Hey everybody welcome to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is in the
singing. I've gotten quite a few requests for
country and I thought that was interesting because I wanted to go ahead and do
up-and-coming country artists rather than doing the big guys that already get
a lot of notoriety and stuff and I've sort of gravitated towards country
artists that are homegrown you know. Not the least of which is Luke Combs and he
has "Can I Get An Outlaw." Now I know there's a guy I want to say his name is
Ryan Upchurch don't... correct correct me if I'm wrong on that, who also has a song
with a similar title and it was four or five years ago or so. I know he's got a
zillion, like fifty million views on his video and this guy's actually got close
to ten million on his as a new country.. upcoming country artist. So that's super
awesome. So with said. Oh by the way you guys like my my Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame shirt there, a member you know. I've been going there a couple of times.
I shot some video from there so if you see those come up to you'll know why
but anyway let's set let's rock out to Luke Combs. Let's check it out. Here we go.
I was not expecting that (sings)
I have not seen this so this is awesome. This guy looks like my nephew man who
like builds cars for a living and likes to build cars I should say. He
doesn't do for living anymore but cool right out the gate and I want to see
what's going on. This is great.
I gotta to get back to this lyric. Let me go back here. I was talking and I
missed the lyric so hold on a second. Here let's do this again sorry.
I was just taking it back.
That's awesome
That's great seat man I'm telling you
I have not heard this and he's parroting and saying exactly what I just said
where you got all these cou...or not all. You have a lot of country artists out there
that are you know, they have this formula for writing country music and the chords
are the same and the lyrics are the same and most of the visuals are the same and
it's very slick and commercialized and whatnot and these up and comers. I just
did a song called "Hard Times" too. So I'm not sure when I'm gonna release this
but um yeah get a chance to check out "Hard Times" because that's also a really good tune.
Ah I don't want to give away too much. Anyway so it's coming up but so let's
continue to rock out to Luke. So these guys, apparently they're renegades and like I
said he's an outlaw himself and he's going man where's what happened to country. It
was you know it was a six-gun and six string man that's what it was about. Now
it's about you know apple pie and leather and boots and you know throwing
a scripture verse here and there and you're good to go. So anyway alright.
another Purdy boy singing 30 songs fake country is doing country all we need
Wait a minute.
That's great. Hold on a second I need to go back and check this out. Listen to the
lyrics of this. This is great. I feel like I'm watching a parody on country music
right now.
Wait I gotta. I gotta go back farther.
That's awesome.
I can get an amen.
Oh man.
Amen.
Ok so it's not just me then guys. If you guys can
make some comments in the comment section so he's sharing the sentiment. I
think what a lot of people are feeling and so it's interesting the two country
artists that I chose to do this. Actually I didn't choose him my brother or
Lance he's really cool you know he lives in Texas and he says dude you gotta hear
these guys because I'm not up on new country. No no offense I just haven't had
time and so he says check these guys out and ironically they're again, they're
sharing the same sentiment that I've been feeling about country for quite
some time now and there are exceptions guys. I'm not you know trying to
stereotype everybody but I love what's going on here so this is great right. Alright.
another hangar door Johnny can't somebody chew in blacker and we pants I
That's great.
It's great.
You know I gotta take a little sidebar here and you know for you guys who don't want to hang with me hang with
me if you guys want to turn off I get it I understand but you know music is kind
of always done that and let me explain. So I want to go like
all the way back to the Roaring Twenties even. You know you have just some really
great artists and I'm not gonna take 20 minutes right now to give you my own
diatribe against you know what's happened in music but I do want to kind
of set the stage for you guys to take a look at something. So you know from the
20s and what not in the evolution of music so to speak you know you had
different you know genres of big band and you know what had come off of the
20s and what not into the 30s and 40s in the swing and then as as that sort of
molded and shifted, morphed into doo-wop, all of a sudden the doo-wop thing was
just this whole like you know that that ain't cool. You know we're you know we're
Dizzy Gillespie, were you know whatever JImmy Dorsey and you said all the
greats you know from from the roaring you know 20s 30s and 40s etc but anyway
so the doo-wop era came in and so all of a sudden it really is an uproar and
really just kind of wigged everybody out and so there's a lot of name-calling and
a lot of you know I'm not this and I'm not that and you're doing this stuff
right. So from the 50s there is sort of this discommunication or disconnect I
meant to say sorry, where you hit the 60s and the 60s just said you know all this
happy clappy fun let's swing dance you know 50s let's do all that you know the
the bobby socks stuff, bebop stuff and so they said no I I want
to tell a story and I want to do it organically and it was kind of the love
movement, the love era etc and there was a lot of wars
going on and people were really being drugged through the mud through a lot of
stuff socially and politically and religiously also and so they started
writing about it. So then there was this complete paradigm shift that happened in
the 60s. Well what happened from the 60s is those
guys or at least their kids grew up with a more of an acoustic, organic approach
to music and that morphed on into the 70s and the 70s was this explosion and it
started in the 60s but this explosion of a musical expression. So man you could be Led
Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles or whomever, actually started in the
60s Beatles and through 70s or you could be Elton John or you could be you know
you could do disco. Now let's talk about that in a second because that was
another rift that happened but you know but it but it was still interesting or
you could be Stevie Wonder and so Stevie you know he kind of went took the the
urban world one way and you know Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd and all
kinds of different bands that were organic rock bands, they took the rock
world, rock pop world, like hard pop rock world another way and then you have the
Elton John's and Geeky Dees and you know all the other you know poppy guys. You know
Carpenters and Osmonds and you know whatever and they all kind of took this
other direction. So you had this rift where all of a sudden there was three
different kind of branches that went off. You had pop, you had rock and then you had and
then country was always kind of you know coming up and through this whole
ranking too. So a lot of people really related to country that's why I used to
band like Lynyrd Skynyrd or there was a band called The Outlaws ironically or
whomever back then that had a lot of country roots, the Eagles right and they
were kind of straddling the fence of both rock and pop and country all at the
same time very interesting. They have a fabulous.. I think I saw it on A&E. I forget
but anyway it's a story about their life and you know a documentary on them
really worth checking out but so so these branches kind of went these
different ways but they were still really musically driven. Let me say this
again. They still were really musically driven and
I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about rock because I know more about that than the
R&B part and then about you know some of the other country parts that I
don't know so much about. I do know a lot about the pop side but anyway in the
rock world it was like the sky's the limit and so what would happen is is the
rock guys just literally challenged each other who could write the best song, who
could play the best guitar, who could play the best keyboards, bass, drums
whatever that was and they kept upping the game and upping the game and upping
the game right. So as you saw this game up being thing happened, it happened in
songwriting, it happened in being different, writing in different styles.
