Anyone like Country Music?

[dedguy]

In the last few years I've started listening to more "country" music. I started with the obvious things like Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Hank Williams Sr., etc. Lately I've been venturing into what these days is known as "Alt-Country" although I prefer to call it "Real Country".

Anyway I just started listening to a band called "Corb Lund & The Hurtin' Albertans". They're pretty damn amazing. I'm blown away. Outside of stuff from the 50s and 60s I haven't heard anything else this good.

Check 'em out if you're any sort of Country fan... or hell even if not. You may find you could be a country fan and didn't even know it due to the glut of over-produced pop-country these days in the mainstream.

http://www.corblund.com/
http://www.myspace.com/officialcorblund

[David Lowry]

I listen to everything but country.

Hip-Hop, Blues, Classical, Jazz, Heavy Metal, Big Band, Gansta Rap, etc....

[dedguy]

Give Corb Lund a go. I listen to everything as well. ;)

[Agent Starling]

I listen to everything but country.

Hip-Hop, Blues, Classical, Jazz, Heavy Metal, Big Band, Gansta Rap, etc....
What David said:D

Starling

[dedguy]

About the only thing I don't listen to much is most metal. I like me some industrial occasionally but most any rock heavier than Body Count isn't really my thing.

[smcfalls13]

While not my first choice to listen to, there's a lot of decent country music out there.

[Slick]

Country music is a b*^%##$^&*n of what country music used to be. I will try and check out your suggestions but I remember country music forty years ago. Modern country is Pop music that has more in common with R&R and R&B than its roots. Chet was a good guy but he killed country and made it popular. Let it be said he probably also saved it as he changed it beyond recognition.

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dedguy:

After I reread your post I think I got the point Sorry I am just slow sometimes. Though not with knives...

I agree.

Growing up there was only one real country station in Columbus OH. There are probably a million there now even though they aren't real country anymore.

Over the years I've learned to appreciate many types of music. Modern country = Pop Rock = etc... and is simply Pop fodder for the jingle muddled minded masses. Some modern country is nice enugh but please don't call it country.

[smcfalls13]

That may very well be the reason I like some country. I don't care for the older country. It has too much "twang" in it for me.

[clovisc]

lots of bluegrass, old time, and country of every sort out here... anyone else get the radio station "appalshop" ??

[huugh]

I listen to everything but country.

Hip-Hop, Blues, Classical, Jazz, Heavy Metal, Big Band, Gansta Rap, etc....

Interesting, I never came to like anything you named :D

There are some exceptions in Classical (very rare :)) and only thing closely ressmbling rap I ever liked is this (http://youtube.com/watch?v=0zGdMlkxxpo) :D


But I don't like most of country music either. (again with few exceptions (http://youtube.com/watch?v=2RKBMX2gthQ) :D)

[dedguy]

lots of bluegrass, old time, and country of every sort out here... anyone else get the radio station "appalshop" ??
No, but I'm a big fan of a internet radio station called "Boot Liquor".
http://somafm.com/bootliquor.pls

[Axlis]

Howdy dedguy!

I have really come to appreciate good county music, expecially some of the older stuff. I also like a bunch of the 80's and 90's country, I guess it's because that's what I grew up around.

I like bluegrass too, and bluegrass gospel very much so.

Anyone remeber the Forester Sisters? They where a little popular in the 80's. They're from around here, and one of the memebers was my chorus teacher in high-school.

[Slick]

Huugh, if I may ask...

What do you listen to?

David named a vast segment of the available music market to which you say you are not interested.

What do you listen to?

[Jenner 515]

doesn't Corb Lund have song entitled...Always Keep an Edge on your Knife??

[dedguy]

doesn't Corb Lund have song entitled...Always Keep an Edge on your Knife??
They do... and it's very great.

[huugh]

Huugh, if I may ask...

What do you listen to?

David named a vast segment of the available music market to which you say you are not interested.

What do you listen to?

Hi,
mainly 1980s era rock and pop (do you remember all these hits? :D) (although I'm not sure if these terms describe all of them accurately :)) - I made myself a compilation composed not from whole albums but only songs I liked :), plenty of songs by Queen, Pink Floyd, Beach Boys, little bit of Michael Jackson and Elton John and bits of Orbital (although "techno" by definition, do you consider e.g. " Halcyon and On and On" a techno? I admit I don't see much difference in what is called techno, house or other "dance music" styles. In general I'm not fond of it.).

