Mac,

There's so much irony in that YouTube post. George Strait is pretty 'pitchy' in that one! Can't seem to stay on pitch when he's putting the 'emotion' in it.

I would guess that most country 'purists' would say that George is the real deal.

Fact of the matter is - any genre of music has to evolve and adopt elements from other genres - from the past and predicting the future - in order to stay alive.

This is not a defense of the winner - don't know if I've even heard a song by Ms. Swift. There's a long history of music awards shows not representing a public opinion of what's deserving of an award.

Didn't Allison Krauss and Robert Plant win a bunch of awards at the Grammys last year for the 'sinking sands' album? I'm a big fan of both, but geez, there's only a couple really inspired performances on that album. Some of the songs are really pretty crummy. It was a T-Bone Burnett hype-love-fest.

Awards and their shows have become a joke and it's been that way for many years. They have some of the worst audio production of any broadcast music performances - at least this has been true of the Grammys. What they need is to have the audio crew for Austin City Limits or Ramsey Lewis' shows from PBS and run the audio for the Grammys.

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