Country Music

/ Country Music #41  
I play my Roger Miller CDs more than I listen to the Radio. I also try to make it to the Roger Miller Festival each year!
 
/ Country Music #42  
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMw2LKarXfw&feature=related]BILLY JACK WILLS - Tobacco Chewing Boogie - YouTube[/ame]
 
/ Country Music #43  
I like the old stuff also. Johnny Cash (Country Boy) really had a voice when compared to most of today's artists. Nothing wrong with Roger Miller (I aint coming home tonight), Patsy Cline (Crazy), Merle Haggert (The way I am), Waylon (Bob Wills is still the King), and Hank Jr (Montana Cafe) either. Check out those songs on Youtube.
 
/ Country Music #44  
I like Slim Dusty, he has been dead for a couple of years now but old school. Maybe I am as well. Here is a link to one of the songs Banjo Patterson written songs that he would perform. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW7rgnNqgjE]Slim Dusty - The Man From Snowy River - YouTube[/ame]
 
/ Country Music #45  
He also did trucking songs. Over 100 albums in his long life. Very few here in the US know about him, but he did appear at least once at the Grand Old Opre thing in Nashville.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x5UsEsIYag[/ame]
 
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/ Country Music #47  
I used to vacation down under, every year until the dollar went to heck, 3 weeks at at a time, the people still hold a great place in are hearts, but have had the road trains coming at us on dirt roads and learned to pull over for a couple of minutes to let the dust clear down so you can see to go on.
 
/ Country Music #48  
rekees4300 said:
I'm not a big country music fan but IMO Patsy Cline was is best female singer (country or otherwise) of all time!

On the other end of the spectrum, can somebody explain Taylor Swift to me? Is she suppose to be a singer or just-another-pretty-face?
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You and I agree 100%. Patsy Cline is the best of the best. Taylor Swift? She's supposed to be a singer, but she ain't. Rumor has it that her daddy has lots of money and bought her way in. That from somebody in Nashville.
 
/ Country Music #50  
I was neck deep in the music industry for years as a player, then later as a recording engineer. I was also on the board of governors in NARAS (Grammys). I played in a country band in my early 20s and it was the most fun I ever had. I got out of the music business years ago because it just wasn't fun anymore. I listen to today's country music but mostly because that's all my sons aged 14 & 7, want to listen to (at least while I'm around). I grow to like a lot of the stuff simply because I hear it so much. But, most all of it pales in comparison to the old stuff.

I don't usually watch any of the awards shows but the whole family sat down and watched the ACM awards and when Carrie Underwood came out and started singing that song Good Girl, I told my wife and kids "There's not one shred of anything related to country in the song!" Not the song, not the production of it, not her outfit, NOTHING!!!! It kind of ticked me off, but then I just had to realize that I am not who they are playing to. I don't buy CDs or mp3s unless it's something I really really find that I like.

Here's an artist that I found that I do like:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miIeU_kIljk&feature=related]gillian welch tennessee - YouTube[/ame]

The whole album is good.
 
/ Country Music #51  
I used to like Country over Pop because there were still INSTRUMENTS involved, and talented musicians who really knew how to use them. And song lyrics that actually SAID something. Most of that is gone now. Carrie Underwood?? Even from the American Idol days, she had a bad tendancy to SCREAM lyrics out. What makes screaming so good/popular?

I started listening to "bluegrass" by being introduced to New Grass Revival back in about 1980. Now where we are in TN has become (maybe more continued to be) a real hotbed of bluegrass activity (Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Daily & Vincent plus many others). I have a nephew that is in the E TN State U Bluegrass Pride Band. It has all really expanded my appreciation for bluegrass, and for the same reasons I used to like country.

Now if Sirius would please just go back their original Bluegrass channel format and quit constantly having a "DJ" that is determined to play mostly scratchy, dusty old stuff from the '40s as if it was so vastly superior to the really excellent stuff currently being produced!!
 
/ Country Music #52  
RobertN.
Is that counting:
- Traditional
- Newgrass
- Neo traditional
- Gospel bluegrass

:D

You forgot Truegrass. ;)
 
/ Country Music #53  
I'm probably a-lot younger than most commenting on this apparently (26). But I do enjoy some modern country artists. My favorites being Eric Church and Josh Thompson. More for the lyrics than anything. Also Toby Keith and Brantley Gilbert, Tim MCraw etc.. Forget about the taylor swift and carrie underwood, terrible. I do enjoy Hank Williams Jr also. Anyways just an opinion from a younger guy.
-Matt
 
/ Country Music #54  
I do enjoy some of the current Country. But, too much of it is Pop/Rock to me. And I like Rock... I just don't care for it in my Country so much. Some, but not tons. If I want rock, I'll go see Sammy Hagar or AC/DC.

mattridessleds said:
I'm probably a-lot younger than most commenting on this apparently (26). But I do enjoy some modern country artists. My favorites being Eric Church and Josh Thompson. More for the lyrics than anything. Also Toby Keith and Brantley Gilbert, Tim MCraw etc.. Forget about the taylor swift and carrie underwood, terrible. I do enjoy Hank Williams Jr also. Anyways just an opinion from a younger guy.
-Matt
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/ Country Music #55  
Every Saturday at 10am-PST, Erice Rice has the County Line Bluegrass show on 89.5fm/KVMR.org, east of Sacramento.

For his intro, someone asks about bluegrass. The intro then talks about a whole bunch of bluegrass styles, more than noted below. It's a funny intro...

That is worth listening to the webcast, from 10am-PST thru 4pm PST. A LOT of good bluegrass and country gets played in 3 different shows...

Thomas said:
RobertN.
Is that counting:
- Traditional
- Newgrass
- Neo traditional
- Gospel bluegrass

:D

You forgot Truegrass. ;)
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/ Country Music #57  
If music didn't change we'd all still be listening to Faron Young and the Beatles. They were great but so are Jason Aldein and Carrie Underwood. I can't say what makes great music great, but my ears sure can hear the difference.
 
/ Country Music #58  
Guess it is just a sign of the times. I'm 40, so a bit younger than most here, but older than some. I couldn't stand country music when I was growing up and Mom & Dad would play it. Couldn't stand George and Tammy. Nor could I stand Patsy Cline and her whining. I listened to 80s pop/rock with the hair bands. Somewhere in the early 90s music really started changing. Country became more like the 80s pop that I listened to and liked. Now I listen to very little current pop/rock but there are a few I like Katy Perry, Gaga, Nickleback, but for the most part I listen to today's country. One of the stations around here will play classic country. Guess what, I still don't like George & Tammy and if I never hear Patsy Cline sing Crazy again, that would be fine with me. I still don't like 50s, 60s, 70s Country.:laughing:
 
/ Country Music #59  
I agree this stuff they have not is not even music and there is no way to even tell if my kids are listening to illicit words cause I can't tell a word they are saying
 
/ Country Music #60  
I don't listen to modern music.

Pre-1990s Country & Western is great, after that, I wouldn't bother listening to find out.
 
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