Country Music Fans

[Stike]

I like to kick it old school myself(40's-60's) but even though I firmly belive phasers don't belong in country music I do have a soft spot for some 70's era Conway Twitty.

[Mobster]

I like new stuff, 90's to present, although I'm open to other stuff.

[Jack C]

I only like David Allen Coe style, barfighting, redneck Country. Would that be '70s stuff?

[silentman]

I like ragging on country music, does that count?

[copper blue]

I don't even think I want to get into this.....

I like the alt.country stuff...leaning more to Cowboy Junkies, Kathleen Edwards, Son Volt, etc...but I love Gram Parsons, some Dwight Yoakum, and yes, Mr. Joseph, I like Wilco...

I hate the Wal-Mart pop country stuff...Shania Twain, Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, basically the country you find on the radio..

[Steve Haynie]

I go back into the 1920's with my collection of music. I like the western stuff. Some of those performers were also having success with country music.

Do you know why we have "Country & Western" music? Way back in the early days there were ratings charts for several types of music. To keep from having too many categories, "country" and "western" were put in the same category. The two were never the same, but similar.

A cowboy hat does not make one a western music performer, but today's country crowd does not know the difference.

[Stike]

I only like David Allen Coe style, barfighting, redneck Country. Would that be '70s stuff?

I guess I shoulda had another selection for biker/outlaw country?

[jwhitcomb3]

Wait, there's a category for "dour ass alt country" but the 90's choice doesn't get a "slick, bland Dr. Pepper ad 90's country" description?

-Jonathan

[Brooks]

"country music sucks." - bart simpson

i do have a willie nelson cd w/ some great tunes on it, and some johnny cash.

[Stike]

I hate the Wal-Mart pop country stuff...Shania Twain, Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, basically the country you find on the radio..

Some of the more recent artists I kinda like, Alan Jackson does wear his George Jones influence on his sleeve and I dig Dwight too. I don't really listen to modern country radio or watch CMT very much but when we go visit my mother in law it's all I hear/see. I guess my big beef with the new stuff I do hear is so much of it sounds the same and I figured out why after peeking at the liner notes on my mothern in laws CD's, most of it is written, produced and played by the same few people. I think Brent Mason is a bad mofo but..........

Shania's about as country as Bar B Fu.

[Guest cruster]

Come on, who doesn't like the theme from The Dukes of Hazzard...if that ain't country...

=)

[Stike]

Come on, who doesn't like the theme from The Dukes of Hazzard...if that ain't country...

=)

Wow that was some 70's country. Jerry Reed was playing some killer stuff in the 70's too

[Guest cruster]

I thought it was Waylon Jennings...but Jerry Reed surely was playing some 'gritty' country. I happened to tune into The Bob and Tom show the other morning and they had a comedian in singing a song about his girlfriend looking like a super model but talking like Jerry Reed. It was clever, but can't remember the guy's name.

[SteveE9C6]

I pretty much like almost all of it.... If you look at my screen name, it reflects the two necks on a pedal steel... E9 and C6. I am a long time pedal steeler. I prefer the old school honky tonk such as Buck Owens.

[ZR]

Not a big fan of country music. I mean I guess some of it is ok. I use to listen to Tanya Tucker way back when and I still have an old 45 of "Right or Left at Oak Street by Roy Clark. Plus, being a little kid and watching Hee-Haw was quite an exciting time! Nowadays some of it doesn't differ much from your regular pop stuff.

The one thing I will tell you is that country music has the best looking girls!!

[Guest cruster]

I remember Hee Haw, as well...I was much older when I realized the double entendre of 'The All Jug Band.' Country now just reminds me of bad 80s rock, but with a slide guitar and maybe a mandolin thrown in.

[Tres Aardvarks]

I'm not big on cry in yer beer music, I tend to prefer bluegrass. Still, there's a few songs I am fond of that have DEFINITE country influences.

[Guest Mike Lee]

I HATE "Young Country".

But I love stuff like Danny Gatton, the Hellecasters (+ solo Jerry Donahue & Will Ray), Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West. I guess that means I like country guitar that swings. Western is OK too, especically is it's got some Spaghetti thrown in...

I pretty much hate country lyrics. Although Lyle Lovett and his Large Band has some GREAT writing. That and David Allen Coe's "perfect country and western song".

[Bruiser Brody]

There's allota kuntry music I love...Willie, Cash, Waylon, Reed, Shaver, DAC..but yeah, I guess most of it is 60's/70's. In Austin there's the baseball cap wearin' alt-country 'college kid types' revolution goin' on..eh, not enough attitude for me. If those college kids parents like it..IT SUCKS!!! ..know what I'm sayin? Screw bein' safe if yer gonna do it. Shut up and pass the whiskey genius.

[Stike]

I pretty much like almost all of it.... If you look at my screen name, it reflects the two necks on a pedal steel... E9 and C6. I am a long time pedal steeler. I prefer the old school honky tonk such as Buck Owens.

Pedal steel is one of the coolest instruments around. I used to have an OLD Fender 8 string with 3 pedals( it was supposed to have 4) but I sold it due to lack of talent LOL. I did teach myself Sleepwalk though.

One day I'll get a decent 10 string and have a go at it again and try to learn some Tom Brumley licks.

[wyldbil]

I like exactly two country performers:

BR549

&

Junior Brown

What category does this put me in?

[tralfax19645]

Hi,

There have been some great artists in all these eras. From the old days Patsy Cline, Don Gibson,George Jones just to name a few.

The 70s would be Willie, Waylon and the boys, It got pretty lame in the 80s Ill admit, Mickey Gilley, Alabama,niether which I care too much for, BUT the 90s,especially early was like the golden age for modern country, Vince Gill, Marty Stuart and Steve Warner, all who could just plays soo good it was unbelievable.

The chicks they have now are fantastic, I just turn off the sound to the CMT videos and watch.

Rob

[Stike]

I like exactly two country performers:

BR549

&

Junior Brown

What category does this put me in?

That'd be retro revial. You dig them then check out The Derailers and Deke Dickerson.

[ceeb]

I'm all over the map here. I've only been listening for about 3-4 years. I used to think I didn't like country music. Then one saturday afternoon I heard the Hellacatsers on the local college station, and started listening to the show every week. After a short while I found there were lots of guys that can really play their asses off. What really suprised me is a lot of these guys were doing this in the 40's and 50's.

Then as I listened to a lot of the stuff I had grown up with I started hearing all these country licks in my Rock and Roll. It never occured to me that there was a reason George Harrison played a Country Gentleman, and covered stuff like "Honey Don't" and "Act Naturally". I always dug Rockabilly (but hated country, duh)

I'm pretty much playing catch up now there are so many bands I want to hear. Sometimes I hear one or two good songs by a band, go and buy the CD and am underwhelmed, other times not.

If I had to pick a favorite I guess it would be the rootsy retro revival, because that incorporates all the other stuff.

I love pedal steel, but I think it's too hard to learn, because evryone has a different tuning, number of strings, number of pedals. I was spending a lot of time on the lap/console steel up until about 2 weeks ago, when I started lessons again. I talked to the guy about steel lessons, and his theory is, "if you're gonna play lap steel, you may as well play regular guitar with a slide, because it gives you more flexability, being able to fret with your other 3 fingers and thumb". That made sense to me, so I'm back to guitar pretty much full time, and am going to start with open G and The Stones. (No country there, I wore a hole through my 45 of "Honky Tonk Women" when I was about 10. But I hated country).

[kurtsstuff]

I think the only good thing about country music is the "ya get all your shit back joke"...lol