Nashville Skyline: What Do You Know?

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This is an interesting read for those of us who has been commenting on the current state of country music. . . .and for the last decade. The subject of this article is the idea of putting the new country artists of today and the upcoming ones through a test and giving them a badge as Certified Wannabe Country Star (CWCS) if they pass it. Can anyone here answer all the questions on the list within this article? I'm a country music fan for as long as Alan has been in the business and yet I found myself stumped at a lot of those questions. However, I have some country music books that I have purchased over the years and this article made me peruse them for some refresher course. Reading the article will kind of make you wonder how much these so called new country music artist really do know about country music and its rich tradition. By the way, I do agree with this idea.

http://www.cmt.com/news/nashville-skyline/1699620/nashville-skyline-what-do-you-know.jhtml

Enjoy reading!

BHR

[Jeri_MS]

BHR, Thanks for a Great read! Intresting..I even told & Wrote letters that the Country Music Awards should have catagories at least..like Pop, Country, Southern Rock etc..I got a response too.. maybe they are thinking about how
Country Music is world wide now and should Keep it's Roots .
Why should Alan have to compete w/TaylorS. with all her Fans voting. Older people do not vote as much.No time w/working..Alan Jackson is a Master at Singing Country & Writing.His Voice (lower)seems to Improve as time goes by.

 This will date me (old) lol but i knew  most all the answers about the oldies but not the young ones much. This should be a real test for upcoming  Singers. Love Chet's writings!
Loved thinking about ole times at the Ryman( Mother Church of Country Music) & old Grand ole Opry & where it was located..! Love Jimmy Dickens & saw him close, he is still funny , God Bless him! Thanks Again BHR, Take Care..
Jerrie-MS PS Does anyone remember Slim Rhodes on Hee Haw?
They had Country Music Singers perform at my hometown  Feed Store in MS (Promoting the Grand Ole Opry) sponsers, and Slim went out to my grandfathers house to get water. LOL

[AlanfanBecky]

waiting to see the answers!  I think I did pretty good on the quiz, do you think Chet will send me a badge?  LOL
I only left a couple blanks and there were a couple I wasn't positive about.  And there were a couple questions that I answered "who cares?!"  LOL 
but I won't tell you which ones.........hehee!

[HariAJFan]

Thanks, BHR. Interesting if not quirky article & I probably got about half the answer.lol

[mar4aej]

I will go look this over... Most of the time I agree with Chet Flippo.