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Rich men north of Richmond?

Probably could have made a bigger impact by accepting some of those millions of dollars offers for appearances and now using that to help others.
 
east_beast said:
The Nashville management route was always a bad move for him. Jamey Johnson took an early liking to him and he just ended up signing on with his agent. He's done shows with guys like Ward Davis in the past. That's the route he should go. He's right, he doesn't need the Nashville music machine. Plenty of people are making a damn good living making music outside of it. Fuck trying to recapture the magic of that indie hit song. It ain't gonna happen and that's fine. Just do your thing. Fuck the Nashville machine and fuck the indie country guys who got butthurt that a guy without years of grinding it out ended up putting out a song that went way bigger than anything they'll ever do.
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Yeah, unless you want to be a pop star there's zero reason to get involved in the music industry these days. You don't need the industry for anything they used to supply. Maybe at most a booking agent and social media manager at a certain point but that's about it. The days of needing a record contract and a company behind it to provide exposure, pay for recording, promotion, etc are long gone. You can do 99% of that yourself these days without selling your soul, music rights, and like 80% of your income to some record company. That's without even getting into all of the bullshit of the Nashville aspect of it.

That said, I don't think this guy was every going to become some big superstar. He had one song in the right time and place that hit what people were really feeling at the time. But overall, he's not that talented. He was always going to be a one hit wonder.

edit: I bet you could make a decent living off just songwriting though. He's definitely talented in that regard.
 
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AKnate said:
I tried Stones and Southern Man Ballad and those are poo. What are their good songs?
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Early Morning Shakes
Headstone
Hammer
Frogman
Hard Row to Hoe
Where the Sun Don’t Shine
Wild Baby Shake Me
Die Rockin
Ballad of a Southern Honky Tonk Man
Lightning Bugs and Rain

Just a ton of good stuff. I have all of their albums on my Spotify. They try to have a decent mixture of light and hard rock.
 
aron82 said:
Broken windows serenade the acoustic version
Bury my bones

If you can't appreciate that you have no taste in music. Which is highly probable. :flipoff2:
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I mostly listen to 60s-90s country western and once in a while 80s power ballads
 
Isn't that why Willie Nelson moved to TX early in his career? Nashville woudln't give him a shot?
 
CarterKraft said:
Texas Country exists for this reason, not saying it is good or even profitable but it is a genre outside of Nashville's control
AKA Texas Country and bands like Whiskey Myers
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Indie country is everywhere, it's not just Texas. Sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers are probably the two biggest ones out there and they're from Kentucky and West Virginia. Hell, Colter Wall is from fucking Canada.
 
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east_beast said:
Indie country is everywhere, it's not just Texas. Sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers are probably the two biggest ones out there and they're from Kentucky and West Virginia. Hell, Colter Wall is from fucking Canada.
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But does Canada Country sound as cool :flipoff2:

Do they call it Kentucky Country? WV Country? Just curious, in Oklahoma it's Red Dirt Country....
 
CarterKraft said:
But does Canada Country sound as cool :flipoff2:

Do they call it Kentucky Country? WV Country? Just curious, in Oklahoma it's Red Dirt Country....
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Suicide country. Songs about hardship, addiction and trying to get by wondering if your better off dead.

It's good music, not the pop pickup truck party on my john deere stuff.
 
east_beast said:
Indie country is everywhere, it's not just Texas. Sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers are probably the two biggest ones out there and they're from Kentucky and West Virginia. Hell, Colter Wall is from fucking Canada.
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Motorcharge said:
Yeah, unless you want to be a pop star there's zero reason to get involved in the music industry these days. You don't need the industry for anything they used to supply. Maybe at most a booking agent and social media manager at a certain point but that's about it. The days of needing a record contract and a company behind it to provide exposure, pay for recording, promotion, etc are long gone. You can do 99% of that yourself these days without selling your soul, music rights, and like 80% of your income to some record company. That's without even getting into all of the bullshit of the Nashville aspect of it.

That said, I don't think this guy was every going to become some big superstar. He had one song in the right time and place that hit what people were really feeling at the time. But overall, he's not that talented. He was always going to be a one hit wonder.

edit: I bet you could make a decent living off just songwriting though. He's definitely talented in that regard.
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Aha
 
Wades_76_cj7 said:
Isn't that why Willie Nelson moved to TX early in his career? Nashville woudln't give him a shot?
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Wikipedia claims that he moved to Austin in the 70s to get out of Nashville's control.

He was here my whole life so I didn't think much about it
 
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