OPAD #23 – Feb 25, 2024
Back in 2009/2010 I wanted to start a website, and despite having limited love or knowledge of music, I decided it would be smart to start a music blog with a friend. I was recently going through the Internet Archive for the site and read a couple of the posts/reviews. Expecting to be completely mortified, I was only partially mortified. I think this joke review of an album I never actually listened to, wasn’t that bad (but not great ha)? Or my writing/humor just continues to be as bad as this, and I don’t know the difference. Anyways, see the review below!
And check out that background of the site in the featured image. I still think it was cool as hell. (I did not make it)
The Zac Brown Band – The Foundation
Posted April 1, 2010 by Mike E Schmee.
It has happened. I have turned to the Dark Side. I like LOVE a country album. One that isn’t even J. Cash, because we all know he isn’t actually country anyway.
I decided to give the Zac Brown Band’s first full length album The Foundation a chance since they won a Grammy for Best New Artist. Oh how the Grammy Awards were spot on again. This album gives a whole new meaning to country with lyrics like, “Not a worry in the world/A cold beer in my hand” from Toes and “You know I like my chicken fried/A cold beer on a Friday night/A pair of jeans that fit just right/And the radio up” from the awesome track, “Chicken Fried”.
The ZBB is reinventing the genre with mind blowing lyrics about lost love, drinking, starry nights, and chickens. I’m not shitting you, chickens: “Sic ‘em on a chicken/And watch them feathers fly”. They are also doing this thing with their voices and guitars that just sounds so, I don’t know, I guess I would call it twangy? It takes a little getting used to but damn if it doesn’t make you want to get up and start line dancing.
If you’re getting sick of your favorites like Garth Brooks, Taylor Swift, and all of those other honky tonk greats I would open up your truck windows, park in a field, crack open a fresh case, throw in one of those tasty wintergreen dips and crank some ZBB.
* Buy The Foundation here from Amazon.com *
Disclaimer: This should not be taken seriously. Look at the date. I did not even listen to the album for fear of suicide. Reading the lyrics was painful enough.
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