Country music

Yeah, and when you play the song backwards the dude gets his wife back, fixes his truck and brings his dog back to life.

 

The Rock n Roll of the 70s sounds like the Country s--- today... Help me Merle, I'm breaking out in a Nashville rash. - Dale Watson

 

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country music is some of the best music to drive to.

and there's a lot of crossover with folk music -- guitars and story telling...

...not that i would admit that out loud....

 

I LOVE Country.

Kenny Chesney, George Strait, Toby Keith and Alan Jackson rock. And the woman are drop dead gorgeous. But some of the “country” music out there today can pass for pop and that’s getting pretty damn annoying.

 

I like some of the "old" country... Johnnie Cash, Patsy Cline, Lorretta Lynn and the like

I haven't heard anything contemporary I like, as of yet
granted, I don't listen to everything that comes out b/c most songs make me want to take a sudden right hand turn off the Pasadena toll bridge

 

I have really been getting into country music over the past few years myself. I really like classic country music- Buck Owens, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Tammy Wynette, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash. I also really enjoy the country music that has emerged outside of Nashville in the last few decades. Dwight Yokum, Steve Earle and all of the alt-country stuff and the music that inspired them like the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Byrds and Gram Parsons. The best country music have great stories that can be really, really funny and really, really sad. I think that the Bakersfield-style telecaster guitar playing created by Don Rich from the Buckaroos (Buck Owens band) is amongst my favourite guitar sounds. Great stuff. The further away from the South, the more I like country music..lol.

 

Post pics of these women you speak of.

 

I like classic country and "Urban Cowboy" era country.

 

i hate country music. not that it's a bad type of music, but it jsut doesn't help when just about every song reminds me of an exgirlfriend.

at least with metal, if it reminds me of ex, it'll be about how to chop her head off and bury her body in the neighbors backyard.














I kid, i kid.

 

I probably should appreciate it, but I hate it, anyway.

I can't stand treacle. I can't stand syrup. Most of all, I can't stand lap steel guitar (see above).

This is not to say Hank Williams (Sr.) wasn't a cool songwriter. (doble negative - I guess I can get away with that). Or that Patsy Cline didn't have an otherworldly heartache. There's good artists, that work in that genre, that rise above the norm. Sure. Sure there are. Waylon Jennings "like-a-D-O-G" is stupid genius. But you asked about the genre as a whole. As a whole, yuck.

A lot of self-satisfied pricks congratulating themselves for being backward, like it's some kind of virtue. Great.

Tell me why it's good to proclaim you're better when you're more
"Kountry". Sick.

 

If it is old school country, I can listen. I like bluegrass. I like the outsiders like Rosanne Cash, kd lang and Lyle Lovett. But any of that crossover, new country/rock/pop stuff just sounds boring as hell. And I get physically ill when I hear honkey tonk music - particularly new stuff like Toby Keith. I feel queezy when I hear it.

Nashville is the perfect music machine for turning out really average, cliched music. Sit in a room all day and write songs - 9 to 5 all day. Very uncreative and you get a completely watered down product, but it is effective.

It's like the difference between John Coltrane and Kenny G or Ernest Hemmingway and a Harlequin romance or a painting by Picasso and one done for the wall of a hotel room. There's nothing really wrong with the mass-produced stuff, but it has nothing to do with art and is often really cheesy.

 

That is going to be tough considering that IMG is turned off for this forum.

I have a couple of country CDs, but I would hardly call myself a fan of it. I have just never gotten into it.

 

For me Country Music Begins and Ends with Willie Nelson. I can tolerate most of the other stuff from the late 60s and 70's because I grew up with it. I like the singer song writer Lyle Lovett type stuff but hate the pop country that they play on the mainstream country stations now. The female singers are easy on the eyes though.

 

I like some country stuff. I like Brad Paisley, but not necessarily his stuff that gets a lot of play on the radio. I like it when he has a Telecaster in his hands. That boy can play. He always puts an instrumental on each album that just makes me shake my head.

And then there's Junior Brown. He can play a little bit too.

 

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That new country stuff just sounds like somebody said "you know, this old country stuff is kinda boring... let's sing country to a pop beat!"

I don't really care for too much country music, but I can listen to it. A lot of it sounds like a bunch of whiny, depressing songs. For some reason I did buy Randy Travis' greatest hits Vol 1 and Vol 2 once. There were about 3 songs of his I really liked.

If you go way the heck back to Patsy Cline... that woman's singing gives me nightmares. Great voice, but listening to that at night if I have the lights off and am trying to fall asleep gives me nightmares. Something spooky, eery, and haunting about her voice.

 

Jeff,
I can't stand Keith (except for the song that made Peter Jennings mad ), but I am curious what you mean by "honky tonk country". I tend to think of acts like The Derailers, Dale Watson, and Wayne Hancock as honky tonk country, and I really like those guys.