Garth Brooks

What kind of image comes to mind?Garth Brooks, for example, a great entertainer who took the world by storm, bringing a rock edge to Country. He was always the well-dressed artist in his pressed jeans, cowboy shirts, and cowboy hats. How about Reba McEntire? Born in Oklahoma, then living on…

1) Spandau Ballet: “True” The song had a dreamy melancholy quality to the sound. The lyric about the pill and the slow rhythm does make it seem as if the singer is on drugs, or at least relaxed from downing half a bottle of wine. To me, this is a mix of unrequited love and the difficulty of the writer to express it. When the saxophone starts playing in the instrumental break, that's when you really feel it. This song sounds like it’s about a person who fell in love with someone they had a fling…

It was an bright hot day I was laying on the couch sighing heavily. I was waiting for my mom to get home from work. It was summer and like most summers I was doing nothing. After all detasseling had come and gone by then. It felt like a sauna anywhere in the house but the livingroom. I laid there sweating thinking “What is taking so long”. I looked at the clock on the stove it said 3:45 I sied heavily. All of a sudden I hear a car door I turn my head towards the two big windows that were open to…

Has “new” country music or “pop” country music redefined country music by overcoming the main stereotypes or has it become a completely new genre? Country music has a longer history than most people realize. It dates back to around the 1920s when people started taking old tunes that their grandparents brought from their homeland, and combining them with a version of African American Blues. Even though this genre has had a longer time to evolve than some of the newer genres of today, if you were…