04.14.09
Posted in back catalogue, cricket hates on pop country, news - April 14th, 2009 at 3:31 pm by Cricket
There’s still a day left to enter and win a copy of Willie Nelson’s Naked Willie. Contest ends at midnight tomorrow, so finish up your taxes and go over and enter!
The new podcast is also up. It’s a good listen for a grey spring day. Even if you aren’t in Nashville where the weather isn’t cooperating with the season you should still go download it and listen.
And now that I’ve got your reminders out of the way, I need to clean up some of tabs I’ve had open in my browser for weeks. Here’s some things I’ve been meaning to share with you:
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09.20.07
Posted in cricket hates on pop country, cricket spazzes - September 20th, 2007 at 11:32 pm by Cricket
Let’s face it. We’ve been on summer vacation. An unannounced and unplanned hiatus. August was too insanely hot in Tennessee for anyone to think let alone get work done. I’m surprised the whole state didn’t just shut down. And then Daisy joined us in Nashville. You’ll recognize her, surely, from her blog comments and editorial comments, as she’s been help us out around here for a while. Now the bright lights of Nashvegas have drawn her like a moth to a flame. [Sigh, clichés are so cliché.—Mimi] [I'm still waiting for the houseboy I was promised as part of my relocation—Daisy] Now she’s a full-fledged HCT Girl and resident of HCT HQ. She’ll be writing with us and hopefully keeping us a little more on track than we have been.
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10.26.06
Posted in cricket hates on pop country, random - October 26th, 2006 at 5:02 pm by Cricket
It’s raining in Tennessee. [That's news. --Mimi] I’m sure this comes as a surprise to no one who lives here or has visited here. The rain makes it hard for me to take the long walk to the mailbox, also I think the umbrella is in the car. When did I become such a wimp? Back out West this weather never would have slowed me down. Maybe all the Tennessee whiskey has thinned my blood. Or the delicious, sticky-hot summer has ruined me for more normal weather. [Whiskey. --Mimi]
We’ve recently been lazing around watching CMT and GAC as punishment, I guess, though I’m not sure for what. [How about our entire lifestyle? --Mimi] We really should just put the recorder on when we do this, as transcribing the conversations just doesn’t do us justice, but I’ll transcribe anyway:
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09.17.06
Posted in cricket hates on pop country, random - September 17th, 2006 at 8:47 pm by Cricket
When I’m not listening to music, I’m reading about it. Here’s some of my recent reading list. Some dissapointing, some great.
Rednecks and Bluenecks, Chris Willman
First off, this isn’t a sit down and read it through book. The author is predominately a magazine writer and it shows. This book is best read in small digestible pieces, like a series of magazine articles.
What’s really missing is an in-depth analysis of how the politics in this country are swinging wildly to the right and how that’s reflected in the mainstream country music industry. Not that Chris Willman doesn’t try, he does, but with a mixed outcome. I think I wanted something more thought provoking. Reading this was like setting out to argue passionately with someone and instead just sitting around, sharing a pot of tea and going, “Oh yeah, I totally agree with you on that. Uh-huh. Yeah, that too. Oh, man, really, that’s where I’m coming from too.” Which is validating, but doesn’t exactly charge you up, you know?
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09.12.06
Posted in cricket hates on pop country, cricket spazzes - September 12th, 2006 at 11:58 pm by Cricket
The world is ending. No, really. I’m pretty sure Toby Keith will be our downfall. Because he might not suck.
Goodness, did I just say that out loud? Okay, here’s the deal. There’s this book, Rednecks and Bluenecks, which suggests that his politics, privately, are very much in line with mine (seriously, there were a dozen, “wait, Toby Keith is a Democrat?!?!?” conversations around HCT headquarters). And then he goes and is on the Colbert Report and is charming, self-effacing and funny. Also he clearly loves Willie Nelson. Plus he’s a tall cowboy, and beef noodle hearty, which means Mimi could probably be easily induced to crush out on him (yikes). And I keep hearing around town that he’s running his record label right and supporting the artists and giving them control of their music etc.
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06.08.06
Posted in cricket hates on pop country - June 8th, 2006 at 1:10 am by Cricket
Rascal Flatts, man, I can not turn on CMT for more than 7.3 minutes (I did too time it, you don’t know, shut it — and yes I watch CMT, it’s good to know what you’re up against) without seeing this band in videos or commercials or just there, doing nothing, taking up space, wasting minutes of my life. I hate them on principle. They aren’t country music. They have the appearance of a crappy manufactured adult contemporary boy band that couldn’t even get anyone attractive to show up for the audition, but are perhaps crappier than that appearance. Even Amazon.com, in their generally bland and inoffensive reviews, calls Rascal Flatts “soft rock masquerading as country.” Which really is my whole damn problem with Rascal Flatts and mainstream pop radio country. It’s without soul, without real twang, without heart, without substance.
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