Random Thoughts About Country Music and Small Town Life

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go easy on Keith Urban. You can't be mad at Iggy Azalea for her rapping, either, or Led Zeppelin for their blues music. Some people just have the ability to drop fat beats from unexpected upbringings.

To put the nationality in context, Canada makes a lot of good country music but it's not what a lot of people think of when they think country. But the musicians are from the fly-over provinces and yes, their lives are like this. Lots of farming, nice people, and natural beauty. It can be simple.

Blue Rodeo is a really good Canadian "country" band

k.d. lang was a really great Canadian country artist. (She's from Alberta.) She switched to crooning after she got tired of Nashville giving her the brush-off.
Check out her first two albums.

[Anonymous]

OP - Are opera singers posers?

Keith Urban has been a country singer from the age of ten,
just not your country. Ringo Starr covered an U.S. country song.

[Anonymous]

Oh man. We would party down by the river- bonfires, Boone's farm, and so much flirting and skinny dipping! We had a ball. I actually miss it 20 years later. Those stars!!

[Anonymous]

Oh man. We would party down by the river- bonfires, Boone's farm, and so much flirting and skinny dipping! We had a ball. I actually miss it 20 years later. Those stars!!

[Anonymous]

My neighbor has a bonfire every year. Yes, small town living IS living.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"'Murika! Fuck yeah!"

You must be a load of fun at parties.

[Anonymous]

As a side note, remember that many country singers write their own songs, but many don't. Being a song writer (but not singer) is a big deal in country music circles, and many of the songs you hear reflect the experiences of the writer rather than the singer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a side note, remember that many country singers write their own songs, but many don't. Being a song writer (but not singer) is a big deal in country music circles, and many of the songs you hear reflect the experiences of the writer rather than the singer.

Some of them live in run- down condos in Nashville. Much like literature, its a fictitious world the songwriter creates to escape his reality and make his fantasies come to life.

[Anonymous]

Regarding Keith Urban songs, aside from his Fuse album where he colored outside his typical lines, Keith Urban barely writes/sings a word that's not straight from his heart -- he writes loves songs and mostly Nicole anthems.

[Anonymous]

Also a lot of country music had its foundations in Irish music, which would also be found in Australia as well. I don't think Keith Urban would have had to stray too far from what was familiar to him.