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As much as I enjoy the politics, this country music diversion has been great.

 

I can't stand bro-country or most of what's on modern country music radio. But there are still some authentic voices out there. People like Sturgill Simpson and Angaleena Presley. Lately I've been digging on Tyler Childers a good bit.

 

What I would love to see --- but never will --- is a list naming every person who died in Puerto Rico, their exact cause of death, and how it was directly/indirectly related to the hurricane.

 

https://hurricanemariasdead.com/database.html

Their number is closer to 500 than 3,000, but it has a lot of what you're asking for. There were a lot of preventable deaths weeks and months after caused by lack of access to medication or electricity to run medical equipment.

 

I repeat my demand for journalists and all others to change the term "11th hour" to the accurate version, "24th hour."
If we're using the clock analogy, the time of the Democrats' ploy is not, for example, 10:19 a.m. It's 11:45 p.m.
Carry on.

 

All these people have great voices. Too me, Vince Gill has a very fine voice that has always been better for gospel than country. (Also: Sorry to say, but Vince Gill is boring.) To me, a great country voice needs to have a little grit, a little twang, a little heartache and poverty in it. Can't be too polished. Reeves and Campbell, for instance, have incredible voices that are almost a little too good, if that makes sense. Willie Nelson and Tennessee Ernie Ford and Waylon Jennings and George Jones, they could only sing country music with the voices they have. It's like Sturgill Simpson, to name a more modern singer. There is a rawness and realness to that sound and pitch that's perfect in its imperfection.

Willie Nelson's voice is Texas. Willie Nelson's voice is somehow a mixture of cotton farmers and cattle ranchers and oil speculators and outlaws. It's the voice of a guy who pulls out a banjo when you're sitting around the campfire, and he brings everyone to a complete standstill. It's the reminder that something beautiful can come from something ragged, which is basically the story of Texas.

Willie's voice is perfect in the same way Janis Joplin's voice was perfect. It's authentic and unpolished and you couldn't fix it in a studio, because you'd lose the realness that makes it genuine. So much of country lost its way in part because it tried to sound too perfect. Willie's ability to warble on just the right notes is why he's never boring.

 

Can the democrats run on this ? Trump raised your taxes and cut his

 

I imagine this site's figures will only grow as more details are released.