Musings in Search of a Muse

Maybe I'm using the SOD as a way of meeting my goal to Blog every day. I suppose I could write about what I did at work or something else in my life, but since no one is reading this anyway and I don't really need a record for posterity ...

So, the Song of the Day is "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)" by Big & Rich, from the album Horse of a Different Color. Yup, I downloaded another Country song. But if you could see the whole list of some 23 songs you'd notice that many are Instrumentals, Comedy, or closer to being Pop or Rock than traditional Country. No Roy Acuff, Johnny Cash, or the so-called Old School artists. Just heavy on Nickel Creek (bluegrass) and Charlie Daniels (mostly patriotic stuff).

The song's lyrics certainly mark it as Country (or redneck) and the video has the requisite horses, duded-up cow pokes, and such -- even a classic John Deere tractor. Otherwise it's a really a good Rock song. I'd be tempted to call it Rockabilly, but I don't get to pick the genre assigned to most songs. Some of the imagery in the video (iTunes has a high-quality one versus what you find at the CMT site) is a tad risque to go with the double-entendre in the title, I suppose and there are several references to alcohol (though not drugs). It's nothing I'd want to hear at a school dance, but fine for any responsible adult. My mom would probably enjoy it. You might, too.

Quick follow-up on the SOD from July 27th, "Jesus Walks" by Kanye West -- quite a few people at work were surprised that I listen to Hip-Hop. They don't know how little I listen to it with only a half-dozen tracks. But for a fairly conservative old white-guy like me to be caught with any made a few laugh and made one rather young man seriously re-evaluate me.

One lady I work with seemed disappointed that I listen to a lot of Christian music. I pointed out that there's ZZTop, Hendrix, Van Halen, and other groups not looked upon kindly by the Christian community on the iPod but it didn't help. Then I asked, "Do you like P.O.D. at all?" She said "Yes!" Then I told her to listen to them again, closely. They are one of Alternative's biggest Christian groups, just not overtly so.

Just goes to show, keep everybody on their toes and it's amazing what you can get away with. Peace & Prayers!