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Ron Green

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6. The Nashville Product is a phony thing.

Reply to orangecrush (Original post)

Sun Jun 6, 2021, 06:48 PM

Jun 2021

It’s light rock with a fiddle, steel guitar and a George Jones wannabe, waxing nostalgic about a white patriarchal world.

Hewing to the roots is a more complex and difficult thing, and although there are some admirable practitioners today (Gillian Welch comes to mind, and Rhiannon Giddens is pretty awesome) the money is still, as always, with the Philistines.

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Fake Twang: How White Conservatism Stole Country Music [View all] orangecrush Jun 2021 OP

Commercial "country music" has little of what made it the music of the people, long ago. hlthe2b Jun 2021 #1

And New Country is a pandering lifestyle selling mess underpants Jun 2021 #2

That's why us cool kids listen to Americana/Roots rock Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2021 #3

If It Did... ProfessorGAC Jun 2021 #4

reminds me of what Elvis did to Rock and Roll DBoon Jun 2021 #5

The Nashville Product is a phony thing. Ron Green Jun 2021 #6

If they stole country music, don't report them. Chainfire Jun 2021 #7

X2 Cosmocat Jun 2021 #33

Banjo was appropriated from SE Indian Tribes in US - Choctaw, Chickasaw, and I think Seminole Hestia Jun 2021 #8

That doc was so good! blogslug Jun 2021 #10

Rumble was excellent!! Duppers Jun 2021 #11

Except DNA testing doesn't support the NA admixture... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2021 #13

Thanks for this post orangecrush Jun 2021 #22

Tag this onto your emails. dianaredwing Jun 2021 #9

K & R Duppers Jun 2021 #12

It makes me gag. we can do it Jun 2021 #14

Speaking of fake twang, I heard evangelical... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2021 #15

+1, they love to front shallow characterchures of southerness uponit7771 Jun 2021 #17

K&R, Its what? 1500 radio stations dedicated to GQP perspective in rural areas & only a few that uponit7771 Jun 2021 #16

Yup. orangecrush Jun 2021 #23

Hank Williams learned to play the guitar . . . AverageOldGuy Jun 2021 #18

Truth. orangecrush Jun 2021 #27

I think I would country music. It's just the politics are a major turn off. Initech Jun 2021 #19

Tractor rap orangecrush Jun 2021 #24

Tractor rap, I like it! Initech Jun 2021 #28

This crap they call "country music" nowadays is what they play in hell Mysterian Jun 2021 #20

I call it propaganda. orangecrush Jun 2021 #25

Actually I think country rap is what they play in hell. Initech Jun 2021 #30

My general rule of thumb on country music: Tommy Carcetti Jun 2021 #21

Bluegrass orangecrush Jun 2021 #26

Windows down, scream along to some America First rap country song, a slaughterhouse, an outlet mall hurl Jun 2021 #29

9/11 ruined country music. Crowman2009 Jun 2021 #31

There are still some big country artists that don't do the patriotic/Bro country BS FrankBooth Jun 2021 #32