Taylor Swift is a genius. A pop songwriting, constantly touring, four hour meet and greet, been possessed with success since the swaddling dress genius. Sorry haters.

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• It's not even about results, results can be bought. ---Check out what other artists who've been IN the industry for 40 years say about her.---

  
  

  I'm gonna get bagged on, but it is what it is,. having super rich parents didn't hurt the girl but the truth is that this kind of prodigy talent can and does comes from all walks of life.
• Call it what you want but It's not exactly country --and I think that's where some of the more legitimate "hate" comes from. ----I say "Deal with It" and call it something else... She's like that dream where some third party candidate actually wins an election and changes the way it works for forever---.....The shame of it is, Is that statistically, there are 4 to 40 more out there that are just as good as she is, but will never get the exposure for various reasons.---I don't care about record sales, but I am a fan of well crafted pop music.

  
  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYxn7ZG7dPQ
morning music------"Far Far Away" by Wilco

 

  I feel like this song belongs in the great American country and western songbook if there ever were such a thing. It doesn't NEED a label of course, but each time I hear it, I think of that golden age of country music before "Urban", and "Rhinestone" cowboys. Something about this song is so peaceful... The imagery of travel overland as the stars and city lights twinkle by...and the firm assessment that "deep in my heart, I know It's right"....It's timbre and pacing, and sense of longing are for me, a real thing, and as such I feel very strongly that it's one of the more "perfect" songs ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv24jRNASQM
There's a unique and haunting quality to Willie Nelson's voice. Like all the great singer/songwriters, he threads a needle and crosses a stream with most every performance.

Just saw where Jody Payne, longtime guitarist for Willie Nelson passed away at 77 yrs old. This is basically like Tom Petty losing Mike Campbell, or Springsteen losing Little Steven. Talk about two guys that could read each others minds on stage. Jody was a constant fixture there beside Willie for years and years, as guitarist and harmony vocals. R.I.P.

"Afterglow" might be the best song the Farris Brothers ever wrote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnTelUJrDhc

In my heart I really want the Kings of Leon to do well on American radio, but I guess till they realize not every fleeting musical thought they have is a pearl, it's not going to materialize.
Amuricans need HOOKS y'all.

Like I said , I really haven't used it very much.--allow me to put some musical content on here, so that it at least resembles what It will come to be.
This was written about R.E.M. last year or so, when they announced retirement.

R.E.M. as a musical act have always been open hearted and forward sounding, even when by their own admissions, they really had no idea what they were doing. That has been part of the appeal of the band; that any of us music nerds who just happen to be from the South, who didn't quite fit in on the football field or the baseball diamond back in high school could have our "own thing."
R.E.M was and is still the heartbeat of a state of mind that says "Don't believe everything you read, or hear, because your parents thought it was so."--"Do your own research, ask your own questions and then when you've heard both sides of a thing, make up your own mind."
They also deserve respect in that when they finally did see worldwide fame, they handled it with as much grace as most anyone could when it comes to selling out or changing just to be more popular.
All R.E.M. fans can honestly say; R.E.M. never forgot where they came from.
R.E.M is for the KIDS-- (even though the radio here in the South still won't play them.)
R.E.M. never sold out.