There's talent in it.
There is emotion in it.

Better than the rubbish in the UK.

i like country because... wait a minute... i don't like country.

but i like johnny cash... cuz he's just so seemingly wise. actually, i like a little bit more country than that, i just don't know the names of the artists. a dude i used to drive to work with every day was right into it, and he used to be into punk rock quite heavily, and i think it was that influence that caused him to amass a collection of country artists that were just plain dirty. they talked about the craziest sh*t in their music. and i know some rednecks that behave in a very careless manner that i felt was properly expressed in some of those tracks, a way of life that is not so much for me, but one i admire nonetheless.

the thing i don't like about country is all the double-time and twang. it just rubs me the wrong way. an acquired taste to be sure... one that i have no need to acquire.

the songwriting is (usually) fantastic (minis this garbage pop country that everyone loves right now)

you mean taylor swift...;)

I like country music because it brought a larger variation of instruments and another style for the rock genre to expand itself on. A genre that crosses over all kinds of styles of our great American musical heritage: folk,blues,country,soul,r&b,jazz

I got into hearing a lot more straight country music only after getting into it's sub-genre country-rock. In the 70's I grew up with artists like The Flying Burrito Brothers, Poco, The Marshall Tucker Band, The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Pure Prairie League and Emmylou Harris. And also artists that crossed over from rock into country music like Bob Dylan (Nashville Skyline), Neil Young (Comes A Time), and John Fogerty (The Blue Ridge Rangers) all made a great impact on me eventually getting exposed to Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, The Carter Family and Loretta Lynn among others. I don't listen to straight country regularly but it's important that anyone serious about Rock and Roll have to respect that it was country music that fused with R&B to create it. Metal can even be linked back to early blues and folk-country-rock influences on psychedelic-acid rock that progressed to glam and hard rock that in turn led to the sub-genre of heavy metal.

This has got to be the coolest country-rock band video ever :) (Long Live Gram Parsons..the father of country-rock)

When I was young, my mom would sing Hank Williams' Hey, Good Lookin', but she always swore she never listened to Hank Williams. Turns out, she got it from Ray Charles' Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music album (which is fantastic). And then I got heavy doses of southern gospel in church growing up. And it wasn't until later that I realized how deeply that stuff took hold. I'm pushing 30, & it's what I gravitate to now. But I don't see a lot of clear partitions... everyone in Chicago called what Chuck Berry was doing country, & it was to some degree, even if we called it rock & roll in the south. A lot of Ray Charles' stuff could be considered country, & not just the Country & Western record. Some of Larry Jon Wilson's stuff could pass for funk. Elton John has a lot of honky tonk stuff, Country Comfort is one of my all-time favorite records. Solomon Burke's Nashville is incredible, too. Anything that's got that soul to it resonates with me, whether it's funk or soul or country or whatever.

Country gets a bad rap, at least where I grew up, a lot of the stuff we listen to ain't what most people think of when they think of country.

If anyone's looking for some gateway records to country, Leon Russell did a record called Hank Wilson's Back that's phenomenal. Also, Elton John's Country Comfort or Delbert McClinton's first solo record.

I won't post very much past this to this thread, all I'll say is that I'll respect any and I do mean ANY music that's genuine and honest and from the heart. I've heard some very good country-ish music from the likes of Alison Krause, Nancy Griffith and Willie Nelson, to name 3. It's not anything I would play very often but I respect it tremendously. But having said that, I utterly loath and despise the corporate, rubber-stamp cookie-cutter Nashville machine with every breath in my body.

I like some country.

I'm mostly annoyed by it because it's typical for me since I AM technically country (From Kentucky.) But I have a soft spot for it sometimes. Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, The Band Perry, Lady Antebellum, Aaron Lewis, Charlie Daniels, Casey James, Hayden Panettiere, Carrie Underwood, and Taylor Swift are among my favorites.

My fav! Country music is real!! That other crap makes no sense!

Real contry music tells a story, now this stupid pop country shames the name of country music.

Hey, boskie, PUCKER UP MOTHER****ER, YOU CAN KISS MY WHITE ASS!!!

What I like best about country are some of the song titles that they come up with. Just found this list which I´d like to share:-

- I flushed you from the toilets of my heart
- Did I shave my legs for this?
- My wife ran off with my best friend and I sure do miss him
- You´re the reason your kids are so ugly
- How can I miss you if you won´t go away?
- Get your tongue out of my mouth because I´m kissing you goodbye
- Here´s a quarter - call someone who cares
- If the phone don´t ring, baby, you´ll know it´s me
- May the bird of paradise fly up your nose
- I´m not married but my wife is
- I changed her oil, she changed my heart
- I don´t know whether to kill myself or go bowling
- If you don´t leave me alone, I´ll go and find someone who will
- She got the ring and I got the finger

Those are brilliant Lisnaholic, you certainly like some interesting music!

Thanks, Vanilla! :)
I like the song titles , but I´m not at all sure that I´d like the songs themselves!

