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From: 01jametzger@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
Subject: Re: The Reverend Garth Brooks (Part II)
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:06:24 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Oct8.210814.18643@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, thughes@lonestar.utsa.edu (Toby . Hughes) writes:
> 
> 
> Just as I hit the 'send' button I realized who this song is perfect for.
> 
> JOHN DENVER!!! (He may have even written it;  sounds like it.)
> 
> T.

	You aren't too familiar with John Denver and his type of music are
you?  
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
From: texan@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (jennifer.j.sinclair)
Subject: Vince Gill
Keywords: Concert Review
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 05:38:03 GMT

Tonite, Thursday 10/8, I had the pleasure of seeing
Vince Gill in concert.  You know, I had no idea what
it was going to be like.  I have been wanting to see
him for a long time and just never managed to.

Anyway, the concert was GREAT!  I was entertained the
whole time (9:00 pm to 10:45 with no opening band).
(I thought that was pretty long considering the guy
was extremely hoarse)
He told jokes, talked with the audience, did imitations
and did about 4 songs by himself (no band).
He even did a song from his Pure Prairie League days.
He sang a song called "Jenny dreams of trains" that he
wrote for his daughter and said the he was really proud
of the fact that Mary Chapin Carpenter had recorded it
for that children's country album that was recently released.
He talked how he loved bluegrass but one day he realized
he wanted to own his own house and so he better change
to another musical career.  He sang "Sight for Sore Eyes"
and said that when he was feeling down he liked to sit
down and sing this.

The crowd was real polite. Not real rowdy.  People would
yell things out of the audience and he would answer back.
(except the time someone yelled something and he asked them
what they said and he looked out at the audience and said
"Yeah, now you're quiet".  One lady said "Makin Plan" and
he couldn't hear her and she kept repeating it until he
did hear her, then he says "What're you doing?". (ok maybe
it doesn't sound that funny - but it was at the time.

In review: I've seen Clint, Alan, Randy, George, Billy Ray
and Alabama (just to name a few) and Alabama and Vince 
probably were the most entertaining out of all them.  So
next year I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed that Vince
wins Entertainer of the Year.

P.S. Once again - like the Billy Ray concert I attended -
there were bimbos on the left.  These people gotta get
a life.


Jennifer
My body's in Illinois but my heart's in Texas
From: gt8657a@prism.gatech.EDU (Shawn Preston Cannon)
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
Subject: A fan...
Date: 9 Oct 92 21:18:26 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I am a BIG fan of Country Music.  I used to only listed to pop/rock, but
Garth Brooks music prompted me to listed to more country, and I love it! My
brother and mother have always listened to it and I thought they were stupid,
but I can see that I was wrong!  Does anyone out there know how to get started
in the Country Music business?  I love to sing and I have been interested in
this for almost 2 years now!  If anyone has any ideas, then e-mail me at
gt8657a@prism.gatech.edu.  BTW, I think that everyone should respect Garth
Brooks in his decision to spend time with his family!  He is a teriffic guy!
See ya...

Shawn Cannon

-- 
Shawn Preston Cannon
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt8657a
Internet: gt8657a@prism.gatech.edu
From: ch00@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Chris Hartzell)
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
Subject: Re: Garth on the CMA show
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:38:08 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <BvnL90.EKG@Novell.COM>, lyndap@Novell.COM (Lynda Peterson) writes:
>In article <Oct05.002212.36021@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
>kjun@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu (Pat Fitzpatrick) writes:
>> >Personally, I was surprised Alan Jackson didn't take TNN/MCN
>> >entertainer this year, and I'll be even more surprised if he doesn't
>next year.
>>
>> Not me. I love Alan Jackson's music, but he's quite boring in concert.
>>
>I bet to differ, I thought he was great! I also thought Diamond Rio was
>great! I own a LOT of CD's but, I like live music a lot. I love concerts
>no matter who it is. In most cases the entertainers talk between the
>songs, tell you about them, and other interesting stories. Alan's been out
>tourin only a couple of years, give him time to start getting comfortable
>on the stage. He is a shy guy, we all know that and that is part of his
>charm.
>
>> (of course, how does this explain a George Strait concert? he justs
>> stands there like ALan Jackson, and the ladies scream. I guess because
>> he's a legend and undoubtedly a future member of the Hall of Fame,
>> whereas Alan Jackson hasn't quite reached that level yet).
>>
>Just wait. George has been around a lot longer. Alan will get his due.
>

