THE
BEACH BOYZ
No Country For Old man
If I may put forward a slice of personal philosophy… it is time now for rational and perhaps a radical thought. In adhering to a convention all but lost to the mists of time, I am going to speak my mind...
Indulge
me , if you will, and imagine a time blissfully ignorant and in fact
totally without “Country and Western” music.No
such
luck.According
to Wikipedia, “The term country music began
to be used in the 1940s when the earlier term hillbilly music was deemed to be degrading”. Think
about that…degrading….to whom? Upstanding hillbillies? The
dentally challenged outcasts who listen to this unique “genre”?
Or perhaps the wider community to whom the tones of the banjo are
akin to the drone of a “whipper-snipper” on a peaceful Sunday
morning.I
say we should revert to the former nomenclature and re-christen this
thigh-slapping Appalachian folk music simply as “Hillbilly”.
(Let’s not bother to defy logic or the dictionary by adding the
word “music”
.
Hereby,
giving this unique “flavour” of cultural stagnancy its former and
rightful name, to be enjoyed by all those unfortunate victims of such
tardy evolution.We
could start with any retail CD collection. Rock, Popular Vocal,
Hillbilly, Classical, etc.Any
thoughts?
Jon Callander, Dec, 2008
"Hello Jon...I've read your comments and just wanted to say I agree with some of your thoughts, however, when you take the Appalachian folk music and add the electric guitar, and a Hawaiian electric lap steel guitar...man... I can't keep my feet still. Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sS5jSbV0Vg&feature=related and just tell me if I'm crazy or not."
Lee Carroll, April, 2009