February % ^994
Campus Opinion
EditffriaL' Country Music
By Tiacey Rawb
1 was at a kaiac^e bar a few weeks
and someone sang ‘Etviia’ by the
Oak Ri^ Boys. Boy, did diat t^g
back memodes.
WheoCTCT my funily went on a
trip, my dad woidd pby his country
music tapes. My brother, sister and I
were forced to listen to WiOie Nelscm,
the Oak Ric^ Boys and the St^er
Brothers. ((X course we dkin’t ndnd
Hsrgning to “Red-Necked Mother” be
cause we couid sing cuss words with
out gettii^ in trouUe.) We took trips
quite often, so we knew all the words
to everys«igWiUieNdson ever wrote.
Actually, the first concert I went to
wasaWillie Nelson concert. Thewords
to “On the Road Again’ and “Whiskey
River* still haunt me at night And my
dad still tries to force us to watch
Honeysuckle Rose with him.
I swore that when 1 had my own car
and coukt listen to the music 1 liked, I
would never listen to country music.
Now I must ax my words.
A ftiend of mine has recently con
verted me to country music. I guess
she did it the way my dad did — she
forced me to listen to country whether
1 wanted to or not. How could 1 not M
in love with Vince Gill's baby blues,
Alan Jackson’s voice and Trisha
Yearwood’s lyrics?
The lyrics are what won me over to
country music. (I can actually under
stand the words!) 1 find myself identi
fying with the singers. Countiy songs
are no longer about pickup trucks,
getting drunk, being in prison or driv-
ii^ in the rain. While many of our
boyfriends have probably not climbed
a water tower and written 'Billy Bob
loves Chariene” in John Deere green as
Joe Difiy’s song suggests, most of us
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can identify with Boy Howdy’s ‘She’d
GiveAnythingCToFallinLove).’ AUof
us have ‘Friends in Low Piaces” like
Garth Brooks, and some of us are
“Trashy Women’ by Confederate
Railroad’s standards.
Country music has cai^t on across
the nation. I guess I am not the only
one who has tKiticed how much coun
try music has improved since Willie
Nelson. Country music was featured in
the Stq>er Bowl half-time show for the
first time this year. And more country
singers are featured at the American
Music Awards. Garth Brooks' concert
tickets sdl out as &st as Guns ‘n Roses.
1 am glad my taste in music has
changed. 1 could not get through Tues
day nights without country music.
Excuse me while I dust off my boots, I
feel a “Honky Tonk Attitude" coming
on.
Meredith College
Celebration of
Black Emphasis
Month
Friday, Feb. 18
7:30 p.m.
and Sunday, Feb, 20
7:00 p.m.
Kresge
The Movie: What's Love
Got to Do With It? The
Tina Turner Story
Tuesday, Feb. 22
7:30 p.m.
Carswell
"Night of Culture"
featuring Step Show
performance by Alpha
Phi Alpha fraternity
form St. Augustine's
College
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