All Alan Jackson would have to do for me is juar "stand" there....well, maybe
he could sing a song or two....
-- 

    ^^^^^Chris Hartzell^^^^^Computing Center^^^^^Ext. 83830^^^^^
From: scaruffi@flash.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Piero Scaruffi)
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
Subject: name this song...
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:04:08 GMT
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino CA, USA

Who sings "That kind of girl"?
I know she must be very popular, but i just started listeing to country
music and still have to figure out who's who.
Also that song showcases excellent guitar work: is the guitar played by the
same lady who sings?
thanks

piero

scaruffi@atc.olivetti.com
From: shaynes@informix.com (Scott Haynes)
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western,rec.dancing
Subject: Country western dance place in San Francisco
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:19:21 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
Originator: shaynes@malibu

I'm looking for a place to learn the two-step in the city (i.e. San Francisco)
Any ideas?

Please send any replied directly to me because I don't really check these
bulletin boards...

Regards,

Scott Haynes  
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
From: meganb@sequent.com (Megan Breninger)
Subject: I just have to say this!
Summary: More Garth Brooks talk
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 18:45:11 GMT

O.K.  First off, I don't post to this group much.  I really enjoy
C/W music, and, as far as I am concerned, Garth IS C/W!

I think that TRUE Garth fans would understand his position in
life.  I, for one, would not become any less of a Garth fan,
or feel as tho he didn't care about his fans and their feelings,
if he did take 8 months off!  Look what happened to Willie Nelson,
Dan Seals, Paul McCartney..just to name a few...after leaving the
business and then coming back!  They all did what they did for
different reasons, but it worked out fine in the end.

So, go ahead Garth.  In this case, the needs of the few outweigh
the needs of the many, and life is short.  Do what you need to
do to make yourself happy!  Look out for #1, isn't that what we've
all been told!  Why be soooo selfish as to feel that if Garth
makes a life of his own without US for 8 months, that, well, he
must not give a rip about the fans in general.  If I were him,
I'd tell my TRUE fans to hang in there, and for all those
that are Garth fan wanna-be's, to cram their feelings up their
youwho and go fan wanna-be someone else!

Just my opinion.  I'm fairly confident a few others feel the same
way, too!

Megan, Larry her S.O., Clyde his Black Lab, Edgar her Black Cat,
and High Action Hank, her Gray, Black and White APHA, The Wonder
Horse!
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
From: ellis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (June Ellis)
Subject: Re: No Hats in Knoxville
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 01:12:49 GMT

>I just bought a CD full of old recording from back when Marty was the
>boy wonder picking the guitar and mandolin with Lester Flatt and/or
>Earl Skruggs.  Great! Has anyone else heard it?  I also managed to pick
>up some of Marty's first solo attempts.  Let's just say he's picking better
>material now . . . .


>               --Eve Pickering

This summer the PBS station from Iowa City ran a series of classic old country 
music shows.  One night they had on "The Porter Wagoner Show" with Porter and 
Dolly.  The guest on that show was Lester Flatt, but there in the back picking 
away on his mandolin was a half-grown Marty.  He looked just as impish 
and bemused then as he does now!

June
From: slucas@grant.ncd.com (Steve Lucas)
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
Subject: Re: Garth on the CMA show
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:00:18 GMT
Organization: Network Computing Devices, Mt. View, CA, USA

In article <BvGuJH.IGn@fc.hp.com>, rodean@fc.hp.com (Bruce Rodean) writes:
|> Jimmy Shaw (jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu) wrote:
|> > In article <5329@balrog.ctron.com> lawrence@olympus.ctron.com (Gary St. Lawrence) writes:
|> > >Am I wrong? He just really seemed upset and not at all interested
|> > >in winning any awards. I kept hoping to see him pumped up during
|> > >his performance, but his voice cracked and he started tearing up
|> > >during the end of that too.
|> > >
|> > >					Just something I noticed.
|> > >					Saint.
|> > 
|> > Garth was on Dateline NBC a few weeks ago, and his eyes teared up
|> > when he told Jane Pauley that he is considering retiring, and
|> > basically hates the "business" end of the business.
|
	If anyone saw the TNN Crook & Chase the next day, you would of heard Garth explain his emotions at the CMA presentation.  It wasn't from illness, but because he had just realized he was watching George Jones be inducted into the hall of fame.  He also explained his `Parental leave' and what he saw for the future.  He didn't seem to be heading down the retirement road for a good long time.




