Rules Of The Game #26: Because Of You I Am Afraid

[koganbot]

I'M BACK! Well, I was always here, but my column is back, dealing with an issue that has stirred the hearts and shaken the minds of many a poptimist: what is the nature of legacy and continuity in country music; or, if my mother blows her house to pieces, does that mean I have to blow my house to pieces too when I grow up?

The Rules Of The Game #26: Because Of You I Am Afraid

EDIT: Here are links to all but three of my other Rules Of The Game columns (LVW's search results for "Rules of the Game"). Links for the other three (which for some reason didn't get "Rules Of The Game" in their titles), are here: #4, #5, and #8.

UPDATE: I've got all the links here now:

http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html

Comments

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I was sitting on the bus on Tuesday morning and thought, "I wonder if Frank is still doing Rules of the Game. I should check LJ when I get into work." And then I got into work and remembered it was Tuesday, and was profoundly sad on so many levels. So basically I have been waiting all week for this, and you did not disappoint. Nothing intelligent to say about it yet, as a result, but:

Rodney Atkins plays intergenerational continuity for laughs in “Cleaning This Gun”: he recalls the time in high school he came to a girl’s house to pick her up while the girl’s dad casually mentions he’s going to be up all night “cleaning this gun.”

This actually happened to my parents! Maybe that's why I like country, despite the fact that it basically doesn't exist here.

[koganbot]

The LV Weekly ran out of money in its freelance budget in late November, so basically I was given December off, and being my neurotic self I managed to take an extra couple of weeks off when I couldn't get myself to write anything...

Anyway, I'm glad people are noticing/caring.

[koganbot]

Here's the song; first thing up on Rodney Atkins' MySpace.