Posted on 02/02/2020 10:28:04 AM PST by nickcarraway
Guess she’s never heard of Josh Turner
Same happening with bluegrass, too bad.
I'm a fan of Chris Stapleton as well. Also Luke Combs - even though he strolls into "bro country" a lot, he's more authentic than any male singers who are almost feminine (i.e. Kenny Chesney, Garth Brooks). On the female side, I'm impressed with Ingrid Andress and Tenille Townes, to name a couple. So not all is bad.
But I get what Loretta is saying. If you tune into country music these days, it is basically sounding like pop music from the 1970s. Not all of it bad. But not authentic country either.
On the Sirius/XM, one of my one-touches is dedicated to Willie's Roadhouse. Outlaw Country not so bad either.
Sing it loud, Loretta!!
Tom Petty said it best, “Bad Rock with a fiddle.”
That’s actually a line from The Blues Brothers.
Everyone I know has gone out searching for authentic country music since the Ken Burns documentary came out. I’ve given two box sets as gifts, the pendelum will return but she’s right, it’s swung way to far the wrong way.
Alan and George said it all in “Murder On Music Row”.....we don’t listen to it anymore. We listen to country classic stations.......pity
Is she is a cross between Toni Tenille and Townes Van Zandt?
No more Hick-pop
But if you play the record backwards, you get them all back.....
I confess, I hated country music as a kid. But I’ve come around on the classics.
> It started with Garth Brooks. <
I agree. Most of today’s country singers are just pop singers wearing a cowboy hat.
Townes Van Zandt is/was a great songwriter...and HUGELY underrated.
Bob Wills and Spade Cooley! Can’t be4at them!
Far as I’m concerned;
Rap can die.
I am not a big country fan but I used to listen to a few minutes of it when I would scan across a station on the radio.
No more.
It’s all sampled and synthesized. Nothing human about it.
Country music was about people. This crap isn’t about anything.
There are usually half a dozen songs on the radio at the same time about her tight jeans and my pickup truck.
That, and country songs about being country. Yeah, I’m country...
Everything dies and so will country, rock and rap music. But they all go to Youtube heaven and are there for eternity so that we may actually commune with the STARS. Some perhaps go to purgatory where they are crying out to be heard, but the most famous ones are heard a lot and have a constellation of hits, clicks and fans that circle the STARS. It’s the music spheres — those celestial bodies that will never die.
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