I agree with whoever said modern country is “just bad pop music with a fiddle”
Give me Hank,Johnny, Waylon, Willie and the boys.
I don’t think they know what a fiddle is anymore.
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And some good old Charlie Daniels
“Give me Hank,Johnny, Waylon, Willie and the boys.”
I like mine even more Honky Tonk than that. George Jones and his early days, Buck Owens and his buckaroos back in the day, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, Marty Stuart.
It seems all the good country pianists have done gone on.
I listen to Bluegrass, prefer New Grass and Mountain.
I really don’t like banjo players who sacrifice texture over speed. There are some pretty fast banjo players, but they’re not clean. There are a few fast banjoists who are surgically clean.
A savvy fiddler and fine mountain style banjo can’t be beat.
Talented Zydeco is a lotta fun too.
That would have been the great rock songwriter Tom Petty, RIP.
Speaking of a good example thereof, check out Shane Smith and the Saints out of Austin, TX.
Billed as a “Country” act. They had to have been the last “Country” act that Tom Petty saw before he made that observation.