Kendall's new country song

Subject: A new country song
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 11:44 AM

Opinions please


I've been sitting here living in the past and this thought came into my head

If you walk up to a juke box and slip a nickle in,
You can bet your bottom dollar that disc aint gonna spin,
'Cause the cost of country music keeps risin' all the time,
This new country music has become a real gold mine.

chorus

Hillbilly fever's going down,
Good old country music can't be found,\
This crap they now call country
Don't do a thing for me,
Let's bring back country music
To the land of liberty.

I used to listen to the Oprey
And be singing right along,
With Wilma, Roy and Grampa
I knew every song,
Now this racket they call country
Makes me miss them good old days,
I'm just an old time picker
And I just can't change my ways.

repeat chorus

When I get up to Heaven,
When my time is done down here
There will be real country music,
Of that I have no fear,
I'll pick with all my favorites
And make a joyful sound
Hillbilly fever will be spreadin' all around.

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: olddude
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 12:19 PM

That is great captain ... Gosh I wish I wasn't running to the docs so much ... I would put a melody to it for ya

very good job

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 01:04 PM

I was thinking that the original tune for "Hillbilly Fever's going around"would work best.

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: maeve
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 01:06 PM

Good song, Kendall. You have a gift of making songs that sound like you.

Maeve

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 01:08 PM

I think the original was called Hillbilly Fever.

You can hear the original on Utube by Stringbean (David Akeman)

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 01:53 PM

Works for me, Cap'n;
I'm hard put to figure out what a lot of the half-baked rock on the market has to do with country music; I'm at a total loss to figure out what "Big and Rich" have to do with country music.

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 03:16 PM

With REAL country music? not a damn thing.

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 03:32 PM

Fine job Kendall! Somehow I was reminded of George Jones and Randy Travis singing this one on special awhile back:

George and Randy in 1991


A FEW OLD COUNTRY BOYS

Not too many years ago
When dreams were coming true
I'd reach for inspiration
Sometimes it would be you
I'd hear you on the radio
I sure did like your sound
Say it's good to know there's still
A few ol' country boys around

From the smoke it's hard to tell
What's coming down the line
We heard you were a fast train
Coming out of Caroline
We wondered what you were haulin'
When you rolled into to town
Say it's good to know there's still
A few ol' country boys around

You must have felt that same old feeling
More than once or twice
Guitars pressed against our hearts
Under the neon lights
I've got to say that feeling is the best that I have found
Lord it's good to know there's still
A few ol' country boys around

There's a lot of truth you know
In our kind of songs
About the life you're living
And how love's done you wrong
As long as there's a jukebox
And a honky tonk in town
It's good to know there's still
A few ol' country boys around
It's good to know there's still
A few ol' country boys around


Spaw

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 03:50 PM

Kendall your lyrics certainly align with my sentiment! When Rose, the record lady, had an active site she refused to put up anything newer than the 70's. Since then it has been mostly crap except for this:
Murder On Music Row

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 07:24 PM

"It Sure as hell aint country" is in this category too.

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: Leadfingers
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 09:10 PM

Nice one Kendall

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: GUEST,Roger Knowles
Date: 10 Jun 11 - 03:54 AM

Yep. I like it!!

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: Bert
Date: 10 Jun 11 - 04:20 AM

Very nice.

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: Darowyn
Date: 10 Jun 11 - 04:21 AM

You are all as bad as the old codgers on the Steel Guitar Forum!
There are plenty of good modern country songs- it's just that you are only hearing the rubbish ones!
Only last night I was listening to AKUS (Alison Krauss and Union Station), Nickelcreek, and a brilliant young mando player called Sierra Hull. That was on the BBC in the UK. We do a couple of superbly written songs by Suzy Bogguss in the band.
What I am saying is that you should not forget the good old stuff, but that the good new country songs are way better melodically, lyrically and harmonically than anything ever done in the 'classic' days.
Cheers
Dave

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 10 Jun 11 - 08:22 AM

Name one good one.
All I hear in modern country is a lot of pounding and screaming, just like Raucous and roll.Rock and roll with a steel guitar is not country.

