Ten Favorite Music Songs: They Called It Music (#3)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86918)
United States
June 7, 2017 4:05pm CST
It's about time to put the iPad away and chase the little white ball down the green carpet for the evening. But before I do, here's the next song on my list of favorite "music" songs, or songs that have the word music in the title. This is a rarity, becuase it's fairly new (that's right, recorded in your lifetime! 
), but it really made an impact on me the first time I heard it.
#3: They Called It Music - Gibson Brothers
Ah, bluegrass music. Those sweet harmonies and ringing banjos fill up the country side in....upstate New York??? Yes, that's where Eric and Leigh Gibson hail from (sorry to smash the stereotype that Yankees don't listen to this). They've been around for a long time, but they finally broke through in the mid-2000's. Songwriter of the Year and Entertainer of the Year awards later, they're still out there thrilling audiences with their innovative bluegrass (how many bluegrass singers have you ever heard do a Tom Petty/Mudcrunch song?).
This song, the title track from their award-winning 2013 album, is both nostalgic and accusatory. The song is about meeting an old man playing music, and then the younger asks what label they had for what he played. The old man replied, "They called it music." Later they proclaim, "It wasn't all about the money like it is today."
Yeah, that's when they called it music.
What a song.
They Called It Music
Written by Eric Gibson and Joe Newberry
Recorded by the Gibson Brothers
From They Called It Music, 2013
It was honest, it was simple:
), but it really made an impact on me the first time I heard it.
#3: They Called It Music - Gibson Brothers
Ah, bluegrass music. Those sweet harmonies and ringing banjos fill up the country side in....upstate New York??? Yes, that's where Eric and Leigh Gibson hail from (sorry to smash the stereotype that Yankees don't listen to this). They've been around for a long time, but they finally broke through in the mid-2000's. Songwriter of the Year and Entertainer of the Year awards later, they're still out there thrilling audiences with their innovative bluegrass (how many bluegrass singers have you ever heard do a Tom Petty/Mudcrunch song?).
This song, the title track from their award-winning 2013 album, is both nostalgic and accusatory. The song is about meeting an old man playing music, and then the younger asks what label they had for what he played. The old man replied, "They called it music." Later they proclaim, "It wasn't all about the money like it is today."
Yeah, that's when they called it music.
What a song.
They Called It Music
Written by Eric Gibson and Joe Newberry
Recorded by the Gibson Brothers
From They Called It Music, 2013
It was honest, it was simple:
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3 responses
@teamfreak16 (43678)
• Denver, Colorado
8 Jun 17
As Miles Davis said, "Music is music, no matter what kind. As long as it's good, it's good music." Or something like that.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
7 Jun 17
What! Are you going all contemporary on us?
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@lillywriter (1143)
• Lithuania
7 Jun 17
Not my kind of music, but interesting to listen it
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