Yahoo has an interesting news article.

[SammyBlue]

There seems to be a lack of County Music Stations in New York City

NEW YORK - Spin the radio dial in the nation's largest city, and the choices are dizzying. Talk shows in English and en Espanol. Smooth jazz and heavy metal. Nonstop hip-hop and 24-hour news. Classic rock and all-sports. But AM or FM, one thing remains absent: A country music station.

The exclusionary attitude of New York stations toward country music is perplexing to industry observers and frustrating to fans. Country listeners constitute a desirable audience, with solid numbers in key demographics. New York, in the recent past, hosted a country station with more than 1 million listeners.

Not having a station in New York is "the largest nagging problem for country music," said Tom Taylor, editor of the trade publication Inside Radio.

The Country Music Association agrees. Their annual awards show is being held to New York for the first time Tuesday; organizers acknowledge their move from Nashville to New York is tied to finding a radio home (and creating a marketing arm) in the Big Apple

Yes, because when I think New York City. . .I think inbred music! When I think NYC, I think of music like isn't really music. Arts? Drama? Museums? Cosmopolitanism? Hell no. . .we want us some Cuntree Muzak!!!

WTF is this bullshit? You country music fans want country music? BUY A fucking CD!

New York is one of the last bastions of true radio. What cowboys and hicks are riding their horses down Metropolitan Avenue? How many hicks go to Saks?

Better yet, how many hicks think Saks in a porno shop as they scratch their sack?

If Nashville want New York so bad, try to get NYCs to appeal to songs about war, farm living and the country. Most NYers thinks Westchester County is the boonies and anything north of that is barren wasteland!

WTF?????

on edit: I'm a hick. I grew up on a farm on upstate New York. And these country music lover jackass inbred toothless hicks PISS ME OFF!!!

[LincolnMcGrath]

1. Tell us how you really feel!

[SammyBlue]

3. Original.

Nice use of a trite cliche there, slappy.

[LincolnMcGrath]

22. trite cliche?

Evidently there is allot of that going on around here.

[Horse with no Name]

2. Different strokes for different folks

If someone likes country music, then it is their right isn't it?
Not everyone that enjoys country music is a hick that scratches their genitals inappropriately.
Gotta watch those broad brush descriptions.

[SammyBlue]

5. Nope. . .been a member here for two years.

And I will use broad generalizations anything I feel like.

Like when I say "all neo-conservatives are liars and criminals."

Should I watch that broad generalization, or only ones you don't like?

[staticstopper]

19. how bout

broad generalizations when it comes to the rich powerful corp war-mongers and that we then leave the less educated poor to have there "common" pleasures without the stereotypes, eh?

Sorry if the brownshirts bug you, but I know they exist in all subcultures.

[flyarm]

23. in nj here and i am with ya..i hate country mzack!! can't stand it!!

and i lived in dallas for 7 years and arizona for a time..and a long time in kansas city...and i am glad to be in the n.e. with no country music!!


memememememe........
my grandpa died, the dog barfed on the floor..my wife ran out, my house burned down..twang twang...

most depressing shit i ever heard!!

i love ny radio!!

leave the country western ..for the country westerns!!

and leave us alone in the north east!

fly

ps i live in fla half the year..and no one is griping that every other station is a church station of spewing hate mongers!!

[cornermouse]

4. Flip side?

NYC is where you go to lose sight of the sun. NYC is where you go to get lost in a maze of highrise buildings, shadow, and cement. NYC is where you go to get mugged and/or murdered.

[SammyBlue]

6. Same could be said about LA, and they have country stations.

Or Chicago, or Miami, or Washington DC or east bumblefuck, America.

What's your point?

NYC doesn't need a country station. Last thing NYC needs is to be ran over with rednecks. It's the last place where the redneck doesn't exist or exists in a small minority.

[cornermouse]

14. Well for one thing, you're only looking at it from your own

point of view. That limits a person. A case in point would be the republican party and the way they only see what they want to see and never look to see if there's anything else.

