PEOPLE KNOW YOU BY YOUR FIRST NAME

I don't know what is happening to me. I'm listening and loving COUNTRY music! Tonight I went to see Dean Brody in Gravenhurst - I loved it!  I used to think country music was adored only by hicks, with trucks and all the other stereotypes. Haha!

Dean is a B.C. native, who moved to Nashvegas and after five years he decided he missed Canada and came home. He's a proud Canadian - "Canadian Girls" is his newest song.

Country music is alot like Christian music - it's a lifestyle genre. People live the lifestyle and there's a connection between everyone. Dean's songs remind me of John Cougar Mellencamp - country-rock with singalong lyrics.  In Christian music Relient K and The Rocket Summer evoke the same audience participation with their singalong songs.

The five-piece band were tight and love playing together.  And with only 300 people in the sold-outaudience, and mixed ages, it felt like a massive campfire of 300 people - and everyone singing the songs!

"People know you by your first name, and what kind of truck you drive...."