The Original Country Music Front Porch

I have always wanted to be involved with country music.  In the late 1980's and early 1990's I produced a few country music television programs for local cable channels in my home town.  I also used to produce a yearly countdown of the top country music songs each year from 1980 through 1996 and share it with my friends and family.  I grew up on Country Music and it is my passion.

Back in the 1990's I introduced Country Music to one of my very good friends.  We would sit around and listen to our favorite artists and constantly talk about country music. We went to concerts together, and he would often visit my work, just to listen to our favorite music.  We even talked about growing old and listening to country music from our front porch. It was a novel concept.  And it became a goal of mine to someday share my love of this music with the world via the "Country Music Front Porch".

My "best" friend's life became a bit of a country song.  He  turned out to be a drunk, and a deadbeat dad (among other things). And before we parted ways, he took my "front porch" idea and began his own page on Facebook.  Only problem (for him) was that I never got to finish teaching him about life.  About loyalty.  About passion for the greatest music ever recorded. 

I am proud to share my original concept with the world through Classic Country Front Porch.  I celebrate CLASSIC Country Music, because Nashville has turned its back on the legends who built this music.  Nashville has ruined country music by flooding the market with teenie-bop singers, washed-up rock and roll has-beens, and other acts who have no concept of true Country Music.  Music executives and "country" radio have ruined a music format by turning it into the new top-40, and turning its back on the people who made it what it once was.  

Country Music in its current form will not last.  Just like the "Urban Cowboy" craze of the 1980's, today's country fad will eventually die-out and become another reminder of how the Country Music industry manages to destroy itself once every generation.  Few will survive.  And when the dust settles, today's so-called "stars" like Taylor Swift, Rascal Flats, Dierks Bentley and others will be nothing more than answers to bad trivia questions.

And just like "Today's Hot New Country", my former friend will move on to another fad, abandoning his "front porch" for some other music craze.  But Classic Country Front Porch will survive because passion, just like good music never dies, and just like Hank Jr. sings, "A Country Boy Can Survive."  

Welcome to CLASSIC COUNTRY FRONT PORCH!