According to Sirius: Today's biggest country hits from the hottest country superstars. Hear Nashville's #1 hits and exclusive Sirius Buzz Cuts - new country songs you can't hear anywhere else.My Experience: It's no secret, I've been dreading the hip-hop and country portions of the Sirius dial since I started this experiment...but my first dip into the realm of country music wasn't all that painful. It really got me thinking about what makes something a country song. Is it something immediately identifiable about the music? The instruments? The voice? I mean, not all country singers have a southern twang, and not all have a steel guitar playing counterpoint...it's kind of a tough thing to call. Anyway, I really hadn't heard any of these songs before and thought the idea of exclusive "Buzz Cuts" was pretty nifty.
Sample Playlist:
- Rodney Atkins, These Are My People
- Tim McGraw, When the Stars Go Blue
- Billy Currington, Tangled Up
- Sugarland, Want To
- Dierks Bentley, Long Trip Alone
- Toby Keith, High Maintenance Woman
Moment of the Day: There are perpetual jokes about country music lyrics, and perhaps rightly so. The song High Maintenance Woman, by Toby Keith, tells the tale of a repairman who falls in love with a beautiful woman, in which he laments "I ain't hooked it up yet, / But I'm trying as hard as I can. / It's just a high maintenance woman / Don't want no maintenance man." Sheer poetry.Verdict: As bearable as today was, the music was still more amusing than listenable. It's just not my genre. At least this slice isn't...
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