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What is missing in country music today
Posted on 4/23/13 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 4/23/13 at 2:29 pm
The actual country BAND. not a trio like rascal flatts, the band perry, and others.
What the hell happened to bands? Sons of the Desert, Desert Rose Band, Restless Heart, Burnin' Daylight, Boy Howdy, etc.
county music has suffered greatly since the band has left.
Also, you dont hear the classic guitar riffs you used to hear as late as the 90s anymore. Now every guitar player in country music plays rock style and insists on using les pauls and PRS's. bring back telecasters to country music, for the love of God.
/end rant
What the hell happened to bands? Sons of the Desert, Desert Rose Band, Restless Heart, Burnin' Daylight, Boy Howdy, etc.
county music has suffered greatly since the band has left.
Also, you dont hear the classic guitar riffs you used to hear as late as the 90s anymore. Now every guitar player in country music plays rock style and insists on using les pauls and PRS's. bring back telecasters to country music, for the love of God.
/end rant
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Posted on 4/23/13 at 2:33 pm to King of New Orleans
I miss the drinking, cheating, and done me wrong songs.
Country has gotten caught up in all the crossover BS. Half are crossing over to rock, while the other half are crossing over into Rap/R&B, and they all are crossing over into pop.
What was so damn bad about plain old country?
Country has gotten caught up in all the crossover BS. Half are crossing over to rock, while the other half are crossing over into Rap/R&B, and they all are crossing over into pop.
What was so damn bad about plain old country?
Posted on 4/23/13 at 2:46 pm to King of New Orleans
Talent
Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:15 pm to King of New Orleans
Some heart, grit, and reality is what's missing. Current country music seems very sterile, plastic, and manufactured in the same way as pop boy bands and Britney Spears clones.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:16 pm to King of New Orleans
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King of New Orleans
like Bob Dylan said Times are a changin'
Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:31 pm to King of New Orleans
quote:
What is missing in country music today
Posted on 4/23/13 at 6:37 pm to King of New Orleans
LL Cool J
This post was edited on 4/23/13 at 6:38 pm
Posted on 4/23/13 at 6:45 pm to King of New Orleans
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actual country BAND
quote:
bring back telecasters to country music, for the love of God.
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It's missing songs about love and loss.
betting man
Honestly, I think american aquarium will be a breath of fresh air for you...
I ain't going to the bar tonight
hope he breaks your heart
hurricane
This post was edited on 4/23/13 at 6:47 pm
Posted on 4/23/13 at 7:42 pm to King of New Orleans
I think country music is missing that folk feel. It seems too big and manufactured. They are singing songs about the south and small towns that no one from the south and small towns can truly relate to.
Some bands like Wrinkle Neck Mules and American Aquarium like some have said have a genuine honky tonk, folk feel to them.
The song I linked by Wrinkle Neck Mules is about their struggles as a small time band and is very easy to relate to. Kind of has a similar theme as David Allen Coe's You dont even call me by my name.
Also I think bluegrass and Appalachian folk music has those intangibles that country/western music definitely needs.
/end ramble
Some bands like Wrinkle Neck Mules and American Aquarium like some have said have a genuine honky tonk, folk feel to them.
The song I linked by Wrinkle Neck Mules is about their struggles as a small time band and is very easy to relate to. Kind of has a similar theme as David Allen Coe's You dont even call me by my name.
Also I think bluegrass and Appalachian folk music has those intangibles that country/western music definitely needs.
/end ramble
This post was edited on 4/23/13 at 7:43 pm
Posted on 4/23/13 at 7:56 pm to King of New Orleans
Why don't you take me down town?
Posted on 4/23/13 at 7:58 pm to King of New Orleans
There's still great writers, singers and players around here-but mainstream country is about as real as the mainstream anything these days.
The music industry's intitial fail for not embracing the Napsters of the world is still biting them in the arse. Real artists that used to get developed for months are shelved in favor of trucker hat dirt road buttholes. Writers, the ones that want to keep their lights on in the wasteland, are tailoring songs for them...same goes for the 64 players doing every record. Though awesome, they gotta pay bills too, and a sterile, homogenized sound is whatcha get.
If we can ever download t-shirts and keychains, music is in trouble.
The music industry's intitial fail for not embracing the Napsters of the world is still biting them in the arse. Real artists that used to get developed for months are shelved in favor of trucker hat dirt road buttholes. Writers, the ones that want to keep their lights on in the wasteland, are tailoring songs for them...same goes for the 64 players doing every record. Though awesome, they gotta pay bills too, and a sterile, homogenized sound is whatcha get.
If we can ever download t-shirts and keychains, music is in trouble.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 8:39 pm to King of New Orleans
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bring back telecasters to country music
Dale Watson...
Posted on 4/24/13 at 12:03 am to King of New Orleans
Keith Whitley. That's what's missing
ETA.
What I really think is missing from country is western civilization. With the upcoming loss of George Strait, mainstream country music loses its last cowboy. While plenty of guys wear cowboy hats, they're a part of the show. Lots of songs used to focus on Texas and rodeos. With the bulk of music coming out of Nashville, there are no elements of cowboys, therefore switching theme to the more mainstream "red red red red red redneck"
The way lyrics are presented have changed dramatically. The song Copenhagen was about a bad habit that couldn't be broken. Modern country says "chew tobacco spit"
Also, the assumption that men are men is missing. Good country artists don't need to talk about possessions, beautiful women, and jacked up truck 4x4's to be "country." These modern day pansies are trying too hard to display masculinity through trucks and other messages that aren't believable or relatable.
ETA.
What I really think is missing from country is western civilization. With the upcoming loss of George Strait, mainstream country music loses its last cowboy. While plenty of guys wear cowboy hats, they're a part of the show. Lots of songs used to focus on Texas and rodeos. With the bulk of music coming out of Nashville, there are no elements of cowboys, therefore switching theme to the more mainstream "red red red red red redneck"
The way lyrics are presented have changed dramatically. The song Copenhagen was about a bad habit that couldn't be broken. Modern country says "chew tobacco spit"
Also, the assumption that men are men is missing. Good country artists don't need to talk about possessions, beautiful women, and jacked up truck 4x4's to be "country." These modern day pansies are trying too hard to display masculinity through trucks and other messages that aren't believable or relatable.
This post was edited on 4/24/13 at 12:23 am
Posted on 4/24/13 at 8:04 am to King of New Orleans
Country has never been about a band. It has always been more like pop than rock n roll in that aspect. Even when I was listening to country a lot the only ones I can remember were Alabama, Diamond Rio and Lonestar.
Country has always been more about the individual artist.
Country has always been more about the individual artist.
Posted on 4/24/13 at 10:40 am to King of New Orleans
quote:
What is missing in country music today
The actual country BAND
Pretty simple. There are no actual legit, talented, original, country bands. They don't exist.
Posted on 4/24/13 at 10:00 pm to King of New Orleans
Unfortunately, even the most talented of today's country artists seem to be just be another version of arena rock.
This post was edited on 4/24/13 at 10:01 pm
Posted on 4/24/13 at 11:16 pm to King of New Orleans
There IS still good country music being made out there - just hard to find. Like this guy. Sturgill Simpson - Life Ain't Fair
Found him on savingcountrymusic.com which is my favorite for bashing new country and promoting real country music.
Found him on savingcountrymusic.com which is my favorite for bashing new country and promoting real country music.
Posted on 4/24/13 at 11:54 pm to King of New Orleans
"Paying dues."
It has no soul anymore. Like most of modern life, it's almost too sanitized.
It has no soul anymore. Like most of modern life, it's almost too sanitized.
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