Country music thread

#477
#477
I've been listening to Jamie Johnson's album "The Guitar Song." Simply country music at its best and how country music should still be.
 
#479
#479
I have been listening to alot more late 80's-mid 90's country lately. I think it has to do with my recent trip back home and just kind of connecting back to my youth. I honestly think the last glimmer of country music died out in the mid 90's. For a long time i just assumed i moved on because i just wasn't "redneck" enough anymore but truth be told, it's just pop music in cowboy hats these days...
 
#480
#480
wounded mullet said:
I have been listening to alot more late 80's-mid 90's country lately. I think it has to do with my recent trip back home and just kind of connecting back to my youth. I honestly think the last glimmer of country music died out in the mid 90's. For a long time i just assumed i moved on because i just wasn't "redneck" enough anymore but truth be told, it's just pop music in cowboy hats these days...
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Gotta agree with this. But there are still a few artists keeping true country music alive.
 
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Vol_4_Life said:
Gotta agree with this. But there are still a few artists keeping true country music alive.
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Its a short list,to the point of this music genre being put on the endangered species list. I was just listening to the country music stations driving through Kentucky and Tennessee realizing why i stopped listening to the new stuff.
I blame three people for the downfall of country music, wasn't intentional just ended up being a catalyst for the **** we listen to today.

Billy Ray Cyrus- say what you want about his lameness but it started the "club country" sickness.

Brooks and Dunn- Boot Scootin' Boogie... Took Line dancing to another level.. wasn't about heartache and pain but about clubbing with a cowboy hat and getting laid.Not saying i didn't take advantage of this,but still it steered a great music genre into a world of crap. Keith Urban and Chesney did their damage as well.
What disappoints me more than anything is how history looks at Clint Black now, he deserved a better fate, just because he went head to head and lost to Garth didn't mean he sucked. Granted he never really seemed to develop past those first few albums.. but they were damn solid..
Alot of my elders say that country music died with Keith Whitley.. don't agree with that but i can see the argument ...
 
#482
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wounded mullet said:
Its a short list,to the point of this music genre being put on the endangered species list. I was just listening to the country music stations driving through Kentucky and Tennessee realizing why i stopped listening to the new stuff.
I blame three people for the downfall of country music, wasn't intentional just ended up being a catalyst for the **** we listen to today.

Billy Ray Cyrus- say what you want about his lameness but it started the "club country" sickness.

Brooks and Dunn- Boot Scootin' Boogie... Took Line dancing to another level.. wasn't about heartache and pain but about clubbing with a cowboy hat and getting laid.Not saying i didn't take advantage of this,but still it steered a great music genre into a world of crap. Keith Urban and Chesney did their damage as well.
What disappoints me more than anything is how history looks at Clint Black now, he deserved a better fate, just because he went head to head and lost to Garth didn't mean he sucked. Granted he never really seemed to develop past those first few albums.. but they were damn solid..
Alot of my elders say that country music died with Keith Whitley.. don't agree with that but i can see the argument ...
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Current "Country" artists I can't stand: Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Darius Rucker, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, and most of the rest of them.

Jamey Johnson is a breath of fresh air in modern Country music, though. George Strait has stayed true.
 
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#483
#483
wounded mullet said:
Its a short list,to the point of this music genre being put on the endangered species list. I was just listening to the country music stations driving through Kentucky and Tennessee realizing why i stopped listening to the new stuff.
I blame three people for the downfall of country music, wasn't intentional just ended up being a catalyst for the **** we listen to today.

Billy Ray Cyrus- say what you want about his lameness but it started the "club country" sickness.

Brooks and Dunn- Boot Scootin' Boogie... Took Line dancing to another level.. wasn't about heartache and pain but about clubbing with a cowboy hat and getting laid.Not saying i didn't take advantage of this,but still it steered a great music genre into a world of crap. Keith Urban and Chesney did their damage as well.
What disappoints me more than anything is how history looks at Clint Black now, he deserved a better fate, just because he went head to head and lost to Garth didn't mean he sucked. Granted he never really seemed to develop past those first few albums.. but they were damn solid..
Alot of my elders say that country music died with Keith Whitley.. don't agree with that but i can see the argument ...
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Whitley was great, and your elders may just be right.
 
#485
#485
Vol_4_Life said:
Current "Country" artists I can't stand: Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Darius Rucker, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, and most of the rest of them.
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Agree, and there are more from this era that I would add. The list would just be too long to type. I would also say if you made a list of worst songs and artist in country music history...most of them would come from todays garbage bin of talent.
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#489
#489
Lady Antebellum brings me as much pleasure listening to them as any group I've ever heard.
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#492
#492
George Strait, Travis Tritt, Randy Travis & Vince Gill are the names that come to mind for me when talking about true country performers of fairly recent time. There are probably others I am missing.
 
#494
#494
spent the first part of the evening on the phone with my family. Then I got to talk to one of my best friends in the world, and I've spent the past two hours listening to an iTunes Genius mix with Doug Stone, Keith Whitley, David Ball, Shenandoah, Mark Chestnutt, Tracy Lawrence, Tracy Byrd, Diamond Rio, Wade Hayes, Daryl Singletary and others. I think too many people forget that country music definitely had a true to it's roots revival in the mid nineties. I think there are a handful of artists that are ready to bring about another such revival.

Either way, it was a great night and I honestly forgot where I was for a little while.
 
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#496
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Vol_4_Life said:
Current "Country" artists I can't stand: Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Darius Rucker, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, and most of the rest of them.

Jamey Johnson is a breath of fresh air in modern Country music, though. George Strait has stayed true.
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Keith Urban is a talented musician.

It's a shame he is considered a country music guy because he's not anything remotely close to country music.
 
#500
#500
The only artists ill listen to are Eric church, justin moore, brantley gilbert, people like that. Dont get me wrong I like older ones like tritt. Im more of an outlaw country listener.
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