Save Country Music

[BIGNASTY]

If you like country music you've noticed with the Yahoo's that are calling themselves NEW COUNTRY are NOT!! if you follow music they are remakes of 50's songs put to different music and the music listening public are either so inept or just plain stupid enough to believe the BS. So if you like the NEW Crap keep on keepin on don't let anyone tell ya that they play the instruments loud enough to cover the fact that they REALLY CANT SING or at least you wont be able to.

If you do like the traditional country watch the video and go to the web site to lend support to save The Real Country Music, second link explains how the song came about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4QnF1ZLcKc

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/v...o-pitney-define-country-in-new-video-20150313

 

[TFucili]

What is being passed off as country is disgusting. A bunch of rap-crap wannabes. I love the old stuff, and thank people like Marty Stuart, Mo, and a handful of others who have not caved in to the teeny-bopper trash and are keeping the faith. Thanks for the link.

 

[moparguy]

Big, thanks for the link. I do think George and Alan said it best a few years ago in "Murder on Music Row". I really find it hard to listen to most of the newer music that's miss-branded as Country. We have a young man that grew up about 30 miles from us that's made a bit of a name for himself, (Justin Moore) that I enjoy hearing. Don't know if it's the homeboy factor or not but he's about the only one I can tolerate. Several years ago when Justin was only known in his home county, he played for us one hot Southern summer night on a flat bed trailer to about 50 horse people who didn't have enough sense to get out of the heat, good kid and from the Country.

 

[KBurgoyne]

Its too late. As long as "country" is in with the hipsters this crap will pass for music. They don't listen to the words they just hear white noise and pretend to like it because, "country is soooooo retro." Eventually they will move on and ruin some other genre, but until then it can be terrible as long as it sells. Thank the lord for Waylon Jennings radio on Pandora.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIvBTAneNgM

 

[BIGNASTY]

Gail will be happy to hear that some of you care about something that is dear to his heart, his music is something that is always going 24/7 in his world. Even now when he's out at Polebridge MT working with Father getting things done for the cattle he's got his music. Two upcoming events for us are a Concert in Sandy UT for Leann Rimes he's followed this girl from when she was a child and still thinks that she's has the best voice around, then closer to home in Great Falls MT Josh Turner. We don't attend many concerts mainly because we didn't pay the price of admission to sit next some teeny bopper yelling and waving their arms around. Seems like the above singers have a more mature following that enjoy listening to them sing not some tanked up kid.


Penny

 

[TRAMPLINEMAN]

Good country music died quite a few years ago. I don't think I've heard a real good country song in the last 10-15 years. I am not by any means a true die hard country fan, but I will admit when music is good.

 

[Regcabguy]

It's country pop now with a few exceptions. Mindless arm waving with ever present phones aimed at the stage.

 

[KBurgoyne]

It's country pop now with a few exceptions. Mindless arm waving with ever present phones aimed at the stage.

I have dubbed it the "*******ized amalgamation of pop music and hipsters in cowboy hats."

 

[fest3er]

Good country music died quite a few years ago. I don't think I've heard a real good country song in the last 10-15 years. I am not by any means a true die hard country fan, but I will admit when music is good.

Pickup trucks (especially diesel) are vilified, you'll land in jail if you hop a ride on a freight train or exact revenge on someone who done you wrong, no one knows who their mamas are any more, America and patriotism are taboo subjects, there's no love with today's instant gratification, everyone drinks and cheats, Jesus and sin have been erased from our culture, outlaws are glorified, not much more than 1% of the population knows anything about rural/farming life, death/murder/rape/pillage are blasé, prison's no big deal with 40% of the population having been there, you'll be thrown in prison if you wander around the country with no home address, taking risks is demonized, and pretty much everything that's left is just boring.

Old time country singers don't have anything left to sing about. And even if they did, people just wouldn't care anyway because they can only relate to themselves.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Pickup trucks (especially diesel) are vilified, you'll land in jail if you hop a ride on a freight train or exact revenge on someone who done you wrong, no one knows who their mamas are any more, America and patriotism are taboo subjects, there's no love with today's instant gratification, everyone drinks and cheats, Jesus and sin have been erased from our culture, outlaws are glorified, not much more than 1% of the population knows anything about rural/farming life, death/murder/rape/pillage are blasé, prison's no big deal with 40% of the population having been there, you'll be thrown in prison if you wander around the country with no home address, taking risks is demonized, and pretty much everything that's left is just boring.

Old time country singers don't have anything left to sing about. And even if they did, people just wouldn't care anyway because they can only relate to themselves.

Fester GLAD YOUR ON OUR SIDE :-laf

 

[Tractorat]

I'm a child of the 50's and 60's. When I was a kid I didnt admit to liking country and western. (That's what my dad and all those "old" guys listened to). But it was on my dads car radio when we went somewhere, sometimes on the radio at home, and on TV. Secretly I did like it though. I didn't admit that to my dad (or really even to myself) until I was in vietnam. And when we did get a chance to hear music, it quite often was country and western, and reminded me of home.

