Country Music

[Mae Band]

I know alot of you guys dont like it but I sure do! I hear alot of people say its really dumb but then talk about certian styles of music like rap and say how its the best thing since sliced bread even though it takes absolutely no talent to do it. Now if anyone feels the same way I do, say it but if not, its cool. I just think it would be great to know if there are any other country music people in this forum like myself!

 

[twosteppin]

I love country music. We do have a country forum where you will find more people that do, FYI.
Who do you enjoy listening to?

 

[zaire]

I have some Garth Brooks CD's and they are class.

Lynyrd Skynyrd, are they country? Well they rock.

 

[Mae Band]

george strait, garth brooks, brad paisley, alan jacksons new song called the talkin song repair blues, keith urban and a bunch others but i cant think of them right now.

p.s. sorry if i offened you rap people

 

[Mae Band]

wheres the country music forum?

 

[twosteppin]

looks like you already found it.

I love Alan Jackson, I like Toby Keith, but some of his songs are obnoxious and I don't care for them. I have loved everything that sugarland has put out.
I'm trying to get more into Charlie Daniels, I love that man. Did I mention that I love country music?

 

[The Blue Stare]

With the exception of one or two songs, country music just doesn't appeal to my tastes.

 

[WhenFinallySetFree777]

I really respect the old country - Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Jr., etc. - but a lot of newer country artists sound like bubblegum pop with some twangy guitar. Ugh. Also, the "hick hop" thing that's in style is horrible. A good friend (who has near-identical taste in music) and I used to joke that a rap and country hybrid was the only genre that hadn't been formed yet because it would be so unbelievably cr**py. (Hey, the "c" in country + rap...) It's been formed, and yes, it sucks.

 

[Maynard Keenan]

There is a lot of good country music.....even if a lot of country nowadays is just vaguely countryish pop. Plenty of that is good as is plenty of real country.

I like Blake Shelton's song out right now, its good. Toby Keith has had lots of good stuff. I LOVE Tim McGraw's song out now, Drugs or Jesus. Sarah Evans is good. Can't forget classics like Willie Nelson. Johnny Cash is good.

It isn't my favorite Genre but yeah, theres lots of good music in it.

 

[MetalBlade]

I like some country music. More of the old bluegrass, honky-tonk style though. All the pop country is bad, IMHO. George Strait rules.

Oh and last time I checked, there was a bluegrass country forum to post topics like this in!

 

[blackwasp]

I enjoy some older country: Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Chet Atkins, and Willie Nelson. Some Wilco material could be considered country, I guess. I think for the most part though, country has become an extension of pop music for the South.

I think that folk is where it's at.

 

[Sign Of The Fish Burger]

I have no problems admitting I love the Dixie Chicks

I also kinda like Shania Twain's new song, although I can't remember the name of it. I saw the video the other day, they are kinda dancing in a country bar- pretty catchy!

 

[Qyöt27]

Lynyrd Skynyrd, are they country? Well they rock.

Back in the 70s they were officially 'Southern Rock' (as were The Eagles), but both country fans and rock fans enjoyed them the same. They did leave a large influence on some contemporary country artists, though.

I listen to some, not as much as I used to when my family first started listening to it, but some. Not full albums, though, just songs here and there. Deana Carter, Sons Of The Desert, Brooks and Dunn, Clint Black, Collin Raye, Jason Sellers, Kathy Mattea, Martina McBride, Paul Brandt, Reba McEntire, Sawyer Brown, Shania Twain, Ty Herndon, Keith Urban, Bruce Robison, a few others. Some of those were only one or two songs though, mind you. Take note = most are from around the mid 90s.

Also, does anyone remember Dean Miller's song "Nowhere USA"?

 

[Mae Band]

i just bought the new george strait cd, its pretty good. I HIGHLY recommend the song The seashores of old mexico!
i love this song!

 

[but'n'ben]

As a metal fan, country music is not dumb. Johnny Cash is more metal than a lot of today's wannabes will ever be. If it wasn't for Johnny, the likes of metallica and mudvayne would have take a different tangent.

 

[Mae Band]

ive heard this before, but i still dont get how johnny cash affects the sound of metal?

 

[MetalBlade]

ive heard this before, but i still dont get how johnny cash affects the sound of metal?

he doesn't. I don't know why people say that either. I think he wrote that one song for NIne Inch Nails, but they aren't metal. If it's not here : www.metal-archives.com , it's not metal.

 

[Qyöt27]

he doesn't. I don't know why people say that either. I think he wrote that one song for NIne Inch Nails, but they aren't metal. If it's not here : www.metal-archives.com , it's not metal.

Other way around. It was written and recorded by Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails back in 1994. Johnny Cash just covered it.

 

[MikeMcK]

Back in the 70s they were officially 'Southern Rock' (as were The Eagles), but both country fans and rock fans enjoyed them the same. They did leave a large influence on some contemporary country artists, though.

The Eagles were never Southern Rock.

About the closest they came to being Southern Rock is that they employed a twin guitar sound similar to some SR bands.

They were a part of an entirely different subgenre called "Canyon Rock".

Southern Rock would be your Skynyrds, your Allmans, your Wet Willies and Elvin Bishops and Barefoot Jerrys.

Canyon Rock would include artists like Jackson Brown, J.D. Souther, Chris Hillman, Jim Photoglo, POCO, Buffalo Springfield, Linda Ronstadt, etc.

 

[MetalBlade]

Other way around. It was written and recorded by Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails back in 1994. Johnny Cash just covered it.

ah! Thank you.