How interesting...Loretta Lynn has mentioned that country
music is dead.
I could have told her that years ago.
Having been born in the 40s, I grew up on country music @ KLAK
radio in Denver. I vividly recall how the music transitioned to rockabilly and
into rock and roll. Which was followed by heavy metal, acid rock, disco and what
we call rock and roll today.
For the past twenty years I have been here, and listened
mostly to KXRB the local country station. I guess it was probably in the 80s but
moreso in the 90s when country music began sounding much like the rockabilly of
the 50s. It didn't take long for the music to start sounding like the beginning
of rock and roll.
Probably two years ago or so, KXRB had a change of
ownership/leadership and came up with an additional FM station. Since there was
a lot of music played during the week that sounded so much like rock and roll I
reserved my listening to Saturday when the day was committed to country
classics. Even that changed somewhat because the classics were no longer played
by the original artists but by covers of more recent artists and claimed to be
classics.
Perhaps the debarkation point came for me last year when the
station implemented "country variety". Yes! variety. I suppose we could sit and
debate, all day, what variety might mean. In my mind, it was an open door to
transitioning to a more rock and roll format.
Then, about half way through last year, the format changed
again, and classic Saturday became classic Saturday afternoon, from 12 to 6. Most
recently, classic Saturday is no longer a part of the programming.
Yes, I know, change is the only constant. Didn't someone,
somewhere, say there is nothing new under the sun, what has been will
be?
Well, that is enough for today.
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