> 
|> This morning Mark McEwen (why was a weatherman there in the first place)
|> did a piece on the CBS morning show and the report said that Garth was a
|> bit under the weather and that's why his voice cracked.
|> 
|> Also did anyone notice that Mark O'Connor's fiddle wasn't picked up at
|> all during that song.  Hell they even did a couple of close-ups on him
|> during the song and you couldn't hear anything.  I wonder if the live
|> audience missed out on that as well.
|> 
|> --
|> Bruce Rodean                          Hewlett-Packard Company
|> rodean@fc.hp.com
From: lyndap@Novell.COM (Lynda Peterson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
Subject: New Alan Jackson CD (for Alan's fans only)
Date: 16 Oct 92 21:53:39 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.

I bought the new Alan Jackson CD last week and I just have to say I love  
it. Anyone out who might be concerned that Alan will go "pop" need not be  
concerned. His new album is typically country, typically what he has  
released before, but better IMHO. Lots of steel guitar and sad lyrics.  
What a talent, huh? 

The new song, "She's Got the Rythm," that he sang on the CMA is one of my  
favorites. A couple others I like are, "She Likes it Too,"  
"Chattahoochee," "Tropical Depression," and "Up to My Ears in Tears." 

If you are an Alan Jackson fan, go buy the album!! You will enjoy it, too.  
If you aren't an Alan Jackson fan, go buy the album, you might just get to  
like him.

And for all you "Hat Act" fans, Alan is wearing a (GASP!) black hat in the  
lyrics booklet.

Feel free to flame or applaud my review. I am feeling tough this week. 

lyndap@novell.com
lynda peterson
From: gregk@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Gregory Krueger)
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
Subject: Re: Country Songs you Love to Hate
Keywords: Unaussprechlichen
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:00:21 GMT
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College

In article <Bvt849.930@access.digex.com>, geffy@access.digex.com (Geff King) writes:
|> With all this talk going on since CMA about who is Country and who Ain't,
|> I'm putting a list of songs by popular artists we so love to bash. Each of
|> these are songs I would play for bashers and say, "Look, I know everything
|> else the guy does sucks, but you've gotta admit THIS one is pretty good.."
|> 


How about "You Never Call Me By my Name"  By David Alan Coe?  I've heard
his greatest hits cd, and aside from that song, I was deeply offended by
how bad the rest were!  I think these are the types that you mean....
If not, you can banish me to rec.music.alternative.music.rules.forever.not



Greg
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
From: pwilson@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Pete Wilson)
Subject: Re: Country Songs you Love to Hate
Keywords: Unaussprechlichen
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:58:33 GMT

In article <Bvt849.930@access.digex.com> geffy@access.digex.com (Geff King) writes:
>With all this talk going on since CMA about who is Country and who Ain't,
>I'm putting a list of songs by popular artists we so love to bash. Each of
>these are songs I would play for bashers and say, "Look, I know everything
>else the guy does sucks, but you've gotta admit THIS one is pretty good.."
>
>Don't really know why I'm posting this - maybe it's just that I got married
>two weeks ago and feel that I have to try to be a nice guy these days.  
>So, this is as difficult for me as it is for some of you. 
>
>Garth Brooks - "I Know One" - Off the first album.
>

*Everybody* likes "The Dance", but my favourite is "Not Counting
You, (I've never had a heartbreak)".  In fact this is the only
Garth song that I've ever really liked.

.pw



Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
From: geffy@access.digex.com (Geff King)
Subject: Country Songs you Love to Hate
Keywords: Unaussprechlichen
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:52:54 GMT

With all this talk going on since CMA about who is Country and who Ain't,
I'm putting a list of songs by popular artists we so love to bash. Each of
these are songs I would play for bashers and say, "Look, I know everything
else the guy does sucks, but you've gotta admit THIS one is pretty good.."