I have several albums by Guns'n'Roses, Grave Digger, Hammefall, Rammstein, Massive Attack and few others which I used to listen to here and there in the past but now they only gather dust :)

I'm very up-to-date , aren't I? :D :D

[Hannibal Lecter]

NO. :D

I grew up with the classics of country - George Jones, Tammy Wynette and their ilk.

About the time "Rocky" came out Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" got my attention and I started listening to rock music. Never looked back.

Fair enough - I have occasionally listened to a bit of Montgomery Gentry or something like that, but never with any regularity. My tastes are very eclectic - normal listening for me includes Disturbed, Journey, Toto, Rush, and Edwin McCain, as well as older stuff like Patrice Rushen, Brothers Johnson, Average White Band and the like. Still, country is not something I listen to voluntarily as a rule; I guess just don't have the taste for it.

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Hannibal

[Simple Man]

I listen to everything but country.

Hip-Hop, Blues, Classical, Jazz, Heavy Metal, Big Band, Gansta Rap, etc....

I'l listen to most anything but Rap, Hip-Hop and the harder metal stuff. Most of the time the truck radio is either on the local country station or one of five or six "rock" stations which vary from the 70's through whatever. My "home" station is a country station out of Clarksville TN that plays a good mix of old and new.

I got on a West Texas kick for a while and still think The Great Divide's "Revolutions" may well be the best album ever produced. Corb Lund sounds pretty good also, I heard "The Truck Got Stuck" a while back, but did not know who sang it.

[dalefuller]

Country, no... traditional, yes (listen, collect, and perform)

Traditional to me being people like the Whites or Hazel Dickens. I don't listen to any "commercial" music but there is a lot of bluegrass, traditional, and shape note music being performed and recorded if you look in the right places for it.

[dedguy]

New Corb Lund album "Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!" is out. It's a damn amazing album if you ask me and reminded me why Corb Lund is my favorite country artist out there. I was also inspired to go back and find some of his older stuff (pre "Five Dollar Bill"). It's not as refined or eclectic as his newer stuff but is just as good and to me, sounds a bit darker.

You can download the new album DRM from Amazon, my new favorite place to get mp3s. Or you can listen to three full length tracks at Corb Lund's official website.

http://www.corblund.com/site.php?content=music

[Jenner 515]

dedguy,

Thanks for the heads up on "Horse Soldier Horse Soldier"...what an astounding album.

"Student Visas" is a very powerfull tune for me, I'm very greatfull for having discovered it with your help.

[Shike]

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[Piercieve]

I don't like about 98% of country music. The stuff on the radio is trash IMO...
Like some bluegrass.

I listen to The Mars Volta, Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, Man Man, Sage Francis, Gorrilaz, the Beatles, Hella, Led Zeppelin.... to list a few.

[SoCal Operator]

Dedguy, do you listen to Sixteen Horsepower or The Old 97s at all? I think you'd like them. Also worth it to check out the Murder by Death albums, "Who will survive and what will be left of them?" and "In Bocca al lupo." Also check out my friend's band Twenty Hands High. Woo shameless plug!

[JBE]

Country?....Yes....I like Classic Country even more so - it's what I grew up on. My only change from that is Classic Hard Rock from the Pre-Hair Band Days, e.g. AC/DC,Black Sabbath etc.

Seems to put me in the minority 'round these here parts...:p

[buglerbilly]

I like Music full stop...........if it's poorly sung, poorly played or poorly produced I won't like it.

I prefer R&B, Blues, Rock, Country, Soul, Classical, Heavy Metal ETC ET Bloody Cetera BUT there are artists I won't listen for a number of reasons (see the first paragraph)...........

On Sunday, I watched and listened to Andrea Bocelli in an Italian concert with various guests and had tears in my eyes, astonishing singing.......then switched to the Country Music channel for some light relief only to get the wonderful Johnny Cash singing his last song - I blubbed like a little child and have no shame to admit doing so.

Despite all the sadness and sorrow that the last performance of Mr Cash' brings, one cannot but admire the fact the pure essence of the man's singing still comes through despite the destruction of his voice his illness had wielded.

Before you ask, I'm nearly 58 and NOT renowned for my gentleness in business mainly because I'm not in a business that admires or accepts weakness or indecision.

Music is one release and relief for me, collecting Spydies is now one of the others! ;)

Regards,

BUG