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Originally Posted by Skaligojurah
One name immediately comes to mind:
Johnny Cash - Nothing he's ever done remotely impresses me. Is heralded as a genius for having a song with horns in it. Furthermore, he's considered a legend and hero to youth for mumbling a Nine Inch Nails song because of his deep emotional performance.
****ing Hell, he literally sounds like a lonely drunk at a dingy bar mumbling the words to himself after 11:00 pm.
Plus, from what I've heard, most of what he has written for himself samey, hokey, cheesy, tacky, and uninteresting.
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You better not be a Nick Cave fan.
Cash is f*cking awesome. His earlier stuff does lack some diversity but that's true for most rock n roll and country music from that era. He isn't tacky at all, except maybe when he goes gospel.
Old country music deserves more props, the themes in those old country songs were a lot more dark, depressing and f*cked up than what was going on in rock n roll at the time. It wasn't the sugar coated sh*t that passes as country today.