Bellamy Brothers, John Anderson Sing “No Country Music For Old Men”

This song first appeared in the public record in July of 2020 on an EP The Bellamy Brothers released called Bucket List. And despite it speaking directly to the state of country music and old men’s place in it—which might seem like something a site called ‘Saving Country Music’ would bite hard on—the prevalence of these sort of country protest songs over the years has resulted in a reluctance to try and showcase them all, and a fair bit of fatigue and apathy from the public over them.
But something about this particular effort has really resonated with traditional country fans young and old, and in a way that elevates it above being “just another country protest song.” The risk you run when you choose to work in the protest subgenre is with so many of these bellyaching odes about how bad country had gotten, you can wind up being as cliche as some of the songs and artists you’re trying to criticize.
What helps this song is The Bellamy Brothers have the skins on the wall to sing something like this from their own perspective, and give it emotional resonance it may not otherwise have. Add in the caramel voice of John Anderson as a collaborator, and it really sets “No Country Music For Old Men” off as something that speaks deeply to the disillusioned country music fan.
After finding some bubbling up reception for the song, The Bellamy Brothers re-released “No Country Music For Old Men” as a standalone single on January 29th of this year. This was a smart move, since most any song runs the risk of being buried on an EP. Then on February 4th, they released a video for it, putting it in front of even more people. The song has kind of taken on a life of its own since then, and for good reasons. People do feel disenfranchised by much of today’s country music, and this song touches a nerve with them.
“No Country Music For Old Men” also speaks to people due to all of the country greats we lost in 2020. David Bellamy said he wrote the song on March 20th, which is the day Kenny Rogers passed away. As the year went on and we continued to lose more and more country legends, the song just continued to grow in poignancy. David Bellamy says when he was writing it, he also couldn’t help but hear John Anderson singing it.
The Bellamy Brothers have always been a rather unusual outfit in country music, from their signature hit “Let Your Love Flow” with its more folk rock feel, to doing arguably the first country rap song (called “Country Rap”), even if they were being a little ironic. They’ve remained strangely in touch by touching on little zeitgeist nerves that may feel like goofy dad jokes to some, but still resonate with many. This is what “No Country Music For Old Men” does.
March 5, 2021 @ 9:44 am
I love those Bellamy Brothers, but these lines are just unkind:
“Now there’s posers and losers and would-be outlaws who only know how to pretend”
“Loretta and Conway, Jones and Tammy Wynette … That’s as good as it’s ever gonna get”
Now those fellas are smart and know what the objection is going to be, and maybe that’s a way of bringing attention to the exceptions, but just as likely is Blake Shelton’s response that the Bellamy Brothers are just old bulls bellowing out their mournful song before being processed. These kinds of songs do nothing, and they might even be counter-productive.
Back in the day, Johnny Cash and the old guys didn’t wallow in self-pity when they got older. They extended a hand down to the up-and-comers, and gave them a lift. It’s a dog eat dog world out there, and new talent needs friends.
That’s what old men do, at their best.
March 5, 2021 @ 4:00 pm
Corncaster,
This song isn’t trying to be productive or helpful. It’s an expression of grief over the fact that it’s over for C(c)ountry music. They’re not trying to convince anyone of anything. It’s a lament. I also wouldn’t call it a protest song.
It’s a lament that I can relate to, so I love it.
Your comparison to Cash and others is a false one. Johnny Cash extended hands down to folks who were following in his footsteps, not folks who barely knew who he was.
And “self-pity” may be a slight exaggeration, but Haggard and Jones certainly complained about being taken off the radio. That really doesn’t really matter though, because that wasn’t the point of this song. It wasn’t sung from the perspective of an aging performer.
March 5, 2021 @ 5:35 pm
Honky, there’s nothing wrong with bitching. It’s satisfying. Sometimes when things break down with no hope you just shake the dust off, give it the finger, and leave. But Cash had a whole show with lots of people including Linda Ronstadt. Haggard and Jones were right to complain, but I like Haggard’s stuff in the 80s a lot because it was more about getting older than getting bitter. Jones seemed more happy about the attention than making old man art. As I see it, he basically took a bow. Hag was a musician to the end. I’m still young enough to want to see the torch passed effectively before I leave. And I don’t know the Bellamy brothers. They might be doing a lot to help younger artists for all I know, and I’d like to see that. I think we all would.
December 8, 2021 @ 12:45 pm
Blake Shelton is a little over inflated with himself. It’s a great song honoring the ones who paved the way for the shetland pony sheltons.
