Bobby Bones (35:20)
Thanks for the voicemail. I think it was a mixture. We did some new shows, new content shows that went up during the break, and probably some of the best dubs we run because you guys put those up Too. Scuba, right? Yeah. Ray, you left the room. Yeah, yeah, but we did. We wanted. Because I hate when my. My. My podcasts I listen to don't populate. I'm like, oh, because I have such a rhythm. And we did a couple. We did some new ones, and then. Yeah, I appreciate that, but we tried to do a little extra work so you guys would have that. All right, next up, I was just listening to the new Chris Stapleton song with Dua Lipa. And then I was thinking about the Thomas Rhett song with Teddy Swims. What's up with the new sound? What do you think about that? It does not sound like country. What's your thoughts? Uh, oh, I think mostly you're hearing people that are country sing stuff that maybe aren't as country because you don't have to always stay in a specific lane. You know, me and my whole that ain't country. That's been said for 100 years. It will always be said for 100 more years. It needs to be said, because the music has to evolve. It has to evolve or it's going to die. If it stayed sounding like Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys forever, it would be dead. When Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys amped up a steel guitar, they. They were like, that's sacrilegious. To country music, we cannot believe. But that's happened with every decade of country music. There's been that version of amping up a steel guitar. There's been bringing in electric guitars. There's been like, Sam Hunt. He talks in songs. It's not country. Go listen to some Johnny Cash. That's what he would do. He would talk through songs. So I'm not going to get in that battle of what's country and what's not country, because there is no correct answer. But if it ever stayed the same. And a lot of people now think that just like that 90s traditional cowboy hat country, like, that's what country to them, that's what country is. But the original country music is from Europe and the slave ships of Africa. And that combination is what ended up making country music. And that's why it comes from the South. Where do you think all the slaves were? And so that's. So if anyone's ever that's not country. The real easy thing to do is be like, well, I guess if it's not a fiddle or a banjo and it's not from Europe or Africa, it's not country. Your version of it's wrong, too. So nobody's really wrong But I would say with these specific examples, I don't think they're claiming these are super country. I think they're just country artists who are doing some stuff on the edges, which is totally cool. What is Teddy Swims, soul singer. Okay. Big white dude, lot of tattoos. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's my TED Talk on country music. Like, I don't even care to get into it people anymore because I just feel when people go, well, that ain't country, I just feel like, well, you're too stupid for me to actually talk sense into you. That's what I feel like. So there's no need in me wasting my energy trying to educate you, because you're either too stupid or quite ignorant in ignorance. I'm ignorant in a lot of stuff, and I like to think that I learned through some of that ignorance. I'm sure there's stupid parts of me too, that I don't even realize. But when people are, like, dead on it, like, that ain't country. They're stupid because they don't know the history of country music. So, yeah, no, I don't think that even Chris Stapleton or Thomas would be like, yeah, these songs we did, that's definitely traditional country music. So, no, it's. I fully support people, like, exploring the edges. What I don't like personally is when someone comes from out of country into country because it wasn't popping for them out of country, which is different than like a Post Malone or Beyonce. They're popping everywhere. They did not need to do a country project. I'm all good with that. That just means they want to, like, come over and, like, be a part of something that they like and enjoy and want to create inside of. And they're not claiming to be forever lifetime country artists, but I totally am great with that part of it. But it's when the artists come over that weren't. And the only reason they're coming over is because it wasn't working there. So now they're going to come over here. An example of that not happening that people think did happen would be Michelle Branch and the Wreckers. So Michelle Branch is killing in the pop world. She got into a huge record fight. They wouldn't let her to put out. They hold her records hostage. So she's like, screw this. And she's a singer songwriter anyway, which is very. And she was like, if they don't let me do that, I'll create a band and I'll go over here where I can, like, write and be singer songwriter. And the records were a brief but massive thing here. And then after that was over, she was like, I'm good. But that was because the record labels wouldn't put out her music because it was so singer, songwriter y from that time when she popped. But it was so diff that the music had changed so much. And they were like, no, you need to do something different. She's like, I don't want to do anything different. I want to have a guitar. I want to sing. So that's one of those where people think she did that but didn't. And there are some too. Like, Jewel probably is somebody who came to country because it wasn't popping over there as much anymore. But I do think that she comes from country, like Alaska. I think what she was doing actually was kind of country. So I'll probably half take a Joel back, but not fully. But there are those. Maybe I fully take Jewel back. I may need to investigate that one more. I want to be stupid on that. I want to be ignorant on that. But I felt like Jewel did that. But maybe I should think differently because she definitely is from, like, the Alaskan. I don't know. All Alaska's country.
