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What the hell happened to country music?

Not sure if this counts as country, but I find myself singing it some mornings.

 
beefheart said:
Steve Goodman is one of my favorite singer songwriters, he was a folk singer, and he sure could write. Sadly, he died after fighting cancer for nearly 20 years.
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Guy Clark, Robert Earl Keen and Townes Van Zandt were no slouches either. ;)
 
To answer the OP on what happened. Strait and Jackson sums it up pretty well.

 
blackjack50 said:
I don't know if the younger generation enjoys this modern crap? It is all about parties. And I know that country has always been a little 1 dimensional. But it has not always been as I original as it is now. I guess it is just more commercialized music.

It is like they combined country and rap. And we all know that gets you crap.


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Some of the new stuff is good, but I agree most of it is crap, it seems to have tried to combine rap and pop and even dubstep in with country music. Rock tried the same crap in the 90's, outside a few bands no one can name them, they fizzled out. I predict the same happening with country, they are just trying to overcapitalize markets leading them to under deliver.

To me country music peaked in the 90's, A lot is still good to this day but the good is getting less and less and more of it sounds like they are trying to compete with dance music in a hiphop club.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
David Allen Coe!
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Not sure if anyone catches on, but you might be pushing a lot of buttons if they knew who david allen coe was and his less than politically correct songs .
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Guy Clark, Robert Earl Keen and Townes Van Zandt were no slouches either. ;)
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Robert Earl is living around Kerrville now and gave a great concert, I'm told, at the Cailloux Theater in March.

Sad news is that folkie Jimmy LaFave is dying. He hopes to make the KFF at the end of this month.

 
nota bene said:
Robert Earl is living around Kerrville now and gave a great concert, I'm told, at the Cailloux Theater in March.

Sad news is that folkie Jimmy LaFave is dying. He hopes to make the KFF at the end of this month.

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I haven't been to Kerrville but I've been to Bandera (which is right close) a few times.

 
Chet Atkins credited Ricky Skaggs with "single-handedly" saving country music back in the '80's. (Now, of course, he's resurrected and sustained bluegrass.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Skaggs





Listen to the mandolin progression at 1:14 and how the banjo segues right on in. I once drove 100 miles each way to hear this bridge:

 
Kobie said:
I'm not a huge fan of old country -- I dig Cash and Willie, but never had much use for, say, George Strait or Randy Travis. However, the newer pop-country stuff is just awful.
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George Strait is the greatest musical artist who ever lived, so says the free market in album sales
 
beerftw said:
Not sure if anyone catches on, but you might be pushing a lot of buttons if they knew who david allen coe was and his less than politically correct songs .
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But DAC is also an authentic voice, the "Nothing Sacred Album" doesn't really bother me, and his controversial mainstream single "if that ain't country" which includes a racial slur and covers topics like domestic violence, poverty, PTSD etc is a country equal to "straight outta Compton" a song I also appreciate as expressive art
 
EMNofSeattle said:
George Strait is the greatest musical artist who ever lived, so says the free market in album sales
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The "free market in album sales" also ranks Rihanna ahead of Queen. It's entirely subjective.
 
coldjoint said:
Nothing like some input from Europe on an American tradition.
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Moderator's Warning:
Nothing like an irrelevant baiting comment in a non-political thread. Stop now or you'll be relating to some country song with some really sad title.
 
I love me some Roger Alan Wade - lots of his stuff on YouTube. Some country, some blues, and a little rock - some funny, some sad, and some just plain surrealistic. Gravelly Cash-like voice and he can pick the hell out of an acoustic guitar. He's cousin to Johnny Knoxville of "Jackass" fame and has written songs for some big country stars.
 
Country is alive and well in Texas 97.1 FM in Houston
 
I absolutely LOATHE this bro country bull****. It is the worst **** I've ever heard. I'd rather listen to a Justin Bieber-One Direction collaboration for the rest of my life than to have to suffer through today's country for a single car ride.

While I'm on this soap box, there's this mini music festival in central Alabama called Rock the South and I can't ****ing stand it because not a single damn show is a rock band. It's all Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia shut the **** up.
 
DashingAmerican said:
I absolutely LOATHE this bro country bull****. It is the worst **** I've ever heard. I'd rather listen to a Justin Bieber-One Direction collaboration for the rest of my life than to have to suffer through today's country for a single car ride.

While I'm on this soap box, there's this mini music festival in central Alabama called Rock the South and I can't ****ing stand it because not a single damn show is a rock band. It's all Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia shut the **** up.
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Lol. Bro country. Apt description.


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Kobie said:
I'm not a huge fan of old country -- I dig Cash and Willie, but never had much use for, say, George Strait or Randy Travis. However, the newer pop-country stuff is just awful.
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I suppose I can forgive not being a fan of George Strait. If you don't like him...you just don't like country lol. But at least you agree on this pop country crap.


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blackjack50 said:
I don't know if the younger generation enjoys this modern crap? It is all about parties. And I know that country has always been a little 1 dimensional. But it has not always been as I original as it is now. I guess it is just more commercialized music.

It is like they combined country and rap. And we all know that gets you crap.


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True. That said, there are some great instrumentalists playing in that genre. I just wish the singers would shut up.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
He was a country giant, they can suck canal water if the don't like it!
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Most of his messed up songs were in the 80's, songs like n*^^er hating me and leroy the big lipped n*&^er
 
EMNofSeattle said:
But DAC is also an authentic voice, the "Nothing Sacred Album" doesn't really bother me, and his controversial mainstream single "if that ain't country" which includes a racial slur and covers topics like domestic violence, poverty, PTSD etc is a country equal to "straight outta Compton" a song I also appreciate as expressive art
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Um his contraversial work is so bad even the kkk said he was too racist. He also hit the absolute scales on misogyny in his older workings. His older workings are very rare because they were sold in limited quantities, but bootlegs have been circulating person to person and through the internet for many years.
 
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