| If you're like me, you're wondering what | | | | over the globe making country music in |
| happened to country music. The terrestrial | | | | Nashville. Most of these singers wouldn't |
| radio stations today only play the watered | | | | know the difference between a steel guitar |
| down pop mess. Country music used to be a | | | | from a banjo. It sounds crazy, and it |
| force to reckon with. Let's get back to the | | | | is!Country music is promoted as, "This isn't |
| good ol' days!Unless you have a satellite | | | | your grandpa's music." Well, it's not my |
| radio, you're not going to hear real country | | | | music either. Most of the die hard country |
| music on the radio. Singers like Hank | | | | music buffs would agree. There's no soul, |
| Williams III, Robbie Fulks, and Wayne Hancock | | | | there's no pain, and there's no edge to |
| just aren't getting airplay. George Jones | | | | today's country music. Let's get back to |
| was basically kicked out of the Country Music | | | | the day when the two step was the greatest |
| Awards a few years ago for being too old. | | | | thing since sliced bread.Austin, Texas is |
| Once upon a time, I thought George Strait | | | | celebrated as today's country music capital |
| didn't know how to pick a bad song. That was | | | | of the world. There you'll find Junior |
| before I heard some of his stuff from his | | | | Brown, Bobby Bare, and Billy Joe Shaver. |
| latest album. I hate to say it, but George | | | | The new talent in Austin is great too! |
| you let us down.In Nashville (dubbed | | | | Heather Myles is a fantastic female artist |
| Trashville by Hank III), it's a matter of you | | | | carrying on the traditional sound. |
| do what we say or you don't get played on the | | | | Nashville is losing face with the country |
| radio. The performers should have more | | | | base. Let's get country music back to it's |
| control of what they play and record. After | | | | roots. Call your local country radio dj and |
| all, they are the ones going out every night | | | | request some of the classics. If enough |
| and listening to the crowd's reactions. The | | | | people demand it to come back to it's old |
| record company isn't there to say, "Man, they | | | | ways, Nashville will have to take |
| love that steel guitar."The pop market has | | | | notice.Jeffery S. Miller is the author of the |
| infiltrated country music. It started way | | | | Higgins Series. Miller is an avid |
| back in the 1970's. Country music started | | | | traditional country music fan and has |
| to decline when they allowed pop mixtures in. | | | | recorded a few songs in the past. Miller |
| Some guys never got the respect they | | | | invites you to visit his website and check |
| should've received. Billy Joe Shaver comes | | | | out his current title, "Higgins: An American |
| to mind. Today, you have people from all | | | | Story. |