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Barry Blackwood
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Mark Eaton
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Posted 8 Apr 2015 10:16 pm |
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Interesting article.
As for the Carrie Underwood video, if baptisms had a bunch of girls looking like those in the video, it'd be standing room only.
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Erv Niehaus
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Posted 9 Apr 2015 7:23 am
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 9 Apr 2015 8:15 am
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Joachim Kettner
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 11 Apr 2015 2:53 am
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The intro to 'Something in the Water' would be a great place for a new modern country to take off, but it's an anomaly so far;
steel chords figure promininately, but 8 bars isn't enough. The video recalls the three Ulyssean adventurers in 'Brother Where Art Thou'
taking 'baptism' with the three nymphs, an obvious allusion to a religious rite and Greek mythology.
From the article supplied by Barry:
"But conflating Christianity and country music isn’t just incorrect, it’s unfair.
It’s unfair to Christians because it portrays them as hypocrites...."
This presumes that the two are linked by more than historical association. It may be an easy alliance--Underwood invokes faith,
possibly to sell records--nothing wrong with increasing the fan base--but alliances break down in the way that the Dixie Chicks
took a fall by alienating the religious and political right. Country and politics, country and religion, may be drifting apart.
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Erv Niehaus
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Posted 11 Apr 2015 7:03 am
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There are songs that started out gospel and wound up country. "Release Me" started out gospel and then crossed over to country with a big hit for Ray Price.
"The Great Speckled Bird" was a reference to a bible verse in Jeremiah and later became "The Wild Side Of Life" and "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels"
And visa-versa, "Danny Boy" was rewritten by Dottie Rambo to become "He Looked Beyond My Faults". So there is quite a tie in between Country and Gospel. |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 11 Apr 2015 7:07 am
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It was Great Speckled Bird that was my mother's exit song for a walk as daddy listened to the Opry.
Interesting histories, Erv. These would definitely be crossover hits.
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