country music rides agian

ahhh...saturday mornings..and it was such a looong school week wasn't it? ;) jk
anyway, heres a "note" on music..i don't usually spend my mornings watching CMT, having become disgusted with modern country music a little while ago, but i have to say that there still are some more than decent musicians lurking out there among the "pop-y" upstarts of the younger generation..some who are worth mentioning are Josh Turner, who sings like country men should sing...he has a Cash-like quality to his voice, and low groweling baritone-bass that speaks of sin convincingly..check out his "Long Black Train" song...ohh...goosebumps... anouther singer who has made a comeback with a convincing amount of country-ness is LeeAnn Rhymes...her career was started far too early, though her voice was wonderfulin such a young person(anyone remember her cover of patsy cline's "Blue"?), but after taking a brief haitus she's back with a neat little song (which i forget the name to, wait a tic, it'll come to me) about the crazyness of love....cute little music video to go alone with it too... and of course who can forget such favorites as Allen Jackson, George Strait (Pure Country is a fabulous movie, ya'll should check it out!) Toby Kieth, Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Terry Clark, Dolly Parton, Allison Crous,
and Kenny Chesney(who is an odd duck, but has some good ones under his belt)?
anyway, its a beautiful day, so i'm going to end with this comment; its so good to find artists today that are truely worthy of the name...it keeps us music lovers un-disillusioned and happy :)