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5:10pm July 19, 2013
I finally found the one tiny corner of my room that was unused, and got someone to move my record player into it. So I can listen to Lacy J. Dalton again! I mean, I’ve got most of her songs transferred into MP3 files now. (Practically none of her old songs, even the really good ones, exist for MP3. Probably because of her feud with Nashville? IDK.  But most of her stuff only exists on records.) But for some reason it just feels better to listen to it straight off of the record. So that’s what I’m doing. I grew up on this stuff, so it’s some of the most comforting music ever. It’s funny… so much of the music I heard growing up was country, that… I’d think all the different styles of country were all the different styles of music in general. It always surprised me to learn that, say, Lacy J. Dalton, or Kris Kristofferson, were country. Not because they weren’t. But because my ear differentiated between all these different sounds, I assumed some were country and some weren’t. Rather than that they were different styles of country. (And I still have trouble seeing most modern country as country. A lot of it sounds like pop with a Southern accent. And… Southern doesn’t mean country.  Meanwhile I show a lot if my favorite music to young country fans and they often get perplexed, like they like it but they’ve never heard anything like it before and don’t know what to make of it.)

I finally found the one tiny corner of my room that was unused, and got someone to move my record player into it. So I can listen to Lacy J. Dalton again!

I mean, I’ve got most of her songs transferred into MP3 files now. (Practically none of her old songs, even the really good ones, exist for MP3. Probably because of her feud with Nashville? IDK.  But most of her stuff only exists on records.)

But for some reason it just feels better to listen to it straight off of the record.

So that’s what I’m doing.

I grew up on this stuff, so it’s some of the most comforting music ever.

It’s funny… so much of the music I heard growing up was country, that… I’d think all the different styles of country were all the different styles of music in general. It always surprised me to learn that, say, Lacy J. Dalton, or Kris Kristofferson, were country. Not because they weren’t. But because my ear differentiated between all these different sounds, I assumed some were country and some weren’t. Rather than that they were different styles of country.

(And I still have trouble seeing most modern country as country. A lot of it sounds like pop with a Southern accent. And… Southern doesn’t mean country.  Meanwhile I show a lot if my favorite music to young country fans and they often get perplexed, like they like it but they’ve never heard anything like it before and don’t know what to make of it.)