Your thoughts on the "Genuine Article"

Rich Paton · Post by **Rich Paton** » 3 Dec 1999 5:40 pm

Please share your suggestions on and anecdotes on "Real" Country music when it
regains what is being lost to marketing and the fickle $$-only direction. I mean, how long can this "New Country", already dead sounding horse be flogged before the futile effort yields the next discarded trend?
I hold that the REAL THING will survive and
regain its greatness. What do you think will help it come to pass?

Rich Paton · Post by **Rich Paton** » 3 Dec 1999 5:41 pm

One thing I noticed when recently hearing a wonderful "Country Standard Time" classics radio show:
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Lose the drum machines. Compared to the tone of the older songs, they sound like a horde of mousetraps going off all over the place, in tooooo-perfect time, blurring the overall sound annoyingly.
Would someone enlighten me on how this production "value" crept in? Every song in the classics program had a great, appropriate drum part that supported the song rather than
relentlessly blasting it in your face.

Mike Dennis · Post by **Mike Dennis** » 3 Dec 1999 6:18 pm

I too enjoy a less produced sound...

both in rock music and country.