Posted on 03/06/2018 7:09:43 AM PST by Kaslin
“Traditional C&W has roots in Europe and, with country swing in the ‘40s, blues and jazz mixed in. Jazz is the only music that’s truly American.”
“Everything” has it’s roots somewhere else. The blues are definitely African in their roots. And more specifically in the Black Churches. One of our daughters “who is White.” was in the UC Berkeley Gospel Choir when she went to school there. All you have to do is visit a Black Church for Sunday Services to understand where it came from. If you want a unique musical experience, go to a Black Church. God surely “hears” them. They have a unique sprit that moves you.
I played in a band that opened for Hank Thompson one time here in OKC. (Western Swing Guy) I had the privilidge of saying “Please put your hands together and welcome to the stage HANK THOMPSON!!!”
Send it to Ray Stevens...he does a lot of protest songs against modern liberalism. I think you have something here by the way. Needs a musical coda then a final third verse then the chorus repeated twice...song end. Love to see you try a third verse.
The performers are just wanting to get an audience. What’s wrong with that? I think it’s the audience.
Blues was born in America. Jazz was its child.
Yep. We live in OKC suburb, but have ranch in SE Oklahoma. We're at Ranch at least 50% of our time. This is outside of a 2,400 person town. When you go into town to the grocery store, or tractor supply, or dollar general.... everyone you see under the age of about 35 or 40 has multiple tats, piercings, clothing to match, unkept, etc etc. I mean almost ALL of them. My experience tells me that in this day and age.... most small town country people are David Allen Coe's "poor white trash."
So you have those who actually have a job, like oil field job etc... and they do really good there. And the rest are on the government dole living government check to government check. In this little town, there isn't much middle class.
The world is just not what it used to be, and neither is Country Music.
Someone pointed that out to me quite some time ago - “the reason you don’t like new music is there are no melodies.” True. And often not really even songs, just chanting and grooves. No sense of a beginning, story, and ending.
I think the same thing. Real country is the Working Man's Blues.
Not “Party on the Beach” music.
Heh, heh, I’ll turn 70 later this year. All I know about Taylor Swift is that she is the latest in a string of `pop tarts’ going back to Britney Spears whose claim to fame is found in the tabloid scandal sheets.
I have also liked video parody since the early days of Weird Al, and there are several LOL parodies of Taylor Swift by Smosh and Bart Baker. Didn’t even know she was into country music.
Anyway, someone wrote that bluegrass is the only remaining true country music. I totally agree & love the message of Christian faith found in much of bluegrass music.
Garth Brooks and his plastic hat circa 1990 were the beginning of the decline.
Maybe I am the only person here who enjoys new country. I like music and I like hearing current artists and my favorite right now is country. I am not from the south and I am a new fan for only about 5 years. Around then, I watched a few awards shows and heard anti Obama and anti left jokes! I thought I had found my peeps. Since then though the CMAs have been nearly as left oriented as the pop music awards. I still love the music.
I’m reminded about a rock guy who lived on the West Coast who moved to Nashville, and stayed for quite a few years. He never pretended to be country, just liked living there, I guess. But one day he reappeared on the East Coast, New England. When asked why he left Nashville he said “everybody I moved there to get away from started moving there.”
That song immediately came to mind when I saw the title of this thread.
I agree with you. What is ironic though is back in the day - at least for me the 70’s and 80’s - certain stars were boycotted by the industry because they were not considered “country” enough. Two that come to mind are Olivia Newton-John and K.D. Lang (her because she came out as a lesbian). Now there is a homosexual calling the shots.
That is why a lot of old schools refer to it as country rap - CRAP for short.
For those who like good country music and have SIRUIS XM, there is a station called Outlaw Country. Some good stuff on that station.
Mmm ... Gunilla Hutton ...
the country music industry has been overrun by a bunch of anti-Christian, gun-hating bullies.
Well this sucks rocks. I don’t listen to country music but I kind of liked Midland. If they are represented by the “openly homosexual” loser that’s attacking Mike Huckabee for his beliefs, then I’m done with them.
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