Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell, Dixie Chicks rule the Country Music Critics Poll

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― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

only one dead guy?

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, my editor at Penthouse said, "the
advertising folks have asked me to get a bit more
urban and hip with the music coverage."

hicks don't beat off no more

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I find these results more interesting and less predictable than the Pazz and Jop, actually, but I'm not sure why. Glad about Rodney Crowell, though. (If anything, read it for Frank Kogan's "burn the fuckin' house down" quote.)

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm glad Kathleen Edwards's album placed higher than Lucinda Williams.

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

My complete ballot here.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 13 February 2004 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Poll results for Best Singles:
1. Johnny Cash, "Hurt" (American/Lost Highway) (437 points)
2. Merle Haggard, "That's the News" (Hag) (210)
3. Brooks & Dunn, "Red Dirt Road" (Arista) (203)
4. Dixie Chicks, "Travelin' Soldier" (Open Wide/Monument/Columbia) (191)
5. Patty Loveless, "On Your Way Home" (Epic) (181)
6. Joe Nichols, "Brokenheartsville" (Universal South) (180)
7. Toby Keith, "I Love This Bar" (DreamWorks) (158)
8. Rodney Crowell, "Earthbound" (DMZ/Epic) (156)
9. Patty Loveless, "Lovin' All Night" (Epic) (148)
10. Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett, "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" (Arista) (139)
11. Toby Keith & Willie Nelson, "Beer for My Horses" (DreamWorks) (137)
12. Josh Turner, "Long Black Train" (MCA) (135)
13. Brad Paisley, "Celebrity" (Arista) (124)
14. Randy Travis, "Three Wooden Crosses" (Word/Curb/Warner Bros.) (119)
15. Rosanne Cash & Johnny Cash, "September When It Comes" (Capitol) (113)
16. Gary Allan, "Songs About the Rain" (MCA) (108)
17. Dierks Bentley, "What Was I Thinkin'" (Capitol) (101)
18. Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow, "Picture" (Lava/Atlantic) (100)
19. Vince Gill, "Next Big Thing" (MCA) (98)
20. Rodney Crowell, "Fate's Right Hand" (DMZ/Epic) (96)
21. Kathleen Edwards, "Six O'Clock News" (Zoe) (88)
22. Brooks & Dunn, "You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl" (Arista) (80)
23. Shania Twain, "Forever and Always" (Mercury) (76)
24. Terri Clark, "I Wanna Be Mad" (Mercury) (74)
25. Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, "A Simple Life" (Skaggs Family) (70)
26. Alison Krauss & James Taylor, "How's the World Treating You" (Universal South) (68)
27. June Carter Cash, "Keep on the Sunny Side" (Dualtone) (65)
28. George Strait, "Tell Me Something Bad About Tulsa" (MCA) (64)
29. David Banner, "Cadillac on 22's" (SRC/Universal) (55)
30. Montgomery Gentry, "Hell Yeah" (Columbia) (54)

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 13 February 2004 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Banner - that's great. No Bubba though.

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 13 February 2004 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it took at least four voters to get up to 55 - 15 points for a #1 choice - and likely got several more. (And probably'd have gotten more still if more people'd thought to allow themselves to vote for it.)

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 13 February 2004 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"population me" was robbed!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 13 February 2004 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

are there any country music blogs? (you don't count matt)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 13 February 2004 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I got six singles out of the top 30...better than my P&J picks, for sure.
here's albums, of which I heard 10 and voted for 5:

1. Rodney Crowell, Fate's Right Hand (DMZ/Epic) (466 points)
2. Patty Loveless, On Your Way Home (Epic) (447)
3. Various Artists, Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs of the Louvin Brothers (Universal South) (313)
4. Brooks & Dunn, Red Dirt Road (Arista) (292)
5. Drive-By Truckers, Decoration Day (New West) (276)
6. Kathleen Edwards, Failer (Zoe) (248)
7. June Carter Cash, Wildwood Flower (Dualtone) (246)
8. Shelby Lynne, Identity Crisis (Capitol) (241)
9. Rosanne Cash, Rules of Travel (Capitol) (232)
10. Lucinda Williams, World Without Tears (Lost Highway) (230)
11. Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, Country Music (Columbia) (224)
12. Emmylou Harris, Stumble Into Grace (Nonesuch) (184)
13. Dixie Chicks, Top of the World Tour--Live (Open Wide/Monument/Columbia) (163)
14. Gary Allan, See If I Care (MCA) (150)
15. Various Artists, Just Because I'm a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton (Sugar Hill) (148)
16. Dwight Yoakam, Population Me (Electrodisc/Audium/Koch) (146)
17. The Del McCoury Band, It's Just the Night (McCoury/Sugar Hill) (145)
18. Jeannie Kendall, JK (Rounder) (142)
19. Brad Paisley, Mud on the Tires (Arista) (134)
20. Vince Gill, Next Big Thing (MCA) (127)
21. Gillian Welch, Soul Journey (Acony) (123)
22. Merle Haggard, Like Never Before (Hag) (120)
23. The Mavericks, The Mavericks (Sanctuary) (109)
24. Dierks Bentley, Dierks Bentley (Capitol) (104)
25. George Strait, Honkytonkville (MCA) (92)
26. Lyle Lovett, My Baby Don't Tolerate (Curb/Lost Highway) (91)
27. Ray Wylie Hubbard, Growl (Philo) (85)
28. The Jayhawks, Rainy Day Music (American/Lost Highway) (83)
29. (tie) Caitlin Cary, I'm Staying Out (Yep Roc) (76)
(tie) Thad Cockrell, Warmth & Beauty (Yep Roc) (76)

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 13 February 2004 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually Blount
I've been thinking about blog-
ging country & rap,

thereby avoiding
all that shit I do about
oh my poor poor life

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 13 February 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I had Bubba on my singles list, but took him off. Wouldn't-a mattered, though, because I would have voted for "She Tried" instead of "Comin' Round."

