Re: Dennis Lambert & Larry Weiss Talk About Rhinestone Cowboy
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 4:16 pm
Glenn2Ns
Tremendously interesting conversation. I hope Cowpoke can find that article.
***Campbell's assertion that "Country Boy" wasn't "authentic country music."***
***"We don't understand country music."***
Born in Ft Worth, raised in the Permian Basin and still hanging out around Amarillo...back in my youth, all you had was local country AM, so I cut my teeth and drank a helluva lot to CW music.
IMO, Country Boy is definitely not a country song. It's easy listening if anything. But I am kind of a purist for country... I totally agree w Tom Petty that most of today's country is just bad rock with a fiddle. I didnt really see Glen as CW. He could have been...but he had way more talent and personality than most CW guys in the 60s and 70s.
Roy Orbison is hard to place...yeah...Texan all the way, Twang all the way...but his songs...the ones he wrote...for the most part...could you see Waylon or Buck or Porter or Merle singing them... but you hear the voice...BANG...Country. Maybe it isnt fair because I think Roy wrote for his range...which few could pull off.
Tremendously interesting conversation. I hope Cowpoke can find that article.
***Campbell's assertion that "Country Boy" wasn't "authentic country music."***
***"We don't understand country music."***
Born in Ft Worth, raised in the Permian Basin and still hanging out around Amarillo...back in my youth, all you had was local country AM, so I cut my teeth and drank a helluva lot to CW music.
IMO, Country Boy is definitely not a country song. It's easy listening if anything. But I am kind of a purist for country... I totally agree w Tom Petty that most of today's country is just bad rock with a fiddle. I didnt really see Glen as CW. He could have been...but he had way more talent and personality than most CW guys in the 60s and 70s.
Roy Orbison is hard to place...yeah...Texan all the way, Twang all the way...but his songs...the ones he wrote...for the most part...could you see Waylon or Buck or Porter or Merle singing them... but you hear the voice...BANG...Country. Maybe it isnt fair because I think Roy wrote for his range...which few could pull off.