The Not Country Music Awards

Dean Dobbins · Post by **Dean Dobbins** » 5 Oct 2000 7:17 am

Faron Young in the Hall Of Fame:
In the immortal words of Ray Price:
"IT'S ABOUT DAMNED TIME"!

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Dino

wayne yakes md · Post by **wayne yakes md** » 5 Oct 2000 7:30 am

Its a shame Charley Pride didn't have Ronnie Miller(an old Denverite now in Dallas) on steel. He is a GREAT player and would have played his fanny-off for Charley on his Induction. My only consolation is that 2 truly country artists were Inducted.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 5 Oct 2000 7:44 am

The only lead instruments I heard on Charlie Pride's songs were Guitar and Fiddle. I purpously mentioned to my wife, at the time, that there wasn't any steel.

c c johnson · Post by **c c johnson** » 5 Oct 2000 7:54 am

How about Carl Smith? Its about@#$%*^& time and way way overdue!

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Fred Murphy · Post by **Fred Murphy** » 5 Oct 2000 8:05 am

About 30 minutes was all I could muster. I turned it off and played my own no matter how bad it is. I would be ashamed to call this an example of country music. On a brighter note, the Indiana Lottery has a new commercial featuring a lot of great steel playing. I don't know who done it, but it's great to hear it on TV and radio.

Skip T · Post by **Skip T** » 5 Oct 2000 9:35 am

Question - - - Are we just getting too OLD ??

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 5 Oct 2000 10:02 am

Too Old? Probably so. But then according to what has been written about the current Nashville product, it's aimed at teeny bopper girls because they are the ones that spend the most money on CD's.

Bob Kagy · Post by **Bob Kagy** » 5 Oct 2000 12:33 pm

<SMALL>CMA stood for "Country My A#%!"</SMALL>

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 5 Oct 2000 1:18 pm

With two great season openers on TV last night (West Wing and Voyager), I didn't give the CMA a thought. My VCR was busy, and I vegged in front of the tube for nearly 4 hours.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 5 Oct 2000 2:21 pm

Luckily I was ill last night. I just layed in bed drifting in and out of sleep and listening to the Baseball game on TV.

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Blane Sanders · Post by **Blane Sanders** » 5 Oct 2000 3:47 pm

Darn! You mean I missed another Awards show? Oh well, sounds like there was only about 15 min. worth watching anyway.

Neil Hilton · Post by **Neil Hilton** » 6 Oct 2000 6:14 am

CC in TX - I fully agree, in fact when saw your post, couldn't imagine that Carl Smith wasn't already in the Hall.

and as others have mentioned, it's a shame that they didn't get to Faron Young while he was still around - after that segment, I plugged headphones into my stereo and listened thru "Hello Walls" about 4 times.

Roger Crawford · Post by **Roger Crawford** » 6 Oct 2000 8:58 am

Today's country music makes me glad that our band plays the oldies. If we do a song that did not originally have steel in it, they tell me to find a place to put some, we're gonna have it. Martina looked REAL good, though.
RC