TPS wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 4:46 pm
So I just probably just guess Dolly Parton or Johnny Cash and call it a weekend!
I don't generally like or know much about it myself, despite having lived nearly my entire life in the South, but I'd encourage you to check out Patsy Cline's "Crazy" (if nothing else), and the magnificent movie
Coal Miner's Daughter, about Loretta Lynn (stars: Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones, with Beverly D'Angelo as Patsy Cline). And there's a video on YouTube of Parton's "Jolene" that's slowed down as if you played a 45 RPM single at 33 1/3 RPM - the woman has incredible control over her voice.
And if you want to enjoy the twangier, funnier side of the business, try David Allan Coe's cover of "You Never Even Called Me By My Name". Huge kiss-off to the Nashville music execs. It's up there with when Zac Brown wrote "Chicken Fried" - a very charming folky song - and allowed an acquaintance to record it on the condition that he would not let it be played on the radio. The recording company released it anyway, and Brown sued - despite the fact that he was going up against people who could very easily have sunk his entire career - and won. He had another heavy-hitter come by and watch one of his shows on the grounds that "I just wanted to meet the guy who told [x] to **** off."
Never forget: Taylor Swift was a country artist in her early career. There's a lot of crossover there. Like I said, it's not really my thing, but it's pretty interesting in its own way.
