Watched the CMA's last night (Country Music Awards). I don't listen to a lot of what is termed "Young Country" which has become a producer-driven music where the instrumentation doesn't vary much from song to song. It can make listening to local country stations a fatiguing process. The vocals change from record to record with some more distinctive then others. Every second song seems to feature some sort or novelty lyric. As I drove my young son, Lucas to school for jazz band this morning, before the sun was up, I listened to a little bit of WSM from Nashville. Probably the number one radio station in country music history and the home of the Grand Ole Opry. I heard this classic Dolly Parton track, which was memorably covered a few years back by our own Jack White. No novelty lyrics. Just a straightforward gut puncher of a tune. Here are both versions. Dolly and the White Stripes (now THAT would be a pairing!).
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