The Real Country

This week. . .the other parts of country that you don't hear. The hard driving rock and roll beat, the roots sound, the sound that Nashville cringes at because it refuses to be tamed, and put into something nice and palatable, mainstream with good manners and non-offensive. Not here, not this week. . . . . the real country that still is played in the outside the boundaries, outlaw tradition started so long ago by Waylon, Willie, Johnny and Kris when they turned their back on the Nashville "sound", stuck up a big middle finger and said "F*** you" and played it their way and their style and didn't care what the corporate record company execs said would sell to the most people, because to the industry, that's what it's about. . .product. To true country artists, it's about the sounds of Memphis, Austin, Muscle Shoals, backwoods Alabama and Georgia. It's about rock and roll, country, gospel, soul, bluegrass and the stories of everyday men and women just trying to get by. . .that's country.