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Originally Posted by Crowquill
Since when is alot of acoustic folk associated with the UK? Compared to the amount of american folk artists (Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, etc) and recently (Elliott Smith, Sam Beam, Mike Kinsella, Jeff Mangum).
Anyway, what you hear on the radio isn't country, its more like southern pop. I hate it when people assume all that Garth Brooks **** is what country is all about, with the amount of hype Johnny Cash gets you'd expect people to at least somewhat expect theres more to it.
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I absolutely agree. The "Country" that comes out today has no originality, and next to no sincerity. The always sing about either homestyle values, their childhood, love, God, or drinking. Not that any of those are bad things to write about, but when an entire genre limits itself to what is safe, and what sells, it takes out of itself any aspect of artistic expression or progression. My mother and all of her friends listen to Big And Rich, Keith Urban, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry, and all the other crap that comes out on the "Country Radio" here in Annapolis, MD (Not The South, Not True Country Territory). I visited her a while back and she had bought the new Kenny Chesney CD, who I don't normally mind, but the new one was so terrible I didn't know how to deal with it. There was a song in the beginning where, in the chorus, he sang "I hope someday I'll have a wife and kid". Not once in the verse, where a line like that would usually be dropped, but over and over again in the chorus. That phrase, devoid of any poetic insight, was the cornerstone of the song. When I hear this type of music, and knowing what I know about my mom, I think that the people who listen to this music don't listen to it because they like music, but rather they need the reinforcement in their everyday lives in order to keep living their lives as comfortably as they do.