Craft and aesthetics:TIM MCGRAW and FAITH HILL's "Meanwhile back at mama's"

Tim and Faith Hill performing the song to their fans

Any of the self proclaimed defenders of the African culture and its forms of artistic expressions never hesitate to harshly judge and throw jabs at those that openly appreciate western arts-music,movies;name them-with their bitter criticism fired at the lot as alienated culprits that need serious societal monitoring and rehabilitation.

Their displeasure bears truth to a certain extent as many of us have totally crossed the oceans and seas and won't even entertain a single local song in their playlist but it is not entirely true.

The world,maybe,at one time,millennia past,was a small place with limited interaction between all the human races scattered all the habitable places on the earth's surface.However,this never existed forever.The curious nature of men for adventure,business,conquests-amongst other vanities of life,opened the world as people learned to navigate the seas to far flung places and others traveled the land in long distance trade.With the advent of cutting edge technologies in transport  and communication,the world has shrunk  into one tiny place where expressions from different cultures around the world no longer remain the preserve of its creators but become the property of the whole world  once they are  disseminated to the rest of the world that care to appreciate them.

Like many of the 21st century citezens,I've come to appreciate many cultures that I've come to interact with; music included as one of such cultures' expression.As such, I listen to all sorts of music right from my own people's Benga to Country Music from the far West.

The beautfil Faith Hill

Tim McGraw

One of the outstanding Country music artist whose art has always held my heart is Tim McGraw.I first listened to one of his latest release,the song "Meanwhile back at mama's" on 98.4 capitalfm from his second studio album "Sundown Heaven Town" featuring his wife Faith Hill and I stopped whatever I was doing to listen to it.Tim's powerful voice is good as ever and teaming up with his wife Faith Hill does gives the song an elegant,cosy and powerful statemnt.The arrangement of its easy beats and the skillfull strumming of the guitar and the narrative lyrics fill you with nostalgia you end up searching your own heart for those memories you haven't checked for a long time and the realities of life it is fast to engrave in the mind than the attention you pay the beautiful melody of the song itself.

The song is a product of experience thus rich in style and rhythm.It is beautiful.You gotta listen to it.Find it on mp3skull.com.