Country Music Awards

[dieselguy]

I'm sitting here attempting to watch the CMT awards and wondering if my satellite is picking up stuff from outer space because surely it can't be receiving anything from this planet.

[Mikendebbie]

DW and I heard an advertisement on the radio and they mentioned all the hosts and presenters. We did not recognize any of the names. I think I heard Kieth Urban mentioned but I am not familiar with his music. I guess we don’t listen to new country music. They don’t play Kieth Urban songs on SiriusXM Willie’s Roadhouse. I suppose we are out of touch with the young deportation.

They are showing video highlights on Fox and Friends right now and I did recognize some of the performers and guests playing the tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd. Paul Rogers and Billy Gibbons might call me a young fella!

[mlh]

Elton John not talking about country music said most of them aren’t entertainers and they can’t sing. Describes the modern country music pretty close.
Lynwood

[BB_TX]

I never understood why yelling became a form of country music singing. Opera, ok. Country, no.

[MandK]

Haha I guess DW and I feel the same way. We didn’t watch, we sat out at our campfire last night and watched a different kinds of stars. Caught up on the highlights on the tv news over breakfast.

[Jay & Bobbie]

Haven't watched an awards show in years. My wife watched some highlights this morning to see the chick from Yellowstone (I don't even know her name). County music is like NASCAR, too woke for me.

[DutchmenSport]

I personally cannot stand "today's country." It's stinks. It's awful. I despise most of it. It's not country at all.

I've noticed even Willie Road House on Seriux XM is getting more snazzed up now. When the country music sucks, I flip it over to the blue grass channel.

Those "award" shows are a real joke in my opinion. Give me Willie Nelson, Charlie Pride, Kenny Rogers, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, even Tennessee Ernie Ford, or Hank Locklin style music any day, you know, when they actually sang words and the instruments were back ground.

[mlh]

when they actually sang words and the instruments were back ground.

The guys in the shop were listening to “country music” a while back and one asked me if I liked a “song” that was playing. Is said if I could understand a word of it I might like it.
Lynwood

[Cat320]

Originally Posted by Jay & Bobbie

....Haven't watched an awards show in years...

Same here, and haven't missed a thing.

[Jay & Bobbie]

In addition to not watching award shows, now no longer drink Bud light. What is a man gonna do?

[jimcol]

The saddest part of getting older is we are no longer the target market for many venues. Entertainment is one of those venues. Movies, new television series, and music just to name a few. Problem is we want everything to be like it use to be and if it isn't we won't spend dollars on it. If it is the same we won't spend dollars on it because we have already experienced it. Go to a nostalgia concert. The most common comment you hear is, "They should have quit when they were on top". We are a tough generation to please!

[dieselguy]

jimcol ... You've pretty much hit the nail on the head even if it does sting to admit it. We are a far cry from the target market at this point in our lives. However I can still shake my head at what I'm seeing currently. With a laugh, I can remember cringing at my mom and dad listening to the old twangy country music of Hank Williams, Ferlin Husky, Porter Wagoner, and others when I was the target market.

[Cat320]

Originally Posted by Jay & Bobbie

In addition to not watching award shows, now no longer drink Bud light. What is a man gonna do?

Same here. I fail to see why big popular brands take a chance on losing lots of good customers by catering to the vocal minority.

[Byron B]

We gave up watching award shows years ago. Too much self appreciation, backslapping and egotistical idiots to waste my time.

[Clyde n Deb]

The show you are all discussing was a mess, and was a poor representation of country music, even the current offerings. It was a mix of other genres that certainly degraded the whole presentation.

[DebNJim B]

Originally Posted by Byron B

We gave up watching award shows years ago. Too much self appreciation, backslapping and egotistical idiots to waste my time.

I can take the "new" country, although I listen more to Y2Country and Willy's Roadhouse.
But as for award shows, I couldn't agree more. Never watch them.

[Mark7]

Gone are the days of Roy Clark, Merle Haggard, Mel Tillis, Charlie Pride, Conway Twitty, Willy Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Tom T Hall... and even Garth Brooks!

Don't even recognize todays "country".

I never used to think of myself as old, but I guess I am "On the back side of 50" now and if that's not old, I am sure headed that way.

[mlh]

Speaking of Tom T Hall. He was a DJ at our country music station before he became famous. He wrote a song about his stay in Salem Va titled The Time I Almost Starved to Death in Roanoke Virginia. Oh yes they didn’t make much money back then.
Back then all the country music stars would come to WBLU radio to get some air time. They all knew the DJ King Edward Smith fourth. That was his real name. He had worked in Nashville for years and actually knew everybody there. That is when the industry was far simpler and down to earth than it is today. That is what is wrong with country music today. Let me throw in NASCAR.
Lynwood

[BB_TX]

It has been interesting to hear some of the old country singers sit around and talk about those years of the 50’s thru maybe early 70’s, or reading some of the books they wrote, about traveling together in one bus to save money, playing small honkytonks with wire screens in front of the stage because of fights and thrown beer bottles, drinking, and sometimes fighting among themselves and not remembering it later. Of course most of them of that era are gone now.

[scattershot]

I javen’t watched an award show in forever, but from the ads I see, the men wear pretty much anything these days, as long as there’s a cowboy hat on his head. The women all look like prostitutes. Don’t know if they can sing, but that’s what they look like.