[mugs99]

Country music’s formula was filled with family values, nostalgia and the issues that everyday families face.

Really? Not being a country music fan, I must have missed that. All I remember hearing is crying in beer, pickup trucks and cheating spouses.
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[jocon307]

You forgot mom, and prison.

[CheyennePress]

Two words: Alan Jackson.

But honestly, country music deals with far more themes than rock or pop.

How often do you hear songs about a child learning how to drive from his father in pop music? Or a kid still clinging to his dad after a divorce? Being married for 30 years and reflecting back on where you came from.
That's one thing I really like about country music. There's a deeper range to it. Or at least there can be when you don't get the Toby Keith redneck variety.

[TheGeezer]

I was a rock fan all my life until punk came along. It sucked. I started a middle-aged search for my car radio buttons. I finally listened to Country. I heard lyrics about trucks, drinking, and divorce. But I also heard songs about God and country, true and lasting love, about innocence lost and regained. And I heard a lot of songs that required tongue firmly in cheek, and still do.

And none of them ever have sounded as bad as Jagger at Superbowl halftime.

Willie's just being the outlaw, being trendy. I hope he doesn't lead too many astray. He hasn't much time left to enjoy things, really, and we have a promise regarding those who lead the young astray.

[nina0113]

This is part of the song I danced to with my Dad at my wedding (it's not really a danceable song, but it was the one I wanted):

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Holly Dunn, Daddy's Hands:

I remember Daddy's hands, folded silently in prayer
And reaching out to hold me, when I had a nightmare
You could read quite a story in the calluses and lines
Years of work and worry had left their mark behind

Daddy's hands
Were soft and kind when I was crying
Daddy's hands
Were hard as steel when I'd done wrong
Daddy's hands weren't always gentle,
But I've come to understand
There was always love in Daddy's hands

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You'll never get that kind of emotion from any other kind of music.

[ikka]

Really? Not being a country music fan, I must have missed that. All I remember hearing is crying in beer, pickup trucks and cheating spouses.

In 1965 one of the top country hits was by the Louvin Brothers, called "Thank God For My Christian Home" ... don't recall anything similar on the rock charts for that year, or decade.