Grammy Awards for Country? WHAT Country??

Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 20 Jan 2005 8:56 am

From the Nashville "Tennessean" 1/20/05
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Country will rock out at the Grammys

The Grammys will include more country stars on its annual awards show than ever, but most won't be singing country music.

The Feb. 13 CBS extravaganza tentatively is set to include a six-song tribute to Southern rock, and big country stars will sing the songs with Lynyrd Skynyrd as the backing band, several Music Row publicists confirmed yesterday.

Tim McGraw and current Skynyrd lead singer Johnny Van Zant, for instance, will team up for Sweet Home Alabama. Turn it up! Gretchen Wilson and Johnny will sing Freebird.

But it won't all be Skynyrd songs, the publicists say. Preliminary plans call for Keith Urban, for instance, to sing 1976 hit Fooled Around and Fell in Love with original artist Elvin Bishop, now in his 60s.

Does this mean there won't be any country music on the show? Au contraire, my hillbilly music-loving friends.

The Recording Academy is expected to make an announcement today about a major country singer performing a major country hit at the Staples Center in L.A.

Stay tuned.

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Leigh Howell · Post by **Leigh Howell** » 20 Jan 2005 9:04 am

All I can say is what a bunch of BS!!

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 20 Jan 2005 9:10 am

Ooh! There will be "a" country star singing "a" country hit? How tantalizing!

Glenn Austin · Post by **Glenn Austin** » 20 Jan 2005 9:36 am

Who cares about the music. It's the clothing and hairdstyles that's important. C'mon guys, get with the program.

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 20 Jan 2005 9:48 am

Why the hell don't Timmy and Van Zant TRY to sing a George Jones hit or Merle Haggard. Its because they can't! Bunch of freak'n sellouts. Ricky Van Shelton can sing 'em all under the table. You too Keith Urban. [This message was edited by Kevin Hatton on 20 January 2005 at 09:49 AM.][This message was edited by Kevin Hatton on 20 January 2005 at 09:50 AM.]

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 20 Jan 2005 9:56 am

Hillbillies need love, too.

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 20 Jan 2005 11:07 am

James Lutz · Post by **James Lutz** » 20 Jan 2005 11:21 am

Well, that just opened up a couple more hours of free time I can spend practicing instead of staring at the idiot box and hollering about what I see on it. Thanks for the heads up......

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Terry Sneed · Post by **Terry Sneed** » 20 Jan 2005 11:37 am

Smiley, this so called country music now days is nothin but light rock. wonder what it's goin to be in another 5yrs?
I say bring back the styles of the possume, the Hagg, Faron Young, Paycheck and all the other COUNTRY greats.

Terry

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Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 20 Jan 2005 11:54 am

If "C.C.R." & the "Eagles" came out today,they'd be considered Country. Today's "Country" is nothing but 70's "Rock"!

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Rick McDuffie · Post by **Rick McDuffie** » 20 Jan 2005 12:01 pm

Yeah, but with real dumb lyrics.

Craig A Davidson · Post by **Craig A Davidson** » 20 Jan 2005 12:29 pm

What were you guys expecting? For Ray Price to come out and sing Way To Survive? We can forget that ever happening again.

Jim Phelps · Post by **Jim Phelps** » 20 Jan 2005 1:33 pm

If "C.C.R." & the "Eagles" came out today,they'd be considered Country. Today's "Country" is nothing but 70's "Rock"!

I've already seen several music sites on the internet that label CCR, The Eagles and other similar bands "country"! Kills me. If nothing else, it does prove that commercial country has evolved into the same sound as the old pop/rock and will probably continue on from the to sounding like the new pop/rock very soon.

Brings up another thing I could never understand. Nearly every honkytonk country band I've ever played with always did a few rock songs such as Sweet Home Alabama, Johnny B. Goode, a little CCR, etc. and seemed to take great delight in showing off they "could rock" too. Many of them also tried to play "jazz" by doing their version of "Hold it". What I don't understand is why these same guys acted like they were really showing off something by doing these rock songs, and then two minutes later were full of put-downs about "hippies" who liked "rock and roll crap" and now it seems "country" is exactly that.....?

Sonny Priddy · Post by **Sonny Priddy** » 20 Jan 2005 2:09 pm

I'm With You Terry. SONNY.

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John Rosett · Post by **John Rosett** » 20 Jan 2005 2:41 pm

i remember when bela fleck was nominated for "best country instrumental" for a kinda celtic/jazz/bluegrass instrumental.
his comment was; "we're still trying to figure out which country."
john

John Bechtel · Post by **John Bechtel** » 20 Jan 2005 8:38 pm

Now I understand better, how I've been able to cope with sitting at home, without a Gig for the past 5-yrs.! I just needed someone to point out my ‘blessings in disguise’! If I couldn't enjoy what I'd have to play, why play it? Back to the practice-room for me, and I guess that's where I'll stay!

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Leslie Ehrlich · Post by **Leslie Ehrlich** » 20 Jan 2005 11:34 pm

Here we go again...

Derek Duplessie · Post by **Derek Duplessie** » 22 Jan 2005 10:11 am

The closest thing to country being represented in the grammies, actually is in the contemperary folk category.

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 22 Jan 2005 4:07 pm

Grammie passed on several years ago. The show is produced by her tone deaf son who relies on his 18 year old daughter to gather a crew of 15 year olds to make the selections.

Perry Hansen · Post by **Perry Hansen** » 22 Jan 2005 4:23 pm

Has anyone ever said what "country" these groups are from???