2014/10/22 17:16:41
MandolinPicker
jamesg1213
 
Now, country-plus-folk, I like.
 



That ain't country - that's BLUEGRASS!!! (with a bit of Celtic flair - wow). Real men, playing real instruments!
 
Ain't nobody better than Jerry Douglas on the dobro
2014/10/22 17:41:44
Randy P
These guys are part of a sub-genre of CW called "Bro-Rock". Guys like Jason Aldean, Eric Church, etc have fallen into this category. Just a fad, and like most fads, it sucks! Guys like this pander to the lowest common class of CW, and that's the young country cowboy wannabees.
2014/10/22 18:53:02
sharke
I had a listen. It just sounds like the kind of utterly pointless sugar-pop-rock that sounds like it's being played over FM radio even when it isn't, but with a vague country tinge. 
2014/10/23 13:46:54
Beagle
jamesg1213
Horrible, horrible stuff. The 'Wham' of Country music.
 
 

 
Wha cho got against WHAM!?

2014/10/23 13:48:09
slartabartfast
Criticizing a country song for the use of cliches in the lyric is like criticizing English poetry for the use of English words. Aside from the unique and cliched instrumentation (anything played with a dobro and a banjo is de facto country even if composed by Mozart), the use of cliches seems to be the hallmark of the genre. Of course part of the problem is that it is one of the few genres in which the lyric is distinguishable at all. 
 
Obviously I am not a fan of COUNTRY music. Nonetheless I greatly admire and listen to "country" bands and singers in preference to a lot of mainstream popular music. Probably this is because what is now included in COUNTRY is what I was used to hearing played as ROCK & ROLL in my youth...only with a dobro. Sometimes, given the vast volume of writing and performing talent thrown at the country wall, some of it sticks.
 
And in fairness, there is nothing in this lyric that is either a typical CW cliche or difficult to understand or relate to. What is surprising is that somehow COUNTRY fans seem to be able to relate to a lyric that does not spell everything out in fourth grade diction and Dick & Jane construction. 
 
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/floridageorgialine/anythinggoes.html
 
I am not going to listen to the whole album. Just because the poetry in this one song is not cliche ridden does not mean it is particularly good, and the music is pretty COUNTRY-BANAL.
 
btw Taylor Swift is one of my favorites...but I agree, clearly not COUNTRY.
 
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