Am I late to the Zac Brown & Jamey Johnson party?

Zacs been so overexposed its pathetic. I have albums from both and Zacs guitar playing live is something you should go see if you have a chance but his POP stardom is just too much too quick and its turning off many people (Imus included).
Johnson however is IMO the real deal and worth the price of admission, his songs for the most part have a heart and soul that is for the most part sincere and his style of country would serve us much better than the bubblegum water dilluted crap that fills the country airwaves.

OK... I'll bite... What's "imus" ??

Not Don Imus, right?

I can see the notes on the pop hype for any rising musical entity... sad, but it's what happens on the business side. Now it becomes exponential with all the web based 'look at me, follow me around' blogs and sites.

I quit listening to pop radio routinely about eight years ago. Quit following the TV & cable music celebrity shows too.

Consequently, until I run across a thread here or at one or two other spot on the web, a friend, or most often via the "other people also liked..." links, I know absolutely nothing about new or even upcoming artists.

hence my thread here...

one has to cut down on the stress, hype, commercialism, and yellow journalism so common on todays media outlets.

I quit watching the news. Check the weather online. Sports too.

If a really big rock was headed here from outer space I wouldn't know about it until after it hit us.

Ohh... and I will now quit watching the Science channel, come to think of it.

You may want to check out a band called Cross Canadian Ragweed, they are a hard rockin' country band, also Randy Rogers band is good, there are many country rock alt. bands out there that are not in the Nashville seen that are really good. Nice to see that some folks like country on this site, it does not seem to get much love around here, I am always looking for some new talent in this catagory, Kent

Kent

I've heard of CCR and for some time now too. THX for the reminder. Dialing into some of the public radio channels around the country espeically the Americana types and it's easy to find new material, artists, songs, etc. It's tedious, but easy enough.

slaid cleves, ryan bingham, gurf morlix, ray wylie hubbard and others. there is alot of really good americana artists out there. dave alvin [ of x and the blasters] is one of my favorites. ccr just announced they were off the road for a while after 10 plus years. their music is great. i just found a band named centro-matic. really good stuff. btw,,don imus has some really good artists on his show. and good authors. he's a cranky crumudgeon but that.s his act.