March 5, 2021 @ 9:54 am
I’m with Corncaster here. I’ve found that in my own circle of friends, the writers who keep their heads down and try to write a better song are the ones that find success, and the ones who complain the loudest about the state of country music are the ones who get dropped by their publishers when the contract is up.
March 5, 2021 @ 10:10 am
Yeah see, this is what I’ve responded to the dozen-plus folks who’ve reached out or commented about this song wondering why I’ve been reluctant to discuss it. People love to complain about songs that complain about songs. But this particular song has really resonated with folks above and beyond what these songs normally do. It’s got well over 400K views on the video.
March 5, 2021 @ 12:54 pm
I think the 400k goes to show that there’s hunger out there for real country music, not the southern suburban pop that’s marketed as country. I have no doubt people are pissed, and the Bellamy Bros. are tapping into that. Evidently Conrad and I just think there’s a better way forward.
March 5, 2021 @ 4:02 pm
Trigger,
Y’all are missing the point. The song is a lament from the perspective of an old dude who’s seen the best.
March 12, 2021 @ 10:02 pm
Regardless of the message’s interpretation, this song flew under my radar and I appreciate SCM pointing it out. I like it, whether it be pessimistic or optimistic. “Hurt” was pretty hopeless and awesome in both rock and country incarnations. Makes no matter whether it’s a plea for revival or a declaration it should all be flushed, it’s a better song than most I’ve heard this year so far.
October 24, 2021 @ 11:33 pm
It’s a good song. Why the need to over-intellectualize over it? If you’re going to complain about it, at least put your complaint to some music so it isn’t so hard to swallow.
March 5, 2021 @ 9:56 am
Nice effort…butt, rates a HUGE “nah”. Twang ~ twang ~ twang…hick ! smh. sad.
March 5, 2021 @ 10:23 am
So they’re protesting that there’s nothing good in country music by producing an incredibly generic list song. Gotcha.
It likely doesn’t help their cause any that Anderson recently released a high quality album that seemed to at least get some critical acclaim.
March 5, 2021 @ 10:32 am
But no airplay.
March 5, 2021 @ 10:37 am
Yes, it’s important to note what they’re decrying here, which is country radio and the mainstream.
March 5, 2021 @ 10:40 am
Exactly.
March 6, 2021 @ 1:03 pm
@robbush
Airplay?
If there are any oldies country stations that occasionally throw in a new release from one of their core artists, I suppose John Anderson might get airplay there, but he does not fit the format of current mainstream country.
I don’t think a new release from Neil Young or James Taylor is going to get played on a Hot 100 station, either.
March 5, 2021 @ 10:28 am
Frankly I love it! This song and video resonate strongly with me. Of course their are younger artists making good music. Tyler Childers, Cody Jinks just to name a very few. However when taken in the spirt it is given Nashville as a industry town has turned its back on the older established acts and legends as has mainstream country radio and the legs this song and video have gotten prove there is a good number of folks out there that aren’t buying what Nashvegas and the clear channels of the world are selling. For god sakes Bobby Bones hosts the TV portion of the Grand Ole Opry!
March 5, 2021 @ 10:42 am
Except there’s nothing new about that. It’s as old as the industry. Johnny Cash’s advertisement in Billboard flipping off Nashville for not supporting Unchained was over twenty years ago.
George Jones was asking “Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes” 35 years ago.
The idea that Nashville and radio’s attitude is anything new is completely counter to history.
March 5, 2021 @ 11:28 am
That’s true, but maybe, just maybe, one day they will learn the error of their ways and not send every 50+ male country singer and every 40+ female country singer out to pasture. They can still make good music, and many do.
March 5, 2021 @ 12:58 pm
I think this is a really important point. The function of the 50+ artists is to fill out the Circle Unbroken. It creates community, which if you want to be a cynic about it, creates a brand. Pop music is TOTALLY without the family thing. Country is ABOUT the family thing — or used to be, until the bean-counters started dominating the mindset and turned it all toward the suburbs. Look, I know people have to eat and money talks, but it seems incredibly short-sighted to me to cut all the people who BUILT the brand out of the brand’s picture. It just makes no long-term economic sense to me, but what do I know, I’m out mucking stalls on a Saturday morning.
March 5, 2021 @ 11:40 am
I see it more as part of the tradition of country music, like the country duet, or a drinking song. No other major genre calls out how that genres is failing itself, it roots, and it’s people. Hip-0hop has every so often done a similar type song but nearly to extent country music and it is in just as bad if not worse shape in some ways.
