Country Music (POLL)

[Miles Archer]

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	I'm a fan of country music's many multiple genres
	0 (0%)
	I don't like country music in any form
	13 (46%)
	I like "Alt-Country / Americana"...Son Volt, Wilco, all of that stuff.
	3 (11%)
	I like "Cowpunk"...loud guitar-based stuff like Jason & The Scorchers
	0 (0%)
	The only country I DON'T like is the bro country crap like Jason Aldean, the MAGA chest-thumping crap
	1 (4%)
	I like the old school Grand Ole Opry stuff, the real classic country
	6 (21%)
	I like "The Bakersfield Sound"...Buck Owens, Merle Haggard
	1 (4%)
	OTHER (please specify)
	4 (14%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Ocelot II]

1. I loathe country. It's auditory teargas, will drive me right out of a room.

[Skittles]

2. I find it very depressing

[ABC123Easy]

3. Not enough choices

I like Y'alternative country like Son Volt and Whiskeytown but also love the Bakersfield Buck Owens style PLUS Willie, Johnny, Waylon, and George.

Which category was for me?

[Americanme]

4. Hard to choose just one.

I like Americana, cowpunk, Bakersfield, but I most like old country, as far as country goes. I don't care for pop music with a country twang, I really dislike bro country. But, there is an audience for it, just not my taste. I also like Motown, punk, hard rock, reggae, classical, soul, almost everything.

[Miles Archer]

7. You and I are essentially on the same page

The whole Willie Nelson / Waylon Jennings "Outlaw" movement was basically a reaction to "pop twang" in Establishment Nashville.

I like the louder, grittier stuff, but no MAGA / right wing jingoistic politics in the lyrics.

And I do listen to a ton of Alt-Country.

[Wifes husband]

5. NO BUCK OWENS. NO HANK SNOW. NO PORTER WAGONER

George Jones only had one good song.

[lpbk2713]

10. And he didn't like it ...

until the royalties started rolling in.

[ms liberty]

6. Other: I appreciate much of it, and revere the roots music it came from

But to listen to any of it on a steady diet of more than a couple of songs in a row is just not for me. I enjoy Americana and Bluegrass most. I appreciate early C&W, bc I know my history as a southerner and a music fan. Bt...I'm not real fond of most of modern country music. The authenticity is so gone. Too much polish, not enough grit.

[FuzzyRabbit]

8. I've never heard of those people.

A mid-20s coworker said she loved country music. I said, I do too -- people like Buck Owens and the Buckeroos, Tammy Wynette, Patsy Kline, Hank Snow (whereupon an old timer at work started singing "I've Been Everywhere" ), Marty Robbins, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Slim Whitman and others of that era.

The 25 year old (who loved country music) then said "I've never heard of any of those people."

[Wifes husband]

11. Marty Robbins was great

You can have the rest. Except for George. (One song)

[MIButterfly]

9. I'm not a fan of country music, but there have been some country songs

that I thought had clever lyrics or a catchy tune. I don't like the oldtime songs with heavy twangs and whiny guitars and banjos at all.

I do, however, love Dolly Parton (who doesn't?). She is an extremely talented singer/songwriter and a national treasure.