Country music??

[Momof1]

I hate to alienate myself so soon, but what are your thoughts on Country Music?

Modern -- Can't stand it myself

The Outlaws -- Loved them! Cash, Haggard, Willie, and Waylon

Traditional -- Growing to like it.

[sasquatch]

1. I grew up listening to country Now I'm pretty much a metalhead

I listen to Blues and Metal primarily. I recently bought a Cash CD and liked it so I'm planning on buying a Willie CD next.

[Momof1]

4. The Man Comes Around?

I want to get his American Recording where he does Tom Petty's "I won't back down" That was recorded in the early 90's I think. With Petty on that CD.

[sasquatch]

8. Yeah that's it

I can't wait to buy a Willie CD. They are the Outlaws the original country boy Dem.

[Momof1]

12. This fall Cash is coming

out with a box set of American recordings..Things that you haven't heard.

[sasquatch]

32. Cool

I'll look out for it.

[leftofthedial]

2. trad country is wonderful

alt country is often wonderful

'85 through '2002, Nashville country almost uniformly sucked. It was twangy pop, which is really nothing at all if you think about it.

Lately (last six months) country is starting to find a voice again. Pop has picked up and left town, moving back to LA. Good riddance.

Outlaw country was terrific.

[Bossy Monkey]

3. The Outlaws was a two-hit wonder band

the other outfit was called Tompall Glaser's Outlaw Band and featured
Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, Willie Nelson, Tompall Glaser. The Outlaws were best known for "There Goes Another Love Song" and "Ghost Riders in the Sky"; no known famous people in this outfit. http://entertainment.msn.com/artist/?artist=105503

I pretty much hate country as peddled by Nashville; hugely love bluegrass.

Edit: to give them their second hit

[leftofthedial]

7. Outlaw country

Waylon and Willie

Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys

Jerry Jeff and the Lost Gonzos

etc.

[billbuckhead]

33. Don't forget David Alan Coe's, "Willie, Waylon and me"

:smoke:

[Rocinante]

5. Traditional

I grew up watching Porter Waggoner and Miss Dolly (Parton) and numerous other shows like that on WSM Nashville when I was a kid. I got over it pretty quick when I got older. Rock & Roll took over.

[Syrinx]

6. i love outlaws and traditional

And neocountry :) like Kasey Chambers.

[Shanty Oilish]

9. Try to imagine a world without it

The rest is city music. We'd know something was missing.

ps: Likewise, country cooking. Yum!

[tedoll78]

10. Allow me a moment to vomit.

Country music puts me in the mood to molest farm animals.

Few exceptions: Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline.

[Momof1]

11. thats not fair, I don't think anyone mentioned

an artist that is being played on the radio now. I think the programming is a little influenced with corporate shit.

[tedoll78]

16. You're right.

That "I wanna talk about me"/"that don't impress me much" crap is horrible, and it's 99% marketing.

[durutti]

13. I love Johnny Cash

Great country artist who is no Republican. I'm into Steve Earle, Mojo Nixon, and Slim Cessna's Auto Club, too.

[leftofthedial]

23. how'd you know about Slim Cessna?

[REP]

14. Hank Williams

Johnny Cash, Terry Allen, traditional bluegrass ... lots of great country music that hasn't been heard on radio since before I was born. Couldn't pay me to listen to the shit that's on the radio.

[liberalpress]

31. check out

www.wsmonline.com and listen to their programming. Should be right up your alley

[pansypoo53219]

15. gimme

country BLUES. son house, robert johnson, and a wonderful discovery the Mississippi Shieks.

[mitchum]

20. The country BLUES is the best country music...

if you like The Mississippi Sheiks (one of the great band names), check out Gus Cannon's Jugstompers

[NashVegas]

17. Jimmie Dale Gilmore

I'm not a real country music fan - I've hated it for most of my life.

But damn, I love this song:

http://www.rlyrics.com/J%5CJimmieDaleGilmore/JustAWave.ASP

[ornotna]

28. Jimmie is verry good

His work is not the same old Nashville pop.

[KG]

18. theres a ton of great music being made today that's got a little twang

to it...

goes by many names - americana, roots rock, rock a billy, folk. and it's roots are in the 'traditional' side of country. intelligent lyrics, kicking music.

steve earle and his 'twang trust', jimmy lafave, lucinda williams, tift merritt, dave alvin, robert earl keen, and about a thousand others...

if you looked into that genre of 'country' i'm sure you'd find something to like. i just started exploring this kind of music and constantly finding some new artists that knock me out. :)

[nuxvomica]

19. Popular Country has totally sucked for a long time

But I like the Roots stuff very much and the Outlaws are good and Bluegrass too. Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is probably my all-time favorite, followed by "Will the Circle be Unbroken". My brother, who is a musician, has a serious Rockabilly addiction. That stuff ain't half-bad either.

[NightTrain]

21. I tend to like the old stuff

Hank Williams, Webb Pierce, George Jones, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline....

[oneighty]

22. How can one not like country music!

The thinking involved is deep. "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On the Bedpost Overnight?"

is indeed a question to ponder on those long winter nights.

I also have Kristofferson (sp), Cash, Dixie Chicks, Lee Hazelwood/ Nancy Sinatra, Conway Twitty, Jerry Lee

Tanya Tucker, to name a few.

I went a few times to "The Capital Arena" in DC to the Jimmy Dean show, that was always a good time.

In this part of NY State we got more country and western bands per square foot then Tennesee!

"May the Bird of Paradise Fly up Your Nose"

180

[leftofthedial]

24. Pop moved into Nashville in the mid-80's

Resulting in a complete gutting of country music. Popular country for the last decade and a half has been a soulless version of twangy pop music. Now the industry is paying the price. CD sales are down even further than for the rock-pop industry

The good news is, pop has moved out of Nashville. Pop is ahomeless vagabond that looks for some sleazy drunk to shack up with for awhile. It has had its fling with Nashville and is off looking for some strange. Country seems to be (knock on wood) gradually regaining its soul. What's on commercial country radio now is better and more country than its been for years. There's still too much pop dreck, but there also is more of substance.

Now, substance in country music is not necessarily everyone's cup of tea. This new country has more of a rock edge to it, but country themes are starting to emerge again: drinking, cheating, working person's blues, having a simple good time. Like middle America, it will also include a dose of reactionary, shallow, even jingoistic content, but if it truly does regain its voice, I think country music has enormous potential to galvanize working class America toward the simple progressive ideals that in our hearts we share.

[ChemEng]

25. Ever listen to Don Edwards?

He is from the western part of Country and Western. The cowboy ballads are the best. Especially "Colorado Trail", "Springtime in the Rockies" and "I'd Like to be Back in Texas When They Roundup in the Spring."

I also like Texas swing, especially Bob Wills and Ernest Tubbs. Ernest Tubb's "Soldier's Last Letter" will jerk a tear from you.

[newyawker99]

26. Congrats Feminist_man!! 100 posts

A :toast: for your first milestone!! :-)

[ChemEng]

27. Thanks Newyawker99!!!!

Appreciate that!

[lpbk2713]

29. I weaned off of C&W in the early 80's.........

......it seemed that the "C" artists were all coming out of cookie cutters and the "W" was non-existent. But even today I'd like to hear something by Bobby Bare, Tom T Hall, Tanya Tucker, Merle Haggard, The Oakridge Boys and a few others I can't think of at the moment.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

30. I LOVE twangy guitars ..Merle, Buck, the old classic stuff

I like the new country that sticks to those roots but don't care for the 70's rock redux country.