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Is country music dead?
Fox News ^ | 05/16/2014 | Collin Raye

Posted on 05/16/2014 8:01:45 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

As a platinum-selling country music artist and, more importantly, a lifelong fan of the genre, I’d like to send out this heartfelt plea to the gatekeepers of the industry:

Enough already.

I’d like to think that I am expressing what nearly every artist, musician and songwriter (with perhaps a few exceptions) is thinking when I contend that the Bro’ Country phenomenon must cease.

It has had its run for better or worse and it’s time for Nashville to get back to producing, and more importantly promoting, good singers singing real songs. It’s time for country music to find its identity again before it is lost forever.

~snip~

But as someone who grew up loving and being forever affected by the true greats of country music, I simply have to offer up this plea to the Nashville country music industry to reclaim the identity and poetic greatness that once was our format. The well-written poetic word of the country song has disappeared.

~snip~

Willie Nelson once wrote in his early song, "Shotgun Willie," that “you can’t make a record if you ain’t got nothing to say.” Apparently, that’s not the case anymore.

Disposable, forgettable music has been the order of the day for quite a while now and it’s time for that to stop.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: brocountry; countrymusic; countrywestern; cw; music
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To: Wyatt's Torch

Nashville Skyline is one of the best country music records, ever. And Dylan owed its’ success to Johnny Cash.


221 posted on 05/16/2014 10:35:47 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Wyatt's Torch

Don’t go dissin’ Dylan. Amazing songwriter who has had numerous phases of his career. Can’t sing but one of the two best songwriters ever IMHO.


That’s why I used him as my “standard”. :-)


222 posted on 05/16/2014 10:35:58 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: dfwgator
I remember when Dwight’s “Guitars, Cadillacs” came out. Everybody loved that record, even folks who weren’t into country dug it.

Yep, that was a good song. I kinda liked that one.

Question: Does Florida Georgia Line qualify as country music? Dunno why, but I kinda like those guys.

223 posted on 05/16/2014 10:36:05 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: dfwgator

I remember back then, too. Dwight was playing the same LA clubs as punk rockers like X, and the punks were into Dwight’s wild hillbilly Bakersfield sound.


224 posted on 05/16/2014 10:50:36 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: mojito

The impact of the “Bakersfield Sound” cannot be understated, it even influenced The Beatles.


225 posted on 05/16/2014 10:52:32 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

S/b Overstated, not understated.


226 posted on 05/16/2014 10:54:14 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Classic country lyrics would have a tough time navigating our current uber-PC culture IMO.

No doubt. I have some Sons of the Pioneers where they make frequent mention of "darkies". Makes me laugh every time I hear it.

227 posted on 05/16/2014 10:56:02 AM PDT by zeugma (Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened - Dr. Seuss (I'll see you again someday Hope))
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To: Rightly Biased
Garth Brooks Killed it with his Rocklike concerts in the 90s...

I've been vindicated!

All these years, never could get in to the GB craze when it was really crazy.
Faron Young, Ferlin Huskey and George Jones for me!

228 posted on 05/16/2014 10:56:27 AM PDT by mcmuffin (Freedom's On The March - Wave Goodbye!)
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To: dfwgator
And the guitar player for Dylan on Nashville Skyline was none other than Charlie Daniels.
229 posted on 05/16/2014 11:00:00 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Responsibility2nd

Country music, if not dead, is on life support, and they are about to unplug the ventilator. Except for Strait I don’t know what gets played on radio. They have run off Alan Jackson, and others who were real country. Now, all we have a pretty-boys who sing pop. It’s gone-gone-gone. The dog has barked and the bird has flown. Like Lucky Ned’s gang gone…..your $50 gone, ……the whiskey, seized in evidence…gone. (taken from Rooster Cogburn (jeff Bridges) in TRUE GRIT).


230 posted on 05/16/2014 11:01:37 AM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: cuban leaf
Late March Honey Wagon released a bluegrass version of Poker Face.
231 posted on 05/16/2014 11:01:46 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: PoloSec
Can I add another one?

One of Johnny Paycheck's early Lil Darlin’ classics, "The Real Mr. Heartache”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4PCwM2ccpc&noredirect=1

232 posted on 05/16/2014 11:02:46 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: US_MilitaryRules

Buck Owens is great. He has done a lot for Bakersfield.


233 posted on 05/16/2014 11:02:47 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: dfwgator

How did he know? That song obviously isn’t a focus group tested jingle!


234 posted on 05/16/2014 11:03:15 AM PDT by gr8eman (There's no "R" in Warshington!)
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To: MWestMom

Billy Bragg??? He’s a hard core socialist folk singer from the U.K.! *spit*


235 posted on 05/16/2014 11:05:38 AM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Ephesians 6:12 becomes more real to me with each news cycle.)
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To: Texas Songwriter

“...the whiskey, seized in evidence....”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE5pM1HXxlI


236 posted on 05/16/2014 11:06:49 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: Chuzzlewit
I really like Nickelcreek. Have all their disks. House of Tom Bombadil is one of my favorites.
237 posted on 05/16/2014 11:09:41 AM PDT by zeugma (Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened - Dr. Seuss (I'll see you again someday Hope))
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To: fishtank

Just careless.


238 posted on 05/16/2014 11:17:05 AM PDT by DManA
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To: zeugma
I really like Nickelcreek

For a second there, I thought you said Nickleback. To which I would have responded, "So You're the guy."

239 posted on 05/16/2014 11:18:02 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: mojito

Punk can have a lot in common with old school country

Mike Ness

Doing Dylan
http://youtu.be/EH2M1JGJcM0

My favorite Ness solo song

http://youtu.be/dN8gXV7GEQ4

But what this thread needs is some Wayne “the Train” Hancock

http://youtu.be/fY5QqvMkFpc

http://youtu.be/jYzY6U0gfkA


240 posted on 05/16/2014 11:22:31 AM PDT by machman
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