ACM Awards 2010 - Lee Ann Womack A version of this feature appears in Sunday’s Life section of The Oklahoman. Gone country? With the Academy of Country Music Awards airing at 7 tonight, country music stars weigh in on the question “What is country music in 2010?”
Lee Ann Womack:
ACM Awards - “I’m not the country music police or anything. (laughs) But sometimes I want to be. You know, it’s story-songs. Real country music, to me, is fiddles and steel guitars. That doesn’t mean that all good music has fiddles and steel guitars, but that’s what it is to me. …
“I’m not saying that music has to be traditional country to be good. I’m just saying that I do know what it is, and I do appreciate it, I love it, I have a passion for it, I have a passion to carry it on. It’s just too hard to try to define for everyone else what it is. … “There’s a place in the world for any good music; that’s for sure. …
“It’s American, and it’s something that we can lay claim to artistically. And I think it’s important that somebody carries those traditions on.”
“Country music is music about what people live through in everyday life. To me, it’s stories about life … and songs about people who tell these stories. This is what I loved about … George (Jones), (Merle) Haggard, Hank (Williams), Lefty (Frizzell), these people sang great, great songs. In Hag and Hank’s case, they were really about their lives in particular; they were writing about themselves. A lot of it was about their love life, good, bad, indifferent — you get the good, the bad, the ugly. (laughs)
“But it’s about those kinds of stories, and to me, it’s from a singer that sings it and tells that story in a way that you hear it and think they lived every word of it. When you hear George Jones sing ‘He Stopped Loving Her Today,’ it sounds pretty believable, doesn’t it? To me, that’s what country music is about. It’s akin to the blues.”
Lee Ann Womack:
ACM Awards - “I’m not the country music police or anything. (laughs) But sometimes I want to be. You know, it’s story-songs. Real country music, to me, is fiddles and steel guitars. That doesn’t mean that all good music has fiddles and steel guitars, but that’s what it is to me. …
“I’m not saying that music has to be traditional country to be good. I’m just saying that I do know what it is, and I do appreciate it, I love it, I have a passion for it, I have a passion to carry it on. It’s just too hard to try to define for everyone else what it is. … “There’s a place in the world for any good music; that’s for sure. …
“It’s American, and it’s something that we can lay claim to artistically. And I think it’s important that somebody carries those traditions on.”
“Country music is music about what people live through in everyday life. To me, it’s stories about life … and songs about people who tell these stories. This is what I loved about … George (Jones), (Merle) Haggard, Hank (Williams), Lefty (Frizzell), these people sang great, great songs. In Hag and Hank’s case, they were really about their lives in particular; they were writing about themselves. A lot of it was about their love life, good, bad, indifferent — you get the good, the bad, the ugly. (laughs)
“But it’s about those kinds of stories, and to me, it’s from a singer that sings it and tells that story in a way that you hear it and think they lived every word of it. When you hear George Jones sing ‘He Stopped Loving Her Today,’ it sounds pretty believable, doesn’t it? To me, that’s what country music is about. It’s akin to the blues.”
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