Far as I'm concerned, Country music - as in: Country & Western - ceased to exist sometime in the '70's. Since then, it's become just Pop with a twayng. Cracks me up when someone from Dallas, Memphis, Atlanta or even Nashville refer to themselves as 'country'. Big D's about as 'country' as Cleveland or Pittsburgh.
Or how someone from Kentucky or West Virgina is considered 'southern', which makes no sense any way you look at it.
Thanks to my nightlife schedule, I get to listen to a fair amount of what they call Country music today, I like some of it, but on the rare occasions I listen to it at home, I put on some classic gunfighter ballads, as done by Mr. Cash or Mr. Robbins.
I suppose the modern version of the gunfighter ballad would be Gangsta Rap.

Bc some of it has really nice bass - that's all there is to it for me.

I like Country...ok let me put it this way country doesn't have to be this....



it can be this....

and I find that people don't seem to want what country could be...they want what it already is...and that makes me wonder... people like music because they can relate to the song/artist... there are a lot of people that relate to Toby Keith for example...why I don't get it...maybe it's because I don't live in the hills somewhere and only contemplate...day to day customary bull that goes along with being a hillbilly... but hey some people do.. and that's ok because you know what it take all kinds to make this world go round... I love country for the few hidden gems there are....

I like country because it seems like it tells a story. Some songs don't seem easy to relate to but I don't feel that way about country. Songs like What if Your World Changed Tomorrow by Ginnette Ward really speak to me in ways a lot of rap doesn't speak to me.

Because it is so touching and heart warming. I listen to a song like "What if Your World Changed Tomorrow" by Ginnette Ward or something by Taylor Swift and it just reminds me of what's important in life.

SMH @ that. She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy is a good song. Plus that Futurebirds song isn't Country.

ummm yeah it is... "Hailing from the bohemian college town of Athens, GA, Futurebirds play laid-back country-rock with an atmospheric, psychedelic twist."

If you read what I wrote...Which you didn't.... you would see that I said I like country for what it can be, not for what it has already established it self as... oh wait... I forgot I am talking to the "thank god for titties and beer," man, why would I even for a second begin to argue country, with someone whose idea of country music embodies slow dancing with his favorite gal at the elks lodge in whatever **** splat little town they hail from.... Next you are going to tell me this isn't country... and that this is the greatest song ever written...

Again, country has so much potential... and in recent years it has not been living up to it... so while you are swilling beer with your cronies in your trailer this afternoon, getting a "rebel" flag tattooed on your ass just remember.....

The Futurebirds having a Country Rock infused sound doesn't make them Country. They are an Indie Rock band. Now the Byrd's Sweetheart Of The Rodeo album was a failed attempt at Country. Just like Nashville didn't accept it as Country back then, I don't either.

I'm sorry what? are you drunk?:banghead:

And I don't accept day light savings time... but who really cares what I except and who certainly gives a damn what a narrow minded gentleman such as yourself excepts? Are you speaking on behalf of Nashville now? Exactly when did the music industry in Nashville apoint you as their go to guy for the entire country genre?

Failed hardly... everything about the the album is country... just because The Bryds decided they were tired of making rock records and wanted to branch out in no way negates that fact that the put out a steller country record... You know what it says.. It says they were well rounded musicians... The same goes for Jack White when he decided hey I am gonna go produce a record for Loretta Lynn... You are not defined by the genre of music you make... you are defined by your ability to adapt your music into something people want to hear... and for 45 ****in years people have listened to and liked if not loved Sweetheart of the Rodeo... so check yourself...

I am very sorry that in all your years wandering the earth, (or what ever small town in Alabama you come from) you never experienced people with true musical taste, talent or knowledge... I am sorry about that because,it's a dull meaningless life you must lead.

And the next time you respond to me, come at me with well spoken intelligence.. Don't just pick some random post, and not read it all the way through and spout off your "good ole boy" opinon... I am all for having a musical discussion with you about country...as a matter of fact I WOULD RELISH it, but I don't think you are ready for what I have to say in response...

Oh yeah and one last thing before I go, the only motha ****a bad enough to write a song about a ****in tractor in my opinion is the white lighting.. why because he was ****in bad enough to ride one around town...



sleep tight...
xoxoxx :finger:

:crazy: Clarence White was amazing guitar player. His life was cut short when he was killed by a drunken driver. He was a favorite of his contemporary Jimi Hendrix, who use to listen to him all the time. And they might not be the pure form of country to the purest country fan. He was influential to every chickin pickin guit-fiddler or Master of the Telecaster that came after him. They not only accept his style of playing they made it their Bible.

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Yeah, you can't deny Clarence White or Gram Parsons' influence on Country Music. The Byrds were the first of the Country Rock (Rock sub genre) bands that tried to break into Country Rock (Country sub genre). As I said before they failed. Gram Parsons would try again with The Flying Burrito Brothers, but wouldn't have much success here either. The first to do so, I'd say would be, Dwight Yoakam back in '86. I honestly can't think of another Country Rock (Rock sub genre) artist that has totally broken into Country Music.

