What if..... Country Music dies

[BoysFan4ever]

It already has. Country today is pretty much pop music wearing a hat...

George Strait and Alan Jackson had a song a few years back called Murder on Music Row... it's about that very thing...

Yep. It's just pop.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

Country music is from dead. If you're comparing what comes out of Nash-Vegas and unaware of what's considered "Alt County" or "Red Dirt Country", you're really missing out on very, very good artists and music that's based on the roots of what true country is.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

the old days of Waylong Jennings et al are long gone. Now the women are hot, the men buff and crossover is the new buzz word

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Country music has been dead well over 15 years.. The stuff your listening to now is pop music with a country accent and an occasional steel guitar or faint banjo.

Agreed. Go listen to Hank Williams or Jim Reeves or Patsy Cline... Country stars of today are pop-stars with a little country thrown in.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I for one. I sure do miss it! But it lives long in my ever lovin' heart.

I enjoyed the disco period and enjoyed the "big-hair" bands soon there after. Interesting periods of music to be sure.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I kind of liked it when the lines were not so blurred.

Me too.

Because then when a country song crossed over and did well on the pop charts, it didn't sound like many of the other songs already charting like Skeeter Davis' "The End of The World".

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Ray Wylie Hubbard, Stevie Ray Vaughn. Eventually I started to listen to some country singers like Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline and I won't say that I would download their music on iTunes anytime soon...but, I really dug their lyrics and their voices (and the stories of their lives and their personalities).



YR

Patsy Cline.

You should download her music... what an amazing and distinctive voice.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Agreed. Go listen to Hank Williams or Jim Reeves or Patsy Cline... Country stars of today are pop-stars with a little country thrown in.

I see pics of Hank & it's hard to believe that guy was in his 20's when he died.

He looks about 40!

Guess he lived those songs..

 

[Lonestar94]

Agreed. Go listen to Hank Williams or Jim Reeves or Patsy Cline... Country stars of today are pop-stars with a little country thrown in.

I'm a Keith Whitley guy, country music has never been the same since he died in '89. If he had lived, I dont know if country music would of went down this path. The guy was a SUPERSTAR and he was COUNTRY. Garth Brooks even admitted he would of taken the backburner to this guy.

George Jones is not too bad either. Certainly nobody today is gonna fill his shoes.

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

Certain aspects of country are already dead. There's nobody left out there that stacks up against Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Conway Twitty, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Ernest Tubb, Emmylou Harris, and the Carter Family. They sang about real things like growing up a coal miners daughter, going to prison, and your mother getting run over by a damned ole train.

I hated country growing up, and still like very little of it. But I could relate to those people because they sang about real things. I mean Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift haven't even been around a damned ole train before. If Toby Keith has ever been to prison it was just for sucking!

That said about your modern pop/country, there's some Americana/Blue Grass bands out there right now that are really good. The Steel Drivers, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Alabama Shakes, The Steel Wheels, and The Builders And The Butchers are all fantastic bands that have country roots that they've taken in a different direction.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I see pics of Hank & it's hard to believe that guy was in his 20's when he died.

He looks about 40!

Guess he lived those songs..

Boy he did too.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Boy he did too.

He looks very old in pictures. I was SHOCKED to read he was in his 20's.

I like him. Heck of a songwriter.

Some of the best songs come from struggle & pain. That is what I hear from him.

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

He looks very old in pictures. I was SHOCKED to read he was in his 20's.

I like him. Heck of a songwriter.

Some of the best songs come from struggle & pain. That is what I hear from him.

Kaw-Liga and Ramblin Man are my favorite two that he ever wrote.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Kaw-Liga and Ramblin Man are my favorite two that he ever wrote.

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.

Great song. That's mine.

 

[bb721]

It wasn't until a few years ago that I started to understand some of the truly great music in country western like Johnny Cash, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Stevie Ray Vaughn.

YR

If you consider Stevie Ray Vaughn's music to be "country western" then it's time to put down the bong. He'd be rolling over in his grave if he read your post !!

 

[WV Cowboy]

the parents of the 12-28 year old listeners grew up in the late 60's and 70's when musical talent was at its peak.

Thank you.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Patsy Cline.

You should download her music... what an amazing and distinctive voice.

my dad loved her but she would go nowhere today, too fat and not attractive enough, sad as that might be

 

[CowboyStar88]

Before my time but I remember readiness that Garth tried singing rock/pop as some alter ego guy.

I thought that was so strange. What the heck? Maybe he was doing drugs..

Chris Gaines they did that movie and he did the soundtrack. A few songs were ok but you could always hear the country sound

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Chris Gaines they did that movie and he did the soundtrack. A few songs were ok but you could always hear the country sound

I think that is a very weird thing for him to do. I don't get it but hey he's an "artist". They're all kind of goofy.

 

[MissouriCowboy]

Godsmack is rocking so I keeping hope.