Brad Paisley's song "This is Country Music" isn't one of my favorites by him, but it rings true in a lot of ways. Country radio stations aren't afraid to talk about "headin' to church" on Sunday mornings. Country songs talk about God & Jesus more than any other- and they aren't ashamed. Country musicians are for the common man, the working class. Anything on Kiss FM...whatever genre that is... the lyrics brag about money and fame and buying cars.... almost degrading the middle class people that are listening to it. Country music lyrics include lines like,"...ain't no shame in a blue collar forty, little house little kids little small town story" -(Eric Church, Homeboy). Rap songs brag about being with lots of women..... country music songs include lines like, "I'd take a gold band on my hand, over being a single man." -(Lee Brice, A Woman Like You) Country music has a reputation for being all drinking, depressing songs about how his woman left him for his best friend and took the horse.... and a good percentage is something like that. But on the whole country music is honest and positive. It's honest because there's countless songs about admitting your faults and your sins, and God calls us to bring ours sins from the darkness and bring them into the light.... Kevin Fowler's "Best Mistake I Ever Made" is an honest song that many of us can relate to about how we screw up, but God's always looking out for us and He's got a master plan for us and we just have to trust Him. Now I can't quite align his song "#?*!" to anything Biblical, but in general at least one song from every country artist I can think of has a lesson to learn from it.
On the day I die
I know where I'm gonna go
Me and Jesus got that part worked out
I'll wait at the gates til his face I see
And stand in a long line of sinners like me
I'll stand in a long line of sinners like me
-Eric Church, "Sinners Like Me"
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