[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, it has coarsened over the years along with the coarsening of morals. Today you're likely to hear about the pleasures of some questionable tryst if you tune in to the country hits of Nashville (which I live next door to, by the way, now). There are some exceptions; there are still paeans to patriotism and family and hard work and nature's wholesome pleasures and God. I have begun to delve into that genre. It's probably a bit low brow for you, but you might find this interesting: Rednecks Built America

[ansel12]

Well, it has coarsened over the years along with the coarsening of morals.

Country used to be very rough and earthy. as did the people listening to it before the 1970s and pot reached the country world. "Knoxville Girl" is kind of a shocker, it was a hit from a very popular duet, the Louvin Brothers.

Here is the song that reached number 19 on the Billboard Country Singles chart in 1959, "Knoxville Girl"

""It’s perhaps their most powerful rendering of traditional folk music’s bleak vision of a dark and forlorn land, where love is absent and death is the only certainty. It’s the centerpiece of what is arguably the Louvins' finest album."The album is also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die."

There are some more examples here. Violence is a part of our folk music history

[miss marmelstein]

Hey, I liked it! Patriotic country music is always good. You’re a song writer - that’s great.

My big concern about country music is that it has gotten very homogenous, if that’s the right word. Bland might be a better word. The kind of bumper music Sean Hannity plays. I always listened to Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, early Dolly Parton as a kid and young woman. Then I moved further back in time and became interested in bluegrass.