Girls in Tight Jeans with Beer in Trucks by the River in the Year in Country Music 2013

By
Greg Diamond
– December 23, 2013Posted in: Fresh Juice, music
Country Music was awful in 2013 - Grady Smith

Journalist Grady Smith presents his inspirational video: “Why Country Music was awful in 2013.”

I’m more a bluegrass fan myself, but it so happens that the vagaries of life has put me into a social circle where I’m in touch online with contemporary country music journalists.  One of them, Grady Smith, put together a compilation video of what we’ll call the “redundancies” in country music videos of 2013: “Why Country Music Was Awful in 2013.”  It’s pretty funny, if you have a good sense of humor, and most country music journalists had better have one.  So, as this may not be on your own personal radar, I’m bringing it to the large OJB audience for your amusement and enjoyment.  Country music fans know that the guys can do better than this.  (More songs about ticks, please!)

(If everything seems like an Open Thread lately, it’s just that busy of a time of year.)  Enjoy!  And happy Festivus, and the Covered California sign-up deadline to get insured by Jan. 1, 2014 is TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT!   ¡Ándale!


About Greg Diamond

Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)