Screw the CMA's

I see you and I raise you with Brooks and Dunn "Play Something Country" and Trace Atkins "HnnkyTonkbadonkadonk."

 

I always thought that guys like Alan Jackson were too slick/pop, and the wave in that era. Looking back they were much better than the bro country era, but not my idea of three chords and the truth.

 

I like and have on my playlist:
1 Jason Aldean song
2 Luke Bryan songs

I know there are some other Bro Country artists that I've heard their names, but I don't know any of their music and couldn't pick them out of a lineup.

I do like Luke Combs.

 

Alan Jackson was never pop. Wrote a bunch of his own music, played pretty hardcore country, sixty-something No. 1 hits. Also cut a helluva bluegrass album.

 

Country-pop crossover just didn't happen between 1982 and the modern day. Like it or not, Billy Ray Cyrus achieved that in 1992.

It continues today with some Nashville acts like Thomas Rhett, who isn't country. I'm looking forward to the next Thomas Rhett rock concert.

 

*pop concert

 

This is really the only dirt roads, river, beer song I need. And it came out more than 10 years ago. I think this song was meant as a joke, but the rest of Nashville took it seriously.

 

Used to play a game with my buddies called Dead, Drunk, or Divorced. We would watch country music videos and try to guess which of the three the song was about.

Blake Shelton song — drunk, obviously.

 

With my daughters it was hurting, drinking or cheating song. My works was done when I got the answer “he’s drinking because he’s hurting because she was cheating”.

 

Thanks anyway, but I'd rather hang out with the old farts and jackasses.

 

She just started liking cheatin' songs
And what's bothering me
I don't know it it's the cheatin' she likes
Or just the melodies

 

That or "He's drinking because he's hurting because he got caught cheating".