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Post by rick on Feb 19, 2019 4:38:33 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Feb 19, 2019 10:28:59 GMT -5
I would agree with much of Trisha said about women in country music getting a raw deal at conventional country radio. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that many of them are quite outspoken about a lot of things, which, for reasons probably having too much to do with sexism and misogyny, offends the male power structure of both the country genre in general, and country radio in particular. You can probably start with what happened to the Dixie Chicks in 2003. I'm not saying in any way that what has been done to women in country music is even remotely right. It is an unfortunate truth that it has been done.
I would also add, though, that country music had become very corporatized during the 1990s, much as rock and roll had become in the 1980s, and was moving away from the traditional performing milieu of honky-tonks, bars, and nightclubs into the same arena/stadium set-up that rock and roll got into, starting in the 1970s but accelerating in the 1980s. You had artists coming into the industry who were far more business-minded than the preceding generation, and that would include Trisha herself, not to mention the Garthmeister. But what you also had was the fact that the genre had moved away from the rural landscapes and communities that had given the genre its birth and its namesake, and had become largely sub-urban in content, designed to be all things to everybody, and not to "offend".
And by the way, who was it who recently said that that was the problem with modern country music today? That was strangely no less than Trisha's great spiritual role model, Linda herself.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 22, 2019 4:24:21 GMT -5
Katie Armiger says she was blacklisted from country music after sexual harassment allegations
When country singer Katie Armiger embarked on her first radio tour, the green-eyed 15-year-old from Sugarland, Texas, was brimming with excitement at the prospect of a music career.
The teenager, who loved nothing more than writing and performing her own songs, believed that a radio tour would allow her to follow in the footsteps of her heroes like Patsy Cline, Linda Ronstadt, Martina McBride and all of the other female artists who came before her.
www.foxnews.com/entertainment/katie-armiger-says-she-was-blacklisted-from-country-music-after-sexual-harassment-allegationsKatie Armiger - Scream
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Post by erik on Mar 22, 2019 12:36:34 GMT -5
So who says young'uns don't respect their "elders", seeing as how Katie named Linda as an influence.
That Katie should have experienced this kind of harassment in the segment of the music industry she was in is not too terribly surprising, and I find her story to be only too easy to believe. But it also illustrates why Linda, especially reading in her memoir about her own personal encounter with sexual harassment in Nashville just prior to her first appearance on Johnny Cash's TV show in 1969, never sought to be a country singer in the Nashville sense of the term. Not only do I think she would never have tolerated such shenanigans, but if she had blown the whistle like Katie did, she may very well have suffered the same fate as Katie (IMHO).
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Post by fabtastique on Mar 23, 2019 7:34:31 GMT -5
Tricia has a new album out - Lets Be Frank (standards) which I presume by the name was a Frank Sinatra tribute type album but there are several songs on there that I wouldn't associate with him .... )
its not bad though
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