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A Reggae band in Country Music?
I kind of think this is wrong. Sortof like having a "too close" relation ship with a goat. I was able to sit down last night and watch the most recent CMA awards for the first time(I had it recorded). When I saw Kenny Chesney performing with a reggae band behind him I was both appalled and unsurprised at the same time. Where is country music going nowadays?
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I'm sure there were some folks that asked the same thing in 1929 when Jimmie Rodgers (the father of Country Music & fist inductee into the Hall Of Fame), played/and recorded with a Hawaiian Band.
He even recorded a Hawaiian song , “Everybody Does It in Hawaii”, with a full on Hawaiian Band including a Hawaiian Steel Guitar-- SHOCKING. We all know what that lead to -- steel guitars in country music-- Appalling !!
The worst part about Jimmie was that just a few months before the "Hawaiian Band" incident, he had the nerve to record with a full on jazz band that included Louis Armstrong on trumpet. That lead to folks like Bob Wills having full on big band horn sections just 10 years later-- Appalling!
I could list hundreds of other incident of country music crossed with other music forms, but it would take for ever since it's been going on since the genre started. In fact it's what makes Country Music.
If we didn't have groups mixing other sounds and styles in then we would all be playing banjo and fiddle tunes from the 1800's.. What? Those songs were from Irish bands-- Appalling!!