Notes on BIG DOG DADDY

[narcoticprayer]

Yeah, it's a BIG DOG PILE but what do you think about it and this month's review on AVREV.

[kennyt]

Of all the Genre's I listen to, country has just never done it for me, so I am not even capable of making a comment....

[JerryDelColliano]

Lyle Lovett is as country as I get.

If you look at the top 100 selling records A LOT of them are country...

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[kennyt]

I know it sells.... just not to me!

[narcoticprayer]

Next month Steve Earle is releasing a new CD. What I've heard so far it is pretty damn great. If the entire thing is as good... wow. I mention this in case someone cares to adventure into Country music with good songs, good singin' good playin' (that's my Grand Funk/Zappa reference for the day), and rocks with the best of them. As Steve always says, "Too country for rock, Too rock for country."
I also mention because sometimes you need a palate cleaner after the words Toby Keith have been in your mouth.

[mrmusic]

Kevin, your review was the responsible thing to do.
We cannot always walk around the garbage in our midst, though the stench be mighty, and crowded with teeming millions picking it up and holding it to the light and saying Isn't this beautiful, I must spend my hard-earned money and own this . . . .
No!!
Sometimes we must speak up, though we may be as voices crying in the wilderness, and explain the obvious to the oblivious.
And tell them, Come over here and look at this. Steve Earle and Lyle Lovett may be kind of homely, but they don't stink. In fact, they're rather lovely. Listen to them. And just take a look at the babes who married them. There is beauty, and art here, and value.
Leave the big bad dogs, including Mr. Keith, to Mr. Vick.
Country music is a good thing. It's Irish music, transplanted, but without quite the enormous capacity for alcohol consumption. Which still means a smile on your face, a shuffle in your feet and a song in your heart.