{"id":6816,"date":"2016-01-31T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=6816"},"modified":"2016-01-27T13:25:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T19:25:01","slug":"from-portland-to-austin-a-change-in-scenery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2016\/01\/31\/from-portland-to-austin-a-change-in-scenery\/","title":{"rendered":"From Portland to Austin – A Change in Scenery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although I was born in Dallas, Texas, and moved to Houston for about a year, I was raised in Portland, Oregon<\/a>. People often say that Portland and Austin are very similar. This is true to some extent \u2013 both cities have a good music scene, food trucks, and are very urban, but Portland takes it to a new level. Walking downtown there means you\u2019ll see at least one person not wearing shoes (by choice), someone drumming buckets on a street corner, a few people stationed at pop-up tents selling hemp clothing, and you\u2019ll undoubtedly pass by a handful of hipster coffee shops. The music scene in Portland involves little to no country. My friends and family have more than likely never been to a country concert, and would much prefer to listen to Odesza, Disclosure, Future Islands, or any other band that performs regularly at Sasquatch<\/a> or Coachella.<\/p>\n

I went to my first country concert when I was 14 years old. I saw Luke Bryan, Tim McGraw and The Band Perry \u2013 little did I know, I had just paid a measly $20 to see some of the biggest names at that time. I learned to love the country songs that came on the radio regularly, but didn\u2019t know until I got to college that the \u201ccountry\u201d I was listening to wasn\u2019t really the music that true country music fans knew and loved. I had never heard of Pat Greene or Bart Crow until my first year at UT, and it still took me some time to grasp that type of music. My friends back home still love to poke fun at me for posting pictures in cowboy boots and dresses on game days, and I doubt they\u2019ll ever learn how to two step.<\/p>\n

Occasionally, a rare friend will show me a \u201cnew song\u201d they love, for example, \u201cI Love This Life\u201d by Locash, or \u201cMy Front Porch Looking In\u201d by Lonestar. I\u2019m a little embarrassed to admit it, but only a few years ago I considered myself to be an avid country music fan, but I was listening to Florida Georgia Line and Thomas Rhett on a regular basis. I won\u2019t pretend that I don\u2019t still find some of their songs to be catchy, but I\u2019ve learned that I wasn\u2019t listening to the real music people live by in Texas and all over the country (although it\u2019s shown to be mostly a southern genre). Being raised in the Pacific Northwest, I grew up camping and hiking and even riding horses, but simply had not been exposed to the type of country that so many of my friends have known since before they learned to walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although I was born in Dallas, Texas, and moved to Houston for about a year, I was raised in Portland, Oregon. People often say that Portland and Austin are very similar. This is true to some extent \u2013 both cities … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post-1","category-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6820,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816\/revisions\/6820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}