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: Fortunato
Date: 10 Jun 11 - 11:51 AM

Hey Kendall, my festival pal Donnie Dobro Scott, who lives in Mt. Airy, NC and has been playing trad bluegrass and country with some of the best as long as you and I have, had this to say:

   "Hey Chance That's a real good song. Only problem I don't think there are any coin juke boxes (left). May wish to research that as I seldom am in places that have jukeboxes.
Donnie"

That's part of the problem of course, but, as a point of information, they still have a quarter Jukeboxes in the booths in the Tastee Diner in Bethesda, MD. Of course, they've still got Hank Williams and Hank Snow on the Jukebox.

Personally I like the song. Thanks for sharing the lyrics, and I hope to hear you sing it in October.

For the discussion above: I lost interest in the commercial country stations just as I lost interest in the commercial pop and rock stations. A few artists mine the more traditional roots of country music. George Strait, Randy Travis, and Dwight Yokum come to mind, but the pickings are slim. Willie Nelson is still out there.

The gentleman above suggested "Alison Krauss and Union Station), Nickelcreek, and a brilliant young mando player called Sierra Hull". They are what is called Newgrass or Pop Bluegrass here in North Carolina, and have little to do with Country Music, apart from some trickling over; they're talented and sometime cover trad music, and add some life to the genre, but they aren't Country.

All this to say, good song, Kendall.

I'm waiting for Lady Gaga to record Walking After Midnight. I'm going to download it on my Droid smart phone.

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: kendall
Date: 10 Jun 11 - 01:45 PM

Anyone who wants to sing it may do so, just remember, the tune is not mine.

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Jun 11 - 09:36 PM

Nice one, Kendall.

Spaw, I really enjoyed the link, too!

Fortunato, I echo your thoughts about "Alison Krauss and Union Station), Nickelcreek, and a brilliant young mando player called Sierra Hull".

If memory serves, Chris LeDoux had some excellent, genuine Country-Western, from his early days in the 70s and on and I *think* his son and his band try to continue that, though I couldn't swear to it. I've also heard a few kids of some of the oldies who sound pretty good, too.

I enjoy a lot of the older stuff. Morgan - the grandson, and I had a blast listening to Hoyt Axton, today, esp. Boney Fingers and the one about Della and the Dealer and a dog named Jake and a cat called Kalamazoo.

Subject: RE: A new country song
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Jun 11 - 10:17 AM

A slightly different meaning, but this thread kept bringing this phrase to mind, "country ain't country no more," which I found is a song by Travis Tritt.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Jun 11 - 01:38 PM

Amen to the gist of this thread, Kendall! It reminds of that great song "Murder on Music Row".

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: Maryrrf
Date: 11 Jun 11 - 02:06 PM

My sentiments, exactly about country music - at least what is played on commercial radio and TV. I am willing to concede that there probably is still some good stuff being written and performed, but it probably is 'under the radar' and not heard nowadays unless you know where to look. Great song, Kendall!

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: GUEST,999
Date: 11 Jun 11 - 02:15 PM

Darned good song, Kendall. IMO, Nashville sucks. I too am tired of stuff purporting to be what it ain't. You wrote a really effective protest song with this one.

BM

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: kendall
Date: 11 Jun 11 - 02:38 PM

The weird thing is, I didn't intend to write a song. That just sorta fell out of my head when I wasn't looking.
With the approval of folks like you, I'd better take another look at it.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: Midchuck
Date: 11 Jun 11 - 05:34 PM

Name one good one.

Okay.

Peter

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: kendall
Date: 11 Jun 11 - 07:22 PM

Not bad at all. But, also not typical of modern country. It has lyrics that make sense and a real tune!

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Jun 11 - 07:28 PM

Says he who doesn't listen to any of it....

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Jun 11 - 08:34 PM

This is maudlin, but it's powerful.

