Plus, if you’re going to pick and choose which demographic to appeal to, either kids who died, or kids who lived, you have to figure that the kids who lived probably have more dough lying around to purchase Bucky cd’s with.

It’s all clear to me now….

i personally think that there are some great songs on the album.

good job, bucky. it’s definitely a different album than a lot of what’s out on country radio these days. kudos.

A single has to get heard by so many people, songwriter, A&R guy, producer, engineer, artist, radio promoter, program director, etc etc before it gets to us.

You’d think someone would say “uh, this is false”

Bucky would look, eyes glazed over, “what’s false?”

“the “we’re still here” part”

“but we are still here”

“uh, what about all the kids who died of brain trauma from bike accidents, or the kids who died in car crashes, or the kids who died from lead poisoning? yaknow, the dead kids. They aren’t here. We’re all here, except those of us who died tragically from preventable injuries.”

“hmmmm…..I don’t follow you.”

Man I hate this song.

If this is supposed to be nostalgia, it fails. A nostalgic song should mention the good things of an era gone by, not the bad. If you want to be nostalgic about tail fins, thats fine. But being nostalgic about lack of seat belts about lead based paint? That’s silly.

If this song is supposed to be about the differences between rural and urban areas, as the review mentions, it also fails: seat belts in cars and new furniture without lead based paint are available nation-wide. Some rural areas may have held on to the pledge of allegiance and school prayer and the like longer than urban areas, though. But if the point is to highlight urban-rural differences, Covington sure never makes it clear.

If these lines aren’t supposed to be nostalgic (as I think) or supposed to highlight a rural-urban difference (as the reviewer thinks) then I don’t know what the purpose of them is. The song seems really confused to me at best and at worst it seems to be engaging in nostalgia for things that should be left in the past.

Thanks for the review.