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...accident that Travis Tritt sang, in the convention's closing hymn, "I wish I could turn the clock back/to the way my daddy said it was before." Nor that the most powerful moment of Bob Dole's acceptance speech came when he invoked the honor of the father he loved, standing all the way on the train from Kansas to Michigan to visit the son he thought was dying in the hospital. For months the campaign has been played as a custody fight--who would be the better father of our country; whom would you trust, Clinton or Dole...
Stations hardly need a true-life drama, however, to concoct a bogus news tie-in. Last week's Academy of Country Music Awards on NBC gave Atlanta's WXIA-TV a chance to interview singers Travis Tritt and Doug Stone on the urgent subject of "why country music is so popular." New York's WABC-TV used a Kathie Lee Gifford special on motherhood as the pretext for a feature on her TV partner Regis Philbin's exercise regimen...
...their beer in classic country songs have been displaced by yuppified drinkers who, in the words of a Reid song, are content to be sitting on their porch and "sippin' some wine/ from my coffee cup." That is, if they're drinking at all. In the video Travis Tritt made last year for The Whiskey Ain't Workin', the character he plays pointedly refuses to drown his sorrows in alcohol...
There is Travis Tritt, whose early affection for the Allman Brothers and the Eagles can be heard in the lush melancholy of his tunes and such spiky go-to- hell anthems as Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares). And there are Carlene Carter and Rosanne Cash, two of country's most valuable and idiosyncratic talents. Cash has an intellectual rowdiness -- cut with an adult dose of rock -- that makes most of this new group sound like Sunday choristers. Carter (part of the legendary Carter family) is a kind of roots rebel and hard to pin down, but last...
Never mind the artifice. Never mind that Tritt calls his songs "country music with a rock-'n'-roll attitude," or that Ken Kragin, one of the country's key managers, calls Brooks "to some extent a George Strait clone . . . kind of a cheerleader running around onstage, whipping up enthusiasm." Forget all that and remember Willie Nelson's observation: "It doesn't matter to a real music fan whether the guy has on a hat or not. The real talent, when it gets an audience, will show through...