Comments on: Your Take: Sum It Up

By: Haley

Haley — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:27:29 +0000

Julie Roberts is amazing…BREAK DOWN HERE! Her first CD is the best of the decade.

By: t.scott

t.scott — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:23:08 +0000

I think most of the artists of the last ten years need to “eat them beans and wear them jeans” awhile.

Of course I’m nearly 50, and though I never went hungry, I didn’t have many material things growing up.

I’m probably jaded. The hooks aren’t as good. There are no Ray Price,Johnny Bush,Jack Greene voices out there.The emotional content doesn’t speak to me.I heard the Southern Rock masters when they came out,I don’t need pale imitations.

Maybe we don’t need music for relief as much as we used to.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:13:18 +0000

Quality of the music has become very bland and uninspired. The key item, the thing that’s missing, write what you feel, from your heart and be damned if it’s radio ready. Sing what you feel and somebody will identify with it. Thru the evolution of country very few artists actually do write their own material. Didn’t mean it wasn’t believable. You didnt have to live it to feel it. You could feel George Strait’s heart breaking during “Today My World Slipped Away” and he’s happily married. You could feel Johnny Cash’s envy of the people moving on the train in “Folsom Prison Blues”, though he’s never been incarcerated. It still came thru if even they didn’t live it, it had substance and heart. Now we have been flooded by this influx of look alike, sound alike we’re all “happy-not partying too much-marry me for you are the air I breath” songs. Like a conveyor belt of fabricated, watered down music coming through the radio. Give it to me straight, make me laugh, make me dance, touch my heart or my mind. Get some emotion, or be over produced background noise. Understanding that music does tend to evolve and change over time, Im just hoping that this evolution isnt leading to a complete meld with pop music and homogenous radio.

One sentence? “Put some drive in your country, keep country drivin on” – Travis Tritt

By: nm

nm — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:29:39 +0000

Chris, Rick is a fiscal conservative. By eliminating the space, he’s saving bandwidth.

By: stormy

stormy — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:48:10 +0000

Jon: The who is people who were in prision in the 1970′s and their brains confabulated the residue.

By: Chris N.

Chris N. — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:50:08 +0000

Still don’t know why “Obamavoters” is supposed to be worse than “Obama voters.” All I ask for is clarity about just how I’m being insulted.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:19:12 +0000

Does it answer the question “really?” No, it merely generalizes. Does it answer the question “who?” Nope. Does it answer the question, “If their stories were based *almost* solely on that song, on what was the residue based?” Alas, no.

But I do appreciate the way you keep underlining the point that “honesty” in music is a product of the listener’s perceptions and beliefs.

By: Stormy

Stormy — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:59:09 +0000

Jon: It does if you know how sense and memory work.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:51:26 +0000

Jon: The song rattled around in their minds until they “remembered” serving time with Johnny Cash.

That doesn’t answer a single one of the questions I asked, Stormy. But I do like the way you keep underlining the point that “honesty” in music is a product of the listener’s perceptions and beliefs, even if the listeners whose perceptions and beliefs you admire happen to be, by your description, seriously addlepated.

By: Stormy

Stormy — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:46:15 +0000

Also, Rick, I didn’t vote for Obama because I did not believe his pre-election prattle. I voted for Cynthia McKinney.