country and western

[Tom Lehman]

Your correct in that, what a high power big city c&w station plays as compared
to what you hear out in the country are two different things.  Although I did
hear a Johnny Cash public service announcement and one or two Garth Brooks
songs this trip; I also heard a lot of really obscure stuff by obscure
"artists". :o)  That's the difference between WGAR in Cleveland and a station
in let's say Henry County Ohio.

Tom

DENNIS_CLAXTON at fragomen.com wrote:


>  Tom wrote:
>
> >While driving I listen to the radio to catch up on all the latest farm
> news
> >and hot country and western tunes.
>
> What hot country and western tunes?  Contemporary country is mostly pop
> music, and it's not even good pop.  Nashville's been overrun by producers
> who look at artists' photos before they listen to their demos and session
> musicians like Pig Robbins, who played piano for everybody in the old days,
> including Patsy Cline and Bob Dylan, sit around waiting for the phone to
> ring.
>
> Guys like Garth Brooks,now the biggest selling solo artist ever,get all the
> airplay and Brooks is hardly country.  How can he be when  Billy Joel and
> Dan Fogelberg are big influences?  He's a marketing genius though.  He
> studied advertising at Oklahoma State where, according to Entertainment
> Weekly, he was "hoping to adapt his original music to jingles and creative
> copy."
>
> A couple years ago Johnny Cash, who gets minimal airplay these days, took
> out a big ad in _Billboard_ with a famous old photo of him flipping off the
> photographer backstage at one of his California prison shows.  The text
> said "Johnny Cash would like to thank country radio for all its help."