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 13 February 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

haha - the milwaukee bucks are your poor poor life? (matt cibula = aka sidney moncrief?)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 13 February 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

sidney moncrief my ass; I'm more like bob lanier's size 27 shoes RIGHT UP YOUR GEORGIAN ASS

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 13 February 2004 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

(you know, like in Lanier: The Declining Years) (fun fact: he made ONE three-pointer in his career!)

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 13 February 2004 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Yoakam's career arc has been interesting. It's like trad/pop-dalliance/trad. I liked Population Me a lot, but nothing he's released since This Time has affected me as much; both his slickest sounding and most commercially successful record. (I think that last point is true, isn't it?)

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 13 February 2004 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

we got rasheed now matt - DON'T TRY IT

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 13 February 2004 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

dude you can have him
until season's over then
he's gone: "CTC"

Here were my votes:

TOP TEN ALBUMS
1. Anthony Hamilton, Comin’ From Where I’m From
2. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, Country Music
3. Shelby Lynne, Identity Crisis
4. Sara Evans, Restless
5. Gary Allan, See If I Care
6. Allison Moorer, Show
7. Patty Loveless, On Your Way Home
8. Pat Green, Wave on Wave
9. The Del McCoury Band, Here Comes the Night
10. Charlie Robison, Live

TOP TEN SINGLES
1. Gary Allan, “Songs About Rain”
2. Mark Wills, "And the Crowd Goes Wild"
3. Mindy Smith, “Jolene”
4. Terri Clark, "I Just Wanna Be Mad"
5. Montgomery Gentry, “Hell Yeah”
6. Martina McBride, “This One’s For the Girls”
7. Jimmy Wayne, "Stay Gone"
8. Nappy Roots, "Roun' the Globe"
9. Kenny Chesney, “There Goes My Life”
10. Over the Rhine, "Show Me"

TOP REISSUES
1. Townes Van Zandt, In the Beginning
2. Willie Nelson, Tougher Than Leather
3. Robert Earl Keen, The Story Never Ends

Best Male Vocalist
1. Gary Allan
2. Marty Stuart
3. Del McCoury

Best Female Vocalist
1. Allison Moorer
2. Patty Loveless
3. Dolly Parton

Best Duo, Trio or Group
1. Dixie Chicks
2. The Del McCoury Band
3. Brooks & Dunn

Best Songwriter
1. Shelby Lynne
2. Matraca Berg
3. Robert Earl Keen

Best New Act
1. Jimmy Wayne
2. Los Lonely Boys
3. Bering Strait

Best Overall Act
1. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
2. Allison Moorer
3. Gary Allan

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 13 February 2004 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm more tickled by the idea of a Trent Reznor song topping a country music poll. Wouldn't have thought THAT exactly ten years ago (thinking of my extremely impatient self counting down the remaining days to the release of The Downward Spiral).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 February 2004 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

what's more, after the last ten years, I'm somewhat tickled that an incongruous country cover can come off better than gimmicky.

― Huckleberry, Friday, 13 February 2004 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Country-ish albums I've heard so far this year that knock me the fuck out: Allison Moorer, The Duel. Oh snap, this one's really good.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 13 February 2004 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

this year, like in the last, uh, 10 weeks?
uh, I'm gonna stump for this one again even though it actually came out last Sept, but it was nominated for a Juno, I think under Jazz???
Great Uncles of the Revolution Blow the House Down

― huck, Friday, 13 February 2004 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it comes out in April, I just got the advance two days ago. Between her and her sister Shelby, they're clearly the best country family still living.

Damn, I just noticed that Patty Loveless has TWO of the TOP TEN singles and the #2 album! She's the freakin' OutKast of country music!Retitle this thread please! (Sorry for all the !s here, but it's really a good record.)

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 13 February 2004 05:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't trust Shelby Lynne after the Glen Ballard album.

― Huck, Friday, 13 February 2004 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, get over it, Glen Ballard rules forever because of "On the Rebound"
if you're really that hard up for "authenticity", Huck, Shelby wrote and produced all of Identity Crisis, did all the voices on it herself, and played all the guitars and drums herself. one-woman labor of love, great songs in all styles, really personal and stuff.
but "On the Rebound" does rule.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 13 February 2004 05:54 (twenty-two years ago)

pah, authenticity is for art dealers! i just thought the record sorta sucked. like, it was boring and stuff. and since that was the first I heard from Lynne (though I'd heard OF thanks to all the stuff from the album before), well, you don't get a second chance to make a first impression.
so probably the only way I'll even give anything else by her a chance is if I put it on by accident, hear it on the radio (ain't gonna happen 'round here), or have it forced upon me as the only alternative to Teitur.

― Huck, Friday, 13 February 2004 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

haha - the artwork totally redeemed that glen ballard album!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 13 February 2004 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it should have been called "Love, Shelby's Ass."

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 13 February 2004 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I Am Shelby Lynne was/is massively overrated, by the way. It's pretty good, but it hasn't aged well.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 13 February 2004 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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