"THE RURAL ELECTRIC"

Featuring the best in roots rock, alternative/country, folk, and independent rock

FRIDAYS, NOON-3PM (EST)
91.9 FM WVGS, RADIO - STATESBORO

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I am a firm believer that there are really only two kinds of music: Good and Bad. Good music can be anything artistic, whether it is folk, rock, hip hop, country, and yes, even pop. Bad music can also come from any so-called "genre." Too many times the latest manufactured "groups" (they're actually all products on a shelf) that corporate radio shoves down our throats are referred to as "artists." However, the people behind these groups who write the songs MTV forces 12 year olds to love (and 30 year olds too for that matter) would be much better off with their suits and ties working in a Hallmark factory.
The true artists in the music business are people who write songs that drip with honesty, with emotion. Most of the time these soul-saturated songs fall from the lips of artists whose phone numbers are listed in the white pages, and that will never smell the ink on a million-dollar paycheck as their albums fly out the door of giant CD superstore chains. These artists REFUSE to bend when corporate record labels tell them to change their sound. They play music because it keeps them alive, not because they will win the hearts, innocence, and cash of thousands of teenage girls.
You will HEAR art on my show. The music on "The Rural Electric" comes from the brilliant minds of some of the most talented musicians and poets in the world. Many of these artists grew up on legends like Black Flag, The Clash, and the Rolling Stones, but never played them too loud so that they could also hear the sounds of Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, and Bob Dylan creeping down the hallway from their parents' record players. Their sounds have a way of grasping particular visual images and atmospheres. Sights like car wheels kicking up dust on gravel roads, grandfathers sipping whiskey on front porches, old toothless men smiling on the rocking chairs of small town Alabama storefronts, and farmers in fields lining serpentine rural backroads. These musicians slash distorted Telecasters one minute and fingerpick banjos while wailing on harmonicas the next. They make an art out of controlling amplifier feedback to make it sound like an instrument in itself, and they make pedal steels whine in the shadows of ethereal folk ballads.
This music has been given a lot of names, whether it be Americana, Roots Rock, Alternative/Country, No Depression, or, well, the list goes on. Occasionally, it is difficult to find the work of these geniuses in your everyday CD store. But if it is there, it will certainly be stocked on the shelf labeled "Good."

--Tim... "The Rural Electric"