I'm kind of in the same place as OD. All my questions have already been answered. Once in a while, I may post some tidbit about some song I've heard on the radio, but like OD said, most folks on this site don't really care about what songs are on the radio. All they want to do is post their own tunes. So, the only folks that would even read such a post are the half dozen or so already here. AND, believe it or not, even a lot of the folks on this thread don't really listen to current country. So, here is a request. Go to this link http://www.billboard.com/charts/country-songs, and listen to the top 10-15 songs on the country chart. Do you even like country? Let alone current country. How may of the artist names do you recognize? How may songs remind you of "traditional" country? How many of those songs did you like? How many responses will this post get?
Right now we are over half way through August, and the Frank Brown International Songwriter Festival is Nov. 3rd through the 13th. I personally have been planning my trip over there since Nov. of last year. I WILL be there, because I volunteer and because I have friends there and friends from Nashville. I will be there from at least the 3rd through at least the 11th, and probably the 12th. I will serve lunch probably 4 times during that event, and will try to play Don McNatt's open mic as many days as I can. I will be hanging out with Riley and other writers on the walk around the main room at the Flora-Bama. Almost every day. I will be socializing with local friends and friends from Nashville. I'm hoping this year, I will finally stay up late enough to sit in on one or more of the guitar pulls that start around midnight and go until. In other words I will be going all day every day while I'm there. And oh yes, I will be taking in as many shows as I can. There are a LOT of great writers that come down and most of those shows are great. Especially in the Flora-Bama main room, which is a listening room during the festival.
I know MAB will be there because he is a featured performer. OD is planning on coming down. The Rhodes brothers always come down at least for the first Friday and Saturday. I think Kevin is even going to try to make it down this year. I wander how many of the rest of the half dozen or more folks here are going to try to make it?
phil g.