Posted
11:11 AM
by Gene
The mark of
The Second Coming of The Econowiz is to restate the obvious in such a fireball way the reader doesn't know he's been burned by the obvious. Steve tries, he really tries, but I don't need anyone to tell me
country music is but the rotted-out husk of its former self. I don't need it because every other music type is precisely the same way. We have to go back to "the traditional stuff" because frequently that's all there is.
Also I'm guessing this guy (like others writing such eulogies) makes too much of the drunk 'n' death songs. Roger Miller wrote the imperishable "Billy Bayou" as sung imperishably by
Jim Reeves and the even more imperishable "King of the Road." Hank Sr. wrote "Hey, Good Lookin'". Those aren't downers for sure. Flatt and Scruggs were pretty memorably jolly. Heck Johnny Cash could smile.