Steve Wariner - Lynda

Flabbergasted I begin this entry. I had ideas about what the blog itself meant to me but it was about records that touched me in some way. So I went back to my early days growing up in the West Texas oil country and I remembered the radio which was always on in our house. I grew up well and in 1984 we had a house with an intercom system which was cool at the time but quickly lost popularity. That aside, I remember a great deal of the country music which poured through. After the Eagles' contribution to country which glitzed it up a bit, country music was looking for a direction in the early 1980s which inevitably lead to the Nashville disco which we've come to hate. Underground and alt-country acts kept the flame alive, but America had its attention diverted and "superstars" came to power in the genre.
This track is hardly blameless. I won't defend the electric drums and the other 80s studio tricks they used but I will say the strength of the composition overrides the trickery. There is something about a Steve Wariner song that is hard to explain. If you aren't Southern, I can't really expect you to understand this but it has a beauty all its own that people with a taste for such a thing can appreciate.
Next time, something beaty, funky or rocky.