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Define country music
Posted on 8/10/15 at 9:30 am
Posted on 8/10/15 at 9:30 am
Plenty of agreement about the pis poor state of country music.
Lots of folks are saying that Jason Isbell doesn't fit, and I don't terribly disagree, but some of his songs absolutely do...I think...
So the question is-->What officially qualifies a country song as a country song?
Lots of folks are saying that Jason Isbell doesn't fit, and I don't terribly disagree, but some of his songs absolutely do...I think...
So the question is-->What officially qualifies a country song as a country song?
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Posted on 8/10/15 at 9:35 am to AUjim
Beer, women, why?, how things used to be, I miss you, I'm glad you're gone, dance, bars, outdoors, fights, and vehicles.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:19 am to AUjim
Three chords and the truth.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:31 am to AUjim
This sums it up for you.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:47 am to YouAre8Up
Music for 40 year old moms, sung with a twang by dudes with dumb hats, big belt buckles, boots while faking playing an acoustic guitar
Posted on 8/10/15 at 11:17 am to AUjim
Posted on 8/10/15 at 12:03 pm to AUjim
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Lots of folks are saying that Jason Isbell doesn't fit, and I don't terribly disagree, but some of his songs absolutely do
I put Jason Isbell in the same category that I would Robert Earl Keen or John Prine...IMHO, these guys are incredible singer songwriters of Americana, rather than Country.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 1:56 pm to AUjim
George
Dwight Yoakum
Garth Brooks
Tracy Lawrence
Chris LeDoux
Dwight Yoakum
Garth Brooks
Tracy Lawrence
Chris LeDoux
Posted on 8/10/15 at 4:51 pm to AUjim
Posted on 8/10/15 at 5:03 pm to AUjim
Not a definitive list but some things that help make good country music as opposed to country music :
1. Time in prison;
2. Alcohol dependency;
3. Drug dependency;
4 A series of failed marriages;
5. Growing up poor in the South;
1. Time in prison;
2. Alcohol dependency;
3. Drug dependency;
4 A series of failed marriages;
5. Growing up poor in the South;
Posted on 8/10/15 at 5:13 pm to AUjim
Take a classic southern rock, add pedal steel guitar or a fiddle, change the lyrics to anything about, drinking, pickup trucks, and lost love, rip the sleeves off the singer's shirt, give them a cowboy hat, rinse and repeat.
Posted on 8/10/15 at 6:00 pm to AUjim
A mix of:
- Appalachian mountain music
- Traditional Irish music
- Ranch/cattle drive music
- early Rock and Roll
- Blues
- Steel Guitars
- Fiddles
- Themes of loss, identity, and alcohol
- Appalachian mountain music
- Traditional Irish music
- Ranch/cattle drive music
- early Rock and Roll
- Blues
- Steel Guitars
- Fiddles
- Themes of loss, identity, and alcohol
Posted on 8/12/15 at 1:17 am to TN Bhoy
I love older country music. I love the new categorized Americana. I love Texas Country music. I even love stuff that is on the radio today.
To me, country music is a state of mind, and a feel. Its not how the music sounds, but what it conveys to the listener.
If we really want to be honest, pretty much everyone's favorite country artists are in a sub-genre of the original country music that came out of the Appalachian Mountains and the southwest(hence country/western).
Luke Bryan(Bro-Country), Patsy Cline(Nashville Sound), Merle Haggard(Bakersfield), Willie Nelson(Outlaw), George Jones(Countypolitan), Dolly Parton(pop country), and Garth Brooks(country rock)are all offshoots from the original country sound.
Country music adapts and changes all the time to what the listeners want to hear.
To me, country music is a state of mind, and a feel. Its not how the music sounds, but what it conveys to the listener.
If we really want to be honest, pretty much everyone's favorite country artists are in a sub-genre of the original country music that came out of the Appalachian Mountains and the southwest(hence country/western).
Luke Bryan(Bro-Country), Patsy Cline(Nashville Sound), Merle Haggard(Bakersfield), Willie Nelson(Outlaw), George Jones(Countypolitan), Dolly Parton(pop country), and Garth Brooks(country rock)are all offshoots from the original country sound.
Country music adapts and changes all the time to what the listeners want to hear.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 10:10 am to devils1854
quote:
Country music adapts and changes all the time to what the listeners want to hear.
So...... country should be merging with rap then???
Posted on 8/12/15 at 2:38 pm to YouAre8Up
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country should be merging with rap then???
Posted on 8/12/15 at 2:47 pm to AUjim
White mans Blues. Folk music that evolved into several branches dealing with the struggle and life of rural country people. Later amended to include blue collar urban/suburbanites. This is where it went all wrong.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 6:47 pm to YouAre8Up
Not This
Posted on 8/12/15 at 8:01 pm to AUjim
Trucks, rivers, dirt roads, jeans, heartbreak
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