re: #188 Barefoot Grin

There’s quite a movement of non-mainstream country artists who are really good. I swear the CMA is not yearly; it feels like it’s on four times a year. Anyway, it’s the last holdout of the old-time record industry trying to control content by tin pan alley formulaic songs played by the same handful of session artists. Still good stuff coming from the sides.

With things like Pandora and Stitcher and the other music apps, plus satellite radio (not to mention artists being able to self produce and basically publish directly to things like the iTunes store), it amazes me that the old model continues to hold at all.

Personally, I’ve been on a bit of a rockabilly/blues/outlaw country kind of swing lately. I haven’t actually listened to anything Beyonce has put out in a while, might have to check some of it out… but me playing in the iTunes store is always so very dangerous.