Creative Response: "Take A Listen"

 

I feel that many people belittle or minimize the worth of country music.  Perhaps the language isn't sophisticated enough or the music isn't as virtuosic as other music is for their taste. My LLM, the band Raisin' Kane, is a band who was raised in a rural area where the genre of music mostly listened to is country music.  Although it can be characterized as simple, a country song's lyrics tell a story.  This story can tell of the hurt, the joy, or any other emotion that has the power of connecting straight to the heart and moving it in a way that some music is not capable of doing.  It is important to understand that every music in which all have a worth and a value, nevertheless the "crude" or "unsophisticated" nature of it, as Lau described one view of regional music in China. This poem reflects the culture that stems from country music and tells of the story that can be expressed through this genre.