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Rocky4

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Dude, it's the Internet. Chill out. Listen to country music on the radio and it's all happy stuff. I like it. God damn

 

Lets watch the poddy mouth, young man! Seriously, I like the flavor of the old stuff, and am somewhat of a bluegrass fan. The Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack is great!. Hank Williams Sr (NOT Jr) Doc Watson, Cash, etc. I get watching the Time Life Country Hits Off The Past commercials and can't change the channel. Check out Acousticity if your local public radio carries it.

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liquidfusion

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I grew up listening to R&B, and country. Then when I was old enough to make my own choices its been rock, and country.... Im a fan of country music, from Waylon, Cash, Hank, Willie, all the way up to the new guys like Zac Brown Band, Brantley Gilbert, Jason Aldean, Gary Allan.... Out here on the border you have two choices if your in a band looking to get paid....

 

Country, or Tejano/Cumbia (<-----Mexican Polka Music)

 

What Im not a fan of is the way the music industry has gone away from musicianship in favor of the next uber marketable karaoke teen sensations...

 

Bruce

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Jeff-7

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I'm in Kansas so it's a given that I do listen to some country music. Ledoux was great, as well as Yoakam, Clint Black, Strait, and Brooks. The newer stuff I listen to is mainly Gary Allan, some Brooks & Dunn, a little Keith Urban (he can play pretty darn well), and some Jason Aldean. Oh and Dierks Bentley, his music is just plain fun to listen to.

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jaxson50

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As the old joke goes, we had both forms of music in our home- Country and Western!

My dad played guitar and sang with Hank Thompson at the Honky Tonks around San Diego after WWII, I remember going to the old Bostonia Ball Room with mom and dad and watching them rehearse for a show..he was Uncle Hank to us..but mom hated having women swooning at dad, so she put the brakes on that...Dad became a cop...

One of my favorite country singers who seems to remain under the radar these days is Don Williams. He had one of the best voices in the business and he always found great songs...If I knew how to post youtube here I would..

Other artist everyone overlooks today is Tom T Hall-Bobby Bare- Hoyt Axton- and the great one....Marty Robbins...

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In my opinion, most country is WAY more depressing than rock, blues, etc. I do dig some country, mostly older stuff, in my neck of the woods you have to.

Zac Brown is pretty good, though, for the most part I hate newer country.

 

Here's some of the country I like [thumbup] (Though back then I think they called it "Country and Western")

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dXR5Dk8YNw[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9coh7mBHwr4[/YOUTUBE]

Im with you but you forgot about Johnny Cash

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jaxson50

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Haven't heard anyone say "Tubular" since 1985.

The proper form is "All hat and no saddle"...It refers to big city Dandy's and drug store cowboys who would go west and spend all their money on fancy boots, hats and buckles then buy a cheap saddle. After a few hours riding in a ill fitted, poorly made saddle the Dandy's would be trading off their Stetsons and fancy hand tooled boots and silver buckles for a better saddle..

My grand dad was a old cowboy, a real hard boiled one..born in a Soddy in Stockton Kansas, drove cattle as a kid and as a young man in Alpine Texas was employed as a regulator by the West Texas Cattleman's Association (translated=he hunted down rustlers) we still have his Colt peacemaker in .41 cal. He traded a "Dandy" $5.00 cash and 5 lbs. of beans for it in 1901..the fool had come out to Texas from St. Louis to be a cowboy, spent all his cash on boots and hats and that Colt, got out on the trail with no grub....

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milod

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Jax...

 

Your grandpa and mine sound rather similar except mine didn't get so much into the law side of stuff. He did say my grandma was awfully good with a handgun picking off jackrabbits from the porch.

 

He was born in '73 in western Kansas. Didn't marry until around 1900 or so.

 

m

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jaxson50

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Jax...

 

Your grandpa and mine sound rather similar except mine didn't get so much into the law side of stuff. He did say my grandma was awfully good with a handgun picking off jackrabbits from the porch.

