Thought for the Day - Feb 28

Subject: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: Peter T.
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 11:11 AM

"We have so many colours, but on the radio it's like we have a painter who only uses charcoal. Wonderful things can be done with charcoal, but that's not the whole of it. I don't hear anything mysterious or creative in the new country music you hear on the radio."

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 11:26 AM

Peter, who said that? I have to say I basically agree on the country music angle, BUT having been in radio and knowing a genius at radio production, who lives in Portland, Oregon, I do not agree that radio itself has no colours. My friend has an incredible way of opening our imaginations to a virtual experience in whatever it is he is promoting, songs, performers, or products. There is nothing charcoal about his performance!

katlaughing

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: Allan C.
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 11:28 AM

Who are you quoting Peter? Sorry to hear that someone feels that way about country music. While I am not a steady listener, I have, from time to time, heard some very remarkable things in country music. But I will have to admit that the things I find the most interesting are the songs which cross over into other genre.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: GUEST,Mbo
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 11:31 AM

Please let's not do this! I have listened to country music since I was three years old, and I HAVE had a falling out with the more recent stuff--some is actually good, but most is very derivative. In my own opinion 1995 was the last really good year, and 1992 being the best. But please, lets not get into another argument about how any country music after 1840 is commercial garbage.

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: black walnut
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 11:33 AM

note: peter said 'new country'. there's a difference between that and 'country'.

~black walnut.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: GUEST,Mbo
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 11:39 AM

Oldsters!

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 11:43 AM

Exactly, BW, thanks. The brill production friend I mentioned above, I met at a country radio station for which I sold advertising, KVOC 1230 AM. I also met my husband, Rog, there twnety-one years ago this spring, so you could say, some country has been good for me! I AM partial to the country of those times, which were between 1979-1983.

Some favourites...Rose-Coloured Glasses; Last Cheater's Waltz: Up Against the Wall you Redneck Mothers (or whatever it's called); anything by Don Williams, Tom T. Hall, Alabama (of those years, saw them twice in concert); Willie, Waylon, Merle, Emmy Lou, Jerry Jeff W; some of Dolly, Rex Allen, Jr.

Oh those were fun times, Chris Ledoux was just starting out and lived up the road aways (still does) and would come down to the station to hang out, promote his new albums and sing live on air. We ever went up to his ranch one time.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: Peter T.
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 11:43 AM

Sorry, the attribution dropped off somehow. It was Emmylou Harris. I liked the imagery: the argument about new country music is, I agree, not very interesting any more (since the answer is obvious). She goes on to talk about Lucinda Williams and Iris deMent and others who are quite happily making different music.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: GUEST,Mbo
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 11:52 AM

kat, I absolutely LOVE Chris Ledoux!! You got to meet him?! WOW!!!!! What would I do for that! Still living under "Western Skies"! Wow....

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: Amos
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 11:57 AM

Radio is about as much like charcoal as language itself is like a number 2 pencil...it ain't the tool you got, mate, but the work you do with the tool you got that counts. A good radio writer and performer can do a more vivid job on your head than multimedia MTV with quadraphonic sound.

It's not that it hits you with more stimulus -- it makes you create more by hitting you with less.

The greatest art is in what you leave out. Sensory overload is easier than ever, but for "better" you need to look back at the artists of understatement.

This is not a ocmmentary on country, allthough it's as true there as anywhere, but on the underestimation of print and radio as means to evoke and awaken, rather than simply steamroller and hypnotize, an audience.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: Biskit
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 12:05 PM

With artists such as Alan Jackson, George Strait,Vince Gill"man, what a voice!"maybe you should extend your antenna so your not limited to one station that plays the same four Dixie Chicks songs every hour. While I am in agreement that alot of this so called "new" country is so commercial that youn expect a plug for irish spring in the middle of the song. there are however the above mentioned exceptions as well as the new stuff that,George(as American as apple pie) Jones just came out with! Thanks for letting me get that off my chest..."wheew'I feeluch better now. Biskit

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 12:06 PM

Still living on his ranch in Kaycee. When we moved back, six years ago, he was still listed in the phonebook. I just checked...guess fame has caught up, his number is now non-published.

Last I knew though, he still comes to an annual campfire/BBQ thing that the locals have every summer; just sits around the campfire, strums his guitar and sings like a regular cowboy. I am not very fond of his later stuff.

My son has an autographed copy of one of his early albums and we have the rest of them. My neice didn't have anything for him to sign at a rodeo when she was about 11 yrs old, so had him sign her leather belt!

Chris has always had a lot of respect from the communities in Wyoming. He's always been there to help out with benefit concerts and has never been too full of himself to forget where he came from nor those who were his early base of supportive fans. When we dorve up the long driveway to his ranch, really just a rutted, dirt road, his kids, then fairly young, "held" us up with toy six-shooters and bandannas over their faces in a "stagecoach" robbery.

When we were living back in New England, nothing could make me more homesick than to listen to him sing "Paint Me Back Home, in Wyoming".

Thanks, Peter, fro the clarification.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: GUEST,Mbo
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 12:12 PM

I like ALL his stuff--especially his rockin' new stuff. I don't see anyone else doing that kind of stuff! "Stampede," "Copenhagen," "Hooked On an 8-Second Ride"--oh classic stuff!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: rangeroger
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 11:55 PM

To hear non-charcoal radio tune into KPIG on-line at www.KPIG.com (I don't know how to make the blue clickey thing) rr

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 11:57 PM

Did I mention "Stuff" enuff?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: rangeroger
Date: 29 Feb 00 - 12:14 AM

To hear non-charcoal radio tune into KPIG on-line at www.KPIG.com (I don't know how to make the blue clickey thing) rr

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Feb 28
From: rangeroger
Date: 29 Feb 00 - 12:18 AM

Sorry about the double message.It hadn't cleared and I didn't think I had sent it. rr