Thank God for XM Radio

My son had a gig to set up for in Detroit, so he is driving my car today. I'm using my mom's car which doesn't have XM radio. My choices for music is either CDs...which I left in my car....or the two different FM country stations.....and I am using that term very loosely.

I have been really getting into the good, old country music as of late. The mindless dribble on these pathetic FM stations is really terrible. A few months ago I probably had a different opinion. I automatically thought about Whitey Morgan's T-shirt....Fuck Pop Country and also a Facebook group called We Hate Pop Country.

The term "hate" is pretty strong and "Fuck" is definitely strong emotion about a particular subject. There are a few "pop" country singers that I actually like, Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, and Jennifer Nettles......but with the crap I've heard today, I may be tempted to change my stance on the whole pop country thing.

George Jones, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Hank Jr., Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, and others songs will live on for years and years and still have the appeal to country fans as they were the day they were released. After all they are classics, with good writing and emotional delivery.

George Jones did an interview several years ago and talked about the emergence of  "Pop Country" and how they hi-jacked a genre. He felt that they needed to find their own genre and not operate under the label country. George stated that the material being recorded in Nashville was "mush".
He also said that those songs would never stand the test of time and in a few years would be forgotten about, with no hope of ever becoming a classic or relevant in the future....all I can say is preach it out George.....preach it out.

So thank God for XM radio and yes CDs...my ancient 2013 Chevy doesn't have USB capability.

Either I'm getting older or wiser.