March 5, 2021 @ 1:52 pm
For that matter, Buck Owens’s Pledge was in 1965.
March 6, 2021 @ 1:08 pm
@kevin–
Buck Owens’s pledge to not sing any song that isn’t country?
Which he followed up by releasing a single of his cover of Paul Simon’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water.”
March 6, 2021 @ 2:11 pm
Fair enough, but… one, there’s five years between the pledge and his cover of Bridge over Troubled Water. You might better have mentioned him covering Beatles songs in their concert at Carnegie Hall and other places, except…
Listen to any of those. Listen to Bridge Over Troubled Water, listen to him and the Buckaroos covering Beatles songs, Listen to anything else they ever did, and tell me it’s not a country song.
The original Simon & Garfunkel song might not be Country, but Buck Owen’s version is most definitely a Country song.
March 5, 2021 @ 10:30 am
Well, I think this song is great and spot-on. I was listening to it a couple of months ago and still am. It’s a great song, a great presentation, and of course great artists. Love the BB’s and John Anderson.
Corncaster might need to be reminded, as a respone to his comment about Blake, that these artistts were on tour with him. Maybe I am reading him/her wrong.
And I have no idea what the comment from Dee means.
I do know what Trigger’s comment means, and I am in 100% agreement. Glad this song was reviewed on this website. BB& John have earned the right to sing it.
March 5, 2021 @ 10:31 am
I guess I’m alone in this, but I like it.
March 5, 2021 @ 10:49 am
Nope not alone. Im all for it as well. To the folks who think David and Howard are bashing everyone, heres another take. Probably referring to mainstream. Seriously doubt they were thinking of the good stuff in our SCM world. Face it, the newer music we listen to here is decidely out of most folks universes. Really doubt The Brothers are hip to Colter Wall, Jinx, Ohora, Crockett, Whitey Morgan etc.
Ive watched The Bellamys Honky Tonk Ranch on Circle tv. They seem to be totally wrapped up in their own world. At their age, i dont blame them. They made their money, and left a decent legacy. Now they are just enjoying life.
Chill people, its just a song.
March 5, 2021 @ 11:32 am
I love songs like this. they are socking it to country radio and today’s music industry. keep up the good work guys.
March 5, 2021 @ 1:10 pm
It’s definitely hokey. I mean David Bellamy was 18 months old when the namechecked Hank Williams last played the Opry, and 6 years old when ‘Walkin’ After Midnight’ was released.
March 5, 2021 @ 1:49 pm
The song is sung through the POV of someone else…..”He remembers when Hank played the Opry”.
March 5, 2021 @ 4:30 pm
Homer was born in ’46. Hank played the Opry in ’52. Homer might actually remember when Hank played the Opry. I have vivid memories of the Challenger explosion from when I was 6.
March 6, 2021 @ 8:47 am
Was always a huge fan of the BB. Love this song because it is Country. Country radio is mostly pop music. You hear some of the music on pop radio stations. Not enough traditional country being played. It’s sad.
March 5, 2021 @ 6:29 pm
Through the eyes of an 85 year old who is concerned with the current state of country music? Man, now that’s niche.
March 5, 2021 @ 1:20 pm
This song really resonates with people in the Bellamy Brothers age group, I have been listening to it everyday since I first heard it.
As far as cutting out the people who built a brand, take a look at Sara Lee dumping Jimmy Dean in 2002 as a spokesperson for Jimmy Dean Sausages . Sixteen years later they started using his voice again in ads. Might be a lesson here.
March 5, 2021 @ 1:58 pm
Nothing clever or interesting about this song. It’s just pandering to grumpy older listeners who don’t think there’s been any good music made in the last 30 years.
March 5, 2021 @ 2:35 pm
No, we believe good country music is still being made we just don’t believe it’s being played on the radio. I gave up on the radio years ago and the last 2 songs that I recall being played with any consistency was by Josh Turner and Kevin Denny.
March 5, 2021 @ 3:19 pm
well I’m 23 so yeah not only older listeners that think Nashville has produced 80% trash the last 20yrs.
I find it ironic the song review was critical of songs calling out mainstream when that’s a good portion of what SCM does.
