Both Kinds of Music

emergentpattern:

“So many of my contemporaries dabble in a classic sound but there’s always some sort of new innovative twist. My new innovative twist is that there isn’t one. It’s important to exercise your creative muscles, but for me the genre of country music was perfected in 1965 and anything after that, albeit good, was experimentation. When it comes to making country music, my mantra is, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’” - Joshua Hedley

That’s exactly the problem with it. This brings nothing new to the table and suffers for it. I can pull out a dozen albums from the countrypolian era (designed specifically to make the music palatable to city folk by pulling out the “hillbilly” elements) that are technically perfect but also bland, formulaic and forgettable, which is what this is. Grade: Dull Thud

(via texaswandering)