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Shawn Adam Williams
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3/30/2024 4:33:36 PM
Beyonce Cover Dolly Parton's Jolene
I'm totally love Dolly P. with all my heart and soul regardlessly. But, Beyoncé's remake of Jolene is not fit to rewrite lyrics to her classic. But nobody, I mean, NOBODY can do an classic like Dolly. Let me break it down: Beyoncé did change the words of Dolly Parton's 1973 classic country hit; Jolene. But the truth of the matter is: She's got it all wrong. I speak facts because Beyoncé's new album; Cowboy Carter drops yesterday, but she did a cover of the Beatles' Blackbird. But it was a great cover, but her remake of Jolene was an underachieving flop.
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Father Time
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3/30/2024 8:59:28 PM
well for what it's worth, Dolly is all for it and totally behind it.
I personally find Beyonce's country thing as phony as it gets though.
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Bryon Tosoff
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3/30/2024 10:12:13 PM
FT, YUP
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jingo
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4/3/2024 6:47:04 AM
I kinda like the “Jolene” track, not a cover but almost like a reboot. Jolene will not be taking bey’s man, nope.
My issue with Cowboy Carter is the length. I have sat through it a few times, won’t do it again (because it is too long and life is too short) but I do enjoy the first 15 tracks, good headphone listening. Plenty of “country” there, heartache, whiskey, redemption etc. I haven’t taken the time to listen to the back half as a stand alone set but it seems a lot more “dancey” to me.
Genre is a fun concept. What constitutes country? Instrumentation? Lyrical themes? A persona in a hat?
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negative tendencies
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4/3/2024 8:59:40 AM
We did one country song. Wrote it as a country song in my head so that's how we recorded it. Especially proud of the faux fiddle solo in the middle of the song.
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The Coming of Age
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4/3/2024 9:06:42 AM
I wrote this song for Mick Jagger to sing, the influence is pretty obvious.
Tuggin' On My Heartstrings
and this is a beautiful production by Jesus Oldman (known to many of you as American Lesley Jane) of a country blues thang I wrote as a lad.
If You Believe (and I Believe)
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Father Time
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4/3/2024 9:12:32 AM
I channeled the greatest country artist of all time, Hank Williams, to write this song.
Too Elusive
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jingo
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4/3/2024 9:26:20 AM
So did you wear a hat at any point?
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Bryon Tosoff
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4/3/2024 10:55:31 AM
Nice tunes people. Well for what it's worth this is my 70's attempt at country rock 1976 that is.
A fun band we had back in the day and did this number I wrote many times for country dances
As for this recording Those Special Days was done a couple years ago and had a great fiddle player and Duane Flunk doing some guitar and bass I believe, my bro doing percussion and me plunking a old piano Those Special Days
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Father Time
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4/3/2024 11:17:07 AM
Jingo:
I don't think I've worn a hat since high school. I had this beach hat I was really fond of, psychedelic colors, mostly red. My girlfriend was wearing it and we had just left from attending a high school football game. It blew off her head and we could never find it, and I looked for a hat like it for years. heh
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Bryon Tosoff
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4/3/2024 11:51:29 AM
---- Updated 4/3/2024 11:52:59 AM
Too Elusive ,dig that groove FT, fine harmonies, your vocals are real good well produced . tasty lead too added to what the folk
also the organ patch is great, and nicely placed in the song
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Father Time
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4/6/2024 6:37:43 AM
Bryon, I just checked out Special Days, real good, loved your piano work.
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Stoneman
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4/8/2024 12:44:31 AM
I'm not a big fan of country music or Beyonce. However, I must say that her foray into the shed is quite an ear opener. What this will do for country music in the long run is what's most important about it. It opens the genre up to a huge fan base and that my friends will certainly translate into big dollars for a number of artists and a surge of popularity from communities that have traditionally ignored the genre or thought of it as a confederate symbol of racism. I say. mix it up and free up the opportunities to pursue the music you desire to pursue. I have always been a supporter of musicians who refuse to fit in a box and stay there. I am also one that cannot be caged. There is nothing phony about artistic expression. It is what it is. Let it be. But you know what? Haters gonna always hate. That, also, is what it is. I have also done a few country songs in my day and I received some flak for doing it. But like Beyonce, I don't give a shit. Music is music and people are free to do whatever kind of music they want to do. Don't like it? Don't listen to it or buy it. Haters beware, Karma always comes back around at you.
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