country music confession

It is well known that I am really not into country music at all. Many a night as I sit drinking in some dark alley bar in the heart of hong kong, I can be heard to say "What do they call that type of country music that really sucks ass? O'h yea, that's right, they call it country music.".

But I have a confession to make, the type of deep dark confession that is built upon years of denial, you see in the late 90's, I was given a copy of an album called "Music for all Occassions" it was a country cd, so as i stood there kicking the person who gave me the album in the stomach and cursing their birth, I decided to at least give the cd a listen.

Well i was shocked, this was one of the best cd's I ever had listened too and even today, I count this album as one of the few that you can listen to front to back. So I have over the years purcased all the cd's from this group called The Mavericks.

The Mavericks was a Grammy Award-winning alternative country music band founded in 1989 in Miami, Florida, United States. Between 1991 and 2003 they recorded six studio albums, in addition to charting fourteen singles on the Billboard country charts.

Enjoy the two somgs below...............

Mraz

Here is a somg by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat that I like called "Lucky". Pretty clear what the song is about, funny story on the writing. Mraz states that he wrote this with friends as a game with everyone just throwing out lyrics to see what would happen..........well you can see what happened.



here is a bonus video of some guy doing a pretty damn good boston cover