Posted on 01/14/2018 9:41:37 PM PST by nickcarraway
My life didn’t change when I saw the duelling banjos scene in Deliverance, but it was the first time I realised there was more to country music than the Benny Hill theme tune
y name is Martin and I love country music. There you go, I’ve said it. It’s not always an easy thing to do. When the subject comes up, I get a funny sort of look. Once you spring the c-word on people, you can see they’re thinking: “[darn], this bloke’s weird. Does he dress up like a cowboy at home and do those funny dances?”
Sometimes people like to crack a joke about country and I’ve heard most of them. There’s the one that goes: “Do you like country? Or just western?” And then there’s: “Yeeeeehaaaaa!” People think that one’s pretty hilarious. But there is one joke which is quite funny and also very telling. It goes like this. Two blokes go into a pub, somewhere in northern England. One of them, who is hard of hearing, goes to the bar to get some drinks. The barmaid says there’s a band on, a country and western band. The bloke goes back to his mate and sits down with the drinks. “There’s a band on tonight,” he says. The other bloke says “What type of band?” The other one replies: “I don’t know. Some [expletive] from Preston.”
Sorry to hit you with another c-word but the punchline neatly reflects popular contempt for country music. The gag is perceptive in that a lot of what we call country music is irredeemably naff – chugging pop-rock with lyrics about beer and trucks sung by blokes with hats like Garth Brooks and Jason Aldean. But I also hate the joke because it obscures everything that I love about country. There’s no rollicking
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I’ve heard some real “Dying calf in a hail storm” music in the past.
Yeah, it is. Sometimes it's more. You get a band like Nine Inch Nails, not country. A writer like Trent Reznor, not country. A cover by Johnny Cash. Mind-blowing. That's Johnny's real wife in that, BTW.
Somebody asked me a couple weeks ago what my favorite country song is, I suspect as a joke because she knew my tastes don't usually go that way. This is it: Jack's Defeat Creek. Yeah, there's a story, quite a story. Good stuff.
Isn’t there a certain type of Country Music that uses strings similar to Irish River Dancers? Some may call it Zydeco. A little too noisy and pushy for me, but very popular with some.
There is a lot of cultural crossover going on.
I PLAY PEDAL STEEL/
I think it’s been almost 5 years for me. And yes, I love the pop country. Even as it really does have overused words like beer, truck, radio, etc, I’m crazy for it and listen nearly every day. You talk radio dudes better be interesting or I’ll switch to the Highway on Sirius. Pop country makes me feel good. That is good enough for me. My indie and hard rock loving kids think I am weird and simple but I don’t care. And I still love rock and mot other kinds of music too. But I love the sound and the world of country. And 5 years ago, the country performers were proud to stand for conservative values. That apparently is gone. They are either lefties or closeted now. But the fact that they made conservative sided jokes at then CMAs helped convert me. Wish they still would.
I said, no there's not.
Real Waylon Jennings song:
Sure Didn’t Take Him Long
Excerpt:
“To take my Ann took a hell of a man
But it sure didn’t take him too long.”
I am, too.
Boogie Woogie Blues--Charline Arthur (1950)
Wah Hoo--Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers (1936)
Kangaroo Blues--Cliff Bruner & His Texas Wanderers (1938)
Dust--Roy Rogers & the Sons of the Pioneers (1938)
MY WIFE RAN OFF WITH MY BEST FRIEND
(And I Sure Do Miss Him)
Artist: Wayne Carter
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/_music_lyrics.cfm?bandid=134476&songID=1417909
“When you play a country song backwards, you get your house back, your wife back, your dog back, and your truck back.”
And you get sober
Flushed You From The Toilet Of My Heart
By J.D. Blackfoot
TM Productions - I Wanna Whip Your Cow - Punk Country (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8kHONClq6Q
The whole left’s view of country people is based on deliverance.
I can’t even imagine a more insulting way to intro an article.
Disgusting.
You’re the Reason Our Kids are Ugly - Lorretta Lynn & Conway Twitty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFq6eZBS1iM
George Strait is the King of Country Music. He’s got that smirk as if knows he’s the best; and everybody else knows it, too.
Johnny Cash version...Six White Horses.
Hank Williams is Country music.
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