He was an amazing songwriter and his songs will last as long as there is country music.”īut country music has featured more just than the tears there’s been a lot of laughter, too. “Without Hank Williams, the Grand Ole Opry would have been a different place. “Hank Williams could ‘cry’ a country song like no other,” Jimmy tells BarrieToday. “Like most of the artists on Welcome to Nashville, Loretta is still important because she takes us back to our younger, more carefree days… That and because she has a ton of talent.”īut one cannot escape the era when country music was budding without considering the Lovesick Blues boy himself.
The coal miner’s daughter Loretta Lynn is revered for making inroads for female artists (when they were first known as “girl singers”). “No surprise that Willie is still on the scene today as he is synonymous with country music and a very gifted songwriter.” Prevost says Willie’s music, which first made its bow in the early 1960s, would be welcome in any age. Jimmy Prevost represents Curtain Call Entertainment, the group putting the show on, cites the need for nostalgia among folks who for decades have followed country music (“country-and-western” as it was called then), and long to hear the likes of Johnny and June, Loretta Lynn, Ray Price, and the earliest works of a young whippersnapper named Willie Nelson.
25 for Welcome to Nashville, a guide to Music City, U.S.A. While this generation grooves on the likes of Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood and Lady Antebellum, older folks – or folks with older tastes in music – are invited to the Georgian Theatre Saturday, Nov. Country music singers make up one big family, and it’s important to honour the elders of the form.
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