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08-04-2016 04:27 PM |
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Originally Posted by Rdkopper
(Post 1203408)
Does one actually write a country song? (besides the obvious beer drinking, pick-up truck lyrics)....Or is it in the way you sing and produce it? A little twang and a violin goes a long way...
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HA! I KNEW it! I just KNEW we'd find a point of agreement one day! :D
IMO, you can perform or arrange any song in a way that suits any genre.
And aside from that, these days the genres cross over so much it's hard to know where to draw that line anyway. Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and guys like that have been crossing that line for decades. Somebody tell Janis Joplin that Me and Bobby McGee was country. Or try to prove that Midnight Rider is not country. Fat Bottom Girls didn't make Queen country.
Deep Purple's "Hush" was written by Joe South. (For you young'ins out there, he's the guy who sang Games People Play and Polk Salad Annie, two "rock" songs from the 60s that would get airplay on any country station in the land today.) He also wrote Purple People Eater, a novelty rock smash from the late 50s. But his biggest hit was Lynn Anderson's 1971 "Rose Garden" which, to this day, is considered one of the most successful country hits of all time.
Southern Rock rides that line every day and has since the beginning. And Gregg Allman said that "saying 'Southern Rock' is like saying 'rock rock'."
Sorry for the rant, but I think ppl just make way too much noise over genre labels. I'm convinced that had Bon Jovi never uttered the words "Nashville influenced" most of the fans would have been madly in love with the songs from Lost Highway.
Rock and Roll was born in Nashville.
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