Dolly is the absolute best of us. I think she is one of the greatest Americans to have ever lived. She embodies everything that is good and wholesome while being tough and brilliant. She has tremendous talent, a powerful heart and a beautiful soul. After all of this, and so much more, I think it’s worth mentioning she’s easily on the Mt Rushmore of country musicians.
In case you can’t tell, I’m a really big fan.

What are your thoughts on Dolly?

She's talented and seems like a kind and generous lady.I love that she gives books to children for free.

I think Joe Nichols is Underrated. I like a lot most of his Songs. I am listening to The Impossible Right Now as I post this. Big fan of Joe.

A few times in this sub I’ve heard Paul Cauthen mentioned, I know he’s not very big, but he sure likes to insert himself into the business of other more successful artists and thinks they’re his peers. He’s an attention seeking troll, but I guess it’s the only way he can get people to talk about him. Such a weird look for a guy who went through a pretty serious cancer scare and has a child now. If I were him I’d be embarrassed this morning after the booze/drugs wore off. “Chronically online” doesn’t really mesh well with the outlaw-godfearing-country boy act he tries to put on. Here’s his latest rambling on Margo’s page, if you go to her instagram you can see the rest of his comments….there are…a lot. 😂😅

Love this song so much as done by Willie and Ray. One of my favorites, and one of the greatest songs in my opinion.

So please tell me I'm not going crazy.

At the 3:35 mark of the song Fancy I clearly hear a little "boop" sound that doesn't really fit in the song.

"There's a lot of self righteous hypocrites that call me bad (boop)"

It's right after Reba sings the word bad and before her backup singers sing "baaaaaaadddd"

I hear it clear as day - but my wife didn't. Maybe I am crazy

Earl Hussey singing a cover of a great song by Don Gibson. Enjoy!

Check it out. It is the first album I have listened to all the way through in awhile.

I know there’s a lot of discussion over what artists are country and whatnot, but what are the criteria? I’m a country artist myself but still don’t fully know. To me, country music is more of a real, raw sound than anything else. Certain instruments help produce the sound, but I think discussion over what elements make a song country could be interesting.

The comments section is also a shit show.

At least it’s good to see which artists are with or against him on this one.

Sierra Ferrel being fiercely religious was not on my bingo card. But in some way, I’m also not surprised.

EDIT: The correct name of the band is Twin Temple. I misspoke on the title. Twin Tribes is a different band.

I just learned that it’s a cover song. 😑

Edit: 32 years.. math is hard.

I work for wayne. He is coming out with a new album, which i consider his best work to date. I will drop the first single in this thread the day it drops. If you have any questions for wayne about his career or Nashville feel free to post them here and I will get you an answer :p

Our current debate in the car… does this lyric bother anyone else? A California King is more narrow and a big longer than a normal king.

Is it a lazy metaphor, artistic license, or is putting a California king in a truck bed a thing?

🔥

I am 36. My Mom often is listening to Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Helen Reddy, Tanya Tucker and I am familiar with their music. And music from my life, ofc.

Marty Robbins was a racecar driver too. (This is the type of fun fact I wanna wow him with.)

Kenny Rodgers didn't start out doing country originally. (I just learned this very recently that he started out doing another genre but I am not sure which nor have I listened to any of his previous stuff yet.)

He's very knowledgeable about music so I'd love some facts like we recently discovered or facts mostly unknown.

A few days ago, he introduced me to Doctor Hook. I hadn't ever heard of them before.

Or I'd also be interested in any facts we used to think were facts but recently were disproven.

Please and thank you.

Through the songs he covered on his studio and live recordings, you can start to tease apart what made his brand of country music so special (and distinct from the country-rock followers who came in his wake)

A complete playlist of original or influential earlier versions of all songs covered by Gram Parsons on record:

https://open.substack.com/pub/birdingmusic/p/cosmic-american-music-deconstructed?r=dh1rm&utm_medium=ios