Sturgill Simpson Kills Music Row

Not sure how Memphis Mel and The Rastafarian missed this, and started arguing semantical supply-and-demand silliness, instead.

 

Shit. I saw people swarming to buy straight-up vinyl at Sturgill's show at Tennessee Theatre several months ago. I honestly didn't know they still made it.

Print media and DVD Porn are the only industries that are unraveling as quickly and to the core as the music industry. I'm perfectly ok with their send-off song being some Florida Georgia Line and Tim McGraw duet.

 

"And let's not pretend the backstory to why it wasn't liked or agreed with wasn't because of the pop style to the music."

 

Or as you would say:

"Not a damn dollop of tan spray or teeth whitener to be found. What is this?!"

 

Who said these quoted posts? Me, or Sturgill?

 

Does "Or as you would say:" mean something different than what I think it means?

 

Um hum, yea. Those 3,500 or so country music stations in the US alone that play a single song every hour, on the hour, for 24 hours a day, for 6 months a year, and then every 2 hours, for 6 more months, then every 3 hours for 18 months.... yea, that's chump change for licensing per song compared to the 300 people that bought an album in Knoxville.

Oh wait, no, no it isn't.

 

I'm not responsible for your inability to comprehend what you imagined I said and then mistakenly attributed to me as fact.

 

Want to argue that radio is dying, too?

You're approaching the BOS range.

Fair warning.

 

Radio isn't dying. It is consolidating, and its evolving. That's not dying. A single station can now cover a vastly larger track of land, and a vastly more populous area. Which makes popular music even more important, because as there are less stations, covering larger distances, the station has to tap into what is popular in many different areas.

Suppose that one station exists in Nashville, that covers all of Tennessee. Now what is popular has to be popular in Memphis, Nashville and Knoxville.

And what is your alternative? Streaming music? That's just radio evolved. That's still licensing. That's still per play, if legal.

YouTube? If legal, still licensing. Still pay per click. Sirius/XM? Same thing.

And as "Here's what's trending" on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc, grows, the more popular things get more clicks, get more listens, causing more licensing, and sending that money to labels and artists. And that will always be so, regardless of how much easier it is for smaller time artists to break into the scene.

Hell, an argument can be made that now that there are more options, less is going to be paid per play, and only those trendy, popular artists are going to get played as frequently, lessening the money to the less popular artists. Making popularity even more critical in a digital age.

 

Yep. Cody Jinks new album is the best country album of the year and he and his band are doing it on their own. Ward Davis, who lives in Hartsville, TN, is another to keep an eye on. He co-wrote I'm not the devil with Jinks. These guys are cutting out the middle man now that social media gets their exposure out.

 

*fewer stations

 

I'm going to start farther/furthering the hell out of you.

But yes, thank you. Always point that one out, I often screw it up.

 

Farther is physical distance. Further is metaphorical distance.

 

Ask any 10 people how often they tune into an FM/AM station a week, and believe whatever they tell you.

 

Quite a pair.

 

That's what you assumed was the point of my post, and not simply about my surprise that vinyl records were still being made and available for purchase?

 

I assumed you knew of hipsters. They only buy vinyl.

https://www.amazon.com/Vinyl-Records-Albums-LPs-Eps/b?ie=UTF8&node=372989011

 

I only listen to FM/AM for sports talk (midday 180 or 3HL). I only do that at work sometimes if I'm not streaming Tony B. or listening to music on Pandora.

 

I listen to the USB device in my car or SiriusXM. Now, Sirius has to pay the artists, so that is the same as radio in most ways. And I assume they pay the artists even if no one is listening to the station. But I imagine it is a very low amount and only one station paying the artist vs 1000 stations around the country paying.