Country music thread

[Toujours Pret]

I prefer "Bake Me a Country Ham"

 

[Dallasbowlin]

I am now a huge fan of old salt union. I highly recommend them.

 

[BEATBAMA12]

Anyone going to Minglewood hall tonite to see Paul cauthen? Wish I could go, didn't try and take off in time.

 

[Hoosier_Vol]

Today is Troy Gentry's funeral

 

[Kingston Vol]

Jason Isabell nominated for cma country album of the year. Sucks it's probably his worst album yet, but well deserved as an artist

It's his worst in the same way one of Michaelangelo's painting has to be his worst. They're all masterpieces.

 

[Dallasbowlin]

It's his worst in the same way one of Michaelangelo's painting has to be his worst. They're all masterpieces.

I didn't even buy this one. It's just not that good imo. He deserves this one though

 

[Kingston Vol]

I didn't even buy this one. It's just not that good imo. He deserves this one though

I'm going to take a wild guess: you don't lean that way politically.

 

[NochNoch]

I didn't even buy this one. It's just not that good imo. He deserves this one though

I'm on record as saying that TNS is my least favorite of his albums but, even though you are entitled to your opinion, I feel I need to inform you that your opinion is wrong.

 

[Kingston Vol]

I'm on record as saying that TNS is my least favorite of his albums but, even though you are entitled to your opinion, I feel I need to inform you that your opinion is wrong.

If We Were Vampires is right there with Cover Me Up as his best song ever.

 

[Sin City Vol]

Today is Troy Gentry's funeral

I hate to see anyone pass away but lost all respect for the guy when he put a tame black bear in an enclosed area just so he could say he killed a black bear.

 

[volfanbill]

I didn't even buy this one. It's just not that good imo. He deserves this one though

It's better than at least 95% of the crap you've tried to turn us onto

 

[Dallasbowlin]

I'm going to take a wild guess: you don't lean that way politically.

Well,no, but I don't judge artist by their political views. "If we were vampires" and "tupelo" are great songs. The rest i just don't find country.

 

[NochNoch]

If We Were Vampires is right there with Cover Me Up as his best song ever.

Any discussion of his best song ever has to include Elephant for me but I do agree that the two you listed are great songs.

 

[Kingston Vol]

Any discussion of his best song ever has to include Elephant for me but I do agree that the two you listed are great songs.

Oh, for sure. And Codeine is up there for me too. Speed Trap Town, If It Takes A Lifetime, Flying Over Water, etc. We could do this all day.

 

[Kingston Vol]

Well,no, but I don't judge artist by their political views. "If we were vampires" and "tupelo" are great songs. The rest i just don't find country.

Oh okay, gotcha. Yeah, this is his least country album since the last 400 Unit one. The CMA's are making up for totally ignoring Southeastern by giving him this nomination. It's the same reason Stapleton is the Entertainer of the Year and Sturgill is going to sweep the awards following whatever his next album is. They owe him.

 

[volfanbill]

The lyrics to elephant are just so powerful. Absolutely raw with no sugar coating or trying to pretty up the situation. Yet the lyrics and music flow so well.

I love 24 frames, live oak, flying over water, color of a cloudy day, vampires, and last of my kind.

Speaking of, how do you not see last of my kind as country? Especially based on the garbage you've posted in this thread?

 

[Dallasbowlin]

The lyrics to elephant are just so powerful. Absolutely raw with no sugar coating or trying to pretty up the situation. Yet the lyrics and music flow so well.

I love 24 frames, live oak, flying over water, color of a cloudy day, vampires, and last of my kind.

Speaking of, how do you not see last of my kind as country? Especially based on the garbage you've posted in this thread?

It's a country song, I just don't really like it lol. Isbell is a great artist, and the best songwriter alive, but he's just not my go to.

 

[volfanbill]

It's a country song, I just don't really like it lol. Isbell is a great artist, and the best songwriter alive, but he's just not my go to.

Do you understand that not liking a song is different than what you posted last night?

 

[Dallasbowlin]

Do you understand that not liking a song is different than what you posted last night?

Most of the album is not country. There's a few songs. Even Jason says it's not country

 

[volfanbill]

Most of the album is not country. There's a few songs. Even Jason says it's not country

He's said it's not CMA music. Where does he specify what he writes though?

 

[Dallasbowlin]

He's said it's not CMA music. Where does he specify what he writes though?

Jason Isbell is not a country musician, and he will be the first to admit that. In fact that’s the first thing he did after the CMA nominations were announced Monday. In a very smart statement that said so much by saying so little, Isbell tweeted out, “We’re grateful for the CMA recognition. Happy to be included in a category with some real country artists.”

While at the same time taking a subtle jab at artists who are not real country, Jason Isbell was also admitting subtly that he was not country himself, especially compared to Chris Stapleton and Miranda Lambert—two of his fellow Album of the Year nominees. So how and why are we supposed to give Jason Isbell a pass for not being country and receiving a nomination, when we give no quarter to artists who are clearly not country and receive the same thing?

Savincountrymusic.com

 

[Kingston Vol]

Savincountrymusic.com

Trigger is reaching on this one. As I said earlier, this album isn't strictly country and it's not supposed to be. But you find me a more country song than Tupelo recorded this year.

I also think, in that tweet, that he's happy to be nominated with Stapleton and Lambert - two acts he's expressed appreciation for in the past.

 

[Dallasbowlin]

Trigger is reaching on this one. As I said earlier, this album isn't strictly country and it's not supposed to be. But you find me a more country song than Tupelo recorded this year.

I also think, in that tweet, that he's happy to be nominated with Stapleton and Lambert - two acts he's expressed appreciation for in the past.

https://youtu.be/8YVsHsZYn0M

Could be, but I can see where trigger is coming from too.

 

[volfanbill]

Savincountrymusic.com

Seriously reaching. He states he doesn't like the CMA sound in the rest of that interview. Never says anything about his sound or genre. He rarely does

 

[Toujours Pret]

Walker Montgomery is a good act but he dives way too hard into Bro Country.

Life's a Dance is a severely underrated song.

Casey Donahew is the best live Red Dirt act in the game.