The only reason the Dixie Chicks got any is the left in this country wanted to lift them up after they were beatten down for their stupid anti-war and anti-bush remarks. Oh and THEY AREN'T COUNTRY ROCK!!! They're pop country :soapbox:

Agreed

But as far as pop country goes that album is actually pretty good. I can't think of another pop country release this year that deserves a Grammy, the right album won. Believe me I am not a fan of pop country and I would never say that this album was solid if it wasn't. After all that album has a lot more artistic merit than Honky-Tonk Badonkadonk or any of the other pop country fluff currently being pimped by mainstream country radio

Dixie Chicks rule!!! I love them!!!

I think Rascal Flatts and Dixie Chicks will open up more doors to attract fans than anyone else right now.

Rascal flats and the Chicks with ****s aren't country, they're pop. If you want to her some good country/rock check out the flying burrito brothers, Gram Parsons, Drive-By Truckers, Hank Williams III, Uncle Tupelo....

Check out some Wayne Hanc0ck Luthier

who in the blue hell are the dixie chicks?

Well I was a one track Rock Fan but love Shania Twains music. Listening to her introduced me to the likes of The Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill, Drive by Truckers, Trick Pony (who I cant stop listening too) and many many more. I get laughed at but do I care? Do I Hell!!!

That one song thats like youre still the one i run to and so on is basically the best song ever.

Not really but its fantastic and i'm going to cover it someday.

I disagree, I think the best country song is either:
Leann Womack 'I Hope You Dance' or
Bonnie Raitt 'Let's Give Up Something To Talk About'

And I would have to disagree....

They're are not the bests of anything..really..with 6 billion people in the world...there are no "bests" or "greatests" everyone has their own opinion on topics like that..which means there will never be a conclusive best list or greates list anywhere.

I enjoy a lot of the modern country music that is out there. My favorites are Toby Keith, Brooks and Dunn, Alan Jackson, John Michael Montgomery, Montgomery Gentry, Alabama, Confederate Railroad, etc...

I love the old stuff too. Hank Rules! Johnny was THE MAN! Willie is freaking great!

I'm assuming everyone knows it's only my opinion I'm stating. Everytime you say a band is good, I could argue and say there's no way of proving that, I just forget to put the IMO in sometimes, but it's probably safe to say everyone is stating their opinion in these posts.

Ok this is way out of control but I agree with oojay, most genres suck these days on a large scale because money > honestly/talent/artistry. sam Phillips may have been a capitilist money-grubber, but he knew **** when he saw it.

Most of the older is often times more authentic, least thats how we see it since all the crap's been weeded out.

I understand the IMO..I get it..but I was diplomatically saying that your opinion of those two songs being the greatest..and one isnt even rock country was...a little off.

I don't even know what rock country is, but I bet it sucks.

best country rock song..... hmmm i've got quite a few i like:

3 steps towards the door

devil went down to georgia

and alot more i can't remeber the names to but i like them alot

Wait..you dont know what it is..yet you posted in a thread title "Country Rock"? Strange....I dont post in threads that I dont know anything about..keeps the mods happy.

You can post in threads you know nothing about, you just have to know what one of the posts was about and respond to it

Gram parsons
Neil Young
Bright eye's ?

How is Bright Eyes country rock?

im wide awake its morning? def country influences, not saying its country rok, jsut tinged,

Its just as much a folk album as a country album, and to consider Bright Eyes country rock based on that one album is a pretty dumb thing seeing as you have Digital Ash that came out at the same time which is that albums opposite.

The most 'country rock' song he has is Four Winds and when you put that up with the rest of the EP, it still doesn't work.

I am a big southern rock fan,and i like a lot of 80s and 90's country on down to some of the older stuff..Don't really like a lot of the more recent stuff xcept for maybe Montgomery Gentry,Lady Antebellum and a few others..I have the same taste basically as The Maddest Hatter has..some of my favorites include

Steve Earle
Charlie Daniels Band (altho i basically consider them southern rock..)
Hank Williams and Hank Jr
George Jones
Willie Nelson
Johnny Cash
Waylon Jennings (and Shooter Jennings)
Conway Twitty
Eddie Rabbitt
Ronnie Milsap
Brooks and Dunn
Aarron Tippen
John Michael Montgomery
Garth Brooks (some..)
Travis Tritt
Dwight Yoakum
Toby keith
Tim McGraw
Alan Jackson
Kentucky Headhunters
Tracy Lawrence
Randy Travis
Sammy Kershaw
Joe Diffie
Diamond Rio
Confederate Railroad
Tracy Byrd
Alabama
Blackhawk

and a few more...

