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Post by erik on Feb 7, 2019 9:58:38 GMT -5
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Post by RobGNYC on Feb 7, 2019 10:33:25 GMT -5
Excellent interview. I guess Linda has forgiven RS (which should have been able to figure out that the photo is definitely not from 1979--most likely 1976).
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Post by Joey on Feb 7, 2019 10:55:48 GMT -5
Not a very nice comment about "mall crawler music".
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Post by germancanadian on Feb 7, 2019 13:00:42 GMT -5
Rolling Stone should put out one of those collector's edition magazines about Linda's career. There seems to be one for nearly every other well known singer and group.
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Post by sliderocker on Feb 7, 2019 13:04:17 GMT -5
Not a very nice comment about "mall crawler music". Y'know what they say: the truth hurts! I'm with Linda in that I like old country. New country, not so much, because a lot of it isn't country. I'm still a rock and roll man at heart who listens not just to rock and roll - old and new - but to classical and to the old country. Linda's country is what she grew up with and listened to when she was younger. We all have a tendency to remain faithful to the music we listened to up to the time we were 25. Doesn't mean we didn't listen to anything new past that point, but it's the music of our youth that takes us back to those days and our memories. There are times I'd trade the memories just to be able to relive them for real. But, yeah, if you listened to what Linda listened to, what I listened to and likely many of the others on here who are old enough to have lived then, with regards to country music, you'll know the music is not the same. If anything, country music should be considered a dead genre because the real country died off long ago. And there's not much about the midwestern mall crawler country that is country. I wouldn't call it rock because it's not really rock either. In fact, I don't think the term has been invented that adequately describes it. Mall crawler music might be a suitable genre name for it. |
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Post by erik on Feb 7, 2019 14:48:39 GMT -5
We all have to remember that Linda's idea of "old country" was essentially the country music of Hank Williams, and, on a more regional level, the honky-tonk and Western swing of her part of the world, the Southwest. Patsy Cline was probably the big female country influence; and then the folk music boom of the early 1960s introduced her to the authenticity of Appalachia, old-timey music, and bluegrass.
But when country music became "corporatized" in the 1990s, the soul and the spirit of the form began getting bleached out, much like rock and roll had done after the advent of MTV. For Linda, who espoused both the traditional spirit of the form and her own progressive values in her own approach, that seems to have been a bridge too far.
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Post by musedeva on Feb 7, 2019 16:15:53 GMT -5
country chart-topper “When Will Be Loved,”............Whaaaaa?  I think not...but who knows... she's spot on about country, i.e the agrarian aspect of life being non existant for each their own country I'm just sooo glad her live stuff is out there so they know how gnarly she always was & that she has a great relationship with her kids...that's priceless for the singers; "sense of urgency and a sense of a earnest attempt"...... well....what 30 years or so, ?, later she still backs up what she said about Honesty!! God Bless Her!! |
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Post by eddiejinnj on Feb 8, 2019 5:56:42 GMT -5
WWIBL was a number one country song and no 2 pop. how ya doing, muse? eddiejinfl
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 8, 2019 6:02:05 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Feb 8, 2019 19:38:21 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2021 14:34:09 GMT -5
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I think not...but who knows...
