Now, Nashville  has a, has a definite style, you, you could flag me down on this and say, yeah, but Casey Mu grows is different. Da da da is different. But I’m talking about maybe a little bit old school, but, but the, the type of acts that really, really do, write great traditional country songs.
So it’s, it’s extremely descriptive in its lyrical imagery. Country music is,  it’s also straight to the point, and it uses simple subject matter that directly relates to the people it’s aimed at.  So,  not all of us, I’m guessing about probably, maybe even a hundred percent of us are not from Texas or  Kentucky or, Tennessee. so with its honkytonk bars, pickup trucks, et cetera. So we have to use our imagination.
 And the way we, if you like, take on the language of country, is purely by hard work of listening, listening to country songs. I’ve got a playlist that I’ll, I’ll throw in the, the, the chat later, but you, but listen to the songs and analyze it. I, I actually did a little one today. I didn’t know what a tall boy was. I thought it was the English translation of a, of a wardrobe, but of course it’s not. It’s a Texas Nashville saying for a 24 pint keg of beer.
So  that fits in with the lyrical tropes that we’re, we’re talking about. So mostly it’s about getting together or breaking up songs having the best of worst of times, but it’s used in a language that the people of  the southern states of America use and understand. Okay? So 70% of country music fans tune into the radio. So if we look at this,  we can check this out. If I go to my Safari country music statistics here, you’ll see Ba  ba, ba,  country music fans love the radio.
Okay? So 70% listen to country music on the radio. Now, why would this be important? Because we’re talking about local radio stations servicing local communities. Now, those radio stations  are enthralled to the consumers who listen to them. So it’s a symbiotic relationship. The radio stations play songs that the local people want to hear, the local people tune into, the radio stations that play the songs that they want to hear.
So therefore, it’s, it’s not rocket science. It’s the fact that, you wanna write for, for Nashville. Then you, you need to get on those radio stations. You need to get on those radio stations is by writing songs that are familiar to the people of that area. So, it’s no use writing about  a country music song based in Lancaster, or you, you’ve really got to kind of do your homework.
And it’s actually brilliant, fun as a songwriter, I find this one of the, one of the best genres to write in, where you can sit back, do some homework, soak it up,  learn some vernacular, learn some phrasing, listen to what we’re gonna go through today, and actually put your songwriting hat on and actually have a little bit of a good time while you, while you’re writing the song.  So, going back  to here,  we’ve gotten that.
 So, B  let’s  see if this works. audience expectations as we’ve, as we’ve discussed, radio is how most southern country fans consume music. So you need to write a song that appeals to the radio. And the listeners, historically, the southern states have a very independent feel. they were, you know, we we’re not talking that many generations ago before.
They really were frontiers, pe people, so that they’re, they’re, they’re strong on certain tropes that you might not think, come through so much in the music once we’ve played a few tracks. You can look at the checklist, you’ll find out it’s family values, love falling in love, falling out of love, falling in love, only to fall out of love, da da, da, friendships, Â religion. But they’re equally fond. There’s, there’s a great, well, a dichotomy in the country.
Music lyrics, they’re equally fond of family bonds, church  buddies  work is something the work ethic. They love punching in clocking in nine to five, but at the same time, they love drinking, dancing, speaking your mind, the occasional tear up and a tearful their reunion. So falling in love only to fall out of love.  So it represents many of those tropes. You only need to look at the size of, of Texas to see that.
So let’s have a, a, a checklist. Okay? So you’ve got your, you’ve got your, checklist there. So let’s have a look at small town throw down just in more Thomas Rhett da da. Look at the YouTube. The, the YouTube views on this. They’re massive. This, I’m starting this off  a little bit tongue in cheek, okay?  It doesn’t take itself seriously.  It, it, it’s actually quite rocky in, in its country approach that they, they country music does veer into the rock side of, of things sometimes.
There’s big choruses they love. So, it’s moved on a little bit from the tra traditional country guitar field. But check your list on this. a tall boy refers to a lar, a larger can for a beverage, usually beer that holds 16 to 24 pints, I think. So let’s have a look at what I’m talking about. The video is fun. So you, you might think, oh, this is a little bit, a bit macho, but actually this is what is happening on that radio play.
So let’s have a look. Let’s go to, safari Chick things, and let’s have a look at a little bit of Bradley Gilbert Small town Throwdown.
Let’s go to the lyrics on this. the lyrics are here, there we go.  What have we got  on your checklist? The checklist that we’ve, that we’ve looked at. Let me bring this, oh, let me find mine,
 We have got  everything. We’ve got trucks  work  Cashing in your check raising, hell, partying.  Heard it through the redneck grapevine, keg of Beer, bunch of girls.
Sure enough gonna be a good time, okay? It really is a  party kind of song. You might not think this, this is, this is not the Nashville, oh, with Broken Hearts, but Nashville is actually  at the moment, they want up songs and they sing about what they know. So we’ve got, we’ve got, daisy Dukes, we’ve got Rocking Little Body. look at the R schemes they’re using as well. So take all notes of this.
They’re using the  XAXA, so only  lines two and four, Ryan. There’s lots of identity rhyme and perfect rhyme. So the Rhine schemes we use are not like we, we looked at the other month, the complex, Rhyme schemes that that, that we looked at are called the Assonance and consonants and all that stuff. You’re, you’re dealing with perfect rhyme and identity rhyme, which actually were, similar or exactly the same. Rhyme schemes work Friday, Sunday  down, tailgates down, throw down.
So  take a note  of the language that is being used in the song, okay? It’s not rocket science. That’s what they say. It really is  a simple  feel good song. So you’ve gotta kind of get into that spirit of things. You, you’ve not got to be too angst when you really want to write a song for the Nashville Radio. It’s not about opening up your soul. It’s about speaking not in your own voice, but speaking in the voice of the people who you want to hear the song.
