Comments on: A critique of storytelling in Modern Country Music, or, I miss KUOW and KEXP and need an ipod.

By: Jessie Kwak

Jessie Kwak — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:23:40 +0000

Thanks for your comment. I think that there’s still some awesome country music being produced today, but, like in any genre, the stuff that gets the most attention is watered down and fluffy. (Can something be both watered down and still be fluffy? I’m envisioning a drenched Burmese cat, and, don’t hate me, laughing just a little bit. OK, laughing a lot.). I’m lucky enough to be in Seattle now with my beloved KEXP. They stream their programs on the interwebs; check out Swingin’ Doors and The Roadhouse (one’s on Wednesday and one’s on Thursday, and both are archived online). There’s still some awesome country out there, my friend. We just have to hunt it down.

By: Meesh Metcalf

Meesh Metcalf — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:09:16 +0000

First of all, you are a brilliant writer. Second of all, thank you for addressing the joke that Country has become. I’m like you; I understand the need to survive in a hard market, and that sacrifices have to be made at times, but to tear down its foundation is wrong. “Murder on Music Row” says it all; so let’s just call it like it is: dead. And this new “Country” can have its own name, because, after all, it is a new genre. And, just one piece of sour satire due to my bitter resentment towards the destruction of the genre I grew up to, will someone please tell Taylor to write a new song? They’re all the same!