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Sunday - 05 August 2007
OPINION: A Sunday Point Of View - "Line Em' Up...Moooove Em' Out"
By Dick Shuey
It is pretty common knowledge by now what the problems are with our Country Music Industry.
Everybody wonders what happened...and when we step back and take a look it isn't hard to understand why the Record Industry can't see the forest for the trees.
Those trees are the cowboys and cowgirls they have lined up put a hat on them...sent them to voice classes and the makeup artists ...bought them a wardrobe ...tell them what to sing ... what to say and try to make them something they just ain't. What a joke...!!!
They all look alike...they all sound alike and they have no style. They look pretty on the cover of a magazine and that's about extent of it. Out of a hundred they may get lucky and end up with one artist who may make some noise. Maybe.
When are they ever going to learn the country music fan isn't stupid.
These so called cowboys and cowgirls aren't even country...THEY ARE POP ARISTS...created in some ivory tower on music row. A new York / LA mentality....bless their hearts.
They just spent a 100 million dollars on trying to make a 100 country music star wannabe's out of a kareoke singers....and they haven't figured out yet why their financial state is in the sewer. If the artist doesn't sell a half of million records on their first release the Record Company drops them and they are never heard of again.
They are herding these unknown artists like cattle and driving them to the slaughter house.
Now you can understand why everything sounds the same on just about all the corporate country radio stations no matter where you are in the U.S.A.
I'd luv' to hear some great country artists and stylist in the vain of Dale Watson & Patty Booker on these radio stations...just to name a couple that come to mind. And they ain't kareoke singers...trust me....and they are working steady and have been for a long time.
It amazes me that the guy's sitting in those high towers in the suits haven't figured it out yet.
They don't have a clue on what a country music record should sound like.
It's time that we "Line Em' Up & Moooove Them Out".
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