Is it wrong to cultivate a love of country music in the Inferiorettes solely because it'll drive their father mad?

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It is, isn't it. He hasn't come up to the study once since I started playing Johnny Cash.

I think I'll be too busy trying to deflect two little girls who really would rather get down, play with their new toys, run wildly amok, and so on and so forth, don't you?

Should I get the Cowboy Junkies, then, along with the new Old Crow Medicine Show?

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Cowboy Junkies are wonderful - only have 1st 2 albums though (and they are albums, not cds!), don't know how they've developed, as it were.

Saw Old Crow Medecine Show supporting Gillian Welsh - preferred them to her, I think

Nothing involving country music can be WRONG!

Oh go on, Pruni.

I think I'll try, this time, to be well-behaved. Famous last words - along the lines of 'oh, just the one glass, then'...

Congratulations if you can do it. I have put my son to bed with "my" music - nice mellow Billie Holliday etc., since he was born. Now, at 4, he has gone and found Radiohead from his Dad's collection and goes to sleep to that .

I have always loathed C and W, with a passion. Was a Rock chick in my misguided yoof, and went into Classical music after I grew up. As time passes I am increasingly drawn to C and W and see this as a sign of my rapid aging

also seriously in Ry Cooder atm, driving dh loopy, poor man!

oh pruni, I think we may be twins
hello mb, it is good to see you

Oh Cowboy Junkies 'Trinity Sessions' - and Caution Horses.....
all together now 'Sun comes up its Tuesday morning and you forgot to close the blinds last night...'

Cos Cheap is how I feel......!!

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Oh I quite like C&W, Raskal Flats are particularly annoying to those who are not inclined

Yes, it is VERY, VERY wrong.

Not just to your partner, but to them.

You do realise those songs bypass a person's short-term memory entirely and become entrenched in one's long-term memory faster than heroin can make it through the bloodstream?

They will be singing those songs well into their 30s, and cursing you for putting them there.

Do you want to be the subject of one of those 'My Horrific Childhood' car crash books?

Then please, DON'T GO THERE!

It's not just music, it's trauma.

expat is terribly right you know, mi...

I keep hearing oooold stuff on the radio, singing along and thinking oh yes, they played that when I was 12 or 13, and then they say the date it was out and I wasn't 12, I was about 9, so that was 1960, and there was nothing on the radio then except Uncle Mac and Housewives' Choice!!!!! So how do I know them except for expat's heroin analogy???? aaaargh!

I'm off to write my International Bestseller Translated into 158 Languages: Kenny Rodger(ed) Me - A Triumph of the Human Spirit over a Country Music Childhood.

Look for it at your nearest Tesco soon.