"Country"

I know that Johnny Cash fans don't consider most of the newer country music actually country. The subject matter might be country, but I agree that the sound is more easy listening or rock with a twang. Since local rock stations play a lot of the same songs as the local country stations, it is a wonder to me that they haven't come up with a new name for this not-really-country-style.

I confess, I listen to the country stations in hopes that I'll catch one of those priceless songs (Like Uncle Kracker's Smile, or Josh Turner's Why Don't We Just Dance, or Love Like Crazy) but there are a lot of junky songs to wade through.

It has made me wonder, though, if these artists actually listen to each other's music. How can you hear "Just talkin' 'bout tonight" (all about wanting a one night stand) or "as good as I ever was" (about being smooth with the ladies even though he's old) back to back with "he's a cowboy Casanova" ("you'd better run for your life") and Carrie Underwood's "I shoulda know from the way you passed me by, there was something in your eyes and it wasn't right" and NOT notice that the guys are singing about being "playas" and the girls are singing about how "playas" are good for nothing predators. The guys sing about being free, studly men who can catch a new woman each night, and the women sing about avoiding them, recovering from them, or kicking them out because they are deadbeats.

Are "country" music fans not bothered by this peculiar set up?

Of course, there are the other songs about loving your wife/husband (I thought I Loved You Then, The List, One Woman Man, Gimme That Girl, Love Like Crazy, Why Don't We Just Dance, etc) and they are the primary reason that I listen.

I will always prefer the Flying W Wrangler's crooning real cowboy classics like Buttons and Bows, and Tumbleweeds to any of the new stuff on the radio, though.

I had...

...a truly brilliant blog post idea last night.



Too bad I haven't the foggiest idea what it was.



Maybe it had to do with Salt. The movie that convinced me that Russian spies really do run Hollywood and are not above outing some of their people to promote an otherwise freakishly well timed movie about Russian long term sleeper spies.

Or perhaps it was a quip about the rediculously hot weather down here. Or maybe something about how to be a good customer (and how to be a good customer service agent).

Or maybe something about the Castle quote about how two kinds people sit around thinking of ways to kill people, murderers and writers (so true.)

I guess we'll never know.