Blog: Geezer Music Club

I've always enjoyed finding examples of a peculiar practice that seems to occur most often in country music - singers hitting the studio to record "answer" songs. For the uninitiated, that's a type of song that follows a big hit by another singer, and either answers a question posed by the original, or just presents a different viewpoint. I've written about answer songs before - most recently in a piece about Kitty Wells , who followed up Hank Thompson's "Wild Side Of Life" with her retro-feminist offering of "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels." But Kitty [...]