OK Musical Influences *1.1 (okharpman)

Woody Guthrie is a legend. From Oklahoma, he used buskin as a way to get across the United States and even into South American. He was always looking for a cause, to help out the poor folks or the ones who were being used by the rich person. Listen to some of his songs, like

Friday, June 30, 2006

"One Promise Too Late," RICHEST WOMAN COUNTRY SINGER WOULD BE A




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TOSS UP between Dolly Parton and Reba McEntire.
If you would choose between the two, which do you think would be the RICHEST woman in Country Music. I know, I know, I didn't list Wynonna Judd, but WY had a biography on CMT about her, and it wasn't very long ago that she nearly filed bankruptcy. She had to stop buying dinner for everyone in her crew. I think Toby Keith takes along about 60 workers, and they all have be paid for. So I am going to count her out. Now, how about Dolly and Reba?



Try that with Dolly or Dolly Parton. By the way, Reba McEntire is from Oklahoma. Oklahoma has produced more Miss Americas than any other state in the union. And, ... most of them graduated from Oklahoma City University, a Methodist university, that is next only to Julliard, in New York. Dolly graduated from high school and headed for Nashville. Not Reba.

Now, if you haven't gone to reba.com, now is the time to do it. Dolly doesn't own her own named webpage. ELVIS is copyrighted. Reba is copyrighted. Reba studied music at OCU, and probably with a minor in business. Look at the photos above. How old do you think Reba McEntire is? She looks 21, but she is easily double that, but you couldn't tell. I wonder why?

McEntire, like Dolly, is always on display. She owns her own line of clothing, beauty cosmetics, and runs her whole show, either out of her house or out of her offices in Nashville. I don't know. There is so much out there about Reba, that it is your job to find out as much about her as possible. Since you are going to college, then study other successful people, to become successful, yourself, if you want to.

Reba always sang the Star Spangled Banner when the National Rodeo Association, had their big rodeo in OKC. Record publisher heard her, and signed her. She still waited until she graduated, before Reba started happening. Both her and Vince Gill hit Nashville around the same time. See if you can find out what year she started singing, and figure out her first record. Yep, it would be vinyl.

Reba is VERY educated, and she realizes that her market is Country, and she talks the talks. Her speech actually makes you believe that she is just another one of the ranch hands at a cattle branding. Wrong. Her brother tried it in the industry, and came back to their ranch in Oklahoma. So, making it in Nashville is harder than a diamond, and she has done it.

Please use the Internet and find out as much as you can about her, because I want to be surprised! Both her and DOlly are multi-millionaires for sure. But Reba is Reba. One of her guards thought I was going to try to break into the Myriad Center, where her buses were being loaded.

"Not!" I said. "I'm just taking a shortcurt." And that is about as close as I have come to her. I don't even know if I have a Reba CD. I'll check and see. My favorite song of hers, is the one about, "One Promise Too Late." Where she is telling a boyfriend that she is married, and he was just too late. Hmm, the reason why I like it is that its chords are the same progression as C AM F and G7. A million songs were written to that, even DOlly's "I WIll Always Love You." Isn't it amazing that both of their best songs to me, have the chording progression the same.

Have fun looking and seeing and finding.

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