Screw You, We're From Texas

For some reason, as I was about to leave for my gig in D/FW yesterday, I decided that I wanted to hear some country. So, I burned myself a CD with basically some highlights from bands that have played at or are otherwise associated with Hill's Cafe, and it was so good I listened to it at least twice on the way up here. Oddly (or perhaps not surprisingly), most of the songs are in the same key, even though I compiled it in like, a few minutes.

It occurred to me, after listening for a bit, that there are certain emotions or situations that really can only be expressed through country music. Rock and roll party songs, for instance, tend to fall into one of two categories: either the cutoffs and Camaro white trash sort or the girl jeans and cocaine hipster sort. There really aren't any good rock songs about floating down the river, drinking on a front porch or drinking in general. Country has them in spades. There's also just this sort of unapologetic air to lots of country, and Texas country in particular. It's almost as if the songs are either literally an apology or a blatant "Fuck You", in a sense.

I don't know, because honestly, this had never occured to me before yesterday, so maybe I'll get back to this at another time, but as usual, I think I'm onto something.