Country Music
HowardCosell1990
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Anyone here a country music fan? I like Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmy Dean, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, and some others too. Looking forward to hearing your favorites!
Country Music
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I like that "Tarkio". There's a block for me with the country genre. My dad.
His old stuff, 60-70's and I can tolerate it, but I wouldn't go for new stuff. I got angry about the relationship, drinking and job shit. Pisses me off, and maybe the wrong adrenaline fix? Not sure?
I found Chesney and Pink and I can get my Pink fix, and deal with the topic and actions of this song. That's what gets me on some of it, the topics. Odd, I can listen to really visceral topics with heavy techno, psychedelic funk, Rap or whatever fits my mood, but country sort of sabotages it? So does rockabilly, or stuff like it. The same thing happens to me with most Jazz. Classical too, unless Pavarotti were singing. He's something else. Some Classics are Ok, but man, I'm not going to tolerate much. Deep metal, death metal, or acid metal isn't my thing either. I don't look for death, and evil with metal, I look for kick ass. I love "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, but not all versions. I'll look for the right one.
Too here's Chesney and Pink:
[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys3rIUl3FFU[/video]
This is the "Free Bird" version:
I know it the first strumming-
[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGopskR5jSM[/video]
His old stuff, 60-70's and I can tolerate it, but I wouldn't go for new stuff. I got angry about the relationship, drinking and job shit. Pisses me off, and maybe the wrong adrenaline fix? Not sure?
I found Chesney and Pink and I can get my Pink fix, and deal with the topic and actions of this song. That's what gets me on some of it, the topics. Odd, I can listen to really visceral topics with heavy techno, psychedelic funk, Rap or whatever fits my mood, but country sort of sabotages it? So does rockabilly, or stuff like it. The same thing happens to me with most Jazz. Classical too, unless Pavarotti were singing. He's something else. Some Classics are Ok, but man, I'm not going to tolerate much. Deep metal, death metal, or acid metal isn't my thing either. I don't look for death, and evil with metal, I look for kick ass. I love "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, but not all versions. I'll look for the right one.
Too here's Chesney and Pink:
[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys3rIUl3FFU[/video]
This is the "Free Bird" version:
I know it the first strumming-
[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGopskR5jSM[/video]
Darius "Hootie" Rucker put his voice to the Country genre and I can dig it.
I found he played at "Daryl's House" too; a cool series I just discovered.
Here's a session at "Daryl's House" with Darius Rucker, some nice rockin' country:
[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdB-fGpR4_k[/video]
I found he played at "Daryl's House" too; a cool series I just discovered.
Here's a session at "Daryl's House" with Darius Rucker, some nice rockin' country:
[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdB-fGpR4_k[/video]
HowardCosell1990 said:
GUILTY! I *LOVE* the older country from the 50's, 60's, 70's & 80's.
George Jones is my all time #1
Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Charlie Pride, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Tom T Hall, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Sheb Wooly, Red Sovine... I can go on and on.
I was a city kid, but one of my step mothers used to constantly flip through car radio stations like a guy with a tv remote, often she would stop on the one country station NYC used to have back then. For some reason all those songs resonated with me, perhaps it was the pain in them, the singing about reality and not just some fluff. Anyway I was hooked from about 11 on.
I *LOVE* watching the old Hee Haw shows with Buck & Roy and all the others, too. That brings back some of the few happy memories from childhood I had while my mother was still alive (she died when I was five), I remember watching the show with my parents back then.
I was lucky enough to see locally, George Jones twice in concert & Loretta Lynn once. I've been to Nashville and the Grand Old Opry twice.
My phone has all my music on it, I listen to a lot of different genres of music, but the old country is my favorite.
I even have an old juke box that plays 45's, most of that is loaded up with my old Country, I just had to replace a Tammy Wynette record recently as is was wore out.
My Wife likes it too, only one out of my three kids likes it, the other two think its depressing and awful
Growing up my two Brothers HATED when I'd play my music, but now many years later they both like it, go figure? " I was country when country wasn't cool"....
Chris4TheMill
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Mercy! It finally happened - I've sort of grown to appreciate country music. Well, some of it anyway....
I have always been Mr. "Anything but rap, opera, salsa, and (most) country."
But I find myself lately being entranced by...Lady Antebellum!
I started listening to them on Amazon Prime and can't seem to get enough right now (hopefully just a phase, lol!).
I suppose the seeds were planted years ago when I found myself liking songs from Faith Hill and Shania Twain.
And can't forget the best one of all - Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance." One of my favorite songs ever.
I just generally get turned off by modern country artists, as most seem to be corporate-imaged, impossibly pretty faces singing rehashed ditties about time-worn topics that don't always resonate (e.g. I don't go to bars or drink whiskey, don't have a truck that i drive on dirt roads, don't get to enjoy kisses with "pretty little mamas" or "sweet little something's," yada yada).
Lady Antebellum has plenty of that corporate slickness for sure. But what they do, they do so well - and with less offensiveness - that I am willing to pay attention. Plus, they write some darn good songs.
And as I always say, a good song is a good song, no matter the genre. Guessin' I gotta own up to that now!
I have always been Mr. "Anything but rap, opera, salsa, and (most) country."
But I find myself lately being entranced by...Lady Antebellum!
I started listening to them on Amazon Prime and can't seem to get enough right now (hopefully just a phase, lol!).
I suppose the seeds were planted years ago when I found myself liking songs from Faith Hill and Shania Twain.
And can't forget the best one of all - Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance." One of my favorite songs ever.
I just generally get turned off by modern country artists, as most seem to be corporate-imaged, impossibly pretty faces singing rehashed ditties about time-worn topics that don't always resonate (e.g. I don't go to bars or drink whiskey, don't have a truck that i drive on dirt roads, don't get to enjoy kisses with "pretty little mamas" or "sweet little something's," yada yada).
Lady Antebellum has plenty of that corporate slickness for sure. But what they do, they do so well - and with less offensiveness - that I am willing to pay attention. Plus, they write some darn good songs.
And as I always say, a good song is a good song, no matter the genre. Guessin' I gotta own up to that now!
I listen to everything, well maybe not polka.... I am partial to stuff I grew up with Statler brother, Alabama, Dolly, Ricky Skags, Willy Nelson, Waylon Jennings, John Denver to name a few.
Others: brooks and Dunn, Garth brooks, Allison Krouse, Dimond Rio, Mary Chapen Carpenter,
Love: Darius Rucker
Bro Country also.
Others: brooks and Dunn, Garth brooks, Allison Krouse, Dimond Rio, Mary Chapen Carpenter,
Love: Darius Rucker
Bro Country also.
I grew up with country music and still love it. I would use it for “escape” or to help lift my mood, or console myself. Donna Fargo, Loretta Lynn, BJ Thomas, Crystal Gayle, Dolly, Kenny Rogers (coward of the county), a little from all of them. Big John Denver fan, and Brad Paisley has some good ones too!
I'm not a huge fan of country music, but I do like a lot of the "old guard" along the likes of Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Hank Sr., etc.
I also have a soft spot for some of the "new traditionalist" resurgence of the late 80s and early 90s like Dwight Yoakam and even some Garth.
Will
I also have a soft spot for some of the "new traditionalist" resurgence of the late 80s and early 90s like Dwight Yoakam and even some Garth.
Will
