10. Gucci Mane as a guest rapper
(may happen by 2012 though)
09. Steel guitar as a lead instrument; Fiddle as more than a token accent
08. Taylor Swift …singing about drinking, divorce or actual sorrow
07. A NEW solo song by any of the following: Willie Nelson, George Jones, Joe Diffie, John Anderson, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless or Ray Price.
06. A song that puts the singer in a negative light
05. Jason Aldean …performing a song you'll care about by 2012
04. An urban pride song
(and for Bucky fans, this has nothing to do with Keith)
03. Gary LeVox …unaided by studio wizardry (and unfueled by pastries)
02. A song not about death or disease that could bring a tear to your eye
01. ANYTHING that makes you think "Holy crap, I can't believe they played that!"
it's funny...because it's true...and it's sad...because it's true...
ReplyDeleteI disagree about # 2, Trailer. Literally every song that gets to the Top 10 on AirHead Country Radio these days brings tears to me eyes if I'm forced to endure them. I do get your point though as far as songs evoking poignant emotional connections without a heavy hand.
ReplyDeleteSome of these are a shame, some of these are good. I'm glad country radio won't play a "new solo song" by some of those "classic" artists - more than a few of them have lost their voices and quite frankly, sound a lot worse than LeVox in 2011. I don't like hearing new George Jones and Merle Haggard because their voices are shot, they sound terrible, and the new records only serve to remind me that these singers were great once, but that was years ago. I'd rather hear an old Jones song from the 1960s- early 1990s every now and then than anything he has released in the last ten years.
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