 

He was born in '73 in western Kansas. Didn't marry until around 1900 or so.

 

m

I think we can agree, they don't make'm like that anymore....that generation was born before automobiles and indoor plumbing, before airplanes and stop lghts, no super markets...going out for fast food meant chasing a chicken down with a hatchet!

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dbreslauer

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I've been listening to Chet Atkins lately: wow. Also Albert Lee, Jerry Donahue, Roy Clark & Joe Pass, although those aren't really "country" per se.... But honestly some of this stuff, whole songs go by and I am so focused on the playing, I couldn't even tell you if there were any words.

 

 

And I love the Bob's Country Bunker scene in The Blues Brothers: "we got both kinds...". [biggrin]

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I view country like I view hip hop: Most of it is garbage, but the artists that are good are really good. The Highway Men? F'ing ace! Garth Brooks? Worthless. I don't care how many albums the guy has sold. If I have to hear Friends In Low Places I am going to puke.

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milod

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Evol...

 

Garth's okay. Great range; storyteller tradition from the old folk days... In ways what I'm saying is pretty much what Chris said in the beginning of the vid I put a jump to earlier: It's all the same stuff, just said in different ways.

 

One thing about lyrics are that they can say different things different ways. I've heard stuff virtually identical to "friends in low places" long before Brooks came along.

 

Actually I think one difference with a lotta "country" musicians is that when they're paid to do so, or when they're so inclined, most of them can manage to handle other styles quite well - just not necessarily the current teen "rock" of the day.

 

Some rock guys can do the same. Depending on definition, so can some blues guys but again, the so-called "country" guys are doing what they do for money because it's part of their musical being they enjoy. That doesn't mean it's necessarily all of their musical being.

 

Heck, I dunno about you, but if you listen to a whole load of Chet Atkins, try telling me it's all "country." Listen to a lotta pedal steel and with the chords and such, tell me it ain't a different style of jazz. Or whatta you call Roy Buchanan doing "Sweet Dreams" on that tele?

 

I'll tell you straight up I don't listen to current country - but I don't listen to current rock or jazz or even blues much. There's too much I don't know about earlier stuff.

 

At that, what is the old "western swing?" I dunno.

 

I remember my Dad telling me I sounded like hillbillies he'd met in the service when I picked the five-string and sang "Jesse James" some 45 years ago. Yeah, I suppose in ways I did. But at what point is sounding like something outside one's comfort zone necessarily bad?

 

I guess I have personally a pretty broad musical comfort zone - although I dislike rap I've heard and some current "rock" whatever its subgenre might be - but I know a lotta city electric blues guys can't stand some of the old acoustic country blues and that doesn't make good sense to me.

 

Country a la Garth is kinda a western swing updated to rock. Kinda ditto some of the Western Underground stuff. Frankly I think it's fun.

 

But then I also don't care that much for UmPah polkas, but I can tell you I've had fun playing them.

 

m

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evol.

I spent the winter of 1971 playing in a C&W band playing casinos across Nevada, every set some old dried out juiced up cow puncher would drop a 10 or a 20 into the tip jar and demand we play On The Wings of a Snow White Dove...I hate that song to this day...but we had a blast..there was not speed limit on the freeways in Nevada at the time and every three weeks I would jump in my 62' Impala and stand on it! 120 mph or so all the way to the Utah line on my way to SLC to see my honey....blowing past troopers and waving at them as they faded in my mirror....We played at a wedding once at one casino, a very rich 80 year old rancher married a 30 year old gal from one of the "ranches" on a Sunday afternoon, in Wells Nevada, I bet she earned every dollar she inherited... [thumbup]

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EVOL!

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Milod and Jaxson50,

 

I hear what you're saying. It is all country and on a higher level it is all music. Being a bit of an audio snob, delivery matters to me a lot. I don't dig on a lot of Nashville produced country because it is so produced. Garth Brooks was a big part of making that sound the norm. I like my music with more dirt on it.

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