What happened to Country Music?

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: M.Ted
Date: 12 Oct 06 - 05:58 PM

Twice a day.

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Oct 06 - 06:21 PM

'Hi everyone. It's really me.'

The poof it is.

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 02:28 AM

I agree with John In Kansas.
And there's a fine radio show by Eddie Stubbs on Sundays here on WAMU in the D.C. area where he plays 'Classic" Country, Western Swing, Honky Tonk, and Bluegrass from the '40's, '50's, and '60's.
As a 'Classic' Country music lover, I have one little horror story.
Years ago the Pocono NASCAR track had an ethnic festival week, with a country headliner each night.
Well, I was one of the performers during the Irish daytime portion of the ethnic festival, and because I was a performer I got to go backstage that evening before the country headliner's show for a little wine and cheese, and mingle with the star and his entourage.
The star happened to be Lee Greenwood who had a hit at the time - God Bless The USA.
Now, the Festival organizers also had a deal going whereby members of the public and fans of the star could also come backstage for an extra $50 on top of their ticket price to do a little mingling, wine & cheesing and get autographs, pose for a picture, etc.
A guy came to the door of the tent and announced in stentorian tones:
"Mr. Greenwood is now entering the tent!!"
He sauntered in, wearing sunglasses, and a US flag jacket draped round his shoulder. Surrounded by hulking bodyguards, he strolled through the crowd of his fans who were holding out programs, tickets and various other scraps of paper for him to sign. He ignored them all.
He didn't sign one autograph, or shake one hand; he did one lap around the tent without making eye-contact with folks who had paid an extra 50 of their hard-earned dollars to see this guy close-up, and walked out still surrounded by bodyguards, leaving a lot of disenchanted fans in his wake.
I thought: "What an asshole!"
Then I went out front to see his show.
So here's this big country music star, with his big hit song, and the band's lineup consisted of drums, bass, lead guitars, keyboards and horn section. Not a fiddle, pedal-steel, dobro or banjo to be seen.
And one of the older fans who had been spurned inside the tent turned to me and said:'So country music has come to this!"


Seamus

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 02:34 AM

Don't right off all modern country! There are so many talented people in Nashville. Also, the current "blue-eyed boy" of country music is Brad Paisley and he is one very talented - and very interesting - performer.

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 06:55 AM

Fee, Fi, Fo, Farty!
Methinks I smell Farty Marty!

For time being...

You see, Max still hasn't given me his IP number so I can follow up Marty's previous attempt at stalking me...

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 02:20 PM

nice to hear from you Martin....

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 07:25 PM

bovvered?

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 02:52 PM

It's me. For sure.

And of course I am right about this.

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 03:57 PM

I agree with you, Martin

Seamus

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: GUEST,ibo
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:29 PM

It died,along with its dog,its children and its lovelife.What sad shite country music is.

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:30 PM

Maybe you can answer a question for me: why is country music miserable words to a jolly tune? Don't get me wrong, I fancy singing some of the songs, cos I think the boots are fantastic.
sal

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: GUEST,IBO
Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:37 PM

Ask morrisey

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: GUEST,jeez
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 08:08 PM

What happened to it? It's still being played, Real old-time and country music, not the cartoon-country bullshit that comes out of the media outlets. There's enough of the old, good stuff out there for folks who love it to get hold of it, and there are a lot of people who sing and play it. You just aren't going to get them on your radio station that often. Probably helps to be on the West Coast in the US, and not in the Orkneys or something... but it's around.

There's also a lot of ironic poseur "alt" country shit, and if you check through rags like No Depression you'll see a fair amount of that too. Idiots like, oh, say The Be Good Tanyas keep trying to bring it into some sort of post-punk realm, where attitude is supposed to supplant talent. But most folks who actually like old-time and country music aren't fooled by camera angles and typefaces on websites.

But quit scrolling around on the radio to find it, or looking to posterboys like Paisley. I

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: GUEST,Texas Guest
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 11:54 PM

Music videos killed "real" country music the same way that MTV killed
off rock-n-roll/folk/pop/rock in the 70's. The genre caters to a specific audience and for anyone who's reading this - the audience ain't you and me. Seamus - Lee Greenwood is an asshole; he was a Vegas performer who jumped on the country bandwagon back when it became hip to be country. I was a working country drummer back then and shared many stages with country "stars" - I never liked Greenwood; on the other side, however, Eddie Raven, Emmylou Harris and
John Conlee were all fine folks and I've heard the same about Merle and Willie. Takes all kinds now don't it?

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: GaryG
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 11:01 AM

Chris Knight's music is what country music should have become. Try his songs Rural Route and If I Were You. They are gritty and real. Nashville is dead to me.

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 11:07 AM

Buddy Miller's music for me.

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 03:00 PM

It went right wing

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: voyager
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 03:03 PM

Q: What do you get when you play country music backwards?

A: You get back your wife, your dog and your truck, you sober up, you're released on parole and you find susej.

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: GUEST,Kenny B sans Kuki
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 03:19 PM

isn't it a couple of reasons like:
The "country" generation of both singers and fans are now in care homes or worse
Nobody writes songs like that any more

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: BobKnight
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 04:59 PM

Want to hear real country music - check out Mo Pitney on youtube. :)

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: Kenny B (inactive)
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 05:41 PM

Thanks Bob good new country face & voice
Just been listening to a new to me version of Johnny Cash doin
" The Cremation of Sam McGee".... Brilliant

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: GUEST,Dr John
Date: 09 Aug 18 - 06:08 PM

There was a brief resurgence in the 1980's headed up by producer Tony Brown. Known as the "neo-traditionalists" companies started signing people like Patty Loveless, Dwight Yoakum, Randy Travis, Lyle Lovett, Allison Moorer, Steve Earle. Lee Ann Womack was the sort of magic unicorn that labels were looking for; someone with traditionalist authenticity who could also have major pop hits.
In the 1990's the focus seemed to shift somewhat towards "Americana' with folks like producer T-Bone Burnett, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch, Kasey Chambers, etc. Nowadays, you might still find some good stuff out there but it might take some digging. Nashville is all about making money with the middle of the road, pop rock they are intent on marketing as the new country; identical sounding, auto-tuned voices perfect for beer commercials and SUV ads.

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: Raedwulf
Date: 09 Aug 18 - 06:18 PM

"What happened to Country Music?"

Urban sprawl? ;-) Knowing the long departed Shambles, I suspect he would not have appreciated the attempt at humour!

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: GUEST,paperback
Date: 12 Aug 18 - 02:47 PM

"And have you noticed that today’s country music panders to those fans under the age or 30? Whereas classic country appealed to those fans or all ages"

https://www.redbluffdailynews.com/2018/06/06/letter-what-in-the-world-happened-to-country-music/ HERE

He mentions when Doo-Wop changed, he changed to C\W.

Radio station KWJJ in Portland Ore. did too.

Before my time, but was told by a older brother.

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: JuliaGilliam
Date: 12 Aug 18 - 10:14 PM

Country is basically modern pop music, but with a fake southern accent.

Subject: RE: What happened to Country Music?
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Aug 18 - 05:30 AM

0r, god help us, there's country and irish.....