Does anyone here like country music?

[Lyric]

I grew up with it and I've listened to it my whole life, along with other music of course. I love singing karaoke, so I've been practicing Miranda Lambert's "More Like Her" for the next time I get to go sing

[kentauros]

1. Some of it.

Old stuff for the most part. Sometimes when I'm in the mood, I'll put it on Boot Liquor. And other times listening to Rev. Horton Heat is all the fix I need

[OriginalGeek]

13. the last time I saw the Rev live

he brought out Unknown Hinson for 5 or 6 songs. Pure genius! Love both of them.

[kentauros]

15. I've still never seen him live.

If I paid attention to the club postings I'd probably be able to see him play. I know he's been at the Continental Club here a few times...

[OriginalGeek]

16. he seems to tour a lot

I've seen him twice here and I know I missed some appearances in between those two. So chances are good! I set up the "Bands In Town" app that lets me know when artists I like are near. Also follow them on FB if you do that.

Man I'll tell ya if you like him at all, his live shows are even better. And he tours with interesting bands. First time I saw him he was opening for Motörhead and the second time he was headlining a 1-day fest here in a bar parking lot. Got right up close and there was a ton of other fun bands. (Mostly a bunch of local rock-a-billy that I never heard of but will go see every time I can now.)

[GOLGO 13]

2. Not really but I do enjoy the giants like Cash, Willie & Hank

However, I do like me some "Outlaw Country" like Reverend Horton Heat, Hellbound Glory, Joe Buck, Unknown Hinson, Rachel Brooks, Hank III, Those Poor Bastards.

Country music can be quite versatile but you have to really, really dig for it. The radio wont go near these guys I mentioned.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Not at all - for me it's like auditory tear gas.

Why the hell can't they at least sing in tune?

[lillypaddle]

4. I love country music

A lot of the lyrics are pure poetry.

[LonePirate]

5. I like the country music that existed before the 1980s.

Lots of great country music from the 50s-70s.

[Miles Archer]

6. I love Country music, but I loathe "Bro Country" from the likes of Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean

All of those songs about baby lookin' so good in her tight blue jeans...no thanks.

I grew up in a home where the soundtrack was Buck Owens, Jim Reeves, Eddy Arnold, Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hank Williams, Hawshaw Hawkins, Chet Atkins...all of the old-school Grand Ole Opry stars.

I do like some modern performers, including Miranda Lambert, Brooks & Dunn, Alan Jackson, and Justin Moore. My favorite contemporary performer is Zac Brown, but he's not contained in a "Country" box...he has a strong Jimmy Buffett side to some of his music (and he also performed his song "Free" and Van Morrison's "Into The Mystic" with him). His current album includes Country but also rock and some EDM.

[Initech]

8. I'm not a country fan but I love Zac Brown Band.

Saw them live last year and they put on a great show.

And I love that they do all kinds of covers like:

Or:

[Paladin]

7. Not the stuff from the young, no-talent hacks who currently rule C&W.

The guys are adept at facial hair growth. The gals excel at wearing clingy cotton farm dresses. Both sexes manage tons of tattoos. But as to musical talent? Nada.

Another helpful hint: the guys who you never see without cowboy hats, like Kenny Chesney? They've got Trump Chickenshit Complex---they're bald but don't have guts enough to show it......

[OriginalGeek]

9. I love old bluegrass and western swing from the 40s, 50,s and beyond

and much of the pop country from the 70s when I was a boy in Texas (Which is now probably considered classic lol - Merle, Waylon, Willie, Statler Brothers, Oak Ridge Boys, Don Gibson, Kris Kristofferson,

I love some weirdo newer stuff too like Them Poor Bastards, .357 String Band, Willie's boy Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real are great.

My wife listens to modern country a lot and I can't stand any of it. So basically, if it's new and on the radio, I doubt I like it (unless it's some late night specialty show playing off the wall stuff) but all the oldies are OK.

[Initech]

10. Can I post some Wheeler Walker Jr? (extreme NSFW warning)

This album rules. He manages to offend just about everyone and everything. I'm kind of obsessed with it. Because country music needs more swearing:

[OriginalGeek]

12. here's another newer band I love in that same vein

ETA~ Adding Wheeler Walker to the playlist. thanks for the heads up!

[femmocrat]

11. I like the older stuff.

Patsy Kline, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, etc.

And I do love the Dixie Chicks!

I don't listen to the modern stuff, but I do like Carrie Underwood and Blake Shelton. I hate any that sounds like "cater-wallin'." LOL

[OriginalGeek]

14. Patsy was special for sure

When my father-in-law died I grabbed up all his old records and he had a fair bit of Patsy, Kitty Wells and other stuff like that. Second best thing he ever did for me.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

21. Patsy Cline, Lovesick Blues

I can guarantee without reservation that you will not see or hear anything better than this all weekend.

That old Hank Williams, Bob Wills, and Lefty Frizzell stuff is just unbeatable.

Full disclosure: I am wearing two-tone cowboy boots.

When I'm elected President, everyone will listen to music through vacuum tubes (other than live, of course).

[OriginalGeek]

33. Well, I did go to a Venom, INC/Necrophagia show on Friday

but this ranks right up there.


My favorite Christmas present my mom ever gave me was a pair of Lucchese ostrich skin boots. I wear them regularly.

I'll be voting for you.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

34. Lucchese and ostrich? Their cost must be the same as the GDP of several small countries.

I mean one country at a time, not all at once, but still, you get my point.

[OriginalGeek]

36. lol, yeah I was shocked too

but I found out later she was mad at my step-father and spending his money was one of her little ways of sticking it to the man. WAY too religious to leave him (though I tried to get her to) but this worked out well for me.

