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

Also, as far as the Randy Rogers Band, I just got the new cd and was not overly impressed, alot more pop and soft than there earlier work

Imus had the Old 97's on yesterday and Hayes Carll today.

Don't understand the old guy's fascination with Hayes Carll either. Average voice. Poor lyricist. Boring.

Above and beyond that he performed a song from an upcoming album and it was a complete ripoff of Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues. Almost riff for riff and chord for chord.

Imus has a "aquired" taste in music IMO, his music is like Scotch.......there is no half way liking it.

Hotmailjbc
Great! Thanks for all of those choices. That’ll give me something to do while I wait for the temps to get back up to fiddy or there abouts so I can finish my outside projects.

>>”he's a cranky crumudgeon but that.s his act.”<<
Like Dr John said in his duet with BB King on Dueces Wild… ‘Sometimes I wonder’.

Chadnliz
Yep. I do agree.

There’s all sorts of reasons for the why’s and how comes of a band’s releases being so way less palatable or inspiring at times… it comes under my heading of “Who Knows?”.

Little Big Town a recent fav of mine got a new contract with Columbia and their latest release just seems so much more commercially oriented than anything they had previously released on their former lable. It comes off pop like and dry. No soul.. no honesty. Nothing that really reaches out and grabs you like their “The Road To Here” or “A place to Land” CDs did for me.

Paul Thorn is another long time fav indy rock & roller/Folkster…. Great act to see and usually more than entertaining…. His latest CDs IMHO again… doesn’t quite stand up to his past efforts impact and insightfulness… albeit a couple cuts off of it sure ain’t bad.

Oil well. Got some new names so thanks…. BTW… picked up some John Fogerty CDs the other day… not bad… along with The North Mississippi All Stars. Both were enjoyable at least… JF All Over Again & especially his “Blue Moon Swamp”…. NMA “Shake Hamds With Shorty”. There’s no escaping Fogerty’s sound. Having grown up with it, hearing him again doing new stuff feels both comfortable and interesting.

hard to beat the icon john fogerty. he was great at the super bowl or was it the college bcs bowl a few years ago? i read that he got reexcited about playing and would spend all day doing guitar exercises to tune up. this dedication at his talent level is admirable. he said in an interview that before returning to guitar he flew his plane the same way... all the time getting better. when i wrote ccr i was mentioning a band from oklahoma named cross canadian ragweed for anyone interested. great sound and a great band. check them out if you are a fan of americana rock. there is so much music i can not get to. for some others check out itunes radio under country,,,bootlicqour radio or on sirius there is outlaw country. with pandora just type in a name of an artist you like and you will get many new names. before i got flooded with new artists to check out i used imesh for a while. you can listen to almost any cd before buying it. for 8 bucks a month it saved me 100s if not 1000s of dollars. there isn,t much good to come from our celebrity culture but the musicians who are driven to succeed is a great thing.