{"id":16556,"date":"2019-07-10T10:18:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1808895"},"modified":"2019-07-10T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:18:05","slug":"the-three-man-crushes-that-made-midland-midland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/the-three-man-crushes-that-made-midland-midland\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three Man Crushes That Made Midland Midland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 13m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

You can tell a lot about a guy by the guys he worships and adores.<\/p>\n

And the three men who make up Midland<\/a> \u2014 Mark Wystrach, Cameron Duddy, and Jess Carson \u2014 fully admit that there have been men who\u2019ve left their mark on the trio\u2019s sound.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what they told us recently about their country crushes.<\/p>\n

Mark Wystrach on George Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d probably have to say George Jones for me. My mom is the one who really turned me on to country music, and she always had a George Jones tape on in the truck. I think George is arguably one of the greatest voices of all time and so genuine. He was such an imperfect human being, but as an artist he was second to none. I was recently reading an article in the New York Times<\/em> about why \u2019He Stopped Loving Her Today\u2019 is the greatest song that\u2019s ever been made. And the writer was from New York City and didn\u2019t have a country background, but he was saying that song was so impactful and so heartfelt and so piercing that only a guy like George Jones could sing a song like that and then turn around and sing a long like \u2019White Lightning\u2019 right after that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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