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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?
Here's the answer to the question at hand. https://youtu.be/r2DBxF_ncQU
it's because of this criminal
You are rights, he may have been one of the leaders back in the mid 90's :(
It's not country music, it's just pop music with big belt buckles and a twang.
I always hated that old time syrupy nasal toned weeping steel guitar crap. 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=Z8RPjjpbZhAAnother per�pe�tra�tor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih1JEbSJ3lM
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.NC
Old guys like Wiilie Nelson and Waylon Jennings? And Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZSLckCvgQ
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.NCCan'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.
Maybe we all simply got old It's called the music "business" for a reason . Dusty
Time marches on, and most things evolve along with it.