Don't really know why I'm posting this - maybe it's just that I got married
two weeks ago and feel that I have to try to be a nice guy these days.  
So, this is as difficult for me as it is for some of you. 

Garth Brooks - "I Know One" - Off the first album.

Billy Ray Cyrus - "Where'm I Gonna Live" - I posted about this the first
time I heard it. Not great, but not too damn bad, either.

Allan Jackson - "Wanted" - Don't care if the song is weak or forced or not;
it sounds believable, and that counts in my book. 

How 'bout some of you give a try at it? Remember, if you can't say
something nice......

+-----Geff King --- Librarian by Day/Bass Player by Night --------------+
| Nobody told me. That don't mean nobody told anybody - that just means |
+--nobody told me. --Freddy Fender -------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
From: pmanyem@eos.ncsu.edu (PRABHU  MANYEM)
Subject: New Country Video  
Keywords: 
	   After a gap of 5 or 6 weeks, North Carolina Public TV
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 19:03:09 GMT

broadcasted "New Country Video" yesterday for an hour.  Some of the
songs I liked were :  Keep it between the lines (Ricky Van Shelton),
	Only the wind (Billy Dean),
	My little baby loves me cadillac style (dont recall who!)

 It was a production of Maryland PTV.  Do you other folks get to see
this in your places ?  
			Prabhu
From: IO20467@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
Subject: Re: Morals??? "Jesus and Mama Always Loved Me"?
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:23:20 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

MAYBE IF YOU LISTEN TO THE REST OF THE SONG, INSTEAD OF FLAMING LYRICS OUT OF C
ONTEXT, YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT.
AMY
From: bh419@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ted B Samsel)
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
Subject: Re: Ian Tyson question
Date: 7 Oct 1992 12:03:56 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Tapaderos are the stirrup covers (ornate, leather).
The "tree " is the form the saddle leather is mounted to, usually
wood, I don't know if "vasilai" is a place name or what. In the
cowboy song WINDY BILL, Bill doesn't have his saddle cinched
well and when he "dally welters" (dar le vueltas..Spanish for
wrapping the lariat around the saddlehorn)..
"his Sam Stack tree went drifting down the draw".
and
jaquima..Arabic/Spanish for hackamore..
freno may be another r Spanish word for tack parts.
-- 
Ted....
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
From: akp2c@curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU (Audra Kaye Parker)
Subject: Re: Garth on the CMA show
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:48:11 GMT

I recently went to see Garth Brooks in Roanoke, Va and was
absolutely overwhelmed by his efforts to involve the audience
and warm their hearts with his music!  His concert included
three songs off of his great new album as well as some old
favorites.  This man has given his all to the country music
business for the last four years, and has helped turn the
industry around.  What I am saying is that the man needs a
break tobe with his daughter.  I don't think a lot of people in
ths country understand what being on tour must do to one's
life.  Give Garth a break--it seems obvious he deserves it.
From: robyn@cs.arizona.edu (Robyn Austin)
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
Subject: Re: Sass Jordan??
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:30:43 GMT



To my knowledge she does have an album out. In fact, she was on this campus
just last week promoting her album. Whether it is on LP or CD, I don't know.
Reviews of her concert were good.

Robyn
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
From: kjun@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu (Pat Fitzpatrick)
Subject: Re:  Garth hysteria peaked? (was the believers)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 02:12:52 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University -- Atmos Sci

After hearing Garth's latest song, I came to a startling conclusion. I think
Garth mania might begin to fade. Why? Because his the song quality has
declined! Let's see, we've had

1) Shameless (unlistenable)
2) What's she's doing now (boring and wimpy)
3) Mama's in the graveyard, pappa's in the pen (fun, but kind of violent)
4) We're going to be free (if it's suppose to be gospel, it's not very good.
                           if it's suppose to be patriotic, it does nothing
                           for me)
5) The song he did on the award show (very popish, and not well-sung)
6) Sail my vessel (not that bad, but not that great)

To top it off, one can notice that only one of these (#3) can be classified
as "country" music. Now compare that to excellent songs like "too damn young,"
 "two of a kind" and, yes, "friends in low places," and I think maybe
even the devout Garth fans can see my point. He's deviating from what got him
famous, and in the long run he'll lose.

