Bartok's Bar Talk Wrote:
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> Don't judge too quick Wrote:
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> > What you jokers need to do is go to his website
> or
> > tumblr and read, follow him, learn something
> about
> > good music, how a performer and actor has to
> say
> > about the more important side of life.....
> Life
> > is not all guns, sex, waslin and eesh. You
> got
> > to get and form some culture, some class for a
> > change. Not live your existence like a bunch
> of
> > southern hillbillies on a dirt road.
>
> So when is Meade going to get some culture
> himself?
>
> Just between us girls... It is NANCI Griffith.
> He can't even get the names of his I-pod faves
> correct.
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http://meadeskeltonmusicblog.tumblr.com/post/11633
> 0234343/musical-influences
>
> "I love to watch and listen to so many different
> kinds of musicians , its hard to pick. But my
> favorite genre is FOLK/COUNTRY. To me Country
> Music is the only genre of music that truly
> matters. Sorry Beethoven and Mozart, but Y’all
> take a back seat on my IPOD to Johnny Cash, George
> Jones, Nancy Griffith, Suzy Bogguss, and Elvis
> Presley. My turn table over flows with vinyl from
> Classic Country and Western artists from the 1930s
> to early 1990s. I love Country Music because it
> reminds me of my first crush, and my horse! I
> just love Southern Gospel music as well- sweet
> music from church. The old hymns.
>
> My personal style is primarily influenced by Dead
> Country and Western Stars, and Vaudeville acts,
> such as Al Jolson. The kind of music that was done
> in the 1920s and 30s and before. I just love the
> theatricality of it. The only music I really do
> not care for much is Dance music and that Hippity
> Hop/Rap. It just goes down the wrong way with me.
> It doesn’t really sound like music, but more
> kind of like jungle noise, lol. But when I hear a
> sweet Country song, or a song about JESUS our
> LORD, that’s like honey in my ears!"
His first crush was his horse? Shades of "Duddly Doright's Nell" Seriously, Al Jolson was great, no one could whistle like he could, not even Rodger Whitticker, one of best all around performers.