Country Music Awards: Night before the Election

[brettdale]

You can expect the family value speeches to come out, and the Dixie Chicks to be booed.

[thinksmart]

1. McGraw bucks conservative country image

Country music might seem like a pretty conservative medium, but Tim McGraw is bucking the trend. "It's innate in me to be a Democrat — a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore," McGraw tells Time magazine in its Oct. 23 issue.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061016/ap_en_ce/people_tim_mcgraw

[Parche]

2. country

F country music and all of those phony flag waving rednecks
country music and rap= CRAP

I despise country music, well its not even music, every single song is the same
and they sound like they are gods gift to the confederate race.
Toby Keith should be slung by his nads

[TlalocW]

3. I make an exception for Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton

Partly because I grew up listening to them (or being forced to listen to them since that's what Mom played on her record player), and because they didn't come across as completely phony.

Modern country music sucks - all the guys sound the same, and they overemphasize that phony country twang that you hear in every song, and their image is all the same - good ol' boy that wears jeans with a big-ass belt buckle, t-shirt, and a cowboy hat, and they drive a pick-up.

TlalocW

[Parche]

5. cash

Yes I forgot about them, they were at least the good country people
not like todays crap.

[leftofthedial]

10. yeah! That damned Steve Earle!

and Buddy Miller too!

Don't even get me started on Bill Lloyd.

Tim McGraw? Every song from that confederate sounds just the same.

[TerdlowSmedley]

4. Country music isn't as bad as it sounds.

[Chimichurri]

7. lol

that should be on a bumper sticker.

[k_jerome]

6. what is this "country music" of which you speak. nt.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. it's an oxymoron

[FSogol]

8. Country Music....

"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who
do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means "put
down."-- Bob Newhart

[Ishoutandscream2]

9. LOL! I like classic country, but I had to laugh at that!!

[Bake]

11. I like BOTH kinds of music: country AND western!

Unlike many of the snobs around here.

Bake

[wishlist]

12. Repub Sara Evans' husb's sex scandal may curb the family values

There may be some attempts to prop up the flag waving support-the-troops patriotism but perhaps the right wingers will be more subdued in touting family values in light of prominent Bush suppporting country star Sara Evans announcing divorce proceedings due to her activist Repub husband who exposed himself and posted porn and solicited sex on internet.