Shooter Jennings Backs Waylon On Posthumous Project

Sugarland’s iPod content sure won’t inspire many country fans.

Boy, talk about a slow news day. Hey, let’s compare the most added songs on Airhead Country radio vs the Americana scene!: (From AllAboutCountry)

“Here are MediaBase’s 5 Most-Added Songs This Week”
1. Carrie Underwood/Just A Dream (43 Station Adds)
2. Kid Rock/All Summer Long (32)
3. Toby Keith/She Never Cried In Front Of Me (20)
4. Rascal Flatts/Bob That Head (14)
5. Tim McGraw/Let It Go (13)”

vs Americana:
“Here are This Week’s 5 Most-Added Americana Albums:
1. The Dedringers/Sweetheart Of The Neighborhood (10 Station Adds)
2. The Grascals/Keep On Walkin’ (9)
3. Drew Emmitt/Long Road (9)
4. Hal Ketchum/Father Time (8)
5. Blue Moon Rising/One Lonely Shadow (8)”

Airhead country radio pushes Kid Rock while Hal Ketchum and The Grascals play in the Americana sandbox. Something seems backwards here……

And some people want Willie Nelson to run for President!:

“If you’re thinking the race for the White House is getting a bit boring, this may heat things up a bit. There’s a write-in movement promoting Willie Nelson For President.!

Told of the “Draft Willie Nelson For President” campaign, Willie says, “If nominated I wouldn’t run; if elected I wouldn’t serve; however if served I would drink.”

The campaign theme song is sung by former Pirates Of The Mississippi lead singer Bill McCorvey with the group Leonard Blush on Blushtone Records.”

I guess we know where Willie would syand on the topic of legalizing marijuana…….

I don’t think Sugarland is even pretending to be country any more, other than for marketing purposes.

So, wait–we can judge if a person is “country” or not by the music on their iPod?

If so, I’m seriously in trouble, because I have been grooving out to Skye Sweetnam for the last two years.

Apart from the complete works of Hank Williams, you will find very little country on my iPod. Why? Because I have to listen to it all day long for work, that’s why. I await a visit from the country music version of the NSA to take me to Branson for indefinite detention.

I thought that would get a response or two. I think judging whether a person is country or not isn’t the same as judging whether or not a band and their music are country, so you’re safe, Jim ;)

Their iPod playlist isn’t even a major factor in that conclusion, it’s more like the straw that broke the camel’s back. It’s all the press mentioning non-country bands and the direction they’re taking their music. REM, Marvin Gaye, and U2 didn’t build country music and they’re not what makes country music great, so why choose to emulate them?

Here’s a quote by Bush from The Tennessean:

“I had always noticed there was missing an album of love songs in country music,” said Kristian Bush, one half of the duo.

The weird way he phrased that may mean I’m interpreting it wrong, but is country music really missing an album of love songs? All the overwhelmingly positive press is causing me to consider tossing out that word that starts with an O.

it’s no news that people named bush have syntax problems.

And Thomas wins the thread.

The comment from Thomas is overrated.

None of you are country. Only I may be country!

OK, I’m just speculating here. Could it be that Big Kenny actually hurt his neck in a tragic head bobbing incident with Rascal Flatts?

Clinical tests show that 4 out of 5 people suffer from hemorrhoids. The 5th person is Dale Watson.

If Dale Watson were to have hemorrhoids they would be far more country than Jewel’s teeth, Nettle’s Ipod or Chris N’s Doctor.

uh oh. I see where this is going.

Chris, did you go to the same doctor as John Anderson?

You KNOW things are out of hand when Billy’s first comment gets overlooked…

Me too, although my shuffle tended to like Jodee Messina, out of my 1300 songs, only like 10 are from her and 3 were on my list. I also got some Kelly Clarkson on the list too.

Chris N. said: “I am infinitely country. There is a country singularity at the center of me from which no country can escape and which perpetually draws in country from others, meaning eventually I will be the only country person in the universe.”

This leaves me really confused as I thought the black hole at the center of mainstream country music scene today was the Top 40 Airhead Country Programmers Association! (lol)

Don’t forget about Robbie Fulks as he has proudly proclaimed he is “Countrier Than Thou!”.

I don’t have an MP3 player, so I’ll have to sit this one out…..

Chris is to country, what Chuck Norris is to the round house kick.

Matt, as Taylor Swift might be heard to say “that is just like so totally awesome and really cool..”. (lol) I just got so tired of saying “Mainstream Top 40 Country Radio’s Shallow and Mediocre Pop-Rock Crapola Playlist Muzak” I just had to come up with something accurate and concise! The Top 40 country radio demographers may not call it the “airhead country listener segment” outright, but they sure have nailed it nonetheless. Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift may have opened the floodgates, but the new standard bearers are Kid Rock and Jessica Simpson for goodness sakes!

Its time for Chris N. to exert his formidable omnipotent influence over the country music universe and bring peace, harmony, and balance to this once noble genre……

Chris just needs a makeover or something. Or a shower, even. Then country should go back to normal. It’s a symbiotic thing.

Quick correction to Mr Jennings – White Room’s off WHEELS OF FIRE not DISRAELI GEARS.

Dale Watson’s smile once brought a puppy back to life.

So does this leave time for John Rich to appear on even MORE reality TV shows? Lord help us all.

Chris doesn’t lie when he says he dresses in country.

Also, country. County too. Both!

Chris, is the song on your myspace page yours? I like it.

for better…

I agree with Leeann, it’s real nice. Not 100% count(r)y, though. I’m starting to wonder about your sincerity…I think it’s time for an iPod inspection.

Shooter sux. This thread rules.

Before anyone criticizes my song, you should know that it was written about a close relative with cancer.

Hey, I know someone who had cancer, so it must be a good song, cuz i can “relate” to it!! I dont even have to hear the song!

Yeah, that’s it! The guy she’s dancing with is a metaphor for cancer.

Dan, I think you’re right.

I have written what I am becoming more and more convinced is a 435 page outline for a novel and 126 pages of another novel. That’s gotta qualify me to write about SOMETHING!

Did ya know that Shooter Jennings’ name has been mentioned as a replacement singer for Velvet Revolver?

I don’t hear it either, but he WAS in that LA based band before so, well stranger things have happened.

I’ll have to ask my husband what he thinks, since he has a Velvet Revolver album. Of course, I’ll have to explain who Shooter Jennings is to him first.

And a revolver is a shooter. Spooky!

Chris — Don’t forget that Shooter’s pre-country L.A. band’s name was Stargunn. So it gets spookier.

To be honest, Stargunn sounded more like Velvet Revolver than what Shooter has done since going solo and signing with Universal South.

I’d always thought Shooter was channelling Cobain, at least in the chorus of Fourth Of July

I think TK forgot that Martie is 9 months pregnant (or a new mom)…