You’re from Wisconsin – you oughta know the rules.
The DRIVER decides what music gets played!
Your parents don’t like it? That’s why truck stops exist – to drop off shitty passengers in the middle of nowhere without having to worry about them starving to death. Also, it’ll probably be playing music they like – they might not even notice you left them.
lol I missed this at first. Now that I see it, thanks for the chuckle!
Even once you take away the nose picking truckers, runaway dogs, unfaithful wives, gun ideations, conspiracies, historical revisionism and pervading depression, mainstream country vocals are still far too affected for me.
For example, here’s Marc Martel, Canadian who relocated to Nashville to pursue his career.
Natural voice: Bohemian Rhapsody
Operatic voice: Nessun Dorma (he starts singing about halfway through)
Christian country voice: Believe
To my ear, there’s a whiff of something not quite right with the country voice.
To each his own, said the country-listening farmer as he kissed his cow.
Other genres sing about drinking. Other genres sing about work. No other genre puts them together.
Nonsense – Pirate Music!
And… whaling songs!
Early Bill Murray and Christopher Guest:
I love bluegrass, specifically Alison Krauss
http://www.cmt.com/artists/alison-krauss/
And Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys were tolerable country:
But driving thru the middle of IL without Sirius or your ipod is just asking for trouble.
This is the kind of song the OP is talking about, right?
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