Farce the Music: Kevin Fowler

Apr 9, 2020

King of the Hill Country Reaction Gifs 3

When you listen to one Johnny Rodriguez song

When Bobby's in his room listening to Kane Brown again

Every Kevin Fowler song

♫ ♬ He isn't just one of the guys
In his pink party dress you never would guess
He benches 335 ♫ ♬

♫ ♬ Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette

Puff puff puff

And if you smoke yourself to death ♫ ♬

Shooter Jennings just having a normal conversation

When you take Bobby to a modern country concert

When somebody says Luke Bryan is the best living country singer

Nov 30, 2018

Spongebob Squarepants Country Reaction Gifs 2

A good way to get your ass beat at a Kevin Fowler show

Country music used to be about rain, now it's about

When a 6'2", handsome, blue-eyed dude who can kinda carry a tune walks into a Nashville record exec's office

♫ ♬ There was always love in daddy's hands ♫ ♬

Me to my wife, after Keith Urban won Entertainer of the Year

I remember the first time I actually listened to "He Stopped Loving Her Today"

When "Take Me Back to Tulsa" comes on...

and you're a bad dancer

Bebe Rexha and Florida-Georgia Line were finally beaten at #1 on the Billboard Hot Country chart ...by Kane Brown

When a Kane Brown ad plays before the video you wanted to watch on YouTube

R.I.P. Stephen Hillenburg.

Jun 16, 2017

Texas Songwriter Under Fire for Song About Missouri

A Texas singer-songwriter is facing backlash for writing and recording a song that isn't about Texas. Lubbock artist Wells Barton says he's had his current single, "She's Like Laredo," pulled from most Texas radio stations and he's been ridiculed on social media for the album cut "White River Hills," which chronicles a romance in the Missouri Ozarks.

"Traitor. Texas forever, bitch!" read a tweet from @txgirl696969 this past Friday, and that's one of the nicer responses Barton has received. He's also seen his previously ascending single drop off the charts when his album including "White River Hills" was released.

Barton is flummoxed by the situation. "Literally, all 97 songs I've ever written before were either about Texas or took place in Texas or were named after a city in Texas," he explained. "But it's like I cheated on my wife or something, writing about Missouri." Barton says he was touring through Missouri and Arkansas and simply thought the White River Hills area was beautiful and wanted to express it in song. He never expected his budding career to hit a brick wall because of it.

He's had bookings cancelled across Texas in the wake of the controversy. Someone even tore the "Don't Mess With Texas" sticker off his tour van. "Casey Donahew called and cursed me out," said Barton, shaking his head. "and Kevin Fowler pulled his tour bus up in front of my house and forced me to hand over all his CD's that I owned."

Apparently, Barton told us, there are only a certain number of acceptable locations in songs for artists of his ilk. Texas is always king. Oklahoma is fine sometimes. Louisiana will work for songs with zydeco instrumentation. Mexico, of course, is great. Nobody writes songs about Arkansas. Deviation from these unwritten rules leads to black-balling and questioning of loyalty.

At press time, Wells Barton was planning to re-release his album Stars and Bars and Cadillac Cars with "White River Hills" replaced by a new song, "Texas is My Only Girl," but it remains to be seen if too much damage has already been done.