No wonder she switched to the "New Sound"!

[This message was edited by Donny Hinson on 23 October 2000 at 05:18 PM.]

Why didn't you like LeAnn's version of "Blue"? Was it her voice you didn't like, or just the music?

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People need to learn that everything new is not good just because some record company pumps $$$$$$$$$$$$ and tells you that it is.

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Music is good when I think it is. If I don't like it, it's not "good music" to me. But it probably is to somebody else.

Just because music is "old" or "traditional" doens't make it good, either.

And, I think that many of today's songs "tell a story", too. Not just the old stuff.

There's plenty to love and to dislike in both the old stuff and the new stuff. I prefer to dwell on what I like to listen to.

If I say I hate so-and-so's music, I'll have some agree with me, but I've also "attacked" music that others like. So, I try (and don't succeed often enough) to stay away from disparing music I don't happen to like.

If I don't like it, that's all it means. Music is personal.

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I personally think the country I've heard in the 80's, 90's and now are far more better musically than in the past. Just my opinion! Theresa

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Theresa,
I know you said that was your last post, but if you don't mind, I'm curious about one thing.

Is it because during the years you mentioned, Paul was/is the number one steel player on call for the big sessions, and therefore it's most likely him on the songs you prefer? This is NOT a flame, but an honest question.

And before someone thinks otherwise, NO NO NO NO!!!!, I am NOT saying anything against Paul Franklin as a player or otherwise!!! I happen to agree with those who think he's one of the greatest players who ever sat down at the steel. I'm just curious as to whether or not you think that's a factor.

I don't think that country music has got the market cornered in the "bastardized by the big money & lawyers dept." ...

Anybody listened to any jazz in the media lately? How 'bout top 40 rock? Forget about R&B.....& then of course there's rap & hip hop......

By and large, most of it is insipid pap with very little nutritional value....unlike the...... heavy sigh........good old days.

Almost anything with any depth, dimension, & a sense of roots on radio today is being played on non-comercial privately funded stations...Thank God classical stations don't have to answer to Burger King's ad men!

Actually...all things considered.....I think modern country music is actually the lesser of many evils going on over the airwaves today. It certainly has some of the more "musical" moments being thrust upon us by the demographic people working for the "big boys". I think Paul F. is a real hero here! Everything that he puts into tape is a cut above what most session players of any persuasion get to play these days. I think most producers are so mystified by the pedal steel that they havn't figured out how to squelch it down yet.

Although I must admit, as I'm driving in my car, I usually pass by the country stations pretty quick on my radio...unless I hear Paul playing a fill etc.

One trend that I do find disturbing in country music, is where almost every song HAS to have multiple writers collaborating on it in order to pass the money guy's tough requirements on what a "good song" is.
There's not alot of singular Hank Williams's or Harlan Howards' or Roger Millers' or Merle Haggards' coming up with inspired masterpieces in the tortured confines of their lonely bedrooms. At least not without HAVING to run their inspired music by all the self serving revisionists on Music Row first.