Schrodinger
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I think we can all agree that TBC is going to be a single. Now if you are talking country song CGS, LLA, & GiG have the most real traditional feel, along with WAW. DYTOM is country, but not the real traditional sound, SYA is along the same lines musically. I'm not a real fan of either of them but that's just preference there're too happy something. If I had to pick one it would be DYTOM and I would not want both them as singles one or the other. I never want OWT to be a single, Carrie is not Kenny nor Sammy.
The more I listen to WAW them more I love that song. It is such a traditional country heartbreak song, along with trying to move on. It's not a cry in your beer song but has a beautiful simile using alcoholic reference. It is such a perfect sad country love song.
As much as I like NETY and it's message to young women, I'm not sure it would resonate with all of Carrie's fans. Younger fans, moms and to some to extent dads of daughters, but not the younger single crowd or older singles. It's kinda a limited market song like Martina's This One's for the Girls
As for BA and TBC being pop I'm going to argue that these are the old cowboy ballads upd updated. Some of you don't remember when country music was called country & western music because there were a number of western balladeers. None as great as Marty Robbins. Growing up he was this little boys musical hero. He spoke of Gunfighters and heros, of Cowboys who lead a hard life. He did it in vivid images in his stories are just as visual as BA and TBC.
If you have never listened to Marty please, please play his Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs. Now some of the songs have a more traditional nashville song but a lot don't. Listen to El Paso There is a driving beat, not unlike a pop beat being played out on a bass. Later when he performed it he added a horn and went for more of a latin beat and mexican flavor. The same can be heard in Big Iron (one of childhood favorites). And if you don't think these songs have imaginary listen to The Master's Call, especially if you are a Christian don't tell me you don't feel the goosebumps. How does the meter and driving beat sound in Prairie Fire. Listen to Five Brothers and and the more driving beat.. Granted it a classic cowboy songs but it is not the Nashville sound and I would argue it much closer to Texas swing, which is closer to pop than the Nashville sound. Finally, Streets of Loredo is not even a country song. It's a dirge, funeral hymn or lament It traces its origin back to the medieval Catholic Church's Office of the Dead .
The more I listen to WAW them more I love that song. It is such a traditional country heartbreak song, along with trying to move on. It's not a cry in your beer song but has a beautiful simile using alcoholic reference. It is such a perfect sad country love song.
As much as I like NETY and it's message to young women, I'm not sure it would resonate with all of Carrie's fans. Younger fans, moms and to some to extent dads of daughters, but not the younger single crowd or older singles. It's kinda a limited market song like Martina's This One's for the Girls
As for BA and TBC being pop I'm going to argue that these are the old cowboy ballads upd updated. Some of you don't remember when country music was called country & western music because there were a number of western balladeers. None as great as Marty Robbins. Growing up he was this little boys musical hero. He spoke of Gunfighters and heros, of Cowboys who lead a hard life. He did it in vivid images in his stories are just as visual as BA and TBC.
If you have never listened to Marty please, please play his Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs. Now some of the songs have a more traditional nashville song but a lot don't. Listen to El Paso There is a driving beat, not unlike a pop beat being played out on a bass. Later when he performed it he added a horn and went for more of a latin beat and mexican flavor. The same can be heard in Big Iron (one of childhood favorites). And if you don't think these songs have imaginary listen to The Master's Call, especially if you are a Christian don't tell me you don't feel the goosebumps. How does the meter and driving beat sound in Prairie Fire. Listen to Five Brothers and and the more driving beat.. Granted it a classic cowboy songs but it is not the Nashville sound and I would argue it much closer to Texas swing, which is closer to pop than the Nashville sound. Finally, Streets of Loredo is not even a country song. It's a dirge, funeral hymn or lament It traces its origin back to the medieval Catholic Church's Office of the Dead .
