Hey all you sexy squirrels out there!
It’s time for everyone’s favorite “Jesus, does he really like listening to that shit?” feature Mecca Muzak Monday! Get out your boots and wax down your pickup truck, because this week MMM is going country!
As you might expect for a company headquartered right in backwoods Arkansas, Mecca dedicates a handful of its CD space to everyone’s favorite music genre in the world, country and western. I’ll be the first to admit that I fucking hate almost all country music… from the old twangy stuff your grandparents would play on the Victrola to whatever it is that passes for Nashville these days.
Oh, those crazy guitar pickers from Nashville!
But my time at Mecca has taught me that I just haven’t given country a real chance. I can reel off about 10-15 country songs I’ve heard only via my job at Mecca that I would proudly admit to liking. And by far, the best one of them all was first featured on Mecca’s winter soundtrack this year that mercifully replaced the endless Christmas music on December 26th… and was carried over to the current Summer CD.
Ladies and gentlemen…. Luke Bryan’s “That’s My Kind of Night”:
If all country music sounded as kickass as this song, I’d probably listen to the genre a bit more…
I had not watched the music video before up until right now. This sure isn’t your grandparents’ country music!
That’s not Loretta Lynn…
And you gotta love any song that can work Conway Twitty and T-Pain into the same lyric line. Country would probably sound better with Autotune…
Helllllllo-o-o-o Da-a-arrrlin’
“That’s My Kind of Night” comes from Luke Bryan’s most recent album “Crash My Party”… and the album’s title track is also a Mecca CD alumnus, but it’s nowhere near as great as his tribute to diamond plate tailgates and catfish dinners…
Sounds like a winner winner!
Yeehaw! See y’all back for another great Mecca Muzak song next Monday!
Hey I love Conway Twitty!!
My one and only prayer, is that someday you’ll care….
My mom had the 45 of that song.
Just about everything I know about Conway Twitty came from this commercial that aired incessantly on late night cable TV back in 1990, when that’s pretty much all I did all night long. I also chose “Hello Darlin'” because it’s the song Conway leads off with…
Why do I want to touch his hair?
To see if it’s real?
It’s fluffy.
Well, so is my tail. At least I washed mine in the birdbath…
I would also touch your tail. I am an equal opportunity lover of all things fluffy.
Snorts – too funny my friend. Mom was tortured as a small child. She was made to go and walk the halls and tour Conway Twitty’s place and Loretta Lynn’s dude ranch. I think she heard more music from those two that was possible on earth. We’re talking 8 tracks here dude. I think that’s why mom is so whacked out today. XOXO – Bacon
8 tracks!?!? You mean, like, from the prehistoric days? Shouldn’t those be in a museum somewhere?
Right along with my mom and dad my friend – snorts. XOXO – Bacon
8-track tapes are cool if you don’t mind the big ker-chunk between tracks. I still have a whole library of 8-tracks!
my dad is a fan of this music… but he has good sides too :o)
LOL!
I have to say this is a pretty country-ish song to me, but I have to admit I am not a country fan. I did like country music in the year 1994. Just that one year, though. I liked Garth a lot, Then I went back to good ol’ rock and/or roll music.
I didn’t know there was music that rocked, but didn’t roll… and music that rolled, but didn’t rock!
I will admit it is easier to find rock than it is to find roll music. lol
I like “some” country music…but I do not like the old stuff like Loretta, Conway and Patsy Cline. BUT I appreciate their talent and success. To each his own…you know? Some of the first concerts I went to as a kid was Merle Haggard, Ronnie Milsap, BJ Thomas, Tom T Hall and Charlie Pride. I wouldn’t trade those experiences for anything 🙂
I’m no fan at all of classic country music. Now I’m trying to picture what an old time country concert would be like!
They were actually very entertaining. These guys were great performers. I think my favorite of them was Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. In recent years I had the privilege (and I do mean privilege) of being on the second row of a concert with Allison Krause and Union Station. That was awesome!!!! That girl can flat play the fiddle! 🙂
But none of them will ever compare to seeing Elvis Presley! (The real one mind you!)
Did you get the sweat covered handkerchief?
Yes…I am THAT old! LOL!
No…I wasn’t that close. Besides those women would have snatched it right out of my little hand! ha ha ha!! But it was an amazing experience! 🙂
Having fallen into country music the last few months (I rarely flip radio presets in the car anymore) definitely a good song. Far cry from the “hurtin’ sawngs” a lot of people still seem to think country music is.
Yeah, those old whiny country songs are almost unlistenable. That won’t keep me from featuring a newer “hurtin’ sawng” in a future MMM post, though….
Ha! My dad used to listen to country on the 8 track as well. It was the old stuff. Luke Bryan is not half bad, but I wouldn’t want a steady musical diet.
I agree with you there… actually, I probably wouldn’t want a steady diet of anything. I’m already ready for a new muzak CD at work, but we probably won’t get the next edition until afer Labor Day…