sales and $$$$$$$$.
Taylor swift can sing as much crap as she likes as long as it makes millions of record sales under the country label.
It is what record companies want these days , blur the definitions of music genres and sell it anyway you can.

In every genre of music the grass roots traditionalists who emotionally try hold onto their musics identity are having to listen to watered down and sometimes completely altered releases under the traditional label, ie Taylor Swift "country artiste".

My stomach muscles hurt so much with all these belly laughs.

And sad that good country gets ignored by the CMA.

Charley Adair · Post by **Charley Adair** » 18 Nov 2009 7:42 am

Things like Taylor Swift winning entertainer of the year is what made me quit watching country award shows 15 years ago. That and canned music.

Mitch Adelman · Post by **Mitch Adelman** » 18 Nov 2009 8:42 am

I wasn't going to comment but ...
Taylor Swift is one thing that's hard to take, unless your 16. But How about Carrie Underwood (who can sing) doing her Madonna impersonation with hot pants and dancers all over her?
But nothing can compare to giving the likes of Darius Rucker (from Hootie and the Blowfish) best new country artist. Is this a race card being played or what? Jeez.. Considering all the struggling new real country artists out there, I had to grab my remote!!
OK I got it out of my system (until next year and I can't imagine what that will be like!)

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 18 Nov 2009 11:10 am

Mitch Adelman wrote: But nothing can compare to giving the likes of Darius Rucker (from Hootie and the Blowfish) best new country artist. Is this a race card being played or what? Jeez.. Considering all the struggling new real country artists out there, I had to grab my remote!!

OK that one did puzzle me, and not because of anything to do with race.
How can someone win "New Artist Of The Year", when he put out his first record 18 years ago and has sold over 25 MILLION records in the past 15 years, AND the stuff he's doing right now doesn't sound much different than his earlier "Hootie" stuff.
To me anyone who has sold over 25 million and been in the business for a couple of decades, is NOT a "New Artist".

Tommy Shown · Post by **Tommy Shown** » 18 Nov 2009 12:24 pm

You are making me hungry, talkin' about the country ham and cathead biscuits, Charlie. I love em' too! I was raised on them. LOL!
Tommy Shown
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