Re: CMT’s top 100 songs.
Who decided that it was a good idea for two women, I don’t even know who the hell they are, to totally butcher Mama don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys??
A pox on them.
Bah.
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!
Out of curiosity, why does their lack of a Y chromosome matter?
Nothing, were it two men butchering a country anthem I’d have bitched about two men doing it.
I thought this was going to be about Wayland Flowers and Madame.
I am so gay…
This does raise an interesting point, though.
Someone decided, in their infinite wisdom, that the predominant audience of a country station is a middle-aged female. Therefore, advertising is now being sold on these stations exclusively for these women, and music selections are being made based on what these women want to hear.
What they want to hear, apparantly, is lots and lots of Garth and Shania. Which is bad for me, because I think they both suck.
Do I ever get to hear George Jones on a country station? Rarely. Merle? Not at all. I only hear Johnny Cash anymore on alternative, public, or college radio.
Go to any self-respecting honky-tonk bar, and you’ll still find Patsy Cline in the jukebox. You’ll still find people slow dancing to her songs, forty years on. American Idol contestants want to sing her stuff. She gets, however, no airplay.
The same idiotic women who send out glurgy chain emails have a lock on my “country” stations. It’s almost enough to drive me to XM.
As it is, I just stick to CD’s. My carpool passengers, invariably, shake their heads and say, “Wow, I haven’t heard this in twenty years. You never hear Faron Young on the radio anymore.” :rolleyes:
I thought this was going to be about Wayland Flowers and Madame.
Posted by Otto
I’m not gay I thought the same thing.
Are you referring to Sara Evans and Deana Carter?
Disclaimer: I only know this because I have the Waylon Jennings tribute CD, and this song appears on there. I’m not a country music fan. You can blame my father for getting me into Waylon.
When I listened to the CD, which was when I first heard this song, it seemed a little odd. It’s a different perspective on the song.
Noy unpleasant, really. Just different.
Well, I am a middle-aged female and I can tell you there is at least one who does NOT want to hear Garth or Shania all the time. Yes, there are a FEW of their songs I like (mostly their early stuff). But when they took country and turned it into pop, I hated it (was there anything WORSE than Chris Gaines?) and my fingers hit the change station button almost automatically when I hear one of their songs start up. Not that I mind the occasional “crossover” song, but when it all started sounding that way, I was not happy.
And for some reason, I don’t tend to like for songs that were sung originally by men to be remade by women, and vice versa. There are exceptions (Alison’s cover of “When You Say Nothing At All” for example), but that’s usually how I feel.
And I never want to hear a song like “I Wanna Talk About Me” ever again! 
you mean the late 60’s?
Hee hee, you have a point! But it was so great that George Strait, Randy Travis, and Alan Jackson had helped get country back onto a more traditional track, and I just hated to see it derailed again! 
Warning: This entire post is completely irrelevant to the issue raised in the OP. Proceed in an orderly fashion to the following post in this thread.
I was trying to figure out why I too first thought of them. I’ve decided it was the word “twirling” that threw me. I think Waylon would prefer to spin, or possibly whirl.
Further irrelevancy: Until today I figured Wayland Smithers of “The Simpsons” was named after Wayland Smith of English folklore for some unfathomable reason. Now I wonder if his name isn’t in part an off-hand tribute to Flowers.