The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
Posted on 02/20/2014 7:57:35 AM PST by rktman
Any true country song is ultimately about some combination of beer, trucks, women (preferably Southern), dogs, dirt roads and the Land of the Free. If you don’t get why that’s awesome, you have no shot at appreciating the genre.
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Hey, he left out trains, pick up trucks, prison and mom. "I was drunk the day my momma got out of prisoooon....."
This is a lot of crap, and the stupid list reflects it.
George Strait's "Amarillo By Morning" is one of the best country songs of all time, and it hardly touches on any of these subjects.
I downloaded my first country song the other day. It’s Roger Alan Wade’s, “If You’re Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough.”
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
Justin Bieber. Country? Who made this list? Not anyone who knows anything at all about country music. The only legitimate country classic in that list is King of the Road and it’s not necessarily country.
Amen!
“Beer Run” is great!
George Jones' 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' is the penultimate Country song and doesn't touch on any of that stuff.
And not just Amarillo...most of Strait’s songs give the lie to that statement.
The best female country hits don’t touch on most of these stupid topics, either. Kathy Mattea’s “Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses” is the best of all time, in my humble opinion.
Excellent country music by a class act and a gentleman doesn't need that crap.
Reminds me of one great piece of wisdom I once came across in my travels out West:
"If you ain't God or George Strait, then take them boots off."
Justin Bieber...what moron made this list? And “Red Solo Cup’ is NOT a country song. It’s a stupid novelty song sung by a country singer.
It’s from the UK, so I guess they think even Jimi Hendrix was a country artist. LOL.
Outside of George Strait, Aaron Watson, few in their vein there are no true country acts active at this time and haven’t been for over 10-15 years. George is the all time king, period. He defines country music. In the past the likes of Mark Chesnut, Tracy Lawrence, early Reba, Brooks and Dunn, Rick Trevino, Tracy Byrd, Diamond Rio, Chris Ledoux, George Jones, and Alan Jackson were country (notice the one common thread here is they stayed away from the Nashville power brokers for the most part). Garth was until his second album then he went of the farm. Seems to be the SOP, cut a good first album then after that turn out pop songs and kill your country credentials.
Today’s line up are nothing more than pop stars that could not make it in top 40 and they bring their trash to country. And yes I am talking about Miranda Lambert, Trace Atkins, Gretchen Wilson, Keith Urban, Randy Rogers, Blake Shelton...et al...
These are country but in in the narrow vein of comedy story telling like Jerry Clower used to do. Now we country folks do like to tell a story and crac a wee joke now and then. But there is a lot more to contry music than red solo cups, beer runs and Dallas women in tight fitting jeans.
If you can’t two-step or waltz to it, it is not country.
Agreed. If it’s from later than about 1970, forget it.
And where’s the Western? Ain’t they got both kinds?
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