March 5, 2021 @ 2:08 pm
Im guessing the bellamys still tour ?…when pandemics allow ? I’m guessing they likely draw decent crowds to their shows . as would john anderson .
in these times , so much material is geared to artists’ live shows . that’s where the $$$ are . artists need to have material that works in live settings …anthem-y sing alongs, loud beat-centric stuff , ‘up’ stuff …..not a repertoire of sleepy ballads . this song would KILL for both of the artists involved in a live show attended by , more -than-likely , fans of that vintage . it would also help sell product at those shows . it is necessarily designed for youthful fans of cont. ”country” radio .its targetted at fans of real country and an era of real country .
and , of course , it plays off the movie title which is just downright classic country clever.
March 5, 2021 @ 2:10 pm
isn’t necessarily …….oops
March 5, 2021 @ 3:14 pm
Fun song, but agree with Corn above, my reaction as it was playing was “this really doesn’t help”, and I think it really doesn’t help because it’s such a soft punch couched in a Jimmy Buffett arrangement.
Reminds me of Alan Jackson’s “Three Minute Positive Not Too Country Up-tempo Love Song”, just not as clever or well done.
March 5, 2021 @ 3:30 pm
It’s not attempting to help. And it’s not trying to protest. It’s an expression of grievance over the fact that everything great is gone, and it ain’t coming back.
March 5, 2021 @ 5:25 pm
I get the sentiment, 100%.
It’s just a little hard to take seriously when your backhanded grievance song has shakers, congas, the Bellamy Brothers, and John Anderson in it.
March 5, 2021 @ 5:39 pm
I could’ve done without the tropical vibe, although that steel did a good job of canceling it out.
But how was the song backhanded, and what in the world do you have against John Anderson?
March 6, 2021 @ 10:22 am
Good catch, “backhanded” wasn’t the right word there.
I like both John Anderson and the Bellamy Brothers. Both were part of my childhood, but neither of them should probably do a “damn kids these days” song. John especially rode the contemporary pop country wave to great success in the 90s, and the BBs have made a lot of unserious music far outside the lines of traditional country.
On this one, it’s not the message. It’s the vessel.
March 6, 2021 @ 5:31 pm
John Anderson ain’t country, his music is too modern. Country music died in the back of a Cadillac in 1953.
March 6, 2021 @ 7:03 pm
bigmouthbass14,
You and I don’t see eye to eye, but I’ll say this: if someone held me at gun point and made me choose, I’d side with an extremist like you, over a Country music evolutionist or a Hipster-Country apologist, any day.
March 6, 2021 @ 7:50 pm
I was being facetious. I’d rather listen to ’90s country than any other era, which I think makes me a neotraditionalist at best. It’s also ironic that you’re slinging mud at the so-called hipsters around here since your general distaste for big names like Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson (i.e. anyone “too popular”) makes you one of the biggest ones around. “My music was better before anyone else knew about it, and the only way to fix it is to kill off the mainstream entirely” is as hipstery as it gets.
Still, I do like this song, though I’d like to remind you that both the Bellamy Brothers and John Anderson are buddies with Blake Shelton and toured with him just a year or two ago. So, while the sentiment in the song is important, it can’t help but feel a little contrived when you put it in context.
March 6, 2021 @ 8:25 pm
….”since your general distaste for big names like Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson (i.e. anyone “too popular”)”………
You’d probably make a good farmer with a strawman like that.
Mainstream C(c)ountry music is my favorite music, when it’s country, which it hasn’t been for quite some time.
I don’t care much for Cash or Willie, because I don’t like their styles. I liked Willie’s sound better before he had a beard, and I just never could get into Johnny Cash’s sound with no fiddle or steel.
March 6, 2021 @ 8:45 pm
Fair enough. I love me some fiddle and steel. I’ve never been the biggest fan of Cash, either, but a big part of that isn’t his fault as much as his “fanbase” (the “I hate country music but like Johnny Cash” crowd). But yeah, his style hasn’t ever appealed as much to me as others. On the other hand, I can’t stand the string sections in a lot of the Nashville sound of the same time; call me crazy, but big band strings aren’t any more country to me than a hip hop beat. One’s just imitating Sinatra instead of rap. Haggard is my favorite from that particular era, even if Cash predates him a bit.
I prefer Willie with a beard, but before his persona revolved around his weed consumption. I don’t care that he partakes in it as much as it’s just annoying how so much of his legacy has become about it. It’s about as trite as Dolly Parton making a crack about large breasts. Not a popular pick, but Heroes is probably my favorite Willie album.
March 5, 2021 @ 3:24 pm
I dig it. “Posers and losers, and wannabe outlaws that only know how to pretend”
Yes sir.
March 5, 2021 @ 6:11 pm
Could be too close to the bone for some.