This is Clarence Carter:
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/62228.jpg

The Eagles were the most successful band that played Country Rock during the 70s. I don't know how well the charted on the Country Charts, but regardless of that they were pretty popular elsewhere.

I meant Clarence White not Clarence Carter as you'd mentioned. Many Country Rock (Rock sub genre) acts along with South Rock acts have charted on the Country charts.
The Eagles' Long Road Out Of Eden did go #1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart despite it not being Country. I blame that on Billboard and CMT promotion. Billboard charts things on the wrong charts at times, what can I say?

OK, you're making 2 completely erroneous conclusions here

1. You come of as if you're speaking as an insider in the big corporate Nashville machine. OK not really, nevertheless I'd happily bet everything I own against a twinkie that that's not the case

2. You're speaking as though the big corporate Nashville cookie-cutter stamp-em-out machine is a good thing. If there's any element of the business side of music I just utterly loathe and despise it's the Nashville machine. Great music, deeply from the heart, honest sincere music can come from all around there, but not from that fecking gawdawful machine.

I only know you said this because Roxy quoted you. Back to my ignore list you go.

The Eagles were one of the most popular bands that played Country music or music with a Country flair to it, with the bulk of their career and material in the 70s way before Dwight in '86. I mentioned the Eagles because they had a Top Ten hit on the Country Charts before Dwight. I don't know how much it matters that "Billboard charts things on the wrong charts at times" because it's pretty evident the Eagles were 1. Country Rock band and 2. successful.
I don't know what your criteria is to filtered out the success of the Eagles had with Country Rock before Dwight Yoakam had in '86.

Fellas...Fellas... we have to remember something; That this person has made up his mind that country, is country and there aint a dagum thing we can do to change his mind.... If your name aint Dwight, Kenny Reba or Dolly you aint country... and God help you if you played any other genre before you made an attempt to grow as an artist, because you still "AINT" country...

Ok as for you my dear Scotty,

My gloves are coming off... I made an attempt at blowing you out of the water and I made the mistake of trying to be as sweet as I possibly could without losing the foundation of my argument... so bare with me as I make a few points.. (and try not to take them to heart too much as they are meant to prove a couple things and not to hurt your feelings and make you crawl inside a bottle of the ever classy Wild Turkey...)

1. You are everything that is wrong with country music. You have a narrow minded belief of what it is and what it should be... Surely I don't have to point out that beliefs are dangerous... People all through out history, have lost their lives, over BELIEFS... IDEAS are much healthier, because an idea can change and grow right along side the person that gave birth to them... If we as a people still held the certain beliefs I as a black woman wouldn't even be writing this, I would be hold up in my slave quarters behind your house wondering whether to start with your laundry or picking the cotton first.. And I don't need to point out that getting rid of those beliefs cost us as a UNITED STATES a hefty war....

I respect the fact that you like your country as simple and quaint as a small town... But I like mine raw and unfiltered like moonshine...

I spent a few years in Nashville, in my late teens and early 20's, and coming from the north I had a some really messed up ideas about the south, I was paranoid that there were lynch mobs around every corner...But after spending many a summers evening dropping some world class acid, with some good hearted southern folk, I found that simply was not the case.. One of my friend's father was a record producer in the country scene, (which you claim to know all about.) and I used to spend hours talking about music and sifting through his jukebox, and 45 collection, and even he thought like I do, that country is not living up to what it can be... and for you to sit on your porch in your rocker, and have the balls, to wrap it in a small quantifiable box is a sin...

And lastly before, I put this thread out of my mind, you never mentioned the country musicians that decided they wanted to play rock... are they not country either?

eh? Correct me if I am wrong, but is this not the GAMBLER, making a psych tune?

And what's your excuse for Mr. Ten Gallon Hat (Garth Brooks..) when he decided he wanted to make a rock single.. Am I the only one who remembers him growing a goatee and calling himself Chris Gaines?

:afro:

This was in my head when I went to sleep. . .

Randy Travis - I Told You So (Official Video) - YouTube

umm does it say why you like country? I am just askin, maybe it does... or maybe it was just stuck in your head...

^It says why anyone likes country ;)
his voice is perfect for this genre. . .

my husband said he saw him mowing his lawn once

a m a z i n g

I was just wondering if he was the reason you liked country... lol

was his hair blowing in the wind... and was it a push mower please say it was push mower...

Btw I meant the song, did it explain why you like country... not the thread...

Push mower, YAY lol (unsure about that one)

Someone else said it tells a story which is only a bonus bc music is about sound. It is intriguing, tho, that particular song bc it doesn't make sense.

Country has quite possibly (besides soul n funk) the best bass.

Seems to promote humanity, lessening violence and drama.

Story telling as icing on the cake.

how are you unsure about a push mower... its the opposite of a riding lawn mower..

It made the vision in my head so much nicer.. of Randy....

and best Randy Travis song ever... I have a feeling this may be on someone in this threads ipod....

soo...only soul&funk and country have endless possibilities? :confused: on no please say it aint so....