{"id":11433,"date":"2024-08-20T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2024\/08\/20\/country-music-lessons-about-story-work\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T19:44:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T19:44:38","slug":"country-music-lessons-about-story-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2024\/08\/20\/country-music-lessons-about-story-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Country music lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">My radio options are minimal on long stretches of the drive from my city house to the mountain cabin. When I lose a signal altogether, I lean into the silence \u2014 no interest in a Sirius subscription or podcasts via my phone. It\u2019s rare time to just think or, better, just drive and wonder at the beauty around me. Watch the road. Watch the colors of the light on the hilltops and the sage on the lowlands. Watch the orchard pickers at work and imagine about how different their lives are from mine and be grateful for the cherries and apples and pears they make possible.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>When I can catch a signal, it\u2019s almost always a country music station.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>It\u2019s not my first choice. I\u2019m of a certain generation of folk and rock, love big-band swing and \u201940s crooners, appreciate some older-era blues, feel my heart swell with&nbsp;Celtic music and am intrigued by a range of international sounds. I\u2019m an unapologetic sucker for Christmas music.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>The country music of my childhood seemed like an annoyance of whine-and-twang-and-wail. But my&nbsp;narrow-minded attitude&nbsp;started to change when an early boyfriend pulled out his guitar, when country went outlaw, when Austin City Limits came on TV, when I heard Emmy Lou Harris and Nancy Griffith and Greg Brown in concert, when Rosanne Cash sang from the list prescribed her by her father, when the distinctions of music genres faded and I learned to listen to the stories&nbsp;being told through the music.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Much as I appreciate the emotions that come through classical music and instrumentals, my knowledge of sound isn\u2019t sophisticated enough to interpret an intended story. I don\u2019t engage in it the same as I do with lyrics set to sound. And when I\u2019m alone, for long hours, at the wheel of my car, I need to engage to stay alert.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>So on those stretches, I flip past the static, past the Spanish language stations (<em>lo siento<\/em>), past the preaching until finally I find, on a clear channel, a bit of country.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Again, not my first choice. Sometimes I hit the&nbsp;MUTE button and go back to my own head-chatter. But often I welcome the company. And I\u2019ve&nbsp;learned to value the story work.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-heading   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Country lessons<\/h2>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Country offers stories in a classic narrative arc. Often that arc is some sort of tragedy: Boy meets girl, boy loves girl, boy messes up and loses girl. Alternate: Boy meets girl, boy loves girl, girl is a player and leaves boy in the lurch. Slightly less often, it\u2019s a finally-got-it-right love song: Boy sees beauty in girl that others have missed, or that even girl herself has missed. Sometimes it\u2019s about death, sometimes birth. Is it a bit Hallmark-y? Sure. But it provides a story line \u2014 one that invariably echoes some universal experience. All that in less than two minutes.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>I\u2019ve also learned to whoop with glee&nbsp;at the descriptions and metaphors:&nbsp;The love that\u2019s like a welcome-home mat, meant as a compliment. The lost love (\u201cShe\u2019s acting single and&nbsp; I\u2019m drinking doubles.\u201d).&nbsp;The long riff of lust that describes some dude\u2019s pickup truck. Are they over-the-top and clich\u00e9d? Sure. But word play is an art, and we need to learn to play before we can make art.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Given the times, I tune in with interest to pronouns. Some singers can take me through&nbsp;all the above love\/loss arcs without making them gender specific, or even&nbsp;using pronouns at all. Cue k.d. lang, Melissa Etheridge, et al. It\u2019s an interesting thing to think about for writers who want to respect&nbsp;individual identity preferences without confusing readers.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>More and more, I listen for the influences of one defined type of music that becomes evident in so many others. For kicks, I did a quick Google of folks like Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger and Leonard Cohen and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell and, yep, the Beatles. All once restricted to their outwardly defined&nbsp;lanes. 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Our nonfiction narrative needs to stand on the rigorous reporting and fact-checking of investigative work; and investigative pieces should aspire to compelling storytelling.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>I get all of this in those road hours with the country station as my company. I forget the songs themselves as soon as I hear them. 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