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When did country music get hijacked?
« on: June 24, 2018, 08:07:45 AM »
Not a huge fan of country music but I've always gravitated to Hank Williams, Ronnie Milsap, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Randy Travis, George Strait, Alabama.

Recently I was working in a customers home and she asked me... "Mind if I put on some country music?" I said fine.

After about 1 hour of listening to the "New Country" I unplugged it from the wall! I was working around the receptical and could not help myself.

It's seems like a combination of Swing, Rap and other stuff all mixed together that I can't stand! How many words can the squeeze into a sentence?

What happened to it and when did it get hijacked?
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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2018, 08:17:19 AM »
Not a huge fan of country music but I've always gravitated to Hank Williams, Ronnie Milsap, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Randy Travis, George Strait, Alabama.

Recently I was working in a customers home and she asked me... "Mind if I put on some country music?" I said fine.

After about 1 hour of listening to the "New Country" I unplugged it from the wall! I was working around the receptical and could not help myself.

It's seems like a combination of Swing, Rap and other stuff all mixed together that I can't stand! How many words can the squeeze into a sentence?

What happened to it and when did it get hijacked?
I grew up with haggard and jones and yes I love the old school country music and will not listen to the country these days. That being Said, I don't think it's a "hacked" thing. I just think the music today is the young kids music which has evolved from my area. My dad's music was not like mine nor his dads like his. That's life, same as old school guzzies as aposed to new. It's just how life works.
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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2018, 08:23:45 AM »
The good news is , you can still play it backwards and your  girlfriend will come back and your truck will start.

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2018, 08:28:20 AM »
Larry Cordle, one of my favorite bluegrass pickers explains it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dof1_eVnf1I

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2018, 08:31:55 AM »
It's not country music, it's just pop music with big belt buckles and a twang.
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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2018, 08:48:31 AM »
One of my least favorite forms of music. But I would say the timing of the change you are noting comes from Taylor Swift. Not the beginning of the change but the acceptance of the change. The beginning of being mainstream.

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2018, 09:00:45 AM »
Check out Kacey Musgraves with John prime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A-pRJxCKR8
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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2018, 09:16:36 AM »
I enjoy most types of music, 'cept rap, and disco  :sad:
I do like some of the "modern" country. This is just one example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9hOMetw7qI

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2018, 09:17:23 AM »
Here's the answer to the question at hand. https://youtu.be/r2DBxF_ncQU

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2018, 09:44:57 AM »
Here's the answer to the question at hand. https://youtu.be/r2DBxF_ncQU


Hmmmm, never heard that one.
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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2018, 10:10:03 AM »
Lots of great country & western music out there.  You just won't hear it on top 40 corporate radio stations.  Well, there are a few guys like Chris Stapleton who are the real-deal that you hear between the rap and screaming rock guitar stuff they normally play.  I can't hack it.  Luckily, we have a vintage country station locally that mostly plays good ol' good uns.

If you use Pandora, you can find the real-deal. Lots of singers/song writers out there across the country, that haven't sold out, who put out some great music.

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #11 on: June 24, 2018, 10:12:15 AM »
Not a huge fan of country music but I've always gravitated to Hank Williams, Ronnie Milsap, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Randy Travis, George Strait, Alabama.

Recently I was working in a customers home and she asked me... "Mind if I put on some country music?" I said fine.

After about 1 hour of listening to the "New Country" I unplugged it from the wall! I was working around the receptical and could not help myself.

It's seems like a combination of Swing, Rap and other stuff all mixed together that I can't stand! How many words can the squeeze into a sentence?

What happened to it and when did it get hijacked?


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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #12 on: June 24, 2018, 11:02:18 AM »
it's because of this criminal


You are rights, he may have been one of the leaders back in the mid 90's :(

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #13 on: June 24, 2018, 11:22:45 AM »
You are rights, he may have been one of the leaders back in the mid 90's :(

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #14 on: June 24, 2018, 11:32:34 AM »
I would not blame Garth Brooks. He modernized country music but did not sterilize it.

Old guys like Wiilie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were too caught up in the drunken bar room sound of country music.  If you are going to blame Garth Brooks then you should start with maybe Alabama and then Randy Travis.  All three of these acts help pull country music out of the trailer park.  Now  I think country should always be country but I don't think Garth Brooks was NOT a genuine country music artist.  He just didn't come across like an uneducated hillbilly and had massive crossover success.

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2018, 11:55:05 AM »
It's not country music, it's just pop music with big belt buckles and a twang.

