Originally Posted By: Jim Fogle
I've discovered not many current artists are consistent. Even in their CD releases song selection quality varies, the mixing is muddy but each track is mastered as loud as they can make it. A lot of music is thrown out for consumption.

After sounding so negative I must admit I'm surprised at how often I run across material I like. My library pays for five MP3 downloads each week from the Sony music catalog. I spend about half a day combing through new releases each week and I never have trouble finding five songs to download. Recent downloads include music by Bobby McFerin, Spango, The Church, Frumpy, Joe Simon, Luke Combs, JD McPherson, Bob Schneider, Old Crow Medicine Show, Wade Bowan, Jason Boland and Dana Fuchs to name a few. Yes I know not all are new artists but all the songs are new to me.


I hear ya. Exploration does bring it's rewards...and there is SO much to choose from.

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Some producers are going against the grain by not fighting the loudness war but everyone plays that game at least some of the time. I would say about half the songs on Luke Comb's new CD are mastered as loud as they can be.


I know what you mean. I, many times, fall asleep to music using headphones. Luke Combs is an offender. Another one that "wakes me" is a lot of Jake Owens music. It's fine for certain things for me, but in with other songs is a bit too much.

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So to me, the discussion is not so much about the merits of any particular artist as much as it is about production values and song management.


We all have artists we like and those we don't. I just don't think it helps the forum in most circumstances to just rail against a genre just because you don't like it. I haven't really seen you an offender of this. smile

Chad (Hope that makes it easier)

TEMPO TANTRUM: What a lead singer has when they can't stay in time.