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Date Posted: 21:57:24 01/18/06 Wed
Author: Feathers
Subject: Isn't it spelled "Linkin"?? LOL And that's all I want to know about them! LOL more inside..
In reply to: Chesneygirl73 's message, "other aritsts?" on 17:37:38 01/18/06 Wed

(sombody call the Biography channel....)

Being a Yankee by birth (*and* the grace of God) as well as an '80s girl at heart, it was a long and winding road to get me to Country Music. The theme song at my Senior Prom was "Islands in the Stream" (and we thought it was a mean joke played on us by the juniors who hosted and planned the event) - so you can imagine what kind of baggage Country music carried with me for many, many years! LOL And I still don't care for ALL of it. My good buddy - and co-moderator - Mo has mentored me into the genre over the last few years.

I really started listening after 9/11 because I wanted to hear "Where Were You" more often. And then I went and bought the album. When the first country cd that you buy is Alan Jackson, you're on a very slippery slope! LOLOL Of course, my hubby likes Shania (something about that "I Feel Like a Woman" video...) so he'd bought "Come On Over" in 1999. Then in 2000 he bought Lonestar's "Lonely Grill" because of the song "Baby I'm Amazed" (awwww! he's so sweet!), but I had never bought a country album until I just had to have "Where Were You".

In 2003 I went to the first Sean Hannity Freedom Concert for the Troops at Great Adventue Theme Park in NJ and saw Charlie Daniels, Sara Evans, an Darryl Worley (hot bod, that Darryl!). Went out and bought Sara's "Restless". Uh-oh! I'm slidin' deeper and deeper!! LOL

From there, Lonestar and Rascal Flatts and a few others kept me tuning back in again and again over the next year or so. "Mud on the Tires" hooked me, too - just loved the sentiment! LOL

Then, in Feb 2005, my favorite TV show ("JAG") came to an end (in my mind) when we learned that DJE (who played Harm) wasn't renewing his contract, and Keith was there with "You'll Think of Me". It's probably the weirdest thing to associate that song with a TV show, but the line about "the only blessing I have left to my name, is not knowing what we coulda been, what we shoulda been...." really fit the situation for me - and for Mo, too. So I had to go out and buy "Golden Road" just to listen to that song and "figure it out".

From there, I started listening to country music almost exclusively. I have only heard "Grace of God" ONCE on my local radio (not that they've not played it) but when I heard it I said... Isn't that Keith??? I was clueless about anything prior to GR.

So anyway, long story short, I started watching CMT and collecting all Keith's albums. Now I'm starting to collect other stuff too.

I love Miranda - she's gonna turn Nashville on it's EAR! What a great artist!

I love Brad Paisley - great country songwriter, awesome voice, wicked sense of humor.

I've also bought Phil Vassar's last CD, "Shaken Not Stirred" and really like the piano-style. Plus, he grew up around here so I like to support him.

I like lots of different songs, but don't know if I'd buy a whole album based on a song or two. I also feel as if I should buy a Johnny Cash or Merle Haggard "hits" collection just to round out my understanding of where things have been. And I may yet buy Garth's box set at WalMart.

I wish my local stations would play more variety, or have special times of the day or week that they dedicate to "new" artists or "indie" artists or "real oldies (that don't include Alabama)".

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[> [> yeah -- Chesneygirl73, 08:07:39 01/19/06 Thu [1]

It;s Linkin I love Sara Evans too, Nickelback is a fave too.


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