Posted on 06/08/2010 12:08:53 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
Music-industry bible Billboard took the opportunity this week to comb through its chart records and compile the top 25 Country artists of the past 25 years--and who do you think is topping the list? Nope, it's not Garth Brooks, who I would say is a more than reasonable guess. However, Garth landed at No. 2, falling short only to George Strait.
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How in the world would they put Martina McBride lower than the Dixie Chicks? But then, how did the Dixie Chicks even make the list?
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YES!!! I am a Strait girl all the way. He is soooo HOT and talented!
Top is about what the corporate industry is pushing. If you go back to the 1940s, ASCAP wouldn’t even publish Rhythm & Blues recordings (handle publishing rights, it’s different than the actual pressing of the record) or Country music (at the time the were referred to in the industry as “race” and “hillbilly” recordings).
BMI would publish these recordings.
Atlantic Records changed “race recordings” to rhythm and Blues (Jerry Wexler’s creation?). Don’t know who got them to stop calling it “hillbilly”.
Later, when rock and roll came out of rockabilly and jump blues, ASCAP still refused to publish it and then decried the “payola” in the industry that had always been there since the 1800s and is still there today. ASCAP couldn’t control the top songs anymore (because they had sufficiently rejected a large untapped part of the marketplace) and so they alleged criminal conspiracy rather than willful neglect on keeping up with the public’s tastes.
The same is true today as the industry blames their falling tv, movie, radio, and album sales shares on “piracy” rather than a Big Media empire that would rather dictate than respond to public taste.
“Top Artist” is determined by Billboard or other tracking chart rankings on sales and airplay (in the right markets). Has nothing to do with quality or public taste.
I had a hard time dealing with that Robert Plant duet stuff. I much more enjoy her singing with Yoyo Ma.
Robert Plant is about a half step above the Rolling Stones. Frightening, really.
Agreed. And that was Buddy Miller doing the heavy guitar lifting on that tour.
Listen to this voice FReepers. Listen carefully! Alison Krauss won my heart 15 years ago, and never looked back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjsjZWlRVvo
Most of today's popular country is just pop music with a twang.
I like Junior Brown, BR5-49, Alison Krauss, Buck Owens, Chet Atkins, Chris Knight, Eddy Arnold, Freakwater, Gillian Welch, The Handsome Family, Hank Williams (the first and third, not so much the second), Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristoferson, Mavericks, Patsy Cline, Robert Earl Keen, Steve Earle...
You forget Charlie Daniels... :/
Junior Brown can flat out play.
George Strait, the King of Country Music. And Toby Kieth, The Knave.
I'm not even much of a country music fan, but there's something wrong with you if you don't like Johnny Cash. I'm a Nine Inch Nails fan, and Cash's rendition of Hurt just blew Reznor's original away. Reznor himself was overwhelmed by it.
It's hard to see how the same person made Shel Silverstein's A Boy Named Sue so entertaining, yet can make you break out in tears with Hurt. But that was Cash.
Another Alison Krauss and Union Station number. Amazing that they could bring such beauty to the Tonight Show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLZAWtdFhio&feature=related
Ever hear of Fiddlin John Carson? He’s my great, great grandpa.
Oh yes honey, I totally agree....I saw him in concert last year and he was great......what a voice!!!!
Guy Clark, Patty Loveless
Not questioning your tastes (I’m a true believer in the subjective nature of this topic), but did you give Raising Sand a couple of solid listenings?
I was a tad put off the first time I listened to it (after I bought it of course), and it took a couple of times through before I really got it.
Another singer it has taken me a few listens to get is Neko Case. Highly recommend Middle Cyclone.
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