country

As a bit of a poet, two types of music that really turn me on are hip-hop and country. Yeah, it sounds weird, but those two types of music are freakin' lyrically awesome. Folk is good too but it's kind of preachy and pretentious. Rock lyrics tend toward the stupid with a few shining stars. With (good) hip-hop you get the real deal, unvarnished, from urban America. With (good) country, you get the real deal from rural America. Hip-hop kicks percussive rhymes in funky-ass or sinister beats, country croons its truth in sweet melody. Read it all

... and I'm not just talking about old Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and the other stuff that's cool to like, I'm talking about right now, on the radio!

Something very strange happened to me last week. I was driving upstate, rollin' the Corolla alongside the mighty Hudson listening at the foot of the wise old Catskills. The Corolla has a jack for an .mp3 player and all, but I like radio. The radio turns you on to stuff you wouldn't otherwise hear. Read it all