Discuss Country Music

[robertsona]

i guess it depends on what your definition of "old" or "classic" is but it seems to be like the really early stuff was most influenced by american gospel folk music and had a larger proliferation of jesus stuff

[GuidoHunter]

That's true. 50's country was indeed pretty preachy. When I referred to classic country, I was thinking George Jones, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams Jr., and such. That's more late-sixties/seventies country.

--Guido

[kommisar]

I like older country that doesn't bitch and whine about gettin drunk over a stolen truck and how your wife died in a barn fire from pig grease and homemade fireworks.

[UserNameGoesHere]

I don't speak for anyone else but I don't tend to like country because the songs tend to be about (pick one or more from the following list)

1) Girlfriend/wife cheated/cheating on you
2) Dog ran away, died, etc...
3) Gotta drink more o' dem whiskey bottles yeehaw!
4) Song about a truck
5) Parents/relatives died
6) Preachy

If you find a country song that doesn't delve into at least one of those then maybe it's okay but whenever I'm flipping through the radio channels and happen upon a country station, that's the kind of stuff I hear.

Oh, and bluegrass is good. I make a distinction between bluegrass and country, bluegrass being more the fast upbeat banjo-picking stuff, with country being the more slow twang depressing mopey/preachy stuff.

[SKG_Scintill]

But don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart. I just don't think he'd understand.
And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, he might blow up and kill this man.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH.

[Cavernio]

I didn't mean churchy in terms of religious themes, but churchy because it's musically so simple so that anyone can sing it and pick it up easily, where you'd have a hard time finding someone who actively hates it, where you're not going to find experimentation in chord progression or timbre or rhythm; like most church music.
Country music's like Music 101, The Basics with a Twang.

[dore]

I despise most popular country music, cuz IMO it's mostly just shitty pop music with southern stereotypes and token twangy guitars. I love me some oldtime or bluegrass, especially when you're just walking down the street and hear a random oldtime band , but I can't stand anything made after I was born.

Southern Rock, on the other hand, is the shit

[hi19hi19]

More country/southern rock music needs to be happy.

Upbeat stuff like that is ****ing awesome, could listen all day (yeah I know it's not technically country, smd)
Sad country is just bleh...

[BethanyBangs]

There's always at least one song you'll like from every genre. Country isn't something I really go for but The Band Perry and Lady Antebellum is good stuff.