You could be Emerson Lake and Palmer or you could be Deep Purple. I mean they're
writing it very different. One's very progressive, one's ver grassroots
rock heavy, heavy metal which you know came out of this era also and I'm
not rambling babbling guys hang in there with me because this is telling
the story of what's going on here too. Well so in the 80s the the guitar
calisthenics especially became so godacious and I don't care if it was
Yngwie Malmsteen, I don't care you know and there was great guys that were like you
know like Steve Lukather that came from the 70's and on in and other I'm talking
guitar players specifically right now because that's this kind of what
happened which kind of forced the hand of the grunge era right. So for you old
enough to remember, you'd remember all this stuff. So anyway so the the the
showmanship and the pageantry and this Wow of you know everybody doing the you
know pushing the envelope of latest latest greatest biggest best. You finally
get to the point where almost all the songs and and the producers that were
orchestrating the music for a lot of these bands weren't even letting a lot
of the musicians play on their own records. They were hiring guys to come in,
they were hiring the songs and it was all this packaged crap. Well why that's
interesting is is that when the grunge era happened they went I'll never be.. I
don't want to spend this kind of time as spending eight hours a day to practice
my guitar or nine hours a day to practice my drums or I can't sing that
high and all this stuff. I'm just gonna talk about the misery that I'm in and
you know I hate my dad, I hate my family life you know I hate the poltic..
political situation. I hate religion, I hate you know I hate myself right and so
you kind of had depressing you know grunge era that came in and the whole
Seattle movement and all that. Now on the other side, the same exact thing happened
in the R&B world where from Stevie Wonder and the greats like Aretha
Franklin and all those you know amazing R&B artists that came in, all of a
sudden it was all about a lick, a riff (sings)
you know all this (sings) you know stuff which was true on guitar for the 80s the same
thing happened. You know riff rock vocally on one side and riff rock on
instrumentally on the guitar side. So there was this thing and then in the pop
world sort of started to embrace the urban side quite a bit. That's where rap
came in and started to cross-pollinate or cross-collateralize and cross over
into these different genres. So the pop market started to shift and became a lot
more urban and again it became very glitzy driven, it was very glamour driven,
it was very package driven, very lip-sync driven whatever and after the
the grunge era you know started to peter out. Now what was interesting about the
grunge era and I know I'm rambling but hang with me guys it may be an
interesting little history for you is.. and by the way a lot of people blame
Stevie Wonder for you know the the riffs when Stevie did a riff or when Aretha
did a riff, the riff was cool and it was appropriate. It wasn't you know a godacious
vulgar vulgar display of vocal calisthenics, it was you know
appropriately placed and then everyone we've got more concerned with the riff
than they did with the melody and we all know who we're talking about in that
world right now but anyways as far as so um post-grunge
what started happening was a lot of people go well I don't want to be that
depressed and that era couldn't really sell out arenas, they could sell records
but they couldn't sell arenas so the irony was that the 70s bands could still
sell out arenas but they weren't selling records because record companies weren't
pushing it because they were too expensive to tour right. Well in the
grunge era the records were very cheap to make
and they're making it out of the garage and other places but they couldn't sell out
arenas so they'd have to package four or five bands together just to sell out
some some good-sized venues. So that started really deteriorate the grunge
era and then you know that the 90s came in you know the post 90s and then 2000s and
so forth and so we see this crazy branch off of of rap you know interchanging
or intermingling with a lot of the rock stuff which is you know you've seen Evanescence
right when their first single came out. You know got rap music incorporated in
kind of goth rock and so all these different things. So that to say that..
this happened in country music as well. So a lot of this glitzy glamorous you
know packaged country music which is definitely prevalent today is getting a
backlash and there are younger artists like this that are coming out there that
are saying hey I don't want this anymore. I want to get back to telling a story about my
life that makes sense and I want to relate to it and I don't relate to this
other stuff just like the grunge guys didn't relate to the packaged 80s metal
stuff that was happening and I was a I was a byproduct of that era. So rock hall
fame right. So with that said I'm really loving and appreciating the fact that
these guys are out there doing what they're doing and really kind of
bringing back some traditional roots and by the way America keep saying by the
way Americana kind of did that a little bit Americana music where they're trying
to say okay we need a new title to get back to our roots but we need something
that's catchy enough to where people are gonna just relegate us and regulate
relegate us and say oh that's just classic rock or oh that's eighties metal
or that's this or whatever. So they've been trying to kind of come up with
different ways of not being categorized or stigmatized into an old name or an
old term so they have a fresh look and approach to it. So with all that said I
know it was a big long side track but hopefully you guys benefited from that
and appreciated it and if not you're already clicked off by now and it
doesn't really matter so here we go.
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