Georgy Zhukov Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Growing up, I used to think country music is basically a bunch of buck-toothed cross-eyed sister-fucking hicks singing about their cheating dogs and dead wives or the other way around. Then I saw that movie Walk the Line and I realized there wasn't much distinction between Johnny Cash or Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis at the time. Now it seems that a lot of young people are getting into it. City girls who dress up in cowboy boots and hats and date guys in pickup trucks. Is everyone getting hay fever? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncivil war Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Just like all forms of music, country has some great stuff and some really bad stuff. You just need to keep an open mind, give something new a try and not disregard an artist only on what genre they have been placed in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted July 19, 2014 Author Share Posted July 19, 2014 So what are some good country? And what makes country, country? The steel guitars? The singing style? The image? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bacardimayne Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Most country artists weren't rockstars like Johnny Cash though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted July 19, 2014 Author Share Posted July 19, 2014 Most country artists weren't rockstars like Johnny Cash though.Johnny Cash was Johnny Cash. You can label him country but he borderlines rock and roll. Can't tell me Get Rhythm is a true country song. Cocaine Blues and Folsom Prison Blues were true rock songs. Then you have Walk The Line, Ring of Fire, Man in Black, Cry Cry Cry. Those were real country songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bran Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 i like a fair amount of old school country. the new stuff is garbage to me, i can never understand the fascination with the stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncivil war Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 I'm a huge Cash fan. I have been listening to a lot of his later work, the American Recordings I - VI (especially IV through VI), and though his voice is failing, some of these songs I feel are his best. The honesty of an elderly man coming to terms with his own mortality and accepting it is really moving. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted July 19, 2014 Author Share Posted July 19, 2014 Saw Junior Brown open for Bob Dylan. That was incredible. I guess a lot of the new popular country is called country alternative? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bran Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Saw Junior Brown open for Bob Dylan. That was incredible. I guess a lot of the new popular country is called country alternative? i guess it just sounds like pop music with a southern drawl to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted July 19, 2014 Author Share Posted July 19, 2014 Saw Junior Brown open for Bob Dylan. That was incredible. I guess a lot of the new popular country is called country alternative? i guess it just sounds like pop music with a southern drawl to me. That is actually the description I was looking for. Pop music with steel guitars and violins and southern drawls. Almost like the instruments were an afterthought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrandyk Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 I like classic country music, because it's actually country music. Anything you hear on the radio today is better classified as Nashville Pop. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foghat43 Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 (edited) i like a fair amount of old school country. the new stuff is garbage to me, i can never understand the fascination with the stuff. Agree 100% with this. And as far as the old school stuff...Merle Haggard is one of my personal favorites...well, when it comes to country anyway. Edited July 19, 2014 by foghat43 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEXzilla Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 To be honest Johnny Cash ain't got shit on real country acts like George Jones, Merl Haggard, George Strait, etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR DOOM Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Just like all forms of music, country has some great stuff and some really bad stuff. You just need to keep an open mind, give something new a try and not disregard an artist only on what genre they have been placed in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supercool Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 (edited) in the nineties, there was a wave of young indie artists trying to refresh country music, it was called "alternative country" or something like that (palace brothers, tarnation, etc.) this is awesome too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthology_of_American_Folk_Music Edited July 19, 2014 by supercool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real McCoy Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Being that I work at a modern country radio station, you know which side of the fence that I'm on with this one.Outside of Cash, I really don't care for much traditional country stuff. Absolutely love the new stuff, though. Keith Urban being my favorite. Dude can shred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted July 19, 2014 Author Share Posted July 19, 2014 Got a video of Keith Urban shredding? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zint Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 I've always had a reasonable regard for old school country, and there is some nu-country that I can handle.Both have their share of crap and absolute gems, it comes down to which tunes resonate with you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetness Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 i like a fair amount of old school country. the new stuff is garbage to me, i can never understand the fascination with the stuff. this word for word Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real McCoy Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 (edited) Got a video of Keith Urban shredding?http://youtu.be/w0G-4sNp8B4http://youtu.be/l3wjBjo5xH4 Edited July 19, 2014 by The Real McCoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEXzilla Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Idk but most of the modern country music(really starting in the mid 00s) tend to be bad rock singers/bands with some fiddle meddling in there to make it seem like country. I think the genre has gone to shit like most other genres in music(Rock is dead and rap is weak). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real McCoy Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Billboard named this song the "#1 Country Song Of the First Decade Of the 21st Century." It was released in 2002 on Keith's "Golden Road" album. To be fair, this is the radio edit, and it omits a pretty cool coda and refrain towards the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 This is the type of stuff that I was brought up on:Jones, Rich, Haggard, Pride, Hank Sr, Cline, Cash, etc.That's why in the 80s and 90s I stuck with people I view as cut from that cloth; Garth, Dwight, Jackson, Tritt, Straight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 I'm in Nashville, so I kinda have to go to a country music show, but I hate country music. I don't know what to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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