Time the fans took COUNTRY back and this ain't Country!

Bluefield : Butterfly

It's time record labels put a stop to the dishonest way they classify the music they put out in pursuit of an easy buck!

Take a singer-songwriter with limited success and a Nashville star finalist and you MIGHT have a winning Country single.

Whatever it is (and I'm NOT quite clear on that yet)  "Butterfly" by Bluefield is NOT Country music.

Yet, according to COUNTRY Thunder Records, this song is "AC, Country, Christian AC".

RUBBISH! : it's quasi-Country; it's Nashpop; it's coffee-table Country music - the kind New York lawyers and LA record label chiefs and TV talent show producers leave lying about to show visitors that they're "into" Country music.

Sweeping violins (NOT fiddles), soft-toned and heavily compressed acoustic guitars waft behind over-emotional vocals by Rick Ferrell, and accurate but under-emotional harmonies by Jennifer Hicks.

My first thought on hearing this was that it should be a huge hit after it had been the closing song on some moralistic kids movie!

I am thoroughly fed up with the way labels and radio think they can con the music-buying public by misrepresenting the kind of music they're playing or producing!

It's time the labels were TRUTHFUL when they classify which genre a song belongs to and time that "Country" radio started playing Country music again!!

I KNOW I'm not alone in those thoughts.

My View: IT'S TIME WE TOOK COUNTRY BACK. This song has NO PLACE on any real Country radio station, any true Country chart.

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February 19,  2008
Tba
Country Thunder Records.
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