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This is my kind of country...
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In the summer time I dont have to work during the day, its most 6 pm and on that i do most of my hard work, so during the day I get to obviously post on here, and watch TV ( i know lucky er, but I know I am)
Ive been a country music fan prob since my junior year of high school when my best friend on the golf team, we were sharing a hotel room on a tournament in Dallas, when he got me listening to it, now I add it to my eclectic tastes for music.
Ive noticed, more in the past year, that country seems to have like, not be country anymore.
Yeah you have guys like Brad Paisley and Dierks Benley and some other younger ones that like to keep it country. Another along those lines would be I think Alan Jackson and George Straight.
But sometimes CMT will show the EAGLES, The EAGLES?!?!? when did THEY become country??!?!
Cross Canadien Ragweed, IMO is a great band, are they country?? I dont know.
I mean, is it to the point now where its like Rock and roll,
you have many different versions?
Or is there no set definition for "country"
This is my kind of country...
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There is a quote somewhere in Johnny Cash's autobiography Cash (awesome book by the way) where he says that country music wasn't a genre that he and his peers subscribed to - it was a way of life and how they lived, and that's how it sounded. It also goes on to criticize a lot of modern "country" music for being cheap.
There are some people out there that still make really good stuff that could be considered "country" - I hate the modern country that's on the radio, but there is some beautiful country/folk/blues music out there that deserves to be tapped. Try Kathleen Edwards, some Lucinda Williams, or go back to the 70s and try some Dan Fogelberg, Flying Burrito Brothers, and Stephen Stills (Manassas is one of my favorite albums, and it's pretty much country, with Stills amazing vocals).
You talk about the Eagles being on CMT, but the early Eagles started out sounding very country, they just utilized more harmonies and electric guitar before others brought it in. The Eagles made it big first in places like Austin where there was (and still is) a huge appreciation for country music.
Really, it's hard now to categorize most music into any one genre, which is fine - I think the pure genres don't have much new to offer, so the artists out there are making their own sounds.
Well, I consider guys once again
George Straight
Blake Shelton
Alan Jackson
Brad Paisley
Dierks Bentley
I like modern country, but there is some stuff that i just scratch my head and am like
"Thats country?"
We got BOTH kinds of music, country and western...
The audience of the stuff you hear on the radio is mostly female, so really sappy lovesongs and "pop" country is what you hear...when a George Straight has digital voice effects (the 'Stars on the water' song), that's too much for me...
Whatever makes the music companies the most money is what they'll try to push as "country" to as many people who will buy it.
You could always listen to 680 KKYX
Dude, listen to the Eagles's "Take It Easy" (their first single - before becoming a big "rock" band) and tell me it doesn't sound country. Even the words are something you'd find in a country song by any of the guys you listed. Country goes way beyond a man and his guitar, which is pretty much the extent of what you listed.
Kevin Fowler. As country as it gets.
Dont get me wrong, Im not saying I dont like it.
I like everything from Rock to rap.
I like country for the reason they sing about REAL LIFE situations, real life things.
Rock and rollers , i mean, the lyrics i guess are too intelligent for me maybe thats my problem lol.
But country just seems to hit RIGHT AT THE heart of things that you feel, and things that you do, stuff like that.
I dunno.
Listening to country puts me in a place like, a lazy sunday afternoon in the hill country watching the NFL relaxing, and just hanging out.
Or at a bar with the guys drinkin and hangin out.
I dunno, country is just a real, and I guess comfortable genre of music, that puts me at ease I guess.
I dunno.
You sound like Tweek's dad.
Yeah, it takes a hat too.
i dunno.
I guess when i hear a song, i guess if it has a dobro in it, steel guitar once ina while, some steel guitar.
Instruments that give it a country sound and the singer have a country feel to it.
Dunno....
ive never seen South Park, so I dont get the joke.
Story of my life
"I dont get it" haha.
They're aren't a lot of musicians who are even writing their own music, so there isn't a lot of "real" music out there.
The "Texas Country" music ain't the best talent-wise, but there are some funny songs and real-world stuff, especially if you're a Texan.
Well I dont begrudge a guy for saying,
hey, im not that great of a song writer, lets use a guy in Nashville who just writes songs, go ahead.
Ya know, i dont understand the hate for a guy that doesn't write his own songs.
Dunno, guess Im not a true music enthusiast.
I'm not sure what your definition of Texas Country music is, but Texas can boast of being home to some of the finest songwriters in the world, such as Guy Clark, Terry Allen, Nathan Hamilton, Butch Han , Toni Price, Adam Carroll, Steve Earle, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Alejandro Escovedo, Billy Joe Shaver, Calvin Russell, Dale Watson, .... just to name a few.
There are tons of songwriters out there. WTF is this there is no one writing their own music bull ?
And you hear those guys all the time on the FM radio stations... inbetween the 40 Mr. & Mrs. Faith Hill songs per hour and the cover of a cover of a cover of a remake...
The truth is that most of the original music is relegated to the weekends or nights, and the equivalent to top 40 is played during the days & midweek.
And by talent-wise, I meant they have "songwriter's voices".
The truth is that some people aren't smart enough to find good music unless it comes on FM radio, but I won't name any names.
It aint me obviosuly.
but, good music I have found out, its subject to each person's tastes.
Like cars.
The truth is that MOST people aren't smart enough to find good music unless it comes on FM radio. So they listen to the crap they hear.
Manny, you would argue with a chainsaw...
The only country I can listen to is the "Texas" country variety. Pat Green, Jack Ingram, CCR, Charlie Robinson...all great stuff. I grew up listening to mainstream country with my parents until i discovered the outside world..today's country just seems too Pop to be called country.
Try "Drive by Truckers"....awesome music...in the alt-country mold.
Cowboy Troy is NOT country.
Big and Rich, while really nice guys, and really funny in person.
Not my cup of tea.
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