Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 5: Story Time!

This is another large section, and rightly so, because it constitutes what I would consider the real tasty bit of the article. This is the thing that I think I like most about this genre, its great strength as a set of tools. These are the songs that exist to tell a short story, beginning … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 5: Story Time! →

So what am I actually working on?

Image via Wikimedia Commons A third post this week?! Astonishing. I guess I'm feeling inspired by reaching 90 straight days of adding to my big project. So, I want to actually explain what I'm working on. . Here's the pitch so far: . "Deep underground in the city of Dendograath, the social-climbing Telena family finds … Continue reading So what am I actually working on? →

Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 4: Songs That Didn’t Have To Go This Hard But Did

We gave a little attention to the genre’s political origins back in the bluegrass section. Now we’re going to dive into that with more focus. The biggest subgenre you will find here is Fuck The Police, but it also dips into Be Better To Each Other and Fuck The Nazis (Woody Guthrie is back). The … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 4: Songs That Didn’t Have To Go This Hard But Did →

Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 3: Women Going Apeshitt (sic)

This segment was originally going to have a title related to utterly justified murder. However, right about then, Miranda Lambert stomped in, screaming “I am going to have a breakdown in public and NO ONE CAN STOP ME!” and I realized the rage ran a little deeper than mere murder. This is a return to … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 3: Women Going Apeshitt (sic) →

Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 2: The Original Sound

            For this segment we’re reaching into history here and there. I like a bluegrass sound now and then, and that takes us right to the root of country music. This is going to be a mix of the real old stuff, and songs that imitate the real old stuff. Country has a certain political … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 2: The Original Sound →

Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music: Part 1

So, you hate country music. . No, okay, you know what? Valid. There is no getting around the fact that we are talking about a genre where a song called Honky Tonk Badonkadonk was deprived of #1 Hit status only because it had the bad luck to come out the same month as Jesus Take … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music: Part 1 →