2008 Americana Music Festival Schedule Announced

isn’t a bunch of guys looking like that, sounding like that and having names like them a parody right from the start? leaving me with the question: what is a parody of a parody actually called?

@Thomas: They might be a joke to begin with, but what would they be a parody of?

@John: You are indeed correct. I did a quick glance for the italics without checking the sentence to see if that was the album title or not. Good catch.

We should create a scale to test everyone’s manhood according to how much they cried during “Hurt.” Then again, how would we test someone like Chuck Norris?

Not only that, she is such an impressive Springsteen fan that she can’t even pull an album name out of her hat.

BTW: Did anyone see Blender’s list of favorite songs from the Presidental candidates? John McCain actually went with Dancing Queen. I can’t even snark on that because anything I could say would only ruin it.

“If We Make It Through December” would certainly sum up McCain’s economic plan.

” So my first heroes were Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline. So if they were legends, they were my heroes.”

So, Crystal Shawanda just blanketly loves anyone if he/she is a legend? That hardly sounds genuine to me. I’m sure that’s not exactly what she meant though, but that’s how it kind of comes off to me. I like Shawanda’s voice, but I don’t like the production on her current single. I know the song means a lot to a lot of people, for good reason, but it *is* rather predictable. I hope the rest of her album is better, but I’m not as excited as everyone else seems to be yet.

As for Hough, I just don’t have any hope for her at all. Her first song is nasiatingly bad and I haven’t been interested in hearing anything else from her. At least, Shawanda’s voice intrigues me.

Rick, as soon as I read that Q&A in Country Weekly, I thought of this frequent debate on The 9513. But why does a country artist’s favorite album or influences, or the majority of their iPod playlist have to be country? It seems to me that artists of all kinds are inspired by different things.

I’m a journalist, but some of my favorite writers are novelists (or journalists with a very different style). In fact after writing in one style all day long, I often look forward to reading something different on my own time. I tend to think that makes me better at what I do, not less authentic. (Not a perfect comparison, maybe, but I think it holds.)

The disc has been available for several weeks here in the Great White North and already on it’s second single “What Do I Have To Do”…not sure what her Nashville label is releasing as a second song.

springsteen isn’t country (like, say, merle haggard). BUT he is influenced by country, definitely. and many of his songs have been recorded by country singers (johnny cash, steve earle, faith hill, the list goes on). the guy CAN sing country and he can obviously write it. he could write rings around most of nashville’s best writers.

he’s way more country that some of the stuff being played on country radio right now.

I swear, I’m so far past worrying about who’s country and who isn’t that I really don’t give a hang anymore.

Ditto Chris’ comment, and to some extent Brody’s. There comes a point where you just have to ignore arbitrary name-dropping and let an artist’s music speak for itself, in my opinion.

If We Make It Through December was on McCain’s list, but Dancing Queen. At number one. Even if it were true, why wouldn’t you come up with something more impressive or at least mix the list up so that Frank Sinatra or Roy Orbison topped the list. If he wants to know why Obama is winning its, in no small part, because he is savvy enough to name the Fugees Ready or Not–good message, hip band, indie enough to be cool, mainstream enough to be accesable and sends the subliminal message that voting for Obama will lead to the long awaited Fugees reunion. Do we really want a president who’s favorite song promises he will be a teaser who turns us on, leaves us burning and then he’s gone?

so, i have been unavailable for a couple of days…i have one question that will help me get caught up: what is and isnt country?

for all those of you that still haven’t gotten it yet – dale watson is country and so is chris n. true, madonna isn’t country but she’s hot.

Thomas: Madonna is a force of mfing nature.

Chris: I think being a politician requires you disconnect your self perception receptors. But still, how do you convice Putin, for example, to respect you when he’s humming Abba in the background?

chris,
the subprime crisis has made much wealthier outfits worrying about the end of this financial year. kind of freudian slip, perhaps?

stormy,
you can only understand the whole abba-thing after a party with a fake-abba line up playing for a bunch of those blond nordic angels and hunks, swimming in booze on a sea-ferry from sweden to finland.

Thomas: I love Abba. I have to because of Mariel’s Wedding, the movie that caused a republican friend to call me up and leave me this message:
“What you don’t understand is that under Bush all we do is sit in our rooms and listen to Abba songs. But once McCain gets elected we won’t have to listen to a single Abba song, because our lives will be better than an Abba song. It will be better than Dancing Queen.”

Uh, that was kinda’ my point Chris! Geez, can’t you read ‘tween the lines? I guess I can always post TiC for clarification huh? :-o

I love the crop of First Ladies. One is a schmoozer and the other hates my guts. Can we just take the beer and do away with both? Heh!

Now there’s got to be a country song in there somewhere!

I remain dedicated to my vote for Alfred E. Neumann. I’ve voted for him religiously since 1978! ;-)

And, Kelly, she used to sing Patsy Cline songs in the shower into a hairbrush microphone while dreaming of someday singing on the Opry!

Next time someone gives me that answer, I swear to God I’m going to look at them/look at the phone and be like, “OK then–why the hell did you become a folk/pop/rock artist instead?”

“Geez, can’t you read ‘tween the lines?”

Where were those lines again? I did not see those. So which one hates your guts, and what did you do to her?

Wow, I did not realize Michelle Obama hated all people who exist. I’ll have to consider that carefully when voting.