re: the lives of old country singers vs. the new breed around today

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Like I said...anyone can sing a song.

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No, apparently, anyone cannot sing a song.

Charlie Robison's horrible voice destroyed Keith Gattis's El Cerrito Place. Due to Robison's flat, monotone, lack-of-range vocals, his version previously held a top 5 spot on the list, "how to screw up a beautiful song." The fact that anyone thinks he is a talented singer is LAUGHABLE. It took Kenny Chesney's knowledge of production and amazing voice to resurrect this incredible song and give it the soulful, haunting tone it was intended to have, and undo the damage Robison did to it.

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It's the lyrics, composition, production, and delivery that make it powerful.

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FIFY


Eta: Although Charlie Robison recorded "El Cerrito Place," first, in 2004, Keith Gattis wrote the song. Gattis, obviously, disliked Robison's unfortunate, unsuccessful version because he put it on his second album, "Big City Blues" in 2005. This is what I mean when I say people should do the research before presenting something as fact.