To top it off, I think even his earlier "pop" songs, like "if tomorrow never 
comes" and "The Dance" were better than his "new" pop songs.

Personally, I'm not pure "cry in your beer" country myself, but I can
recognize when someone is going too far. And I think this is the point
the Garth-bashers have been trying to make all along.....

Pat Fitzpatrick
From: kist@acsu.buffalo.edu (james e kist)
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
Subject: Re: Sass Jordan??
Date: 9 Oct 92 04:41:30 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1992Oct8.192435.6508@Princeton.EDU> hagar@phoenix.princeton.edu (Paul Hagar) writes:
>Last night I heard about a blues/country singer named Sass Jordan.
>However, local CD store didn't have any of her albums. Anyone know who
>she is and if she has albums on LP/CD?
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Paul (hagar@phoenix.princeton.edu)

The first time I heard one of her songs, I could have sworn it was the
Black Crowes. That is who she sounds like. I've only heard one of her
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
From: geffy@access.digex.com (Geff King)
Subject: Re: Country Songs you Love to Hate
Keywords: Unaussprechlichen
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 14:41:51 GMT

In article <BvvrKL.I9r@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ellis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (June Ellis) writes:

>I read another quote by Jimmy Bowen, who runs Liberty Records, saying
>traditional country "deserves to be diluted" because it has never sold 
>particularly well.  And it looks like he is having his way.  

Where does he get his figures, I wonder? From the same record store owners
who provided Billboard with record sales information before they went to 
using bar codes to tabulate the figures?

Geff(y@access.digex.com)




Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
From: djohna@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (John Ackerman 3568)
Subject: No Hats in Knoxville
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 17:51:42 GMT

Greetings. I watched the Travis Tritt/Marty Stuart P-P-V
this past Friday evening. It confirmed what I already surmised
that Travis Tritt is a most formidible singer/songwriter/performer.

No. He's not pure country. He's not just Rock-n-Roll. But in this
business I think it's lead, follow, or get out of the way.
He's just rough enough around the edges to make him All-American!

And He's REAL. I watched the Michael Jackson special on HBO the next
evening (not my idea) and as huge an act as Mr J. is, he couldn't
even carry one of Travis' picks IMHO. (Moonwalkin' aside of course)

My Point? 

God Bless Travis Tritt and Hats Off to the No Hats Tour!

Back to you in the booth Bob...


Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
From: marshall@nebula.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall)
Subject: Re: Morals??? "Jesus and Mama Always Loved Me"?
Reply-To: marshall@nebula.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 18:34:01 GMT

In article <1b965aINNalp@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, bh419@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ted B Samsel) writes:
>
>Hail, yes. Doncha all remember MAMMA TRIED?

I don't really consider the two songs to tell the same story. In Merle's
song, he apparently never turned things around ("doin' life without parole");
in "Jesus and Mama..." the guy ended up "going down the right road".

=============================================================================
Bob Marshall                     \\     "It ain't age
Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.     \\     That makes me look this way
Sunnyvale, CA                      \\    It ain't the years, boys,
marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com\\   It's the miles"
"I tell the truth 'cept when I lie"  \\     - Chris LeDoux
=============================================================================
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
From: marshall@nebula.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall)
Subject: Re: name this song...
Reply-To: marshall@nebula.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 00:28:00 GMT

In article <56534@olivea.atc.olivetti.com>, scaruffi@flash.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Piero Scaruffi) writes:
>Who sings "That kind of girl"?
>I know she must be very popular, but i just started listeing to country
>music and still have to figure out who's who.

That's Patty Loveless.

=============================================================================
Bob Marshall                     \\     "It ain't age
Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.     \\     That makes me look this way
Sunnyvale, CA                      \\    It ain't the years, boys,
marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com\\   It's the miles"
"I tell the truth 'cept when I lie"  \\     - Chris LeDoux
=============================================================================
From: thughes@lonestar.utsa.edu (Toby . Hughes)
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
Subject: The Reverend Garth Brooks (Part II)
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:08:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio



Just as I hit the 'send' button I realized who this song is perfect for.

JOHN DENVER!!! (He may have even written it;  sounds like it.)

T.
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