from: Creative Loafing Charlotte

Saving Country's Ass

Dale Watson out to represent the genre

Published 03.26.08 By Grant Britt

If you want to hear what Dale Watson thinks about the current state of country music, all you have to do is listen to him sing. "They took the soul out of what means a whole lot to me," he laments on "Country My Ass." It's enough to set Hank and Lefty (Frizzell, one of Watson's idols) spinnin' in their graves, voicing their displeasure through Watson: "Tell 'em stick it up high where the sun don't shine," Watson has the dead duo saying. "Get pissed, get mad, that's country, my ass."

Watson has been voicing his displeasure with country for the better part of two decades. He agrees with Charlotte's Unknown Hinson, who says there hasn't been any decent country since they stopped playing Faron Young's music. "He'd be the first one to tell you it sucked, even when he was alive," Watson says of Young's take on the genre (click here to read more...).

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