Like A Country Song (Is It Just The Twang In The Music?)

 All my friends are music lovers! They either love to sing, play instruments, or just listen to music. My siblings are very talented, my sister has played guitar, piano, trumpet, and has had voice lessons. My brother has played drums and bass. I haven't taken up any instrument yet but I would love to learn how to play the banjo which is like one of my favorite instrument.
Whether we sing in the car, dance while washing the dishes, or even listen to songs in the most crucial points in our lives music is really important to us. Is it because the guitar is just right, is it because this is our best friends favorite song, or maybe this was someones favorite song who is no longer with us? Whatever is the answer to why we listen to music there is a story behind it.

Anybody who knows me knows I'm a HUGE country music junkie but I wasn't always. I didn't ever really have a genre I loved until I was ten. I just watched Disney Channel I listened to the songs on High School Musical or Camp Rock or something. (Yeah I was one of those kids....) When I was just about to turn ten my sister told me I needed better taste in music because now that I look back I realized how did I ever think that stuff was good? She introduced me to Country music which was the music she loved and listened to at the time.

Not long after that I bought my first country album, Play On by Carrie Underwood and never turned back to listening to Disney tunes. Carrie Underwood has a crazy strong voice and I loved her. I then researched more into the country scene and got into Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, and Blake Shelton whom I still enjoy till' this day. (These names may or may not sound familiar to you.)

When I was 10 1/2 I was shopping for CDS and there on the shelf was a golden CD, no literally it was the color gold. There was this really pretty girl on the cover and she had long curly hair. I wasn't going to get this CD because it was more expensive than the other CDS I was looking at. My sister persuaded me into getting it.

On the way home from the store the lyrics, "Can't you see that I'm the one who understands you been here all along so why can't you see? You Belong With Me."blared through the speakers of the car and that was the beginning of my love for Swift.

Flash forward into life, I'm now 16 and still listen to Country Music. I still love Taylor, (In fact I'm going to the 1989 concert with two amazing girls.) It's really funny how your music taste change. If it weren't for change and my sister begging me to listen to better music I would probably still be in my bedroom listening to Hannah Montana.

There was a point and time though when I was fifteen and my friends begged me to expand my taste in music. I was very persistent because I had tried one time and I'm not fond of Nicki Minaj or One Direction. I just stuck with my country music but the again due to change I did find some other bands I liked.

One of my friends really likes Maroon 5 and she lent me there most recent CD at the time, Overexposed and Adam Levine is just so handsome and how can you not like, 'Sugar?' I then started to go more and more to different genres and found that I like Lorde, Ed Sheeran, Meghan Trainor, and Fall Out Boy. I still find different songs I like from different genres than Country that I like.

While some of you like pop, or some of you like Christian music, (I do too, who doesn't?) or maybe some of you are trying to find some different music to listen too. I've put together a song playlist of songs that aren't very popular but they are from all kinds of genres. I've posted it below but before we move on I would like to share a short story with you and a poem I've written. I promise this will be short.

Not a lot of people I know like Country Music. There are very very few people I know that like it. I'm really into Country Music I love everything from Hunter Hayes and Raelynn to George Strait and Reba McEntire. I think some of the best songwriters are Country musicians because if someone can transport you to a certain place or time and feel the same thing they are feeling that's pretty amazing! I never understood why people didn't like Country Music like I liked it. It's not all beer bottles, broken hearts, and farms. It's Happiness fishing with your friends on the dock of the lake, Sadness loosing your old huntin' dog, it's every emotion put into words. It reminds us that we aren't alone and it reminds us about God once in awhile. I wrote this poem to tell people why I like Country Music and it wasn't to change their opinion on genres they like but to simply change their views on Country Music.

 

      Stetson’s Under Broadway Lights

                              I am very fond of this particular subject and many aren’t

                                          Every time I hear it I think of beautiful art

                       Imagine the strokes of this painter’s hand and the creative piece

                    in his mind this kind of beautiful art may just save someone’s life

In each of our lives sadness arises in sorrowing ways but maybe it wouldn’t be hard if we knew someone else is feeling this way. The burdens we carry are like His cross and the loss of my son the soldier doesn’t mean he is really gone.

                                      I will take you back in time to the 1920’s

      where strings of guitars were getting  pretty costly.

     where cowboy hats were the thing, and cowboy boots

    were the so called ‘bling.’ it seems Nashville was the home

   too so many stars it’s where Presley died and Parton got her start.

            You may think you know this music of beer bottles, broken hearts, and trucks but do you really know what’s in the music that I love? It’s so much more than the twang we here it’s about trusting God when you feel he’s not here. It’s a little boy who lost his dad but they meet again in Heaven alas. It’s the place you grew up but your parents sold, it’s about remembering the soldiers who have died souls. It’s the breeze of trees on a hot summer day and the cold ice tea in the old oak tree shade, it’s the good times, and bad times which we all go through it’s something we can’t let go of or the things we let go of too soon.

                                    I understand your reasoning with genres you like

                                        I am not asking you to simply pick a side

                                       I am stating some facts that are true Country

                                           Music are the stories of me and you. 

Playlist

Kiss Me- Lucy Hale - Country
I Got The boy- Jana Kramer - Country
Yellow Flicker Beat- Lorde - Pop
Bad Blood- Taylor Swift- Pop
I Can Just Be Me- Laura Story - Christian
Careless- Raelynn- Country
Both Of Us- B.o.B (Feat. Taylor Swift.) - Rap
Misery - Maroon 5- Pop Rock
Everybody Loves Me- One Republic - Pop Rock
Each Coming Night-Iron & Wine - Indie Rock
Something In The Water- Carrie Underwood- Country Christian
We Fall Apart - We As Human- Rock Christian
Photograph- Ed Sheeran- Indie Pop
Hotel Ceiling- Rixton- Pop/ Rock/ R&B/Country
A Guy Walks Into A Bar- Tyler Farr- Country
Dear Future Husband- Meghan Trainor-Pop
Carry On My Wayward Son- Kansas- Rock
Falling- Iration-Reggae
Everybody Drives Drunk- Love & Theft- Country & Folk

I hope you all enjoyed this post! Please comment your favorite songs so I have some new music to listen too, as well. God Bless ya'll and look out for VERY special news coming out soon.

Fearlessly,
Sammy