Country Music Didn't "Die"...

[CremeBrulee]

you just hear what radio and Nashville think will sell the most ad space.

 

[L.K.Eder]

.... it just smells funny

 

[CremeBrulee]

 

[CremeBrulee]

.... it just smells funny

It does smell funny at times.

 

[CremeBrulee]

 

[CremeBrulee]

Probably some people here that can appreciate this.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I have been listening to Country Music for damn neart 60 years... Taste is very subjective when it comes to music... Good Country music is a lot like porn, I know it when I hear it...

 

[CremeBrulee]

I have been listening to Country Music for damn neart 60 years... Taste is very subjective when it comes to music... Good Country music is a lot like porn, I know it when I hear it...

Very true. Granted I don't have 60 years under my hat, but I also think it's a misnomer to claim the genre "dead" because it's heavily commercialized these days. If that's the standard than almost all music is dead. I saw some comments to that effect in another thread that made me create this one. Was trying to show that just because Taylor Swift, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Kane Brown, etc are popular doesn't mean everybody has sold out. In fact, there are some pretty great songs about sellouts lol. I'd love for you or anyone else for that matter to provide some of examples of good country music (that phrase will definitely lead to some absolute dog shit) "current" or otherwise. I have a pretty good handle on the genre but there is always something out there you forget about or haven't heard.

 

[CremeBrulee]

Not a big Lee Ann Womack fan but there is this.

 

[MarcATL]

Very true. Granted I don't have 60 years under my hat, but I also think it's a misnomer to claim the genre "dead" because it's heavily commercialized these days. If that's the standard than almost all music is dead. I saw some comments to that effect in another thread that made me create this one. Was trying to show that just because Taylor Swift, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Kane Brown, etc are popular doesn't mean everybody has sold out. In fact, there are some pretty great songs about sellouts lol. I'd love for you or anyone else for that matter to provide some of examples of good country music (that phrase will definitely lead to some absolute dog shit) "current" or otherwise. I have a pretty good handle on the genre but there is always something out there you forget about or haven't heard.

Taylor Swift isn't considered country music?

 

[Ridgerunner]

^^^^

I more than likely misrepresented myself when I said I have been listening to Country Music for 60 years... I haven't listened to hardly any New and I emphasize New Country music in the last 20 years... When I drop a quarter in the (stream music) juke box I play music that might be older than dirt... This maybe the first time I have heard a Jamey Johnson tune and I am really impressed... Ms. Womack I have heard of and enjoyed but it was years ago... I don't listen to radio and I sure in the hell don't watch Pat yourself on the back award shows on the tube... So I limit myself on what I am exposed to...
I watch memorials and Tributes on Youtube to musicians that have passed and shed tears because there gone... I am still mourning the loss of John Prine... One 14 people that has watched a close to 3 hour funeral service for Leon Russell... Was almost suicidal when we lost "the Hag"... I live in the past I suppose and I need to get out more...
I listened to all the songs you posted... Thanks...

 

[Harry Dresden]

real country music died sometime last century.....

 

[Ridgerunner]

Taylor Swift isn't considered country music?

Taylor Swift's Best Country Songs Show Off Her Skills As A Songwriter

From country music star to pop sensation, Taylor Swift has not forgotten her country roots. Here are 12 of her best country songs.

www.wideopencountry.com

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Taylor Swift's Best Country Songs Show Off Her Skills As A Songwriter

From country music star to pop sensation, Taylor Swift has not forgotten her country roots. Here are 12 of her best country songs.

www.wideopencountry.com

When was the last time she had a country song?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Not a big Lee Ann Womack fan but there is this.

When I seen this I immediately thought a heavyset young Kris Kristofferson...

(Huge Kristofferson fan)...

 

[CremeBrulee]

I haven't listened to hardly any New and I emphasize New Country music in the last 20 years...

I haven't listened to most of the crap being pushed out by Nashville in decades. For or better or worse, I was raised on what my parents listened to from the 50s to 70s.

When I drop a quarter in the (stream music) juke box

That might be the best phrase I have heard in a long time.

This maybe the first time I have heard a Jamey Johnson tune and I am really impressed... Ms. Womack I have heard of and enjoyed but it was years ago... I don't listen to radio and I sure in the hell don't watch Pat yourself on the back award shows on the tube... So I limit myself on what I am exposed to...

I don't listen to that shit either. Chance led me that song.

 

[CremeBrulee]

I watch memorials and Tributes on Youtube to musicians that have passed and shed tears because there gone... I am still mourning the loss of John Prine... One 14 people that has watched a close to 3 hour funeral service for Leon Russell... Was almost suicidal when we lost "the Hag"... I live in the past I suppose and I need to get out more...

Haven't heard much of either of those two but twill take a look. Like you said, you know what you like when you hear it. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[CremeBrulee]

When was the last time she had a country song?

Lol. I'd say never but that is just me.

 

[Ridgerunner]

When was the last time she had a country song?

Despite her transition from country music to pop, the superstar has not completely turned her back on her country roots. In 2017, she won a CMA Award for writing Little Big Town 's "Better Man ...

Granted she is not Tammy Wynette or Loretta Lynn but she started out in Country Music and became a crossover star and followed the big bucks... She is quite the self promoter...

 

[CremeBrulee]

real country music died sometime last century.....

Nooo. Similar to rock, hip hop, r&b, whatever; corporate media and radio, controls a lot of whom or what gets made.