Welcome to the Alien Country Blog

Welcome to the Alien Country Blog

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Fox in the Henhouse

As my buddy Willie Nelson said in his song,“Well, it’s all going to pot Whether we like it or not The best I can tell The world’s gone to hell And we’re sure gonna miss it a lot” All this Corona virus quarantine bizness has a lot of folks cooped…

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MTV Transforms Music Career

Being a kid with dreams Once upon a point in time, in a very far away galaxy, there lived a little boy. This boy dreamed of being an important Rock N’ Roll Star. He breathed it, he lived it, and he worked very hard to, one day, achieve his dream.…

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A New Music Element: Syncopation

Let’s face it, music has evolved every decade or so. The metal or heavy mental, for instance, from twenty years ago is not as heavy as the metal today. Twenty-year-old metal is considered pop music today, compared to the new metal standards. Alien Country’s music brings something new to the table. Not low-fi, not syncopation, but a pure, raw sound which some naysayers or self-made experts may simply, for the time being, call out of whack or simply wrong. For now, those could be appropriate descriptors of the Alien Country’s sound, but as bad or wrong or raw the sound may be, as a few have opinionated, it is still, as Billy Joel would probably say, sci-fi edged Country Rock n’ Roll to me.

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Reality Check video now on YouTube

👍 Tell me what ya think in the YouTube comments! 👍

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My Stint With An Iron Maiden Tribute Band in Florida

You know Ima country boy, but I’ve always been fascinated by the music of Steve Harris, founder and bassist for the major international act Iron Maiden. I’ve played Maiden songs on the guitar and sung them whenever I can, and as often as I could. In 2015 I had an…

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