What are your thoughts on country music?
| Poll: Rate how much you like Country music This poll is closed. |
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| 5 Stars - It is my absolute favourite genre | 1 | 7.14% | |
| 4 Stars - Country is my near favourite genre | 2 | 14.29% | |
| 3 Stars - I enjoy country music regularly | 5 | 35.71% | |
| 2 Stars - I like the odd country artists | 6 | 42.86% | |
| 1 star - I absolutely won't listen to country music | 0 | 0% | |
| Total | 14 vote(s) | 100% | |
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What are your thoughts on country music?
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15-11-2014, 13:39
jazzboCR Wrote:This genre has been bought and totally taken over by corporate interests. If you want music that genuinely represents the feelings of rural America, look at the "Americana" category--this stuff is bullshit pop with a twang and nothing more...unless you think so little of rural people as to think this is what their legitimate concerns are. I don't.what do you mean by "what their legitimate concerns are"? 
15-11-2014, 16:26
Music Head Wrote:what do you mean by "what their legitimate concerns are"? While not presuming to speak for any in rural America, I can't believe it's only drinking and pickup trucks. Those folks are increasingly marginalized (look at the dearth of family farms and how few young'uns want to stay rural to work corporate farms or run stores when Walmart comes in to crush you); rural wages/income and opportunities have slipped as badly or worse than city locales; drug addiction to such as "hillbilly heroin" is near-rampant; increasingly bought-out and thus weakened safety standards for miners; increasing air/water/ground pollution; increasingly in thrall to Monsanto, etc. for the necessaries to farm profitably (seeds/ fertilizer, etc.)--those kind of things. Not that these were ever addressed in music but they sure are concerns of today. One bright note is the growth of alternate musics like Americana and bluegrass.
A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind--Dr. Johnson
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR
15-11-2014, 17:47
jazzboCR Wrote:While not presuming to speak for any in rural America, I can't believe it's only drinking and pickup trucks. Those folks are increasingly marginalized (look at the dearth of family farms and how few young'uns want to stay rural to work corporate farms or run stores when Walmart comes in to crush you); rural wages/income and opportunities have slipped as badly or worse than city locales; drug addiction to such as "hillbilly heroin" is near-rampant; increasingly bought-out and thus weakened safety standards for miners; increasing air/water/ground pollution; increasingly in thrall to Monsanto, etc. for the necessaries to farm profitably (seeds/ fertilizer, etc.)--those kind of things. Not that these were ever addressed in music but they sure are concerns of today. One bright note is the growth of alternate musics like Americana and bluegrass.got it thanks
16-11-2014, 03:02
Music Head Wrote:got it Just a little musical reinforcing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgqVCJpRqWQ << Even more true now with the InterWeb and whatnot. Here's a version of an early country tune by Ms. Bayes and her husband--unusually, it includes the verse as well as the well-known chorus. Nice cornet break too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGUW0uAwDyw << Sweet, innocent and nothing about how hot his horse-and-buggy are or how stupid he got with his buddies behind some whiskey.
A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind--Dr. Johnson
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR
17-11-2014, 00:06
Cruising around, I came on another episode of that great music series on CMT, Crossroads with Travis Tritt and Ray Charles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrJGDNSvdLk
A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind--Dr. Johnson
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR
17-11-2014, 03:39
With the understanding that a new sub-genre of country music was started by Kris Kristofferson and that wild bunch ( http://www.music-discussion.com/showthre...erson-News ), country split in 2--the corporate and the real. Among the real are these 2:
BR5-49 Some called them a retro band; I think they found new life with fresh ideas on some older country formats. The Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BR549 Dormant mostly since '06 but had a heckuva 10-year run (6 albums and they toured a lot). The header sentence atop the discog says it all.: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/br5-49-mn...iscography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XRXOjllwX4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZBiwLrK7Cw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEAJDRvZOOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Av1ObJwYtI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlmSfW19sIw The Tractors stuff tomorrow BUT also look up The Derailers and The Mavericks
A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind--Dr. Johnson
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR
22-11-2014, 03:26
OK it took 5 days but here's The Tractors:
A country-rock band started by and run by Steve Ripley. A loose aggregation of some of the best sidemen out there (look at their creds). 6 albums in 15 years.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tractors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlJS3z1RQnE << one fun romp. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqQZ9et0cI0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9zZEyPEovs Some salty language in the vid--be cautioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec0MmljivEU << I'm guessing this was put up by a woman--rock on, Sistah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD0ucby8zFI << they come by this honestly--JJ Cale has played with them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFWs1kNOMc8 BONUS: A concert with his then-group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkrsDyyxHuM
A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind--Dr. Johnson
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR |
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