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Sunday, April 3, 2011
CMA Awards
Not a big fan of award shows or Taylor Swift...but she got my attention this time. You can watch it on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKwWq4mnaiw&feature=player_embedded
What, because she's pretending to play banjo in front of a band culled from central casting?
I've always been a bit iffy about the CMA awards, with all the smarm and pseudo-hickness, but the ACM awards made the CMA look like a bastion of integrity.
We actually watched most of that show. I'm a big fan of Brad Paisley and of Jennifer Nettles. And Nettles just nailed it. But I have no idea what it had to do with country music. It was essentially 70s arena rock. Nonetheless, she came off as real.
Wish I could say the same for Carrie Underwood, who is also a great singer. But she hides behind bombast, and I have no idea what duetting with Steven Tyler on "Walk This Way" had to do with country music.
Forgive my snark, but we're putting a benefit together on Sunday for the Japan disaster. Our bands aren't as pretty, and nobody has much in the way of a record deal, but every act on the bill has more class and honesty than what I watched the other night.
The divorce is final. Music and the record business are both on their own now. And those of us who preferred the Opry to Opryland are back in the clubs.
I lived for years with a regular watcher of the Buck Owens show on Saturday afternoons and some other show like that one. Maybe it was the Grand Ol' Opry or Hee Haw, but I think there was another one that he liked in that mix.
In any event, I loved Buck and George Jones, and some of the others from that show. I also loved Bob Wills -- although I doubt he ever played the Buck Owens Show.
Buck Owens and his groups were real commercial country music, too, but I sure did love listening to them sing. The Owens' show also had corn-ball country sets, but those CMA sets seemed to me a world apart.
Still, nice to see young women out front of these bands -- assuming that was her band. You may be right about their literal origins.
Taylors romp came closer to Nashville country then the rest of the evening. The underwood/Tyler thing was pretty strange.
For the steel guitars no longer cry And the fiddles barely play But drums and rock 'n' roll guitars Are mixed up in your face Ol' Hank wouldn't have a chance On today's radio Since they committed murder Down on music row
More like Hollywood. The mandolin, fiddle and Taylor's banjo aren't playing the parts you're hearing, and that's not her band. But they got the look right. Check out the steps and poses by the two backup girls.
This girl is the head of a huge business, and they take no chances in the studio. They use A-list players and her road band is more of a rock and roll outfit. It is nice to hear her break away from that sound, though.
Hanging a banjo off her and tuning it like a baritone uke is all about optics, though. The band on that stage was about as real as the Monkees.
Cmon Rik...Did you really think I didn't know that? All that aside, I thought it came closer in spirit to Nashville country then the rest of the show...and I thought she was really cute!
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Nice "country" set ....
What, because she's pretending to play banjo in front of a band culled from central casting?
I've always been a bit iffy about the CMA awards, with all the smarm and pseudo-hickness, but the ACM awards made the CMA look like a bastion of integrity.
We actually watched most of that show. I'm a big fan of Brad Paisley and of Jennifer Nettles. And Nettles just nailed it. But I have no idea what it had to do with country music. It was essentially 70s arena rock. Nonetheless, she came off as real.
Wish I could say the same for Carrie Underwood, who is also a great singer. But she hides behind bombast, and I have no idea what duetting with Steven Tyler on "Walk This Way" had to do with country music.
Forgive my snark, but we're putting a benefit together on Sunday for the Japan disaster. Our bands aren't as pretty, and nobody has much in the way of a record deal, but every act on the bill has more class and honesty than what I watched the other night.
The divorce is final. Music and the record business are both on their own now. And those of us who preferred the Opry to Opryland are back in the clubs.
And yes. I am a grumpy old man. Get off my lawn.
I lived for years with a regular watcher of the Buck Owens show on Saturday afternoons and some other show like that one. Maybe it was the Grand Ol' Opry or Hee Haw, but I think there was another one that he liked in that mix.
In any event, I loved Buck and George Jones, and some of the others from that show. I also loved Bob Wills -- although I doubt he ever played the Buck Owens Show.
Buck Owens and his groups were real commercial country music, too, but I sure did love listening to them sing. The Owens' show also had corn-ball country sets, but those CMA sets seemed to me a world apart.
Still, nice to see young women out front of these bands -- assuming that was her band. You may be right about their literal origins.
Taylors romp came closer to Nashville country then the rest of the evening.
The underwood/Tyler thing was pretty strange.
For the steel guitars no longer cry
And the fiddles barely play
But drums and rock 'n' roll guitars
Are mixed up in your face
Ol' Hank wouldn't have a chance
On today's radio
Since they committed murder
Down on music row
More like Hollywood. The mandolin, fiddle and Taylor's banjo aren't playing the parts you're hearing, and that's not her band. But they got the look right. Check out the steps and poses by the two backup girls.
This girl is the head of a huge business, and they take no chances in the studio. They use A-list players and her road band is more of a rock and roll outfit. It is nice to hear her break away from that sound, though.
Hanging a banjo off her and tuning it like a baritone uke is all about optics, though. The band on that stage was about as real as the Monkees.
Cmon Rik...Did you really think I didn't know that? All that aside, I thought it came closer in spirit to Nashville country then the rest of the show...and I thought she was really cute!
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