Friday, May 6, 2016

Well, this is an interesting curio – a complaint about the lack of country music on the jukebox from one of the genre’s most prolific songwriters. It gets richer: He’s backed by the man who left a successful country music act to play banjo-inflected rock with his sons.

Greatly informed by a very country version of “Old Joe Clark”, this is “There Ain’t No Country Music” by Tom T. Hall and Earl Scruggs. In the last chorus, Tom T name-checks Flatt and Scruggs while he’s listing all the country music he can’t find, hearkening back to a time when bluegrass was all the country music there was.

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