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That Ain’t Country Music

Posted on | March 11, 2010 | 34 Comments

I’m not one of these hard-core purists, who denounces any artist who strays too far from the original formula, despite my hereditary Old School tendencies. (My mother worked for the Atlanta office of RCA Records when I was a kid and used to bring home authographed records by Eddie Arnold, etc.) And I’m OK with the general trend toward rockin’ country that has developed ever since Mutt Lange moved to Nashville.

All that being said, Carrie Underwood’s “Cowboy Cassanova” is not country music. A fine song by a fine singer, but it ain’t country.

If you’re the argumentative type, feel free to argue. But you’re just wrong.

Category: Music

Comments

34 Responses to “That Ain’t Country Music”

  1. richard mcenroe
    March 11th, 2010 @ 3:51 pm

    Next thing you’ll be telling me Big and Rich ain’t country…

  2. Patrick
    March 11th, 2010 @ 3:51 pm

    I have to agree… THIS is Country Sir, right ‘cheer:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHAFmFsb9XM&feature=related

    Let that be my daily message to the libtards, and leftest libertarians, don’t like this Country? Get the hell out!

  3. richard mcenroe
    March 11th, 2010 @ 10:51 am

    Next thing you’ll be telling me Big and Rich ain’t country…

  4. Patrick
    March 11th, 2010 @ 10:51 am

    I have to agree… THIS is Country Sir, right ‘cheer:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHAFmFsb9XM&feature=related

    Let that be my daily message to the libtards, and leftest libertarians, don’t like this Country? Get the hell out!

  5. Dave C
    March 11th, 2010 @ 3:52 pm

    Country music died with Chris LeDoux.

    Chris LeDoux and the Saddle Boogie Band is a must have in any CD collection.

  6. Dave C
    March 11th, 2010 @ 10:52 am

    Country music died with Chris LeDoux.

    Chris LeDoux and the Saddle Boogie Band is a must have in any CD collection.

  7. Dave C
    March 11th, 2010 @ 3:55 pm

    Nothing against my future ex wife, Carrie Underwood.

    (and for some reason, my wife hates it when I make that joke. Go figure)

  8. Dave C
    March 11th, 2010 @ 10:55 am

    Nothing against my future ex wife, Carrie Underwood.

    (and for some reason, my wife hates it when I make that joke. Go figure)

  9. richard mcenroe
    March 11th, 2010 @ 4:34 pm

    Dave C. — She’ll go all Miranda Lambert on you if’n you don’t watch out, son…

  10. richard mcenroe
    March 11th, 2010 @ 11:34 am

    Dave C. — She’ll go all Miranda Lambert on you if’n you don’t watch out, son…

  11. craig henry
    March 11th, 2010 @ 5:00 pm

    McCain, have you lost your mind? Or maybe your judgement is clouded by the Rule 5 possibilities. Either way, this is an embarrassment”

    “A fine song by a fine singer.”

    Sorry, she’s not a singer, let alone a “fine singer”. Video performer and celebrity is more fitting.

  12. craig henry
    March 11th, 2010 @ 12:00 pm

    McCain, have you lost your mind? Or maybe your judgement is clouded by the Rule 5 possibilities. Either way, this is an embarrassment”

    “A fine song by a fine singer.”

    Sorry, she’s not a singer, let alone a “fine singer”. Video performer and celebrity is more fitting.

  13. missred
    March 11th, 2010 @ 5:09 pm

    great song, not country, i agree. looks more like a venetian bordello

  14. missred
    March 11th, 2010 @ 12:09 pm

    great song, not country, i agree. looks more like a venetian bordello

  15. poteen
    March 11th, 2010 @ 6:08 pm

    It’s whatever the she wants to call it.
    If you don’t think so, you’re not only wrong, you’re probably one of the Dixie chicks.//

  16. poteen
    March 11th, 2010 @ 1:08 pm

    It’s whatever the she wants to call it.
    If you don’t think so, you’re not only wrong, you’re probably one of the Dixie chicks.//

  17. David Allan Coe
    March 11th, 2010 @ 6:21 pm

    “If that ain’t country, it’s a damn good joke…”

  18. David Allan Coe
    March 11th, 2010 @ 1:21 pm

    “If that ain’t country, it’s a damn good joke…”

  19. theCL
    March 11th, 2010 @ 7:06 pm

    I have no idea … I’m from Detroit. Kid Rock’s the closest thing we come to country music (and he ain’t country).

