Posted on 03/06/2018 7:09:43 AM PST by Kaslin
>> If country music has been infiltrated by the GSS we are really in some serious trouble <<
Agreed. But it’s also in trouble if it’s infected and infiltrated by the likes of Huckster Huckabee. He needs to retire to his Florida mansion and stay there.
There’s less competition in Country Music - it’s like the trans ‘girl’ who wins in wrestling... easy for a boy pretending to be a girl to win...
Lots of liberals joined the ranks of Country Music seeing it as the “B” team - and an easy win.
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.
On the lighter brighter side, if liberals take over country music we have a better chance of NOT being murdered in Las Vegas...
>> Little Jimmy Dickens would probably be upset, about what has happened in Nashville <<
Word on the street is that the Late Little JD was interviewed in Nashville by Ken Burns’ crew a few years ago, for Burns’ forthcoming PBS documentary on country music.
So stay tuned, because whenever the show eventually airs, LJD may give us the opinion you’re wondering about!
You mentioned bluegrass, see my post #100.
Problem is country swing and country are different..... musically. Country swing is swing done by country artists. Different chord structures etc. Calling country swing “country” is no different than calling today’s country pop “country”. Just my opinion.
>> It started going downhill when this jerk off came on the scene <<
Beat me to it. Garth Brooks may have been the worst influence of them all.
Country music ain’t had a good song since “Grandma got run over by a reindeer”.
It has been extremely obvious for a long time that Country Music is Pop Music with a Cowboy Hat. And it has no room for Christians, gun-owners, or people who notice mammals include males and females.
Hick-Hop and Tractor-Rap
It’s the nature of any organization, sooner or later it becomes corrupt. Country music is fine, though it’s not going to be found where one would expect.
Yes, and that’s an insult to Southern Rock.
“Just Want to Thank You Lord,” Larry Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers.
Spark’s deep Christian faith is evident in this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIfLmbTx0g
Who’s gonna fill their shoes
Who’s gonna stand that tall
Who’s gonna play the Opry
And the Wabash Cannonball
Who’s gonna give their heart and soul
To get to me and you
Lord I wonder, who’s gonna fill their shoes
>> Jazz is the only music that’s truly American <<
Jazz combines African-derived rhythms with European harmony. You could say that the combination occurred only here, so that qualifies as “truly American.”
But you can say pretty much the same thing about another quintessential American musical form, the Broadway show. It happened only here, but yet it combined European dramatic and operatic conventions with jazz, ragtime and American “pop music” influences.
Or what about the Delta Blues? The original performers and creators were all African-descended plantation sharecroppers. But their ancestors had left Africa centuries earlier, and their blues music shows almost no trace of African influence except maybe for the use of flatted thirds and sevenths in the melodies.
(Even African-style rhythms are not much used in Delta Blues.)
Finally, what music is more American than the marches of John Phillip Sousa? True enough that his ancestors were Portuguese. But his music? Not American? You gotta be kidding.
>> Country swing is swing done by country artists <<
Do you mean “western” swing?
That’s what I call jazz-with-a-pedal-steel.
Love it!
You are correct.
There’s a difference between made in America and what the rest of the world thinks ‘sounds American’.
eye wash please
Good, that means I have a better chance with hot divorcee Miranda Lambert.
yep, that’s what I’m talking about
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