In the 70's, when "truckin' " music became popular, and everyone had a cb, there was still a lot of really good c&w music to be heard and I would mostly listen to it when I would travel. But toward the late 70's or early 80's I really stopped listening to radio music and mostly listened to the news or talk radio.

I started listening to some cw when my oldest daughter was in high school (or sometimes thereabout) just because she started liking some of that. (early 90's). And some of what I heard was OK, but not nearly as good as what had come out of the 50's and 60's and before. After that, its just a bunch of rich kids who pretend to be "country" with fake texas accents, wearing fake cowboy hats who grew up watching big screen tv, cell phones, never without some kind of music listening device (radio, cd player, walkman, etc). Even if they grew up in a "rural" area, it was in a place that used to be called "the big city".

BTW, cw is not the only thing that died. Rock and roll evolved over the years from when it first started in the early 1950's. I still like the stuff that was coming out in the very early 1970's, although it was quite different from the 50's and 60's. But, it was still rock and roll. After maybe the mid to late 70's, rock and roll met its end. Something did finally evolve from the remains of rr, but it is not rock and roll. I dont know what it is, but it is not rr.

jmo, but I think a lot if not most of my generation would agree.

BTW, fest3er, you are right on.

 

[mwilson]

A lot of the current offerings of C&W and Rock is recycled in part, can't even seem to come up with original riffs anymore for God's sake.

Pathetic.

 

[Grey Wolf]

Thank God for XM and Willie's Roadhouse a Traditional Country station...........

 

[BIGNASTY]

A lot of the current offerings of C&W and Rock is recycled in part, can't even seem to come up with original riffs anymore for God's sake.

Pathetic.

Exactly right. Some of the problem with the new junk is not only that there are no song writers, its the way technology has changed the way the music industry makes money now. Use to be that a performer would go on tour to promote the Album that they had just produced, they made money from Album sales rather than now the artists play enormous amounts of concerts in order to make money, along with that ticket prices SKYROCKETED. You can go online listen to the entire album FREE and then use some website to download the songs of choice for very little.

Another thing that REALLY TWISTS MY NXT'S is that has been used up rockers have invaded the New Country, Steven Tyler is an example of a NEVER WAS BEEN. he screamed so long that his voice is trash and the new song he has out sounds like a Taylor Sxxt reject pile. All the little squeaky voice girls are like running fingernails on a blackboard, not to be out done by all the little boy bands that couldn't make it anyplace else other than New Country where the listening public is so frigging stupid that they don't listen the lyrics. Luke Bryant has a new song part of the lyrics are " Knock, Knock, Knock goes the diesel if you want to meet the beautiful people" ????????' REALLY? what the hell is that supposed to mean they just play the music so loud that they cant understand the lyrics anyway.

 

[Tractorat]

just play the music so loud that they cant understand the lyrics anyway.

Where have I heard that before ?

 

[fest3er]

I grew up hearing Beethoven/Mozart/Bach and the Swing Era ('25-'45). I generally preferred Jonathan Edwards, Al Hammond and the 'softer' stuff. I came to appreciate some disco, a little acid rock, heavy metal, and various forms of R&R. There is *one* rap song I like (the witch grousing about the baker's father ripping up her rampion and rooting through her rutabagas and otherwise stealing her beans ("Into the Woods"). My collection contains Bach/Vivaldi to Beethoven/Mozart to Strauss waltzes, a *smidgeon* of modern orchestral, swing, Hit Parade, rock from the'50s to '80s, country from the '40s to the '80s, a little disco, a little bluegrass. I may even have a little gospel in there. But it stops around the late '80s when what was being produced was no longer music and much of it wasn't fit for polite company.

The rare times I drive any more, I turn the radio on once in a while. And when all I can find are today's three-note wonders, I turn it back off.

It's getting to the point where if I want to hear new decent music, I have to compose it myself. (I'm presently working on a Mass for the common man: pleasant, dignified, but singable by ordinary people.)

 

[Shadrach]

It's been said" There's only two kinds of music - there's Country and there's Western", Beside Rap was invented by a White guy - they just called it "Square Dancing" back then :-laf You do have a good point tho BIGNASTY.

David

 

[BIGNASTY]

http://ramcountry.yahoo.com/post/128347802096/merle-haggard-has-strong-words-for-todays-country

Calls them as he sees them :-laf

 

[Grey Wolf]

Yep that's for sure! Thanks for traditional CM on XM.........

 

[DJW]

There is plenty of original country music on U-tube, plenty of teenagers quote its the music their fathers used to listen on radio, and they also like it, and have no use for the supposed modern C/M. I found it just by chance, and you can enjoy hours of Web Pierce, Buck Owens, George Jones and all the top C/M singers.