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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It was called "the '80s".
If Taylor Swift played country music instead of pop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLTuYFISZQ
“Country music today is bad rock with a fiddle.” - Tom Petty
There are many gradations and portrayals of ‘Country Music’.
One interpretation I’ve always enjoyed was from Patsy Cline and her interpretations of other writers music. I don’t know a lot about her. Some of my favorites by Patsy are’
Tennessee Waltz, I Fall to Pieces and the Willie Nelson song; Crazy.
If it ain’t Willie, Merle, Glen, Marty, or Johnny count me out.
“but it was the first time I realised there was more to country music than the Benny Hill theme tune.”
That was done by The Earl Scruggs Review. The author is a barbarian.
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The angst, the grunge generation should be sued for appropriation.
A co-worker from Texas used to talk about “Dying Calf” Music.
If it isn’t about your wife, your dog, or your truck then it isn’t country.
You left out Randy Travis?
Otherwise known as tractor rap.
Boots Randolph?
When you play a country song backwards, you get your house back, your wife back, your dog back, and your truck back.
Lefty and Waylon too.
I figured that out in the 1960s when 1950s rock and roll was re-released as C&W music.
I am a Bob Wills -Spade Cooley fan myself, when Western music was real WESTERN!
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