Country Music City Promotions

More than a week has passed since radio consultant Keith Hill's interview on the role women portray in country music that sparked media attention and the cause affect it had on female artists Martina McBride, Sunny Sweeney and Miranda Lambert. At first when it was passed on and sent my way 2Steel Girls Allison Steel felt it was time to take it to the next level, hours later Support Female Country Artists facebook page was born and reached more than a 1,000 hits and likes after 24 hours. 3 days later the numbers doubled reaching over 4,000 likes. Country insiders and music peers agree with Hill's statement, however though his approach was a tad cold when referring to female artists as tomatoes of a salad.  "Trust me, I play great female records and we've got some right now; they're just not the lettuce in our salad. The tomatoes of our salad are the females", he explains. What an analogy whether you take it to heart or not. What's most disheartening is the fact that it's hard for women in general Steel explains, and I couldn't agree more with her. In today's radio market airwaves are filtered with beer drinking bro-country songs, there's no substance, nothing relateable unless you want to hear the common getting drunk, partying all night long song that have completely saturated country radio these days. Not only has Steel been given the format to speak her mind it's her small country roots and upbringing that stand out, it's a part of who she is. Others have openly discussed it in recent days from Kellie Pickler, Sara Evans, Laura Bell Bundy and Carrie Underwood to name. What comes down to it is a small percentage of female artists are getting immediate radio airplay. Reba is one of only a handful of female country artists getting air play these days. So where does that leave the others? 2Steel Girls to Maggie Rose, Katie Armiger to name a few have or are getting radio airplay due to their largly massive fan bases who work the social media rounds online, however though it's their labels behind the scenes who give them the well deserved media press and publicity to thank. Where as when it comes to radio Independent, small market radio stations have picked up on the format of country music and play the same ratio of female and male artists giving fans and listeners exactly what they want. Medium market and high rollers of country radio take note, your consumers come from a younger generation, these fans want what's hip and modern these days in country music. Of course your going to play to their standards and what's coming from a traditional stand point, well, your missing the mark. Music shouldn't be classified, separated of the genre. Country is what it is whether it's mainstream, popular, traditional, independent; it's still country. Okay, there's nothing more fun than picking at yourself.  "I may be a tomatoe, at least I'm a sweet and sometimes spicy one, I'll either leave a bitter taste in your mouth or be the color in your salad", explains Palmer, CEO & Founder of COUNTRY MUSIC CITY PROMOTIONS. 2Steel Girls Allison & Krystal Steel have created a movement and want to remind their listeners they don't back down any way you slice it. We're going to hear from them and their going somwhere with it. Rest assured COUNTRY MUSIC CITY PROMOTIONS is with them 100%.