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Anybody watch the Grammys tonight?

I was too busy listening to MUSIC on my analogue rig.  Sigh.  What am I missing?
jc4659
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bdp24
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The Grammy’s has always been about 1- promoting the music business, and 2- rewarding those who have generated the most money for the music business.

For those looking for an event rewarding the making of superior music, there is the annual Americana Music Honors And Awards Show. Recipients of awards and show participants have included the likes of Buddy Miller (who leads the show’s band), Jim Lauderdale, Emmylou Harris, John Hiatt, Steve Earle, Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, Loretta Lynn, Alison Moorer, Lucinda Williams, Jason Isbell, Alison Krauss, Rodney Crowell, T-Bone Burnett, Dwight Yoakam, Chris Stapleton, Gillian Welch, Levon Helm, Marty Stuart, Neil Young, Jerry Douglas, Larry Campbell, Mary Gauthier, Iris Dement, Lyle Lovett, Jackson Browne, Mavis Staples, and hundreds of others. I don’t need no stinkin’ Grammy’s!

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What’s this, the Dr. Phil Show all of a sudden? 😢
frogman
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Excellent and appropriate choice of example as a vehicle for your sarcasm! Yet another example of a misguided and condescending (not to mention farcical) attempt at “helping” others.

Btw, I thought Chris Stapleton was pretty good and deserving of the recognition he got at the Grammys. I remember not long ago that popular country music was generally considered very inferior to the then current “pop”. Ironically, much country music today is leagues above most “pop” music as concerns level of song writing skill, singing and instrumental playing.

Good post, bdp24.
aolmrd1241
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Where else in America do people with legitimate careers pat themselves on their own backs as much as the entertainment/political machine agenda does? There are so many award shows on television that it can make one sick. Kids growing up today emulate these people thinking that there is normalcy to it..in it..of it. Self righteous attitudes on display in all walks of life are killing our children’s path to moral awareness..kindness..and youthful joy.
Just look how the fashion industry brain washes young woman into the false concept of how thin they must be in order to fit in to their skewed counter culture. As a parent and grandparent, all I can do is pray for a better way,not only for America, but the whole world...
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So true, frogman. All the good professional songwriters are in Nashville now. When Al Anderson left NRBQ to be a full-time songwriter, he moved there. The studio musicians who played on all the singer/songwriter albums coming out of Los Angeles in the late 60’s and 70’s are in the Nashville studios now. Bassist Leland Sklar, who was on Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, and Carole King albums, is now in Nashville. His drummer/partner on all those albums, Russ Kunkel, is in Lyle Lovett’s band. Los Angeles still has a very healthy underground musical community and scenes (a Brian Wilson-obsessed Pop one, an Americana/Hard Country one, a Blues one, a Surf one, a Punk one), but it is just that---underground, invisible to all but the dedicated, hardcore music lovers.
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