Kendall, I think your lyrics are good, and certainly express one point of view. I think there's good stuff out there, though, but I DO think country is sliding more and more into pop. When it comes right down to it, I think the main differences are instrumentation, arrangement, and 'twang'.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Jun 11 - 09:16 PM

Good song, Capt'n...

Any song with the word "Hillbilly" in it's titale has to be good...

BTW, agree 100% on the state of country music... If you can evn call it country...

B~ (ol' hillbilly trying figure out how to walk on flat ground...)

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jun 11 - 11:30 AM

Ahhhyup.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 12 Jun 11 - 12:18 PM

You are right, Jeri, on all counts.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jun 11 - 01:41 PM

Powerful? I'll never know on accounta I live in Canada.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Jun 11 - 05:59 PM

kendall have you recorded the song ? can I hear it somewhere ??

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Jun 11 - 08:27 PM

He hasn't recorded it - yet. I have a little Zoom recorder and will be trying to persuade him to try and see what it sounds like.

Watch this space.......

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 07:13 AM

I'm not able to sing it, but maybe I can talk someone into recording it.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 08:23 AM

Ya know, Kendall, I hear your complaint from a lot of people who share your opinion -- even "younger" people...in their 40s.

Country IS getting to be more pop-ish all the time, I think because of the music sales industry and the way radio stations are organized -- they want to draw the broadest base possible, even if it means "selling out"...(hmmm, "selling out" to sell out product). But I've also heard that some performers stay true to the genre.

Linn

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 08:54 AM

Whatever sells is what we get to hear.

Remember what H.L. Mencken said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: Midchuck
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 09:25 AM

Someone else said "As long as we have Hot New Country, '70s rock will never die."

And Tom Russell said

"Don't call me no Country singer, those are poison words to me,
'Cause I ain't heard a good Country song since 1973."

(The Death of Jimmy Martin)

I think everyone agrees except record company execs and radio program managers. And the record companies are heading for broke fairly quickly.

Peter

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: Becca72
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 11:36 AM

"All I hear in modern country is a lot of pounding and screaming,"

To be fair, that's all you hear in any music you don't like...

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: kendall
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 01:03 PM

Not so. I don't care for Opera or blues. I won't mention rap because thats not music at all.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: CupOfTea
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 02:30 PM

Kendall,

I got a kick out of your song, even though my main exposure to older country music was at a Wyoming dude ranch in the early 1970's. I don't know where the lines get drawn these days, since I listen to music that identifies itself as "folk" & that's it's OWN can-o-worms. I can almost always tell the difference between a bluegrass and an old-timey musician, however; attitude as well as taste in songs makes that divide.

What I read as your frustration with how commercial and "cross-over pop" the mainstream called "country music" is, seems to tap a vein that goes back decades. Are you familiar with a band from Bloomington, Indiana back in the 80s called Ecclectricity ? They did a devastatingly witty dismissal of then contemporary country music called "Back to Beethoven" that used well known bits of classical music as the breaks between verses.

The chourus ran something like:

Country Music gives me heartburn
Charley Daniels turns my spleen (a different performer inserted each chorus)
And Crystal Gale makes my face pale
As any satin sheets you've seen.
I'm tired of singing about cheaters
Margaritas and driving trucks
I'm going back to Beethoven
cause country music sucks

I don't think the band exists anymore, and anything left would likely be on cassette or vinyl. Going through old posts, Charlie Noble seems to own the album & I've got the sheet music around somewhere. If yer at all interested, I can try digging it up before Old Songs.

Joanne in Cleveland

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: kendall
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 04:33 PM

I think a lot of it comes from instrumentation. I like acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, Bass and Dobro for the pure sound of each.

I can not abide electric instruments, especially when they are cranked up to the threshold of pain, and drums belong in marching bands, and classical orchestras.

