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Hum, maybe if I change my 'Avatar' I'll be "in with the in crowd" on the Forum...Twayn Williams wrote:Now if it would of only been possible for her to have used Jerry Garcia on steel half the forum would probably die of apoplexy due to outrage
Therein lies the rub. Country music has, for a very long time, been a commercial style and people have generally gone for the money - there is nothing new here. I don't understand the outrage. OK, this isn't exactly my thing either, but this is far from the worst I've heard - actually, I think she could sing older country music just fine if she had a reason to. I'll bet plenty of older country singers would have sung something else if that was how they could make a living.That really sucked. Just when I think the commercial country industry has hit rock bottom, it gets worse.
All that aside, how can I audition for the gig?
What's the issue? She's from Texas - I don't think us Yankees from PA, NY, or Mass get to gripe about her twang. My wife - from Gallatin, TN - and who had as strong a twang as I've ever heard back when - found it necessary to seriously "tame" her accent when living in New England. Funny - some of the politically-correct intellectual types we were around hassled her about her accent - it seems many were seriously prejudiced, imagine that. When in Rome ... you do what you gotta do. Not to mention the fact that, when living somewhere for a while, many people tend to pick up the accent quite naturally.I don't recall her having the heavy Texas accent that she seemed to have on Saturday night. I'm just sayin'....
Waitaminnit, there's such a thing as a New England accent?Mark Trzepacz wrote:
I agree with what you say about people picking up the accents of where they may relocate to. I lived in New England for a few years, just south of Boston. After living there for awhile, I found myself picking up on some of the accent. I had to make a concious effort to avoid picking it up. I was not from there and it would have sounded phony on me. (Beside, I was never a big fan of the New England accent!)
Bo Legg wrote:Jessica Simpson could make me believe anything is country. Well come to think of it she could make me write hot checks and believe anything.
Yeah, I heard people kid my wife for "pushing" her Tennessee accent too - "Noooobudy coood haf thaaat exaaaaaaaaaggerated a draaaaaahl." They were clueless and insulting, and they had no idea - she was too polite a southerner to tell them, but instead learned to dislike and avoid them.The only observation that I guess I was making is that it seems as if she was pushing the accent a bit, making it seem a little phony, even if she is from Texas and especially when you don't normally hear her speak like that. It just struck me as being a little staged, that's all.
Well, white blues guitarists have been ripping off black people for sixty years now, it's only natural that Robert Randolph should serve as an inspiration to the new generation.it seemed that the steel player was really working overly hard to play that one lick over and over. maybe it was performance drama and showmanship...like sitting low and far away from the steel so his arms could flex more and look cool...
