#Hashtag

I guess three hashtags probably isn't a personal best for me, but I still felt very hashtag-y when writing this. Plus you know how awful I am with titles. #SendMeYourTitles? (Ooh... make that *four hashtags)

So there you go. Sorry I'm not more creative or interesting, but at least let me try to make it up to you with this week's fine selection:

The First: Porch Swing Angel by Muscadine Bloodline

Smooth sound. Harsh twang. Sickly sweet romantic things. Front porches.
All things I thoroughly enjoy in a country song. And also things I enjoy in my RomComs, which is probably why I love Sweet Home Alabama so much.

If you're into these boys, might I also recommend Southern Boy Cure? #bonussong


The Second: Who I Am by Jessica Andrews

#FlashbackFriday because why not. This may have been the first country song that I was ever obsessed with. We're talking hitting repeat on Windows media player, looking up the lyrics on my Dell desktop computer (because this was before the days of the Youtube and the early days of being able to even look up lyrics on the interwebs #HowOldAmI) and then, of course, recording myself singing this song very dramatically and gutturally into a tape recorder so that I could hear what a ~beautiful~ voice I had...

Newsflash: It wasn't as ~beautiful~ in the playback as it had sounded in my head.


The Third and Final: Thank God I'm A Country Boy covered by Home Free

An a capella John Denver cover? Um, yes please.
A hilarious music video?? You know me well.
Plaid??? I mean, if I wasn't already on board with those first two, this would seal the deal.

I'll be spending my weekend hopefully hunting down a new crockpot (my last one has sadly seen the last of its days), trying out some new recipes, and sifting through the hundred or so hours of childhood home videos that my father has digitized. It's my job to edit them all down to watch-able clips. Wish me luck. Hope your weekend is an excellent one!

Thanks for listening!
Karla

Slightly More Line Dancing Than Normal

I will give you fair warning: the majority of the videos this week are slightly ridiculous. But I hope you'll find them slightly ridiculous in an amusing and charming way, like I do.

(Unlike the ridiculousness outrage that's about to happen south of the border... which is far from amusing and certainly not charming.)

The Second: Can't Turn You Down by Jon Pardi

A bit of a diversion from the usual Jon-O songs I feature on here, but I suppose we can't all be hilarious and slightly self-deprecating all the time. So thanks for the slow down, sir.


The Second: Waiting Kind of Girl by Leaving Thomas

Umm. These two are my new internet besties (even if they don't know I exist...).


The Third and Final: Head Over Heels by The Washboard Union

OKAY. Stay with me here before you hit play on this video.
This is the only version of this song available on the YouTube.
And I really like this song.
And for a few weeks I thought, "Maybe I can wait it out because this video would be kinda odd to send around, not to mention the audio isn't great." But after watching it several times, I've since decided: No. You need this in your life. You need both this song AND this sweet french man who is just trying to spread his love of line dancing with the world in your life.

Here is where I would tell you what I have planned for the weekend, but I think we know each other well enough by now for you to have already guessed that I'll be drowning my inauguration sorrows by spending the weekend practicing the steps to that line dance.

Thanks for listening!
Karla

New Year, Old Me

Well, we're back folks!

Welcome to 2017 - the year I ushered in with a glass of prosecco, a bowl of popcorn, and missing the clock strike midnight because I was already asleep. So basically everything about this year is the same so far and absolutely nothing has changed. Fun!!

The First: Sinking Like A Stone by Madeline Merlo

I realize that this song is a few years old, but consider this my very desperate attempt to infuse more ladies into CMF. Even if they are choosing to give me zero new material lately(!!!) And yes, I do take the lack of new releases as an obviously personal and very intentional slight directed specifically at me from every female country music recording artist in the world. Because what other logical reason could there possibly be??


The Second: Easy by Mike Ryan

Audio's not perfect and the guy at the beginning is a Chatty McChatterson (song starts around the 1:00 mark), but the song is short, sweet, simple. Everything* anyone ever needs on a Friday.
*Other than wine. But you probably already knew that. ;)


The Third and Final: Yours If You Want It by the Rascal Flatts

Apparently 2017 hasn't changed Rascal Flatts either. Because they've still got it. I'd be annoyed by their inability to make bad music if I wasn't so busy enjoying this new song.


I am now off to hang out with 90 lovely student leaders for three days while simultaneously attempting to overcome a very persistent cold. I'll let you know how all that turns out next week...

Thanks for listening!
Karla