And my point was that "rednecks" may not hold any more admiration for NYC than you hold for them and where they live.

[akarnitz]

7. No, that would be Detroit.

And country music does great numbers in Motown.

[lvx35]

8. The irony would be all the country songs about new york

and how its the fancy place were the rich non-hard-working-men-who-ran off-with-the-singers-lover-and-now-he's-crying-in-his-beer live. Its like the ultimate city slicker place in country lyrics. You'd have to be a retard to be sitting in new york listening to it.

[SammyBlue]

9. Personally, you have to be a retard to listen to it anyway.

Only a handful of songs are worth two cents.

My father listens to that crap. For the life of me, I don't know why. He was raised so non-redneck in Levittown, NY.

[lvx35]

11. Actually...

I got a taste for some of it working with the mentally disabled (whom I would never call retards, that word is resevered for others) many of whom really enjoy it. :) There is some good material out there, or at least it seems that way after enough of it gets crammed down your throat. Somebody by Reba McEntire is a good song.

but then again, it might just be that if enough crap is shoved down your throat you get an appreciation for the fine crap verses the bad crap!

[akarnitz]

13. If you're going to be PC, it's "developmentally disabled".

I worked in a group home for five years.;)

[lvx35]

17. It actually depends on state, interestingly

in MI it was mentally impaired, emotionally impaired, etc. Here in WA I believe mentally disabled is kosher, but you may be right, I seem to remember hearing DD (developmentally disabled) around.

[akarnitz]

18. I always hated it when someone used the confusing "DD"....

because it's also shorthand for "dual diagnosis". Confusing, at times.

[akarnitz]

12. I've heard this wave of country compared to.......

the "mellow rock" music of the '70's-'80's. It plays to the same demographic(like your pops?), and it sounds a lot like it(think Eagles). It sure as hell doesn't sound like traditional(Hank Williams, Sr., Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Willie Nelson)country, except for the accents.

My cousin,JD, has a unique take on the '70's-'80's music I referred to. Here's a link to his films(they're short and funny):
http://www.channel101.com/shows/show.php?show_id=152

[cornermouse]

15. Very true.

My dad was a Johnny Cash fan and he didn't like the more modern CW artists very well.

[akarnitz]

16. And most people who like "new country" couldn't tell.....

Johnny Cash from Johnny Horton. I've tried to gauge(when chatting with them at record stores) what most of the "new" folks listened to before. I here alot of Police, Beastie Boys, Metallica. They never say Waylon Jennings.

[bananas]

20. Hey, that was pretty good!

I just watched episode #1, not bad at all!

[akarnitz]

21. Yeah, someday the kid's gonna do big things.

In his senior year at The University of Michigan, JD won the Arthur Miller Prize for play-writing. He's kind of drifted. His mom(my aunt)is about the funniest person I know.

Someday(I hope), JD will write about "Cinquo de Moustaches." Our family has a reunion every July 4th in Muskegon. JD and his two younger brothers don't shave for a month or so leading up, then have a big party on the 5th where they drink beer and shave. Some of our other cousins join in. I would, too, but for two things:
1) I don't drink any more
2) I can't grow facial hair to save my life

[akarnitz]

10. Reminds me of NASCAR.......

who brought their awards show to NYC a few years back. The Left Turn Circuit has been trying to get a venue close to NYC for at least a half a decade. Fans in the area can make the trip to Pocono or New Hampshire already(most Nascar fans ,nationwide, make 2+hour trips to tracks as it is).

If the advertising dollars were there for country, they'd have a station or two. There's just not the demand. Hell, I can't listen to classical in West Michigan any more. But I, along with the half dozen other fans, know why. Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster for satelite radio!

[MojoXN]

24. You mean Saks ISN'T a porn shop?

Wow, you just saved me a BUNCH of time! Gotta go, my sack itches... :D

MojoXN