Nashville Anthems: Dissecting 80s & 90s Country Music
Have you always thought there was something special about 80s and 90s country music that you've never been able to put your finger on? Why does this music stand out? Well, let's don our cowboy hats, adjust our oversized belt buckles, tease that hair, and see if we can get the bottom of it, by picking apart one song at a time.
Nashville Anthems: Dissecting 80s & 90s Country Music
Dissecting "Holding Her and Loving You" by Earl Thomas Conley - 1983
1983 takes us to one of the elite hitmakers of the 1980s, Earl Thomas Conley, and one of his best known hits, "Holding Her and Loving You". As another example of the nuance with which country music talks about cheating, this song delivers some lines that are so unbelievably self-absorbed they have to be true. But how does the musical setting of these eye-popping lyrics reinforce the almost unbearable feeling of tedious stagnation in this classic of the 80s?