March 5, 2021 @ 8:40 pm
On a somewhat unrelated but related note, Trigger, do you think John Anderson has any shot at the Hall of Fame? I notice you never mention his name in your annual speculation list.
March 6, 2021 @ 8:08 am
You have to consider anyone’s name with the fact that only one person is getting in each year, and there’s an incredible backlog. So the question isn’t really if they’re Hall of Fame worthy. I definitely think John Anderson should be in that conversation. But how many people might be ahead of them in line, which in the case of John Anderson is probably at least 10 or more. So it’s kind of hard to consider them, even though they should be considered, if that makes sense.
March 6, 2021 @ 8:20 am
It does make sense, essentially when one considers how many worthy artists came to prominence during the 80s and 90s. Not even looking at the older artists who are arguably worthy.
March 6, 2021 @ 4:23 am
The question of authenticity is a part of country music’s DNA. Changes are inevitable, though sometimes I cringe at them. Patsy Cline wrestled with following Owen Bradley into the Nashville Sound, a very pop production style intended on gaining mass appeal. George Jones dipped his toes in pop cutting rock-a-billy records, a twist song, a teen style song called “Root Beer,” a Hollywood movie theme called “Geronimo,” and even a 60’s folk-type ballad called “Unwanted Babies.” From the very beginning, recording country music was a business with the purpose of selling lots of records and making money. The biggest change came when SoundScan showed everyone in the 90’s how much money could be made. I think that’s probably why the first series in Ken Burn’s documentary is called “The Rub.” Art and Commerce. We will always have artists and music business execs looking to reach more people by making the music more popular and palatable. We’ll also always have people lamenting that the music is not as real, down-home, or “country.” It is part of who we are and it’s cyclical. Country music gets popular, it’s then watered down and sold to the masses, that fad goes away and it gets more traditional due to events like low sales, economic hard times, political conservatism, and then several years later it starts all over again. I think that’s why we got “Alt-Country” in the 90’s. It was a reaction to what was going on in the “Garth” era mainstream. Then some music business goofballs like Jed Hilly decided they could get more product under the name and umbrella of “Americana,” ditched the “Alt-Country” brand and once again the watering down started as the business tried to make more money. Now we have the “old white dad rock genre” that can’t be described except to say “anything that isn’t commercial.” I say “Fuck Americana and their stupid awards.” It’s the same game and slime-balls with a different uniform. Here’s the deal with Nashville. You’ve got a lot of musicians, songwriters, and artists trying to make a living doing what they love. Then you’ve got a lot of business folks looking to hitch their wagon on to the ones they can make money off of. I don’t care what genre it is. The business execs sign the artist, pay them a little money for a piece of the pie, then guide them on how they can make more money. Meaning, how they can be more commercial. I get why the Bellamy’s did this song and John Anderson joined in but remember, John Anderson was cutting songs with horn sections, chick background singers, and having pop crossover success with songs like “Swinging.” The Bellamy’s were certainly not pure country and hide a super pop/country hybrid sound during their heyday. Check out “Let Your Love Flow” but listen with 1976 ears, not 2021 ears.
Here’s a fun fact: The song “Lovesick Blues” that we all love by Hank Williams, the most authentic country music artist ever, is a show tune written by Tin Pan Alley songwriters.
I don’t like most of the shit on country radio today. I really can’t even be bothered. But, I think that’s why people like Tyler Childers are having success.
My point is: We will always have the issue of lamenting the good old music and authenticity in country music. It’s who we are.
March 6, 2021 @ 5:20 am
I agree , the crap they call country today , just ain’t gettin it !
March 6, 2021 @ 5:47 am
I seem to remember a line in a Merle Haggard song; I think we’re living in the good old days- it’s a generational thing- I like this one, and I am of their generation, born in 47- and I like “He’s an Old Hippie”, which I was not, but could be now-
I wrote a rebuttal to don’t let the old man in- called “Let the Old Man In”- it’s neither a lamentation or a protest- it’s a rebuttal and a bit of a life mantra- too soon old, too late smart- as is said. I say, good for them, bring it on!
March 6, 2021 @ 8:36 am
Almost as bad as their “reality” tv show Honky Tonk Ranch that aired a few years ago. Talk about a train wreck!
March 6, 2021 @ 9:26 am
The Bellamy Brothers deserve to be in the CMHOF in my opinion.
