European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Entertainment Here s a Quarter Call someone who old King Kong was just a Little. s cares. Travis Tritt Monkey compared to my love for Vou George Jones i m so miserable without you it s almost like you re Billy Ray Cyrus All my sex s live in Texas and that s papa loved mama mama loved Why i hang my hat in men. Mama s in the graveyard George Strart up " a Garth Brooks Don t those lyrics make your Brown eyes Blue. Have the teardrops thai you be cried drowned the fire in your eyes Alan Jackson Bybee Mcleod Cox news service Don t come Home a Drinkin with lovin1 on your Tammy Wynette country songs say the darn est things. And in the darn est ways. Did a cheating Lover Ever leave you Here s a Quarter Call someone who cares Travis Tritt tells his Rotten old flame. I m so miserable without you it s almost like you re Here Billy Ray Cyrus sings to his. I d be better off in a Pine Box poor Ole Doug Stone opines. Depressed about the recession country songs know How you feel. The Meek shall inherit the Earth and the Bank shall repossess it sings the band Sawyer Brown in its cafe on the Comer. If the Devil danced in empty pockets he d have a Ball in mine Joe Diffie tells us. Why s the Rich Man Busy dancing while the poor Man pays the band they re billin me or Killin me. Lord have mercy on the working Man Tritt sings in his new single. Always simple. Sometimes funny. Often sad. Country songs have always been full of Folk philosophy and Clever turns of phrase. Guess that s Why so Many of us love them or Are learning to As country music continues to find fans among adults who once turned up their noses to nasal twang and those sad country songs. People Are crying out for music that has meaning and country is the venue where they re finding satisfaction says de Corley one of four staffers at the non profit Nashville songwriters association International. Nashville is blessed with Brilliant and talented writers who Are providing those songs and there happens to be a new crop of artists who Are taking those songs out and attracting a whole new Market for country songwriters Don t get enough credit for country music s new popularity Corley and others agree. The Lyric is primary the Melody is secondary says Charlie Monk of Oryland music group where he develops songwriters. If you be got a great Lyric you can get away with a Lousy in other words you can always understand the words when you hear a country song. Country is the last style of music that cares about words and music that believes a song is supposed to say something have a beginning a Middle and end and it rhymes and it often tells a Story says Bob German who has written about country music for the tennessean newspaper in Nashville for 10 years. During the last big Boom Era for country music the Urban Cowboy period of the Early 80s, country songwriters tried to tailor songs to the pop Market German says. They tried to Appeal to the rest of the world by turning away from the traditional country songs. What is interesting is this time they have not done that and the rest of the world has come to so Many of the same themes the old timers Sang about 40 years ago Are simply recycled proving life really does t change that much in some ways people Are still drinking and Loving and cheating and hurting. Women Aren t necessarily standing by their men anymore but the Blue Collar humor and philosophy still Roll through country songs. There s no future in the past Vince Gill knows. And the Only trouble with being a woman my age is the men my age. That s Why younger men Are starting to catch my Eye . Oslin reveals. All my sex s live in Texas and that s Why i hang my hat in Tennessee George Strait confides. Whiskey if you were a woman i d drive you from his tangled mind for Good Highway 101 promises. Papa loved mama mama loved men. Mama s in the graveyard papa s in the pen Garth Brooks allows. Miami my Amy loves me after All Keith Whitley boasts. Have the teardrops that you be cried drowned the fire in your eyes Alan Jackson implores. Paula Schwed a new yorker who went to Nashville As a Young journalist in 1976 and quickly Learned to love country music compiled a Little Book of great lyrics. Her Book was in stores this Spring after being rejected by a dozen publishers. A1993 Lyric a Day Calendar is also on the Market the title of her Book is from a 1949 song i be got tears in my ears from lying on my Back in my bed while i cry Over in Rock music they whine of my baby left me " says Schwed an editor at the Atlanta journal Constitution since july. In country music they say flushed from the bathroom of your heart i just like great lines from years ago Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette Sang Don t come Home a Drinkin with lovin on your George Jones Sang old King Kong was just a Little Monkey compared to my love for Johnny paycheck and David Allan Coe Sang take this Job and shove Jerry Reed Sang she got the Gold mine i got the the Bellamy Brothers Sang what turned into the biggest cliche pick up line of the 80s if i said you had a Beautiful body would you hold it against me Kinky Friedman whose Texas jew boys were so far ahead of their time according to inn spokesman Jerry Bailey Sang satirically get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the Roy Clark Sang thank god and greyhound you re most of the songs have at least one Good Catchy phrase Bailey says. In Nashville today aspiring songwriters Are everywhere looking for that Catchy phrase and a hit. At inn the Nashville network Anne Boatman recently penned he took her in the Cornfield and kissed her Between the ears. Working at a Frame shop by Day and looking for a Lucky break 24 hours a Day 26-year-old Mike Hilliard has put his Vurnor into she s my liposuction baby and his Talent into hundreds of other songs some humorous some political some downright sad. I be got a lot of Confidence about it says Hilliard who started writing songs when his family spent an unhappy year in Miami nearly 10 years ago. And i Don t have much Confidence about some other things in my life. You need a lot of Luck and maybe i la be one of the Lucky his All time favorite Clever country Lyric drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of right into the arms of his liposuction baby. 12 stripes Magazine october 29, 1992
