Re: Sheryl Crowe and Kid Rock song.. What the?

Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 07:55:14 GMT
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"JD" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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: What in the hell is with that song? It sounds like it was recorded on
: a Tascam 4-track tape deck by a 12 year old using no click and a Casio
: keyboard for bass. The time is all over the place, the fake kick drum
: is a half step behind at times. This thing sounds terrible. Only goes
: to show, that even a crappy song, sung crappy, recorded VERY crappy
: and played just as crappy can be a hit. This has beginner amateur
: written all over it. Anyone else notice how god awful the production
: and performance it? I've never heard something so home-demo sounding
: get played on the radio before.
It's kind of funny, but I heard this song for the first time a few days ago,
and, in fact, heard it twice on that day -- once on a digital cable country
station and the second time on KZLA (Los Angeles-based country station) --
and was so impressed by the song that I wrote a note on another songwriting
list, mostly comprised of Nashville-based country writers, saying I thought
it was probably the best country song, in the sense of traditional country
music, I'd heard in ages.
Mind you I wasn't commenting on the production, and Kid Rock's vocals, well,
let's just say he's not going to make my list of all-time favorite singers
anytime soon, though I do think they did the trick for the emotion expressed
in this particular song. But the song, to me, sounded like one of the more
"honest" ones I've heard on country radio in a long time, and the second
time I was listening to it, I even had a mental image of George Jones
singing on it in parts. Or maybe that was just wishful thinking when I
heard Kid Rock's voice. ;-)
Seriously, though, I've heard it another few times since then, and I still
think it is one of the best country songs I've heard in some time. As for
the production, I tend not to hear the production unless it gets in the way
of the song, and I didn't think it did in this particular case.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. :-)
Rick
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