March 6, 2021 @ 3:37 pm
Bellamy Bros always sounded like opportunist bandwagon jumpers to my ears. Possible exception of “Old Hippie.” And John Anderson was little more than a novelty act at times, as songs like Swinging attest.
My point is, this song would have resonated more to me if it had been recorded by, say, Alabama and Eddy Raven. One man’s opinion, of course.
March 6, 2021 @ 4:04 pm
“And John Anderson was little more than a novelty act at times, as songs like Swinging attest.’
In all my years visiting this site, I don’t think that I have ever disagreed with a statement more than this one.
March 7, 2021 @ 12:30 pm
Anderson delivers every line with that same grating, sarcastic-sounding intonation, like a guy in a bar doing a bad impression of Christopher Walken, or a class of elementary school kids saying ‘Good morning’ to the teacher. But with about half the sincerity.
March 6, 2021 @ 5:00 pm
Note to all:
Trigger chose his moniker because he is mightily TRIGGERED by ANYTHING that is verboten according to the smothering fascism of “political correctness.”
Right, Trigger?
March 6, 2021 @ 5:03 pm
Actually, it’s short for “The Triggerman.” And like any proper nickname, I didn’t chose it. It was chosen for me.
March 6, 2021 @ 5:37 pm
It was obviously chosen for you by someone who was ridiculing you knowing how easily triggered you are when . . . horror of horrors . . . you witness a post by me – or anyone else – that is verboten under the doctrine of fascism known as “political correctness.”
Kind of like calling a fat guy “lard-ass.”
March 7, 2021 @ 7:41 am
I think the song is fine. While I can see where one would call it a protest song, I classify it more just like a few old people talking about something they love. The country music industry and radio have always kind of moved on every decade or so, so it is what it is. I’m not a big fan of current stuff but there are still good songs being made and played, just overall I feel it’s trying to be more mainstream than traditional. Trying to cater in part to a crowd that really isn’t into the more traditional country scene. It’s ok, I tend to listen to old stuff anyway. I’d rather listen to good old music than bad new music.
March 7, 2021 @ 8:48 am
The Bellamy Brothers were never country. Must be why Blake Shelton had them as an opening act on his most recent tour.
March 7, 2021 @ 9:23 am
Seems to me what is getting lost in all of this is “quality country music”. Also what is being promoted as country music. Even for a casual fan or a die hard fan, just taking one example of what is happening, is to start by watching Saturday Night Live at the Opry, says it all. So much of what passes for country is pop, pop ballad, folk, but mostly a rehash of every other song to make it unlistenable. They throw in Travis Tritt last for the nostalgia, but the rest, so so. Don’t get me wrong, I am an album/CD person, looking deep into an artists music, not the hit that replays a thousand times a day on the radio. Writers are writing some great stuff, make it all sounds the same. Ask yourself when a song comes on, does it stir you, make you want to dance, make your headache, etc. If not move on. Just one persons view on why the current country music is in sad shape.
March 7, 2021 @ 3:31 pm
Trigger,
I’d like for you and others, who for years have accused me of being “too negative”, “a contrarian”, “never happy with anything”, etc., to take note of the surprising number of extremists in this comments section, bashing the Bellamys and even John Anderson, for not being country.
They’ve come crawling out of the woodwork.
March 12, 2021 @ 7:17 pm
Everyone seems to like the song when I play it during my acoustic set.. so I’ll just keep on playing it.. it rings true with a lot of people
March 14, 2021 @ 6:43 pm
I don’t see anything wrong with I love it listen to Jason Alden if you call that country I give up what the neck are all the comments about let it go already???
March 16, 2021 @ 5:20 am
Driving on Bellamy Brothers Blvd., Dade City, FL listening to “Let Your Love Flow”…for real.
May 4, 2021 @ 10:05 pm
The production of this tune harkens back to the sound of the Bellamy’s first couple albums, which is nostalgic in itself and lends credence to the McCarthy pun title. J.A.’s nasally voice sounds great juxtaposed with the brother’s transitional harmony lines, a good call to get him in doing some lead vocals for this number. ( I can hear it, too!) Presently workin’ out a twist of “Sugar Daddy”‘s lyrics changing the context in a similar way they did with Cormac’s story and making it more hopeful in tone for those of us without much.
January 11, 2022 @ 1:21 pm
I don’t care what anybody says, No Country Music For Old Men is still the best song of the year. It says it all. In regards to the so called country music of today, it is OVER. Let us have our day. Thank god for those that still remember what Country Music was and still is to those of us that do remember.
September 4, 2024 @ 4:48 pm
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