1/18/10

I am thinking JUSTIN MOORE is making REAL country music.  I am a little slow sometimes because I’m very cynical about all the wannabe artists that major labels force on us.  I’ve had JUSTIN’s self-titled album for a few months now and at first listen, I definitely felt the vibe of the album and song “Small Town USA”.  However, I mistakenly filed him away as a “perpetrator” or “poser” artist as they say in the rap music world.

Then I watched this nearly year-old YouTube clip.  Now I am thinking… WOW, is it real?  What do y’all think?  I think this is yet another example of how the internet, technology, and YouTube are changing country music for the better.  If this is where JUSTIN really lived when this clip was made, he just jumped into the category of REAL country music in by book.  After listening to this album a few more times, I am thinking JUSTIN will be around a while.  Is JUSTIN a REAL country music artist?

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1/13/10

After being very bored with the direction this site was taking, we decided to stop posting, step back from everything, re-tool, and seriously think about what we like about country music and what we don’t like about the country music business.  As a result, we are going to re-tool the page to focus our reporting on the good and REAL country music “out there” and less on the ridiculous country music and fake-ass country music artists.  We are open to criticism that we have been tricked and misguided into reporting on things that are sensational, stupid and PR fluff… We promise to work harder at keeping thing real.

What should we be reporting on that we are overlooking?

Please tell us if you find some real country music “out there” that we should know about.

Thank you everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Late Tuesday night (1/6/09) surprised honky tonkers were treated to the Mayor of Country Music, JAMEY JOHNSON, showing up at Legends Corner live music honky tonk.  Eventually the Mayor was persuaded to sing a few of his songs and covers.   The Mayor is nominated for three Grammy awards.  In this amateur clip from a spy, the Mayor sings KEITH WHITLEY’s country classic “Don’t Close Your Eyes.”  The clip dark and you hear a lot of annoying voices, but according to the spy who was there, his performances were outstanding.  Afterwards he took time to meet and greet several surprised fans.

Just another gratuitous TV performance from the Mayor of Country Music, JAMEY JOHNSON. This performance of “In Color” originally aired December 9, 2008 on the Late Show with David Letterman. (Disclosure: we are very biased in our favorable coverage of the Mayor)

Kylee and Jamey Johnson Sharing the Stage

This video of JAMEY “The Mayor of Country Music” JOHNSON was taken March 18, 2008 by a spy at a St. Judes Chirdren’s Reachsearch Hospital funraiser held at the Tin Roof in Nashville.  While the video quality is certainly inferior, we were assured that as usual, The Mayor easily managed to make this striped down acoustic performance sound like a million bucks.  Towards the send of his set she shared the stage with his daughter KYLEE.  Even JOHNSON’s former wife was there to lend her support to the effort.

Unknown to KEITH ANDERSON as the charity event was ending, mega-mouth JOHN RICH asked for an audience member at the Second Harvest charity event to come on stage at the Ryman and arm wrestle KEITH. To encourage KEITH and the surprised volunteer, the audience reached into their wallets to encourage the contest. A spy recorded the contest on his amateur camera.

At the Second Harvest event, a spy managed to record this amateur video clip of DIERKS BENTLEY performing his newest single “Feel That Fire.” DIERKS said it was his first time to perform the new song live in front of an audience. As usual, he made it sound good and look simple.

DIERKS BENTLEY and KEITH ANDERSON were among the country music artists to lend their talent to the Second Harvest food bank program. Both DIERKS and KEITH played a few songs and seemed very much to enjoy the casual laid back feel of the event held at the Ryman Auditorium.