The Byrds with Sweetheart of the Rodeo and Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde
The Desert Rose Band
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
Wilco's Being There

Here is a more modern style of Country Rock.

Jason Aldeans ok..Does'nt he do "Dirt Road Anthem?..I like that song.

Shouldn't this music just be called "Cock"?

I'm not familiar with that particular single phantom. I haven't listened to his most recent album besides a couple of singles on it. I have Relentless and Wide Open and like both albums. He actually has a lot of material that is half way descent, at least 80% of his music anyway.

I haven't listened to very music Country music for the last couple of years. So..
:laughing: That label would defiantly fit. Country Rock (Jason Aldean) = (Cock) he, he..

Well,i'm not exactly a huge country fan myself..other than a few of the older guys mentioned (Johnny Cash,Hank & Hank jr,Willie Nelson,Merle Haggard,George Jones and Conway and a few more that i mentioned from that era) and also since my wife likes it i'm pretty familier with a lot that she listened to back in the 80s and 90s Which i also mentioned a lot of.I can listen to it now and then..even some of the more modern country every so often,tho my main music preference is classic rock and southern rock,(which i suppose is very similar to Country Rock) and even a lot of different generes of hard rock and metal,but i'm not above listening to a little country now and then.Hell,I like a lot of different music,as do others here i'm sure.

Actually tho,by country rock I usually think of The Eagles,Poco,Pure Prairie League,Jackson Brown etc..but y'know.a lot of country and country rock sort of overlap it seems to me!:band:

What about Gov't Mule? It's certainly blues tinged, but the country influence is indisputable. Plus, they put on one hell of a show.

To add to my country rock classification; they jammed out for their sets, only to close with "The Ballad of Curtis Loew".

Yeah I love Gov't Mule..I just allways considered them more blues rock or southern rock ..Warren Haynes is the man and the band is actually one of my favorites lately..but,anyway, i just hate generes alltogether!

Have yall heard Scott DeCarlo? He's epitome of country-rock. Its good music though!

Look up "Havin' A Good Time"...it will be stuck in your head the rest of the day

I'll go out on a limb .. again! And suggest that Dwight Yoakam is the king of "Country Rock".

I agree, the genres are definitely blending together in modern music. I found this singer Ginnette Ward who blends together some awesome country, old school, blues, rock... it's awesome.

Jason Aldean is the biggest blow-hard in the music industry! Him, and Taylor Swift should have there own radio station, so all the other blow-hard's can listen to them and we wont have too.

Aldean buys all his songs from Brantley Gilbert the Songwriter, and Badass Performer!

Brantley Gilbert
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Yeah Gov't Mule are a Southern Rock offshoot of The Alllman Brothers Band. Now as far as Jason Aldean goes, he only recorded two songs that Brantley Gilbert wrote/co-wrote, My Kind Of Party and Dirt Road Anthem.

Luke Bryan is someone that still has a little of that old sound

There was a programme called The History of the Eagles on BBC 1 last night. It gave some interesting insights, particularly into the shoddy treatment of Leadon and Felder, although it glossed over the reasons for Joe Walsh's inclusion in the band. They also seemed a bit too grateful to Linda Rondstadt, and again the relationship was not made clear. From the documentary, Glenn Frey seems a bit strange.

The second and final part is on tonight at 10:30, looking at the split and subsequent reunion in the mid-nineties.

A contact told me that back in the 50s where he was from, if you wanted to hear rocknroll, you had to tune to a country station. A lot of "pioneers" of country started as rocknrollers like George Jones, Charlie Rich, Buck Owens (called Corky Jones back then, had a minor hit called "Rhythm & Booze" and was a member of Gene Vincent's Bluecaps around 1957).

Artists as Johnny Cash rode that line between country and rocknroll but never quite fitting into either genre. Carl Perkins was no less country than the rest of them but got classified as a rocknroller. Wanda Jackson, the Delmore Bros., Rose Maddox, Skeets McDonald, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Hasil Adkins, Jerry Reed, Marvin Rainwater and (my hero) Johnny Horton were all doing things that were definitely rocknroll and yet there is no doubt that they were all country artists.

So country-rock always seemed to me to be an artificial genre if there ever was one. Look at Junior Brown. Country as they come and here he is doing his own version of "Foxey Lady". Country-Rock is redundant term.

With that, I don't care for the state of country today. Taylor Swift does nothing for me. I'd rather listen to a Steve Earle than a Taylor Swift any day of the week. It seems that the rock has gone out of country and none of the so-called fans seem to notice. I don't mean to be too judgmental, though. But things look pretty moribund from where I stand.