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Finding Simplicity In Country Music
Living in unprecedented times means going back to basics.
There’s fascination, even romance, in the following lines. They’re so beautifully simple:
“… and it makes me wanna take a back road, makes me wanna take the long way home, put a little gravel in my travel, unwind, unravel all night long. Makes me wanna grab my honey, tear down some two-lane country who knows, get lost and get right with my soul — it makes me wanna take, makes me wanna take a back road” — Rodney Atkins, “Take A Back Road”
I’m here to make a unexpected statement: I enjoy country music.
Do you know that feeling when a song comes on, and it reminds you of a certain period in your life? That’s how I feel about country: it reminds me of my time living in the 20,000 soul small town of Elon, NC.
But that’s not the reason I enjoy country music.
Country music is simple, and it talks about the simple pleasures of life. Rappers need bitches, lamborghinis and thousands of dollars. Latinos mostly sing about love and sex. Scooter needs you to be hyper hyper.
Most songs, at some point, are about a fantasy, about something that is highly unrealistic to the vast majority of humans. We’re attracted to that music because it provides an…