Somebody once said " That's not country, that's just bad rock ".
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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2018, 12:03:55 PM »
I always hated that old time syrupy nasal toned weeping steel guitar crap.  :grin: If one must assign "blame" to "hijacking" country music, lay it at the feet of The Byrds.  Byrds drummer Gene Parsons invented the "B Bender" string bender so a  guitarist (beginning with Clarence White) could bend his B string to emulate a steel guitar. After that, EmmyLou Harris, Graham Parsons, the Eagles, Pure Prairie League, Marshall Tucker, on and on blended Country, Rock, Blues, etc. Some I hate some I love.
 
 Parson's B bender:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxQhbvke44I   More B bender:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8RPjjpbZhA

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #17 on: June 24, 2018, 12:14:33 PM »
I always hated that old time syrupy nasal toned weeping steel guitar crap.  :grin: If one must assign "blame" to "hijacking" country music, lay it at the feet of The Byrds.  Byrds drummer Gene Parsons invented the "B Bender" string bender so a  guitarist (beginning with Clarence White) could bend his B string to emulate a steel guitar. After that, EmmyLou Harris, Graham Parsons, the Eagles, Pure Prairie League, Marshall Tucker, on and on blended Country, Rock, Blues, etc. Some I hate some I love.
 
 Parson's B bender:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxQhbvke44I   More B bender:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8RPjjpbZhA

Another per�pe�tra�tor   :laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih1JEbSJ3lM

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #18 on: June 24, 2018, 12:49:39 PM »
 Maybe we all simply got old  :grin: 

 It's called the music "business" for a reason .

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #19 on: June 24, 2018, 01:25:53 PM »
I would not blame Garth Brooks. He modernized country music but did not sterilize it.

Old guys like Wiilie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were too caught up in the drunken bar room sound of country music.  If you are going to blame Garth Brooks then you should start with maybe Alabama and then Randy Travis.  All three of these acts help pull country music out of the trailer park.  Now  I think country should always be country but I don't think Garth Brooks was NOT a genuine country music artist.  He just didn't come across like an uneducated hillbilly and had massive crossover success.

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Old guys like Wiilie Nelson and Waylon Jennings? And Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson?
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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #20 on: June 24, 2018, 01:28:02 PM »
Old guys like Wiilie Nelson and Waylon Jennings? And Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZSLckCvgQ

Just listened to an early version of Kris singing "Sunday Morning Coming Down" what a tune!
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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #21 on: June 24, 2018, 01:31:24 PM »
I would not blame Garth Brooks. He modernized country music but did not sterilize it.

Old guys like Wiilie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were too caught up in the drunken bar room sound of country music.  If you are going to blame Garth Brooks then you should start with maybe Alabama and then Randy Travis.  All three of these acts help pull country music out of the trailer park.  Now  I think country should always be country but I don't think Garth Brooks was NOT a genuine country music artist.  He just didn't come across like an uneducated hillbilly and had massive crossover success.

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Can't agree with your take on Randy Travis, if you know country music you should know he came in tradition and went out just the same.

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #22 on: June 24, 2018, 01:37:41 PM »
Maybe we all simply got old  :grin: 

 It's called the music "business" for a reason .

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #23 on: June 24, 2018, 02:07:54 PM »
I don't listen to country anymore either, just classic country, blues, classic rock, jazz, Cajun, and from time to big band.
I say the same thing about new rock, don' t care for it either.  Maybe its me....

the new stuff is pop music, or that Hic Hop as they say, nothing I want to hear.
wife likes it, but I won't listen to it.

It started going down hill when they moved CMA to Las Vegas, IMO.

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #24 on: June 24, 2018, 03:15:15 PM »
Here's the answer to the question at hand. https://youtu.be/r2DBxF_ncQU

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #25 on: June 24, 2018, 04:14:52 PM »
I would not blame Garth Brooks. He modernized country music but did not sterilize it.

Old guys like Wiilie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were too caught up in the drunken bar room sound of country music.  If you are going to blame Garth Brooks then you should start with maybe Alabama and then Randy Travis.  All three of these acts help pull country music out of the trailer park.  Now  I think country should always be country but I don't think Garth Brooks was NOT a genuine country music artist.  He just didn't come across like an uneducated hillbilly and had massive crossover success.

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #26 on: June 24, 2018, 04:19:59 PM »
Time marches on, and most things evolve along with it.

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #27 on: June 24, 2018, 04:20:44 PM »
Willie and Waylon ain't ta blame!

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Even with someone they love
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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #28 on: June 24, 2018, 04:22:24 PM »
Time marches on, and most things evolve along with it.
And not always for the better.  :sad:

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Re: When did country music get hijacked?
« Reply #29 on: June 24, 2018, 04:59:24 PM »
I think Garth Brooks; Brooks and Dunn along with Taylor Swift and Shania Twain are all equally to blame. Along with the absolute theft of Southern R+R. Hard to listen to the radio at times. Country music in LV???????

 

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