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I was watching Fox News and at the end of the show they featured the latest “rising star” in the C&W world. You’re listening to the lead singer (don‘t remember his name) and a very light band behind him.....as I recall maybe another guitarist and a keyboard and drums.

I think any one of you members could have done this song better than this fellow did, but......listen to the plaudits and raves by the Fox moderator at the end of the tape.

Are my hallucinating or is he that bad? In my opinion, I think if he was playing in Waco, Texas in the late 1800’s, Jessie James would have shot him for impersonating a musician.

So........what do YOU think? If you say he’s good, then I’m going to talk Don Mason into auditioning for the Letterman show!

Mark

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Sorry for the delay in posting this....I spent the day yesterday going through a year’s worth of FOX news broadcasts in only 24 hours (watching six screens at a time).

Anyhow, so how many just wanted to hear what I thought was a miscarriage of justice.....this “new C&W star on the horizon” appearing on a major television SHOW (who would probably finish last in a local Karaoke competition even) and how many were rooting for him to be so bad that our own “rising star” Don Mason would go for the Letterman show and show the world what the SynthZone produces.

I still say any one of you could have sung (and played) this song better. There's nothing remarkable about his voice (he’s certainly no Garth Brooks) and the playing is, shall I be kindly and say…….”limp.” No great arrangement....nothing unique about his voice except that it sounds “scratchy.“ So what’s the big fuss over him?

It was on TV in December....I’m sorry I edited out the introduction at the time. That was the big letdown. After the big intro I thought I was going to hear George Strait Part II....