Nashville Scene Country Critics Poll

[koganbot]

Miranda Lambert wins everything she can.

Nashville Scene Country Music Critics Poll

Mostly stupid essay by Geoffrey Himes, in which he congratulates us for not confirming someone else's worldview. Also seems not to have listened to "Before He Cheats."

List that points out, among other things, that the worst song on the Miranda Lambert album was once sung by Emmy Lou Harris.

Hurray, we don't like what they like!

The Scene claims that critics comments are in there somewhere, but I haven't found them yet.

Comments

[koganbot]

Also, Xhuxk et al. are talking about this on the rolling country thread. If all goes well, will turn into a discussion of Freefall and Molly Hatchett.

[koganbot]

Er, Firefall.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall that last year's essay for this poll was also a stupid "Hey look we don't like what America likes" backpat as well.

[koganbot]

To be self-centered, here's the songs I voted for that made the Scene lists (not nearly as many as last year).

Albums: Miranda Lambert's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Gretchen Wilson's One Of The Boys (But I only heard six of the albums I didn't vote for, so maybe I'd have voted for some others if I'd heard them, though I'm not betting on it. Would really like to hear the Teddy Thompson, given that I loved his version of "Psycho." I notice that he placed whereas his ma and pa didn't.)

Singles: LeAnn Rimes' "Nothin' Better To Do," Taylor Swift's "Teardops On My Guitar," Miranda's "Gunpowder & Lead"; I would have voted for Keith Urban's "Stupid Boy" but I considered it 2006, and I should have voted it then. (I heard all the tracks that made it.)

Reissues: Stanley Brothers' The Definitive Collection and Neil Young's Live At Massey Hall 1971 (which were probably the only two "reissues" I heard last year)

Male vocalists: zilch (and I'm amazed that John Anderson got shut out altogether, given how neotraditionalist stodgeroos like Strait and Paisley did so well)(OK, unfair to call Paisley a stodgeroo, given his tendency to score novelty hits)

Female Vocalists: Yeah, all three of mine made it: Miranda, LeAnn, and Taylor (though that's the reverse order I voted them)

Duos And Larger Aggregations: Two out of my three: Little Big Town and Brooks & Dunn

Songwriters: Two out of my three: Miranda and Taylor. (I had to look up Jeffrey Steele in Wikipedia. He was once in a band called Boy Howdy and has written a Cascada song.)

New Acts: Sarah Johns (and I voted Taylor last time)

Overall Acts: Miranda