Posted on 04/19/2002 10:22:03 PM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:33:16 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
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The "new" country music is just not cutting it with me. I find it rather bland and uninspiring. Especially mega-stars like Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw and Shana Twain. I just don't see what the fuss is all about with those artists. Their music is so canned and predictable. Though there are some bright spots in modern country music such as Alan Jackson, Dwight Yoakum and Travis Tritt.
You left out Webb Pierce.
And Merle Haggard...
Lefty Frizzell, Ernest Tubb and Ray Price. Hank Snow and Tom T. Hall.
Not to mention Ferlin Husky...
Me neither. Remember Billy Edd Wheeler and "Ode to the little brown shack"? I got my Johnny Horton albums and Marty Robbins too. Merle Haggard and the strangers were good. The best country concert I went to though was Don Williams. You really got your moneys worth and he loved picking on the poor guy singing tenor in Ammanda.
I got some oldies stashed around the house about 18 crates of albums and about half of them are country. Johnny Russell was a real good one too. He was a great song writter and his story "Jesus is watching you" was great. My favorite later country artist is probably Ricky Skaggs as I like Bluegrass better than any. He did an album with Emmy Lou Harris and Johnny Cash called "Roses in the snow" IMHO a masterpiece of work.
Well if you want to hear a perfect country and western song Steve Goodman wrote it and David Allan Coe sang it. Let's see Lefty did She's gone gone gone, Ernest Tubb wrote too many to count including waking the floor over you, Tom T. Hall is most likely one of the best ballad writters and ballad singers ever. He did a song called "Old dogs, children, and watermellon wine" and the imfamous I remember the year Clayton Delaney died, I Love, Fox on the run and Homecoming. Hank Snow wrote I'm moving on. I even got a few Butchered or rewritten versions of a few of these artist songs done by two great artist Homer & Jethro. They came along or about the same time as Lonzo & Oscar. Now if ye have to ask who Homer & Jethro were ye ain't country :>}
Homer & Jethro fought The Battle of Kookamonga.
Right back atcha with Jimmie C. Newman...
Even those guys have fallen prey to the watering down of country music. It is all focus-grouped pablum now, targeted to suburban housewives.
This article explains it all.
New country sucks, except for Hank Williams III. He sounds just like his grandfather. It'll send shivers down your spine.
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