Hello folks. Sorry, I've been working all day with a new female artist trying TO NOT WRITE THE STUFF YA'LL HATE!!!!

Beechnut,

I know MURDER ON MUSIC ROW, very well. Both writers, Larry Shell and Larry Cordle, are friends of mine and both have told me their versions of that song. It was written in 1998, recorded first by Larry Cordle's bluegrass group "LONESOME STANDARD TIME" and re-recorded by Alan Jackson and George Strait in 2000. Was nominated for a 'CMA Vocal duo of the year" award and was actually just a show song for the 1999 CMA award shows. It was released as a single but only got to number 38 when both record companies, MCA for Strait and Arista for Jackson, decided to "pull the song, to keep from interfering with their artists' upcoming singles. AND BECAUSE THEY WERE RUFFLING TOO MANY FEATHERS."

Why?

Because that song was written to protest the music of...
GARTH BROOKS AND SHANIA TWAIN!

At that time, those artists had huge stage shows, lasers, lights, big sets, smoke, rain on stage, costume changes, video projectors and were a huge light and sound spectacle. THAT IS WHAT THEY WERE COMPLAINING ABOUT AT THAT TIME. They said "IT WAS JUST ROCK AND ROLL DESQUISED AS COUNTRY! She just showed her belly button, and put fiddles on rock songs (She was produced by Foreigner and Def Leopard's producer and her husband, Mutt Lange) and he was just a rock singer pretending he was country."

So if you think this argument is ANYTHING NEW you have NO SENSE OF MUSIC HISTORY. This town was in histerics at that time, because it was just all "Rock and roll guitars and drums, mixed up in your face."

That is what took the country music industry from $255 million dollars a year, to $2.5 BILLION dollars a year and made country a world wide phenomenon!

Now everyone "pines for those good old days of country!"

Give me a break!!!! This argument never ends! They were complaining when my relative, Jimmie Rodgers, did it in 1926 and are still complaining about it now. Some things NEVER CHANGE!

MAB

Last edited by Marc Barnette; 05/18/15 09:40 PM.