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26 January 2017
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Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs by Marty Robbins is an awesome album, and one I really need to revisit.
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Dingle Lad, Von Bontee, SgtPeppersBulldogI've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
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14 December 2009
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I’ll second Dingle Lad’s praise of the Burns “Country” doc series. I learned a great deal, those musicians have such interesting stories. (And I thought of meanmistermustard everytime Emmylou Harris was mentioned). Well worth watching.
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Von Bontee said
And I thought of meanmistermustard everytime Emmylou Harris was mentioned).
Which was very often. I’ve had a crush on her since I was 12. My first adult female star crush My mom played Elite Hotel like crazy.
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Dingle Lad said
Von Bontee said
And I thought of meanmistermustard everytime Emmylou Harris was mentioned).
Which was very often. I’ve had a crush on her since I was 12. My first adult female star crush My mom played Elite Hotel like crazy.
Emmylou is incredible, easily one of the best singers I have ever heard. I prefer ‘Pieces of the Sky’ over ‘Elite Hotel’, mainly due to ‘Before Believing, which is quoted in my signature, but it’s very close. Cannot speak highly enough of her. ‘Before Believing’ is such a perfect song, was so happy when I found a live version of it, and it’s significantly different to the released one.
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1 January 2017
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I remember my first days on the forum I used to see the quote in mmm’s signature and think “that’s a cool name”. Now here I am, three years on and happy to have discovered her music, which I did through the great Gram Parsons. My favourite album of Emmylou’s is probably Luxury Liner. I’ve watched a lot of the televised concerts she did with The Hot Band around the time of that album (all up on YouTube) and there’s just so many great songs and covers on it!
And don’t worry, Dingle Lad, you’re not alone in the crush club… 
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I used to really hate country when I was a teenager. But as I got older, I began to appreciate it more, especially after being exposed to the ways in which country and folk interrelate. One thing I really hate, though is “new country,” which is that manufactured crap you hear on the radio, all about being proud of the red, white and blue, freedom and beer. Here are some of the artists I like that are country or have elements of country in their sound.
Do I like country music, huh Not really. I like country style, and I mean I kinda like it, although Its not my cup of tea.
For anyone wondering, I am English, but I lived in America for a little while, which Is why sometimes my writing seems American
Also all that crap your talking about, I understand. My friend likes that kind of stuff- she lives in Wales and likes it! I don’t even know why!??!
1.37am
14 December 2009
Offline Contemporary “Bro Country”, no, I don’t like that at all; it seems to be mostly bland rock music with a bit of a twang.. But there are a ton of artists from the 1920s through the 70s who I like a lot, artists who made music in a wide variety of styles (bluegrass, honky tonk, Western swing), just an incredible assortment of sounds, not to mention the artistry of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton…yep, I guess I am a country and Western fan.
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5.21am
7 November 2022
Offline It’s a crime (or just plain weird) that the Academy of Country Music never inducted Gordon Lightfoot.
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10 January 2024
Offline My father has recently be trying to expand my musical tatse. He played me some groups and artist like The Limelighters, The Mamas and The Papas, Bob Dyaln and a few others (I know the three I named are technally “Folk” artists). I really liked most of the bands and artist he showed me. Im just to embressed to tell him I like to listen to folk music. When it comes to Country it has to be old country I dont really like the newer stuff.
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7.09am
30 August 2021
Offline I’m not a country aficionado but I don’t dislike it as a genre. Johnny Cash, for instance, I would place among my favourite recording artists.
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8.06pm
14 December 2009
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I’m not a country aficionado but I don’t dislike it as a genre. Johnny Cash, for instance, I would place among my favourite recording artists.
There’s a bit of recording during January 1969 where our boys are talking about Johnny, and how much Ringo loves the live Folsom album, and they sing the title “flushed from the bathroom of your heart” thru laughter
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Offline Old country > new country. Still not my favorite genre, but it’s sort of like metal in that regard; I appreciate it more than I enjoy it. The most country-adjacent things I actually listen to on the regular are any of the Beatles’ countryish songs, or the odd country-flavored Tom Petty tune. Borderline cases both. I do like a couple of Dolly Parton’s songs, but they’re more folk than country perhaps.
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7 November 2022
Offline I tend to like country by officially non-country musicians — like Gordon Lightfoot (it’s a crime that he never was inducted into the Nashville Country Music Awards):
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Offline There is a predisposed almost automatic inclination not to like Shania Twain; many of her lyrics are dreadful, the production is largely terrible and I’m not sure the popified versions of her music are a blight on the genre and should be forever held against her as a serious crime against music or not (the Blue mixes of whatever album it was that had three different versions being god damn atrocious).
Saying all that tho, there are some very good songs of hers. ‘You’re Still The One’ is fantastic (tho the guitar solo (in whatever version) is just odd), there are other good songs (including one which mentions a Beatles reunion (maybe ‘When’) and the stripped back mixes of the ‘Woman In Me’ album reveal that when all the s**t is removed Shania has an incredible voice: a clean acapella mix of ‘Any Man Of Mine’ exists (not the crappy version on YouTube) and is brilliant. Maybe if more time had been spent on writing and not in production/recording it would all have been so much better.
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14 December 2009
Offline Me, i like Shania just because hardly any other musical superstars have ever originated in Northern Ontario, my part of the world
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11.21pm
26 January 2017
Offline Country and Hip Hop are both genres that have really rich histories and communities around the music and culture. Throughout the years both have crossed over into pop, and had serious real estate on the pop charts. Inevitably the crossover works both ways and pop has crossed into country and rap, and influenced sounds that sound more homogeneous to the pop charts of the last 15 years. The latest pop trend is a watered down form of RnB and EDM, and this style crosses over all the time into other subgenres looking for a hit. With that said, Country and Rap have such a strong roots that these trends don’t properly define the genre. People who “hate country” are typically talking about 21st century pop country.
But even today there are plenty of great country artists like Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, Tyler Childers, and mega star Zach Bryan who do not embrace the pop country sound, and are acknowledged in Nashville for their songwriting, guitar playing, and doing the things that people like about “old country.” I am not super invested in the CMAs or even the Grammys, but country music as a whole is one of the deepest genres of music that exists, and they have their own charts and awards that dont strictly cater to the most popular trends. Its inevitable that pop will influence country music and then the artists who embrace pop sounds are the ones who get heard more. Its the same with Hip Hop, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t people still making music with great poetry and messaging that is appreciated by not only fans of the genre, but the industry that has been built behind it as well.
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