Call me fussy; I call me eclectic.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: kendall
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 04:35 PM

Here's a real country song.

erse 1

E                                                A                      E
I remember way back when I was just a boy, going places with my mom and dad
                                                          B
It used to scare me to death, how mama used to act after six or seven beers she'd have.
          E                                                      A                     E
We were sittin' at a table, when mama got disabled with all the liquor runnin' to her head.
                                                          B                         E
Soon I got to choking', cause daddy wasn't joking', when he grabbed me by the arm and said

Chorus

NO                Chord                  A                   E
Don't look now, mamas got her boobs out showing everybody in town.
                                                             B
My face was turning red, I was wishin' I was dead, there were people standing all around.
    A                      E                         A                            E
When mama gets to drinkin', there ain't much thinkin', there's nothing anybody can do.
          A                  E                        B                      E
You just hope and pray, there never comes a day when mamas out drinkin' with you.

Verse 2

                                                               A                   E
Well we got her in the truck, and we started driving home, when mama said she had to go.
                                                             B
Daddy pulled it over we were standin' on the shoulder, while ma was puttin' on a show.
         E                                           A                     E
Daddy fired up the truck, and mama stood up with her pants down around her knees.
                                                                     B                      E
That's when I heard mama holler, if you give me a dollar, than I'll let you take a peak at these.


Chorus

NO                Chord                A                   E
Don't look now, mamas got her boobs out showing everybody in town.
                                                               B
My face was turning red, I was wishin' I was dead, there were people standing all around.
      A                      E                                  A                E
When mama gets to drinkin', there ain't much thinkin', there's nothing anybody can do.
          A                   E                      B                      E
You just hope and pray, there never comes a day when mamas out drinkin' with you.
          A                   E                         B                      E
You just hope and pray, there never comes a day when my mamas out drinkin' with you.


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Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 05:07 PM

How can that be a real country song? Now if Mom's brother had shown up and fucked her, now THAT would be a country song.

Or......if a passing 18-wheeler had picked up Mom and she was never seen again although they heard about her sleeper exploits for years afterward, THAT would be a country song.

OR......if Dad had pulled over on a railroad crossing while Mom was needing a piss and a train came along and killed them all, THAT would be a country song.

As it is, not so much.............................

Spaw

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 05:53 PM

Yuck, that's not what I'd call good country, at all.

And, the no good music since 1973 completely leaves out the stuff we were playing at KVOC AM Country Radio in Casper, WY by Chris LeDoux, Don Edwards, and a slew of others. ALL great country and western.

Some examples: Rose-Colored Glasses. Not by the original artist that I remember, but check out that 70s suit!

This one was played a lot in the late 70s/early 80s. Here it is done by EmmyLou: Save The Last Waltz for Me.

And, Don Edwards sings old and new, but wasn't really well known until the 80s: Desert Night.

And, maybe because I met him when he was first starting out, bringing his albums to the radio stations, himself, I'd challenge anyone to claim Chris LeDoux isn't GOOD country-western. Caution, there is a song playing automatically at that link, BUT there is a control bar at the bottom of your screen. BTW, I do prefer his earlier albums which were more acoustic, but he still wrote and sang damn good country songs, imo! Remember Five Dollar Fine for Whining?

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: kendall
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 07:13 PM

I never said it was good.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 08:33 PM

Well, it ain't real, imo. :-)

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 09:02 PM

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Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: kendall
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 11:16 AM

Kat, it is pretty far fetched.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Jun 11 - 08:56 PM

Yeah, 'tis true, juts like a lot of them, I 'spose, Kendalldarlin'.

Check out the samples of some great, all original, "unabashedly" country songs by one of my fav. authors: John Lescroart. I think you'll like some of them.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 06:51 AM

None of my favorites were mentioned.
In my not so humble opinion, the best country song ever written is Sunday Morning Coming Down.(Kris. K)
Tom T Hall has written many good ones.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: Dharmabum
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 07:33 AM

All I can say is;
What the hell is a Taylor Swift?

DB.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new country song
From: kendall
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 08:24 AM

Sounds like a new electric guitar