“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.
I was raised on old country from the 40’s and 50’s.
My dad listened to a station out of Pasadena Texas AM 650. He grew up in deep east Texas in the 30’s and 40’s.
Only broadcasted from sunrise to sunset.
Old hard core twangy country.
Today’s country is nowhere near what it was back then.
Never really warmed up to the rhinestone getups of the sixties country stars. Looked what Madison avenue thought country stars should look.
Music was good, really liked Marty Robbins.
And of course Tennessee Ernie Ford:
“Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man’s made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that’s a-weak and a back that’s strong
You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store”
This is when country was the working man’s blues.
Not “party, party, party on the beach”
Guess they can’t write about the grind of working 8 hours in a cubicle shuffling papers for”The Man”