Country music thread

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volfanbill said:
He's changed as the radio play has. But you're right, it's always been for radio. As "An American Soldier", I hope I never hear that song nor the stupid boot in your a** song again.

Based on titles alone (and that's probably as far as I can ever get because I won't be listening), this sounds more like goofy, fun songs than traditional country.
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There was some awful "patriotic" music Post 9/11. There was some touching and quality stuff, but American Soldier might be the dumbest song ever written.
 
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Toujours Pret said:
There was some awful "patriotic" music Post 9/11. There was some touching and quality stuff, but American Soldier might be the dumbest song ever written.
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I enjoyed Alan Jackson's "Where Were You", but I give Alan Jackson a lot more leeway than Toby Keith, who is clearly pushing the agenda for fan appeal. I've mentioned numerous Jackson is my all time fave, so maybe I'm giving him too much credit. Outside of that song (and I even got tired of it because of it's massive overplay), I don't know of any I enjoyed. Of course, I wasn't enlisted then.
 
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Yeah, it was a bunch of mediocre stuff expedited out to catch a market wave.

I kind of like "Letters From Home". Paradise by Craig Morgan is good but that predates 9/11
 
#1,505
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I've been listening to some Bobby Bare lately. My version of new music consists largely of digging up old CDs that I haven't heard in a decade or so.
 
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Toujours Pret said:
Yeah, it was a bunch of mediocre stuff expedited out to catch a market wave.

I kind of like "Letters From Home". Paradise by Craig Morgan is good but that predates 9/11
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I really like Letters From Home. Didn't consider it as a patriotic song per se, just a war song. Along the lines of Galveston by Glenn Campbell and Traveling Soldier by the Dixie Chicks, both huge favorites of mine. But I see the connection, my bad.
 
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volfanbill said:
I really like Letters From Home. Didn't consider it as a patriotic song per se, just a war song. Along the lines of Galveston by Glenn Campbell and Traveling Soldier by the Dixie Chicks, both huge favorites of mine. But I see the connection, my bad.
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Letters from home is amazing. There's really not a patriotic song I don't like. I love Toby Keith's, I guess everybody just has different taste. I grew up with Toby too, so that could be a factor.
 
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Dallasbowlin said:
Letters from home is amazing. There's really not a patriotic song I don't like. I love Toby Keith's, I guess everybody just has different taste. I grew up with Toby too, so that could be a factor.
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It really hurts you that you didn't grow up in the 80s and 90s. You grew up after the neo traditional country era, when pop became prevalent again. Toby started neo country but changed when he saw it was losing favor with radio. Then he just flat out sold out to doo doo music for the fans. He throws more cliches than FGL. By the way, I meant hurts you as far as this thread goes. You grew up on a different a country than most in here did. It's probably why you get so much heat.

and since I'm on that subject, Garth was neo country. Stayed that way through most of his run. His shows were electric, but his music was always fairly neo country. Too many critics confuse how he acted live vs what his music sounded like. Can only imagine what they would've thought of Chris Ledoux had he gone mainstream with his music.
 
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and btw, "Now I'm a little longer and not afraid to cry" is as truthful a line as you'll find anywhere for a Soldier. Just real talk there. Back to regular scheduled programming.
 
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volfanbill said:
and btw, "Now I'm a little longer and not afraid to cry" is as truthful a line as you'll find anywhere for a Soldier. Just real talk there. Back to regular scheduled programming.
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I have a few random moments a year where I'll sit alone and turn on the waterworks remembering friends lost and the good and bad times we had playing army. It really is a great line.
 
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volfanbill said:
It really hurts you that you didn't grow up in the 80s and 90s. You grew up after the neo traditional country era, when pop became prevalent again. Toby started neo country but changed when he saw it was losing favor with radio. Then he just flat out sold out to doo doo music for the fans. He throws more cliches than FGL.

and since I'm on that subject, Garth was neo country. Stayed that way through most of his run. His shows were electric, but his music was always fairly neo country. Too many critics confuse how he acted live vs what his music sounded like. Can only imagine what they would've thought of Chris Ledoux had he gone mainstream with his music.
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Compare Toby's music back in the day to what you hear today, and I'd take Toby all day everyday. Yeah, he has some pandering, but songs like: who's that man,upstairs downtown, Victoria's Secret, dream walking, he ain't worth missing,mama come quick, I can't take you anywhere, blue moon, and wish I didn't know are some of my favorite songs still to this day. They may not be lyrical masterpieces, but they don't have to be. They are what they are.
 
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Everything you named is from his early, still neo country days. I like those songs. Around 2000-ish though he began mixing good stuff with dreck, and slowly went all dreck, just throwing in random cliches that the masses like to hear. Playing up military support, small town America, farming, big trucks, being a redneck, etc. Often times, fitting all of those cliches into each song.
 
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volfanbill said:
Everything you named is from his early, still neo country days. I like those songs. Around 2000-ish though he began mixing good stuff with dreck, and slowly went all dreck, just throwing in random cliches that the masses like to hear. Playing up military support, small town America, farming, big trucks, being a redneck, etc. Often times, fitting all of those cliches into each song.
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I can agree there. Some songs I like from that era, but it's definitely when his music got worse.
 
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volfanbill said:
I've mentioned numerous Jackson is my all time fave, so maybe I'm giving him too much credit.
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I thought he might have had dementia when he recorded "www.memory". That's about the time I turned off country radio for should, how hard they tried to force that down the public's throat.
 
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I just had the funniest conversation at a record store, I walk in an there's this older gentleman working the counter, he seemed kinda hateful at first, then the more I was in there he started talking more, but it really got good when I got a Dolly Parton album to the register to check out, he saw it and said" man, look at them big ole breast, she ain't got no torso, all bobbies. Man, she got some big ole boobies" I just about lost it 😂
 
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Jason Isbell's new album is another great one. Amazing songwriter. "If We Were Vampires" is a haunting, nontraditional love song that really sticks with you. "Anxiety" shows his willingness to share his painful side.
 
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NochNoch said:
Still patiently awaiting my physical copy to show up but, in the meantime, if you are interested to hearing it early the streaming version of Purgatory just made it to npr this morning.

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/53839...=nprmusic&utm_term=music&utm_content=20170727

Only two songs in so far (one of which is just a different version of one I already knew) and I think I already have a new favorite album of the year.
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I'm two songs in right now as well, and I can't remember what all has came out this year so I'll have to go back and check, but it's close to my favorite as well.
 
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Just finished. Universal sound is probably the worst song on there, and "I swear " is probably the best imo. I went back and checked the releases for 2017, and figured I'd Throw a top 10 together. I own all of these albums except for luke combs and Tyler's, of course.





Top 10
10.Luke combs "here's to you"

9.gethen Jenkins "where the honkytonk belongs"

8.chris Stapleton "from a room"

7.Daryle singletary &a Rhonda Vincent "American grandstand"

6 wheeler walker jr "ol wheeler"

5 Jon Wolfe "any night in Texas

4.Aaron Watson "vaquero"

3.Tyler Childers "purgatory"

2.sunny Sweeney "trophy"

1.Colter wall "colter wall"
 
#1,524
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I think at this point it's safe to say Bluebonnets has replaced Elephant as my favorite song of this century.

To add to my current Aaron Watson obsession, Texas Lullaby is my favorite song of 2017.
 
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volfanbill said:
I think at this point it's safe to say Bluebonnets has replaced Elephant as my favorite song of this century.

To add to my current Aaron Watson obsession, Texas Lullaby is my favorite song of 2017.
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Texas lullaby is a beautiful song.same with blue bonnets. Aaron is a very underrated song writer.
 
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