re: What's up with white boys nowadays

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Steve Miller? Seriously?

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This. I’m bigger into dad rock than most anyone else remotely around my age and even I think Steve Miller Band is lame.

Using the BR music scene is not really useful for your point. The Seattle scene is far bigger, and probably more representative, and I certainly wouldn't base an argument on modern music sensibilities based on Seattle musicians alone.

I’m a millennial and only listen to most country and rock pre 1990s some select songs make it through but I have never gravitated towards the music of my generation. I can’t possibly imagine showing the songs I grew up with on the radio when I was a teenager to my kids. It’s almost all horrible messaging. Songs used to be edgy but I guess it was either more subtle or less in your face. I was a teenager in the 2000s and early 2010s for reference.

Yeah, Steve Miller isn't the best example my list is more like:

The Allman Brothers
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimi Hendrix
Jim Croce
Eric Clapton
Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler
The Band
Van Morrison
CCR
Doobie Brothers
Crosby, Stills, and Nash (& Young)
All the guys in The Highwaymen (Nelson, Cash, Jennings, Kristofferson)
Led Zeppelin
Simon & Garfunkel



I'd throw in The Grateful Dead, The Beatles, and Queen, but I know how polarizing those subjects can be

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They don't make music or movies like they used to make them. It's sad, but luckily we can always listen to and watch the old stuff.

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Until it’s all in the cloud and then deemed problematic and then removed.

I’m waiting for Amazon to start dropping civil war era songs and removing any confederate imagery from album art. Half of Alabama’s albums are confederate flags

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The oldest are well into their 30s.

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The oldest people born in the year 2000 are well into their 30s?

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When in Rome

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Your list is stellar. In my original OP I just threw up some bands to prove a point. These mid 30's baws who shuffle between bro country and some rapper who can't navigate the English language are the root cause of the problem.

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Your list is stellar. In my original OP I just threw up some bands to prove a point. These mid 30's baws who shuffle between bro country and some rapper who can't navigate the English language are the root cause of the problem.

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I understand that. My point is that many of us millennials listen to the good stuff, despite the fact that the bro country/mumble rap dominates the airwaves.

He was asking about what kinds of guitar-based music young musicians are playing. I took one scene as an example simply because it is the scene with which I am most familiar with.

Baton Rouge is actually a really great barometer because it’s actually incredibly large and diverse for a city its size, lacks a signature sound or band that everyone tries to emulate (very unlike Seattle or Nashville), has an original music-making culture (much larger percentage of original musicians per capita than most anywhere else in America outside of south Louisiana), isn’t influenced by major label preferences (L.A., Nashville, and NYC), has its own home-grown pedal and gear companies affiliated with said scene (Komet amps, Rougaroux pedals, etc), and consists primarily of college students and those just outside of college, who are the cutting edge of any musical trends.

As a result, Baton Rouge consistently punches well above its weight class as far as producing original music. The scene here for rock is arguably superior to much larger markets like Denver, Phoenix, Tampa, Jacksonville, Charlotte, Milwaukee, etc.

It’s certainly nowhere near as influential or large as Seattle, Portland, Austin, L.A., Athens, Atlanta, Chicago, or NYC, but it’s a pretty solid mid-market.

you can also listen to older, "good" music and still enjoy newer country and rap. it has its time and place. i think that fact escapes a lot of the olds.