Country Music Awards
May 17, 2005
The CMA Awards Program is on right now in the next room.
We’re not watching it.
For some reason, we here at SlackerCountry.com are not finding it all that hard to contain our excitement.
Maybe it’s the fact that there’s not a single alt country artist on the list.
Not one.
Really, don’t you think that after this long, Nashville would at least recognize that there’s such a thing as “alt country”, or if you prefer, “Americana”, lurking there just below the surface of the glittery, corporate country show biz nerve center?
Alt country may be the hardest kind of music to define, combining elements of country, rock, blues, folk, whatever.
It’s music that embraces its roots and ignores any limitations. It’s music that usually has more in common with Jimmy Rogers and Woody Guthrie than it does with Alan Jackson or Tim McGraw.
And it often has more in common with the Rolling Stones than it does with Rascal Flatts.
If you’re a listener, then you know it when you hear it and you also know it’s not typically what gets played on the radio. Or given awards at big, glitzy country music awards shows.
So if the Country Music Academy refuses to acknowledge the existence of Americana, alt country, cowpunk, rockabilly, or, of course, slacker country music, then we’ll just ignore the Country Music Academy.
-jitter
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