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Great post...have seen Steve Earle many times...most recently in Eugene and saw Asleep at the Wheel when they first came on the scene...great band

 

True country music is as deep and progressive as any music in America. It just hasnt gotten the "Ken Burn's doc treatment" into poluar public consciousness.... yet. (It's coming.) The Carter Family, Bob Wills, Lefty Frizzell, Jimmy Rodgers, Jim Reeves, Merle Haggard, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Charlie Rich for god sakes.... you will find "soul" in those songs. Listen to Hank Williams sing "My Son Calls Another Man Daddy" or Charlie Rich sing "Life's Little Ups and Downs." If that doesn't move you, check your pulse!

 

Asleep at the Wheel was one of the best bands I've ever seen. And I'm actually planning on visiting Turkey Texas next spring so I can check out the Bob Wills Museum. I tried to make hotel reservations for the annual Bob Wills Days held there the end of next April but every room in the entire god forsaken area is already sold out!!! So I'll visit the week after.....

 

Greatest country singer ever

 

Another great country album is Van Morrison's "Pay the devil" ....frickin' amazing recording

 

You want to see one of the great moments in country music history. There is a video of Ray Charles singing Leon Russell's "A Song For You" at a Willie Nelson tribute concert. And Willie gets all choked up part of the way through the song. Willie was treated like shit by the music industry. He was stiffed and shived by every music publisher in the country. And Charles seems to know this with his reading.... it's one of the best live music performances I've ever seen.

 

Is there a video I can watch of this? That sounds epic.

 

I just checked. The video is up but they pulled the sound due to copyright. Might be on Daily Motion but I doubt it.

 

Thanks for looking.

 

They are modern music though. They are writing NEW songs that are hits and on the radio. Bands like Queen are still on the radio, but not with anything new.
A band can be around for 40 years and still be modern rock if they are still writing new music that is catering to the masses and making the charts.

 

even if they are not making the charts...Zappa although no longer with us, Tom Waits, Dr John, all those edgy geniuses who never gave a crap about the charts..

 

Some local rock bands that rock....

www.splinteredthrone.com
www.thepunctuals.com

Give me a day to dig up some websites of more.

 

Try Donny Hathaway's version if you want to get chills. Leon Russell wrote the song specifically for Frank Sinatra but he didn't record it. Charles knew it was a classic and turned it into a standard. To this day I don't know what Ol Blue Eyes was thinking.....

 

But those guys are not writing new music people are listening to.

Classic rock gets more play than modern rock for a reason, but even though its still spun more on the radio stations, doesn't keep it modern. Not in my opinion anyhow. Modern rock is newly written music. Doesn't really matter who its from, a band of 40 years or 4 years. If they are still putting out new albums, they are current...hence modern.

 

Im about to spin a dark album I love to listen to for energy, so I can finish painting the studio and start working on the trim tonight. Its about 7 or 8 years old and is the solo album of SOAD's guitar player and backing vocalist.



www.scarsonbroadway.com

 

Tom Waits is ahead of the curve...and still making art...people are listening, just not jr high school students with posters on the wall. Joe Pass made a living of probably less than 100k a year playing small cities in Japan, Sweden, etc...and he was probably the greatest guitarist of our generation....he didn't want to play rock arena shows...wanted to walk down the street without papparazi...again..choices...but great art exists without being compared to how much money it makes

 

Classic rock gets so much play because they don't have to pay much money for the right to play it....the doors, credence, they were all owned by the labels..paid in entertainment bonuses and expenses on the road..then left with nothing off the road....Labels made a fortune off those bands while paying them by the hour

 

If there is anything I hate more it's the terrestrial "classic rock" radio format. It's essentially like eating the same type of food "over and over and over." The radio station will buy the catalog for a certain selection of artists and will "absolutely not deveat from the norm." The local baby boomer or Gen-Xer who wants to hear Alice Cooper and Foghat doesn't get to get hear any new bands that they might like. And it helps reaffirm the disconnect between young teens who were forced fed that format so much they hate it. Sometimes you get 80 and 90's stations, but they still play a pretty limited selection of stuff. Satellite and Internet radio couldn't get here fast enough for me. What's that phrase kids use nowadays to describe classic music dickheads...... "defner?" They are absolutely right!

 

My son's ITunes on his phone have taken over the radio for my modern music input..if I listen to the radio...I listen to commercial free radio only..classical, Jazz, local college stations, independent stations...I get most of my new exposure to young bands or artists from my son and his friends. I got him into Al Green and Wes Montgomery...he got me into Kings of Leon and Sublime

 

Yeah. That's my hope for the future of all radio. Not a Clear Station formated nightmare. But where people of all ages are exposed to music at all ends of the spectrum. I mean there is crappy music then and now. You just have to point out the tenants of the good stuff.