where's all the country music fans

[april-wine]

come on you know you were humming that, pop country tune in your car when you thought no-one was looking.......i have to admit i hated country music, then i saw dwight yoakum in concert and i fell in lust lol........come on show of hands you know you love it

 

[Weevil]

re: WHere's all the Country Music Fans

I don't know...........The Ozarks???

 

[morninggirl5]

I'm a country music fan..... favorite right now is Kenny Chesney and Diamond Rio... but I love the really old Oak Ridge Boys and Conway Twitty.

 

[april-wine]

ackkkkkk can't say i can get into the old stuff......some of it i guess but i like the new country, i think i'm turning into a country bumpkin the older i get lol.......

 

[Desert Amazon]

 

[morninggirl5]

it's the deep voices that get to me..... and the stuff from the 70's.... there's only one subject involved.... sex

 

[Weevil]

EBW's pretentious sermonette about music for the evening

The only country music I have the faintest admiration for is the older stuff. Johnny Cash and Hank Williams Sr. and Merle Haggard. This was one of the only legitimate art forms that wasn't co-opted by white culture. It had capacity for great rythym, like rock. It had great personal meaning, like the blues and it could carry as much of a social message as the best folk. It is great, great stuff(Real early Elvis is good too)

Modern country?? With the exceptions of some guys(Steve Earle, Hank Williams 3 and The Mavericks) it's all just bargain basement garbage pop.

 

[Andra_Jenny]

One of my friends...

RIP

Michael Oaks was electrocuted at the Uptown Theater in Kansas, City, Mo. working the lights before the Yoakam (sp?) show. I miss Mike, he got me through physics...

 

[morninggirl5]

Re: EBW's pretentious sermonette about music for the evening

Real early Elvis is good too

I can't remember the name of the song, but the one about a baby being born in the ghetto.... I still cry every time I hear it.

 

[Weevil]

That is really, really late Elvis. I think its from 71 or 72.

Awful stuff

 

[Problem Child]

Re: EBW's pretentious sermonette about music for the evening

The only country music I have the faintest admiration for is the older stuff. Johnny Cash and Hank Williams Sr. and Merle Haggard. This was one of the only legitimate art forms that wasn't co-opted by white culture. It had capacity for great rythym, like rock. It had great personal meaning, like the blues and it could carry as much of a social message as the best folk. It is great, great stuff(Real early Elvis is good too)

Modern country?? With the exceptions of some guys(Steve Earle, Hank Williams 3 and The Mavericks) it's all just bargain basement garbage pop.

Hallelujah!!

I agree with every damn word. Real country has been dead for at least ten years.

Give me old Waylon Jennings, Buck Owens, Charlie Pride any day. Hank Williams Jr. was fantastic.

FUCK Garth Brooks, that fatass.

Dwight Yoakam does a good job of keeping it traditional and modern at the same time, and I like a lot of Alan Jackson's stuff.

The rest of them are just cowboy hat wearing crossover posers.

No wonder I listen to Metallica and Zeppelin.



PS...is Hank Williams 3 actually Hank Williams Jr.? I was wondering if maybe he had a son or something....

 

[morninggirl5]

No, the awful stuff was all those dumb movie songs......

 

[Weevil]

Re: Re: EBW's pretentious sermonette about music for the evening

PS...is Hank Williams 3 actually Hank Williams Jr.? I was wondering if maybe he had a son or something....

I think me and PC actually agree on something(Well, not Alan Jackson but close enough)

Is that one of the signs of the apocalypse??? I know seas of blood and......




Hank Williams the Third is his own guy. He's Hank Junior's son. I don't think his real name is Hank the 3rd tho' I think its Sheldon but he records under Hank.

 

[JenJ]

Not to big on the country music but I do like Faith Hill and Trisha Yearwood and a couple others whos names I can't remember.

 

[Andra_Jenny]

Do you realize that...

a lot of country people have stopped listening to country music since it stopped talking to them...

We used to have a lot of Oprey, but lately it has returned to bluegrass and folk because country people are turned off by it.

 

[Problem Child]

Re: Re: Re: EBW's pretentious sermonette about music for the evening

Hank Williams the Third is his own guy. He's Hank Junior's son. I don't think his real name is Hank the 3rd tho' I think its Sheldon but he records under Hank.

No shit? I had no idea. And you say he's OK? I'll have to check him out. I loved his dad. Still do.


A_J Yeah, I basically stopped listening to mainstream country a long time ago and branched off into Bluegrass and more country influenced rockers like Tom Petty and Neil Young.

Even back in the rhinestone and big hair days of the seventies with Conway Twitty and Tammy Wynette the stuff was more real than it is today.

Goddamn...George Jones was a genius.

 

[Weevil]

Re: Re: Re: Re: EBW's pretentious sermonette about music for the evening

No shit? I had no idea. And you say he's OK? I'll have to check him out. I loved his dad. Still do.

The way #3 sounds like his Granddad is freakin eery at times.

 

[Darien]

Yes April,, Huggggg,,,,I love country music,, all of it,, even some of the crossover,, mostly Shania,, Martina,, even Faith,, Sara Evans,,,but the top of the list is a really cool guy I met about a month ago,, Mark Wills,,

 

[GuyJD]

come on you know you were humming that, pop country tune in your car when you thought no-one was looking.......i have to admit i hated country music, then i saw dwight yoakum in concert and i fell in lust lol........come on show of hands you know you love it

Well, I only like
Dolly Pardon
Shania Twain
Faith Hill
The Dixie Chicks
and above them all....
Leann Rimes.

 

[OUTSIDER]

country has never really caught on here except with the old the weird and lorry driver's, and I can't even think of one radio station that play's any, and even if they did it would probably be at about 3am in the morning.

 

[unusuallyconfused]

I'm not a huge fan, but I do like some of the Judds and Lee Ann Rymes music.

 

[willywanker]

Put me down in the Country music camp. And I like a wide rang of the stuff. Love the oldies and love some of the new stuff.

Can do without Dixie Chicks and some of the other new stuff but some of that is good too.

I've said it before and took heat for it then, but I'm a big Aaron Tipon fan.

 

[Simply Me]

Started listening to Country Music in the last few years. Really like Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and Brad Paisley, Shania Twain. But still listen to the good old rock and roll of the 70', can't be duplicated, it was an awesome time for music..

 

[Wanderlust98]

Ah country music... I grew up with the oldies... Hank (the first) Waylon and Willie, Ray Price, Marty Robbins, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn and the incomparable Patsy Cline... too many to list. I like some of the new country, but tend to lean toward 'new-traditionalists' like Alan Jackson, Dwight Yoakum, and Randy Travis. I confess to being a major Dixie Chicks fan, even though I don't consider them country at all, my favorite new country female singer is JoDee Messina. Her voice is amazing.

Any woman who can hear Conway Twitty's immortal words "Hello Darlin'" without being affected by them.... I pity them.

Just my 2 cents
Wanderlust98

 

[Purrrrplexity]

Big Country Music Fan here.....

I listen to a wide range of artists too, and I basically like a mix of music styles, but Country will always be my biggest love.

I like Reba, Martina McBride, Sara Evans, JoDee, Brad Pasley, Lonestar, Diamond Rio, Alan Jackson, and so many more it would take me all to day to list them.

I'm a sucker for a good slow love song.