[cemaphonic]

17. I like bluegrass, and a lot of what gets called alt-country

(Sturgill Simpson, Gillian Welch, OCMS, etc.)

Also, that 70s country rock that Gram Parsons pioneered.

Nashville commercial product from almost any era leaves me cold, but like most people, I love Johnny Cash.

[quickesst]

18. I love country music...

... from about the mid-nineties and long back. One of my three favorite music genres that include Motown and old rock and roll. And ballads. I love a good ballad.

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[bigwillq]

19. No

Not at all.

[clarice]

20. Texas red dirt country. nt

[GentryDixon]

22. Grew up on it. Love the older artists.

I've been to the Grand Ole Opry twice. The last time Keith Urban was the headliner.

My Mom's ring tone was "Waltz across Texas" by Ernest Tubb. He was my Dad's favorite. We went to a concert many years ago and Ernest came down to sit at our table . My Dad was over the moon. 🎸💕

[OriginalGeek]

35. I'm 97% sure I've been to the Grand Ol Opry

late 70s - we were on vacation in Tennessee and all I really remember was Jean Shepherd sang Wabash Cannonball. Don't remember anything else but I wish I did.

Was the Opry something people could just go to every day and there was somebody playing? I don't remember it being a big evening event (and I seriously doubt my cheap-ass step-father would have paid much for us to do anything) but I distinctly remember being in a theater and seeing her name on the marquis I loved that song.

[GentryDixon]

38. The Grand Ole Opry started as a radio program.

I remember listening to it as a child. I am not sure what criteria was used to determine the lineup. My first trip was around 2004 & the last one 2008. By that time it was a weekly evening event. The tickets were a little steep, but certainly worth it.

[OxQQme]

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[Tom Kitten]

24. I like country songs about flying saucers

[Brother Buzz]

39. I like Western swing songs about flying saucers

[mahatmakanejeeves]

41. Wait: country songs about flying saucers? Well, why not?

They have them about the atom bomb.

Witness:

The Atomic Cafe

specifically:

Soundtrack

A vinyl LP record of The Atomic Cafe soundtrack was released in 1982 by Rounder Records. Some of the credits for the record include: co-produced by Charles Wolfe, The Archives Project (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty and Pierce Rafferty), album cover artwork by Dennis Pohl, cover design by Mel Green, and booklet text by Charles Wolfe.

Track listing

Side One

1. "Atom and Evil" by the Golden Gate Quartet
2. Audio Clip: Maj. Thomas Ferebee, "Enola Gay" bombardier, 08/15/45
3. "When the Atom Fell" by Karl and Harty
4. Audio Clips: President Harry S Truman, 08/09/45; Capt. Kermit Beehan, "The Great Artiste" bombardier, 08/15/45
5. "Win the War Blues" by Sonny Boy Williamson II
6. Audio Clip: David E. Lilienthal, the first Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission
7. "Atomic Power" by the Buchanan Brothers
8. Audio Clip: Winston Churchill, 03/31/49
9. "Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb" by Lowell Blanchard and The Valley Trio
10. Audio Clip: Rep. James E. Van Zandt (Republican), Penn., 05/08/53
11. "When They Drop the Atomic Bomb" by Jackie Doll and His Pickled Peppers
12. "Atomic Sermon" by Billy Hughes and his Rhythm Buckeroos
13. "Old Man Atom" by Sons of the Pioneers

Side Two

1. "Uranium" by The Commodores
2. "50 Megatons" by Sonny Russell
3. "Atom Bomb Baby" by The Five Stars
4. "Satellite Baby" by Skip Stanley
5. "Sputniks and Mutniks" by Ray Anderson and the Homefolks
6. "Atomic Cocktail" by Slim Gaillard Quartette
7. "Atomic Love" by Little Caesar with the Red Callendar Sextette
8. "Atomic Telephone" by Spirits of Memphis Quartet
9. "Red's Dream" by Louisiana Red

By the Buchanan Brothers, of "When You See Those Flying Saucers" fame:

[patricia92243]

25. I never could understand how people liked it until I worked at a radio station that played it.

I learned to like it and that was 30 years ago. I still like to hear Dolly Parton and others from that era.

I just worked in the office, but we could hear the music.

[Hoyt]

26. Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers (and some of artists they covered), etc.

[randr]

27. All genres of music can be separated into two distinct classes

Pop and Authentic.
When real musicians play their hearts out it doesn't matter what "kind" of music they play.
I hate Pop music be it Rock, Rap, or Country.
Think of the difference as the comparison of a good short film and a lousy commercial.

[Iggo]

28. I like the cowboy stuff. I think Willie Nelson's a fucking genius.

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Got no use for pop country or that achy breakey fakey twanger joke song crap.

I'm a metalhead and that's what I like. But I'll listen to anything with serious guitar in it. (Hence, Willie.)

And oh yeah! I heard the hands down spookiest version of You Are My Sunshine, and I liked that a lot!

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[Rhythm]

29. I think that song is a terrific selection...

Beautiful lyrics, and the whole thing is right in the strongest point of your vocal range!
:-D

[Rhythm]

30. Karaoke-wise, i think ~this~ is probably my next one:

It's ambitious, but i think with some practice i could nail the hell out of it!

[IgelJames4]

31. Nah, not really

Honestly, too much of it is just jingoistic dreck. I like some of Shania Twain's stuff though.

[lastlib]

32. Uh, no. Next thread.

[Katashi_itto]

37. Only the stuff that makes martians heads explode.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

40. I like Johnny Cash, but he was a bit of a crossover artist even back in the day.

I like bluegrass fiddle and banjo folk tunes.

But the modern Nashville stuff, I have absolutely no interest in. Probably the only genre of music that I don't have a designated pre-set station for on my car radio.