You can thank Garth and Shania for leading country music down this path. This glitter Nashville type of music has no generative potential whatsoever for future growth. It will just have to die its slow ugly relegation into the depths of elevator music, which is already happening but in the middle of a road bump thanks to the zombies that populate our suburbs and have an insatiable appetite for big trucks. Real country music, the one made by poor rural people with limited prospects and broken hearts, will take some time to overcome this blight upon itself, but sure enough it will recover. Until then you may have to tolerate the hipster / bearded tendencies of some of the musicians and fanbases who still hearken back to people like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, or Townes van Zandt. People always seem to place a hard divider between country and folk and Americana (which does contain many bands I don't enjoy), but to me if I was a rural person then I would be gravitating back towards folk until country proved to me it could right its own ship. Singers like Bonnie Prince Billy or Patty Griffin or Tift Merritt but maybe not Justin Vernon/Bon Iver or anyone who falls under his umbrella. A RESOUNDING Yes to Gillian Welch and David Rawlings who are essentially musical priests, members of the clan of bards who don't have children and devote their lives instead to the recording of oral tradition, those timeless songs composed by men long dead. And then if you're like me (and I guarantee you aren't) then you're also a bluegrass fan and a fan in general of the female voice. If Kacey Musgraves is what you thought was your thing, then think again. My endorsement in this category goes to the Railsplitters (them's great people), and then to more popular acts like Crooked Still, Joy Kills Sorrow, Sarah Jarosz, and Anais Mitchell. And as you can imagine popular in bluegrass still ain't that popular.
No doubt it's unlistenable, and I have to spend too much time around other people playing ****ty music. I will say that I don't think that a whole lot of yall know what "country music" is outside of the stereotypical NashVegas crap.
If you like country and have SiriusXM, but can't stand the NashVegas crap, check out Outlaw Country on channel 60. Some very good stuff is played there.
Yep, music evolves too...generally to its fans desires. So what you guys are really hating is the fans taste. And I do enjoy the older country style myself.
In my opinion, the last of "good country" died sometime around the mid 90's. Early 90's to late 80's still had some gems out there. One of my favorite station is in Houston is Country Legends 97.1. Sure they play a lot of the songs over and over again, but I can never get tired of the classics.
Pop Country genre started when Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban and Brad Paisley started blowing up. Now you've got guys like Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, and Cole Swindell who are basically of the same ilk.
Can someone post a pic for me of Gene Clark's No Other. Not sure it fits, but I just heard this for the first time recently and fell in love.
There's like over 15-20 cds in there. thing weighs a ton when put all together. Seems like this guy put out a new album every damn month
I apologize in advance for telling you this, but the only country singer I've listened to more than once are Faith Hill and...Shania Twain (don't hate me)
Saw Jamie Johnson open for Kid Rock last year and he was awesome. He did a great job singing some Patsy Cline. Wish I could have seen him again last week at the House of Blues. The main stream country singers will put out a good song every now and then. Out of the main stream acts I still enjoy Blake and Miranda. When I want a more country sound I like listening to Aaron Watson and Cody Johnson.
