August 5, 2008 marks the return of real outlaw country music. Thank You Jamey!We may not hear much of this on commercial country radio, but we deserve to. Check back here after the 2008 country music and grammy awards and you'll see that this will be recognized even if the radio stations that play mostly Taylor Swift don't play it. If you enjoy country music, if you want to hear about what a man went through when he almost lost everything, the kind of story and music that you get when a record label mostly gets out of the way and lets an artist do what he does best without much meddling, get this, sit back on the front porch some night with a beer and relax.
Saw him do a couple of live songs in Nashville when I was there for CMA Fest in June. There were hundreds of artists there. This guy walked onto the corner of the stage with an acoustic guitar, sat down on a chair and sang. No lights, no getting tossed around the audience in a giant ball, no fireworks, just a man and a guitar singing about what he went through while holed up in the dark dealing with his demons. I had no idea who he was until he sang a song he wrote for George Strait called "Give it away". It was a song meant for this album, but he gave it to George and it ended up winning "song of the year" in 2007. I saw Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Sugarland, Josh Turner, Montgomery Gentry, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson....etc........... but I remembered Jamey Johnson!
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Have I congratulated you two on your wedding? If you have stopped by my blog lately you know that our computer crashed and I have been trying to get things put back that we lost. Every time I thing I have it, I discover somethng else missing. When I thought I have that behind me, my 15 year old grand daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. She isn't dealing with it very well...... I can't blame her at all on that. Just a little over a year ago she had to deal with her dad walking out on them and starting a new life with another woman and children. It turned her world upside down. Now that she is dealing with that one she is diagnosed type 1 and has to deal with her world being turned up side down all over again. So right now I am having trouble putting two thoughts together to write a post.
Congratulations to the happy couple.... May you always be able to look at each other when trouble comes to call and feel the fire that burned in your hearts for each other on your wedding day. As long as you can do that, there will be no troubles that you can't over come.
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