Posted on 02/02/2020 10:28:04 AM PST by nickcarraway
Loretta Lynn voiced her displeasure with current country music during a recent podcast, and she didn’t hold back.
The 87-year-old country music pioneer told Martina McBride that she thinks country music is “dead.”
“I think it’s a shame,” she said on the ‘Vocal Point with Martina McBride’ podcast, according to WhiskeyRiff.com. “I think it’s a shame to let a type of music die. I don’t care what any kind of music it is. Rock, country, whatever. I think it’s a shame to let it die, and I’m here to start feeding it.”
She later told McBride, who is also a country singer most famous for her work in the 1990s and 2000s, that it’s “a sad situation because we should never let country music die.”
She continued: “I’m getting mad about it. I am. Because it’s ridiculous,” as reported by PEOPLE Magazine.
The full podcast with Lynn is available at luminarypodcasts.com.
Lynn, who rose to fame in the 1960s and remains one of the most popular artists of her genre, later took to Facebook to follow up on her comments to McBride.
The Kentucky native said she loves country music and is proud of its heritage, but feels the “hard push to crossover” is ruining the genre. Many current country acts are incorporating pop or rap into their songs.
“I like it country — pure and simple and real,” she said on Facebook. “I am so proud of all the artists out there, especially the younger ones, who know what I mean and are still keeping it country. When you love something, you can’t just stand by quietly if you think it’s in danger.”
It’s not the first time Lynn sounded off on the country music genre. In 2010 she wrote in the introduction to her biography about the blurred lines between country and pop.
“Some of these country singers aren’t really country ... I think some of them should be singing pop music and leave country alone,” she wrote, according to TheBoot.com.
Lynn suffered a stroke in 2017 and broke her hip a year later. She made her first public appearance in nearly two years last April for an all-star tribute birthday concert in her honor. Music legends from every generation were in attendance for the event.
Earlier this week, Lynn may have just won the viral “Dolly Parton Challenge.” In her social media post, she wrote “Y’all wish” for where a Tinder photo would have gone.
Don’t forget the pickup truck.
I painted the home of a Nashville record producer, and became friends with him.
I listen to CM or talk radio at work while the crew slaved, my job is to schmooze customers for the next job, and supply material and the supervision.
He told me that the reason CM seems to have no Country in it is the “Pink Hand” took over all of the details. From backup singers, parties, drugs, choosing songs and styles. He said there are more lgbtQ’ers in Nashville than in Hollywood. An overstatement he admitted, but it drove him into a happier retirement AWAY from Tennessee.
It is simply a business where nearly everyone sold their souls, and the right to produce the music they envision.
John Micheal Montgomery and Shania Twain were the first 100% built by and for the music label.
John Micheal Montgomery couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket. Auto tune singing only for him.
Today’s country music is a bunch of yuppies singing about dirt roads they have never driven down.
Most of today’s country music is really a parody and is mocking country folks. Behind the scenes they laugh about the low IQ people who listen to them.
I agree... Taylor Swift as an example.
One of the problems with modern country “music” is authenticity, and that song is no different. Nobody who ever drove a truck had a hand in writing that song. No Peterbilt has 14 gears, 9, 10, 13, 15 or 18 but no 14.
There were old trucks with carious other combinations through a Brownlight and Spicer auxiliary boxes but none ever referred to as 14 gears.
In Nashville they put 30-40 people in a room to manufacture songs.
Real music is written by inspiration by people who have lived the life.
Do you have Firefox? They have a radio addon extension that has three good old school country stations. Have it on right now and listen to it all the time.
It’s called “world wide radio”. Has whatever you want, rock, blues, bluegrass, Irish pub music, etc.
Country music is the sound of my people, our people. The Scots and Irish who came over and mined the coal, lived in the hills and wanted to be LEFT ALONE by the government. White boys we are, but we have a special bond with all who work until they die, and want to live free.
Who does not represent us is Nashville music, or Hollywood movies.
“One of the problems with modern country “music” is authenticity, and that song is no different. Nobody who ever drove a truck had a hand in writing that song. No Peterbilt has 14 gears, 9, 10, 13, 15 or 18 but no 14.
There were old trucks with carious other combinations through a Brownlight and Spicer auxiliary boxes but none ever referred to as 14 gears.”
Well done and good catch. Absolute fact coming from another old school driver. I too have wrapped my arm through the steering wheel to reach down and grab the first lever while grabbing the other lever with the other hand in a double levered piece of equipment. And back in the day some two axle trucks also had a two speed rear differential which would double your number of gear options.
it died with Patsy Cline and Hank willimas
Bluegrass is my love. My late husband had a Bluegrass band that traveled all over this country playing mostly Military clubs. I’ve seen Bluegrass die and come to life at least 3 times in my life. I always comes back because it’s our heritage, like Irish music, Jewish, Scots, Greek, heritage music never dies. Bluegrass is a mixture of all the cultures who came and brought their heritage and kept it’s music. Besides, it takes talent to make good Bluegrass.
King of Country Swing Bob Wills, did his part too.
What would be really sad is if after they got loose you were to lose them. So sad! I agree with what she says, so much of today’s ‘country’ is pop crap and some I would even throw into the bubblegum category.
You mention Tanya Tucker and leave out Patsy Cline?
I have SiriusXM and listen to Bluegrass channel 62 all the time. To me it is the trade for real country music. If you ever have the chance to see Rhonda Vincent in person then do so. I love Bluegrass.
Some great kids o YouTube that make BlueGrass good again. Guitar, mandolin and fiddle never sound so good and I remember when Wabash Cannon Ball was a number one hit on WSM. Country has deep roots in Gospel/Folk.
“If you wear a cowboy hat while you’re singing, that makes it country. Right?”
The perfect country singer...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4raj5m575M
But not the perfect country song . . .
David Allen Coe - You Never Even Called Me by My Name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAOVRkSCWmg
Last good country song I heard was Confederate Railroad’s “I Like My Women Just A Little on the Trashy Side”
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