Country music

There has been a change in country music over the past few years. I'm not saying it's good or bad but it has, for all intense and purposes, changed. Over the years my exposure to this genre has been from the 1970's to to present. Back when I was working for someone who listened to the old style of George Jones and Lefty Frizzel and the like, it wasn't something I took to readily, but didn't dislike. Perhaps that's why the Marshall Tucker Band and southern rock in general have been a sound I really liked.

In any case, like all good things where money is involved, record companies (that would be the black vinyl  things I grew up with) have made it a point to capitalize on it and just push music out of the pipe at a breakneck pace. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of the things I hear, but I question the writing. The performers are good, there is some original stuff out there and some great bands and really good singers but it seems as though the music has gotten cheap.

David Allen Coe did a song once upon an eon ago that said country songs should contain some of the following: Momma, pickup trucks, rain, prison, trains and getting drunk. It was, at the time the perfect county song. An observation that I have made concerning the content of music coming out of Nashville is that all songs should mention some if not all of the following:
Moonshine
Beer
Drinking beer
Being good at drinking beer
How good beer is
Beer cans
Budwiser
Corona
Ice cold beer
Bourbon
Tequila
Jose Quarvo
Patron

F-150
Silverado
(Dodge never made the cut! LOL!)
4x4
Getting your 4x4 stuck
Shaking your ass  (females only please!)
Shaking it
Cut off jeans that show your ass.
Dancing and shaking your ass.
Trespassing and building a fire on private property so girls can shake their asses.
Shaking your ass on truck, tractor or rooftop.
Just how country you are.
Just how country country is
Graphite on public structures.
Just how redneck you are.
Getting your "redneck on"
Kicking somebody's ass
Getting your ass kicked
Wishing you could kick somebody's ass
Hoping you wont get your ass kicked
Guns (any type in general)
30-06
12 gauge shotgun
Dogs
Hunting dogs
Missing your hunting dog
Fishing
Going fishing
Last time  went fishing
Boots
Camos
Hangovers
Marshall Tucker Band
Lynnyrd Skynyrd
Johnny Cash
Hank Willams, Jr.
Waylon Jennings
Crying, loving and leaving.
American
America
Made in America
American made
USA
NASCAR
The South
Georgia
Tennessee
Alabama
Kentucky (not a southern state by the way)
Texas
South Carolina
Various Southern cities

And probably a few I failed to mention.

Anyway, the point I am making is that something so simple has become too complicated..... I think there is a song about that....