Country Music

sam­bear has been lis­ten­ing to coun­try music while in the car late­ly. I’ve found this a bit hard to fit into my “men­tal Sam.” While he real­ly likes Mike Ray­burn, he has­n’t lis­tened to one of his ear­ly CDs but once because “it’s too country.”

Anyway, I usu­al­ly change the sta­tion imme­di­ate­ly, but I did­n’t today.

Pure glurge like Help Pour Out the Rain, I could stand to avoid. For­ev­er. But right after that, the sta­tion played Save a Horse, Ride a Cow­boy.

I had to smile when I heard a remake of Hey, Good Lookin’. I asso­ciate that song with good mem­o­ries from my child­hood. (I don’t see a need for a remake, though.)

After I start­ed pay­ing more atten­tion, I’d say that I might want to hear about 25% of the songs again. Not quite enough to lis­ten to such a sta­tion, but enough to pay a lit­tle more atten­tion to what’s going on in the genre.