And now Chicks toured with Maren Morris. This article is about Morris and her distaste for Nashville industry, and about her doing a tour with the Chicks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2023/12/21/chicks-maren-morris-country-music/
But while the Chicks’ fate has been successfully used as a fear tactic for years, it has also had the opposite effect: The band is an inspiration for a new class of outspoken country stars who don’t want to just shut up and sing. The timing of Morris’s “departure” from the genre — as well as her serving as an opening act for the Chicks on tour this summer — was a fitting, full-circle moment symbolizing how the treatment of the trio still looms over country music...She debuted “The Tree” live in concert when she opened for the Chicks in Ottawa on the day her Los Angeles Times interview published.
“Thinking about the last few shows we’ve had with the Chicks, the meaning behind this song, how I got to where I was when I wrote it, where you just burn the whole ... toxic thing down …” Morris trailed off as she introduced the song to the cheering arena. “I would not have been able to write this song or get to this place of peace if the Chicks had not been in my life to do it first.”
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 December 2023 18:47 (three months ago) link
Luke Combs cover of Tracy Chapman “Fast Cars” is pleant enough― curmudgeon, Sunday, June 11, 2023 3:44 AM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglinkPleasant― curmudgeon, Sunday, June 11, 2023 4:02 AM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglinksuch a good song, it's hard to screw it up ... and he doesn't.― alpine static, Sunday, June 11, 2023 7:31 AM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― curmudgeon, Sunday, June 11, 2023 3:44 AM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Pleasant
― curmudgeon, Sunday, June 11, 2023 4:02 AM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink
such a good song, it's hard to screw it up ... and he doesn't.
― alpine static, Sunday, June 11, 2023 7:31 AM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink
late to this particular party, have to agree that this is a very decent cover and... weirdly, while it's objectively lesser in every way than the original, it's really hitting some emotional notes with me - as if the kind of... I'm looking for the word here... simplicity? that Combs brings actually elevates the song?
happy to be reminded of this masterpiece of songwriting anyway
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 30 December 2023 21:12 (three months ago) link
deference, i think, is the word you're looking for. he just plays it as best he can w/o doing all sorts of shit to "make it his own" because, assuming we believe him, he just loves the song and it makes him think of his dad.
this is why it's good.
― alpine static, Sunday, 31 December 2023 00:06 (three months ago) link
well, also because Tracy Chapman wrote an incredible song
― alpine static, Sunday, 31 December 2023 05:22 (three months ago) link
yes! exactly
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 31 December 2023 09:37 (three months ago) link
https://accidentalevolution.wordpress.com/2023/12/26/40-best-country-singles-of-2023/
Chuck Eddy's fave 2023 country songs
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 January 2024 23:59 (three months ago) link
Long-running country blog That Nashville Sound's top albums and songs of 2023https://thatnashvillesound.blogspot.com/2023/12/that-nashville-sounds-top-country-and_31.htmlhttps://thatnashvillesound.blogspot.com/2023/12/that-nashville-sounds-top-country-and.html
― Indexed, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 16:26 (three months ago) link