New 20 ounce tumblers available now! Forum donation credit with purchase. https://www.wildguzzi.com/Products/products.htm#Tumbler
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???????
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?
Has there been a country artist since Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys?
Well, this might start a shit storm but this Dead Head has done the best country music I've heard in years. I will admit that I am not a great country music fan,"Ki-Yi Bossie"In a cold church basement one November Friday nightCome along, come alongIn a 12 Step meeting under harsh fluorescent lightNow that's bright, hey come onI know I deserve to be there, but I don't remember whyI was looking for salvation, but nothing caught my eyeMy turn to tell my story, and I guess it's worth a tryCome along, come alongCome along, come alongCome a ki-yi bossie, come a bossie, come alongCome a ki-yi bossie, come alongCome a ki-yi bossie, come a bossie, come alongCome along, come alongCome along, come alongWell I guess she had other interests, she had something else to doYou OK, well me tooSo tell me watcha gonna, watcha gonna, watcha gonna doWell OK, boo-hooSo now the happy hour is raining on my shoesAnd it's not all that important which poison that you chooseWhen you're tuning up to sing the rum and coke and whiskey blueAnd that melody comes through, and now you're paying your duesCome a ki-yi bossie, come a bossie, come alongCome a ki-yi bossie, come alongCome a ki-yi bossie, come a bossie, come alongCome along, come alongCome along, come alongBack before I drove a pickup and I took up buckin bailsCome along, come alongI was looking high and low for meaning, I was into saving whales Before they're all goneBut the weeds grow high, and that's where it all beginsWhen I stop to wonder why, that was fertile ground for sinJust pour some whiskey on it, and watch the fun beginCome along, come alongWhat could possibly go wrongHere pour a little whiskey on that fertile patch of soilCome along, come alongSprinkle in a little heartache, watch the ground begin to boilNow it's coming on strongAs it starts to take its shape, there ain't nothing there to likeYou best have quick reactions, it'll rattle, coil and strikeTime to change the scenery, it's time to hit the pikeAnd OK, I'm goneThey say each of us has meaning , time to bring that all to light (note 1)Well alright, right onCome along, come alongCome a ki-yi bossie, come a bossie, come alongCome a ki-yi bossie, come along
Even Bob wasn't really country , more the prototype for bands like Marshall Tucker . No doubt Bob and his band were amazing , he was one of the greatest band leaders ever , smart too , he would point to a different player during a song to solo for 10 bars , do that repeatedly , next thing they were thru a 2 hour show and Bob hadn't even broken a sweat Dusty
The Grateful Dead (with Jerry) will never be equaled but somebody needs to tell Bob Weir he's no Willie Nelson. From a HUGE Willie and Real Country fan.
I guess you didn't like the record and didn't care much for the lyrics posted? I think it's a great record but see no comparison to WIllie. I am a fan of Willie and used to go his picnics when he owned that golf course west of Austin. I can like both. BTW- what was Willie's last record?
He's just not terribly talented and is a product of the system as is his daughter.
He's the real deal. As always, there is a percentage of quality country music to be found but it's getting farther apart and further between
I disagree. It's going strong.. but, as you said... it isn't being played in Nashville, and it's been rebranded. It's out there. Just gotta look for it. And it's 100% worth it.Ever listen to Sturgill Simpson?
I was a country music DJ on the air in Charlotte, NC beginning in 1989 and ending in 1998. During that time, I had the privilege of being on-air at one of the original "Outlaw Country" stations, 96.9 WTDR. From my perspective, you always have a percentage of poseurs and wanna-bes and a percentage of the real deal. The ratio really started to slide toward the poseurs with Billy Ray Cyrus. Watching him hump a mic stand while "singing" the national anthem with a fake tear stuck to his face at the start of the world series really raised my awareness. To be honest, he is a very nice guy and very humble. He's just not terribly talented and is a product of the system as is his daughter. Country music really jumped the shark with Shania Twain who I referred to on-air as "Def Leppard in cowboy boots" - and that was before I knew she had married Def Leppard's producer. I still love old country and western music - Willie and Merle and even back to Hank Snow, Marty Robbins and Eddy Arnold. I can listen to a song nowadays and tell if it was produced in Nashville because to my ears, almost everything coming out of Nashville is crap. Getcher country music someplace other than Nashville. Texas gave us Ray Wylie Hubbard who I just saw in Atlanta last Thursday. He's the real deal. As always, there is a percentage of quality country music to be found but it's getting farther apart and further between. I blame Nashville greed-heads in the mid 1990s.
Chris LeDoux changed it for the better.
Closest I can get. Most of the newer stuff is a cross between country and rap, also known as crap. 90% of it is sorry-ass ballads that you won't remember long. https://youtu.be/4zAThXFOy2c