| How can I possibly know that top country | | | | belt of Southern USA. |
| singers make better lovers, I hear you | | | | But I find that country music songs tend |
| ask? | | | | to have a much stronger and more |
| There is no statistical evidence that I | | | | complete story line than blues or gospel |
| know of to support my argument. But I | | | | songs. |
| ask you to get out of the box that your | | | | Now, at last, I get to my point about |
| formal education and the media have | | | | top country singers making better |
| placed you in, and think laterally for a | | | | lovers. I have been told by various |
| moment. | | | | female acquaintances of mine that, in |
| Don't think in terms of empirical or | | | | their opinions, men who have lived a |
| statistical evidence, please think like | | | | life full of escapades and experienced |
| a normal human being. Listen to your | | | | at first hand a full range of emotions, |
| heart and your gut feeling. | | | | make better lovers. This would seem to |
| For a moment let's consider the lyrics | | | | make sense to me because they have |
| of country music songs. They are either | | | | learned to express emotions. |
| poetic, as in John Denver's "Annie's | | | | Country music songs express a tremendous |
| Song", or they tell as story as in | | | | range of emotions. The best singers are |
| Willie Nelson's "City of New Orleans" or | | | | the ones who can write and interpret |
| Johnny Cash's "Boy Named Sue". | | | | those emotions in their singing. In |
| For a long time I never asked myself | | | | order to be able to express the emotions |
| what I enjoyed about country music, it | | | | as well as they do they must have lived |
| was enough that I enjoyed the sound. | | | | through a good range of escapades. |
| Then I gradually noticed the stories | | | | My case is that these hard living, top |
| (and that's another thing I like about | | | | country singers must therefore be better |
| country music, you can hear the words). | | | | lovers. |
| The stories in country music songs are | | | | You can comment on this article on my |
| real "slice of life" - sometimes sad, | | | | blog if you wish. Or, if you don't wish |
| sometimes happy. This is not surprising | | | | to comment, you can just enjoy the |
| when you consider how many country | | | | country music videos. |
| singers come from the Gospel and Blues | | | | |