  20. theCL
    March 11th, 2010 @ 2:06 pm

    I have no idea … I’m from Detroit. Kid Rock’s the closest thing we come to country music (and he ain’t country).

  21. Patrick
    March 11th, 2010 @ 7:32 pm

    I’m from Detroit.

    Really? Where abouts?

    Just wonderin’

  22. Patrick
    March 11th, 2010 @ 2:32 pm

    I’m from Detroit.

    Really? Where abouts?

    Just wonderin’

  23. Saint A
    March 11th, 2010 @ 7:36 pm

    I’d generally agree that Ms. Underwood’s music isn’t easily classified as country; there aren’t many songs on any of her albums that even satisfy the boundary conditions of that genre.

    Cowboy Cassanova? Entertaining, to be sure, but very much in the realm of pop. Though it will get airplay on country stations all the same.

    Personally, my tastes run toward Miranda Lambert where new female singers are concerned. Not only is she a fine-looking lass, but her music still has a bit of genuine country about it, to say nothing of the way her Southern drawl comes out in her singing voice. That, and she does darker/edgier pretty darn well.

  24. Saint A
    March 11th, 2010 @ 2:36 pm

    I’d generally agree that Ms. Underwood’s music isn’t easily classified as country; there aren’t many songs on any of her albums that even satisfy the boundary conditions of that genre.

    Cowboy Cassanova? Entertaining, to be sure, but very much in the realm of pop. Though it will get airplay on country stations all the same.

    Personally, my tastes run toward Miranda Lambert where new female singers are concerned. Not only is she a fine-looking lass, but her music still has a bit of genuine country about it, to say nothing of the way her Southern drawl comes out in her singing voice. That, and she does darker/edgier pretty darn well.

  25. Mick from Melbourne
    March 11th, 2010 @ 10:44 pm

    Sorry….there was music in that video?

    Who noticed?

  26. Mick from Melbourne
    March 11th, 2010 @ 5:44 pm

    Sorry….there was music in that video?

    Who noticed?

  27. Dave C
    March 11th, 2010 @ 10:51 pm

    I’m from Detroit

    As someone who lived in Michigan for about a decade, I am so sorry for you.

  28. Dave C
    March 11th, 2010 @ 5:51 pm

    I’m from Detroit

    As someone who lived in Michigan for about a decade, I am so sorry for you.

  29. alwaysfiredup
    March 12th, 2010 @ 12:20 am

    May not be country, but looks like a dynamite karaoke song. I’m adding it to my repertoire in 5…4…3…

  30. alwaysfiredup
    March 11th, 2010 @ 7:20 pm

    May not be country, but looks like a dynamite karaoke song. I’m adding it to my repertoire in 5…4…3…

  31. Sam Country
    March 12th, 2010 @ 4:27 am

    I get upset every time I hear Kid Rock played on our local “Country” radio station – his name is flippin’ Kid **ROCK**! Could he make it any clearer? Should he have named himself Kid NotCountry?! What’s next – Iggy Pop? Joe HipHop? OK, I may have made up that last one.

  32. Sam Country
    March 11th, 2010 @ 11:27 pm

    I get upset every time I hear Kid Rock played on our local “Country” radio station – his name is flippin’ Kid **ROCK**! Could he make it any clearer? Should he have named himself Kid NotCountry?! What’s next – Iggy Pop? Joe HipHop? OK, I may have made up that last one.

  33. molonlabe28
    March 12th, 2010 @ 4:28 pm

    I am not familiar with Carrie Underwood, but I am familiar with the country pop genre and it sure isn’t country.

    I can live without most of the tightly packaged, heavily marketed country pop which comes out of Nashville these days.

    For me, I’ll take the Austin (Jerry Jeff Walkeer and Gary P. Nunn) and Bakersfield sounds.

    I plan to attend Robert Earl Keen and David Allan Coe concerts this week.

  34. molonlabe28
    March 12th, 2010 @ 11:28 am

    I am not familiar with Carrie Underwood, but I am familiar with the country pop genre and it sure isn’t country.

    I can live without most of the tightly packaged, heavily marketed country pop which comes out of Nashville these days.

    For me, I’ll take the Austin (Jerry Jeff Walkeer and Gary P. Nunn) and Bakersfield sounds.

    I plan to attend Robert Earl Keen and David Allan Coe concerts this week.