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Billy McCombs
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Posted 11 Jul 2015 5:16 pm |
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This is what there calling the new country Male artist like Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Etc. So much of the music played on country radio is defiantly not country. Just my 2 cents. 
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Damir Besic
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Posted 11 Jul 2015 6:21 pm
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"Bro Country"... I just recently found out that's what they call this garbage we hear on radio now days...
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Rich Upright
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Florida, USA
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Posted 11 Jul 2015 6:49 pm
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I call it bad rock with a cowboy hat.
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Dustin Rigsby
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Parts Unknown, Ohio
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Posted 12 Jul 2015 12:33 am
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Comedians never made fun of Georges' music....only his lifestyle. Non-Traditional country reminds me of awful boy band music...it's just manufactured and phony. I don't know,maybe the writers just haven't lived as hard of a life. You gotta be pretty on TV to have a hit these days. Music is such a visual medium these days. To quote an old song " ole Hank wouldn't have a chance on today's radio "
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Scott Duckworth
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Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 12 Jul 2015 2:59 am
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Waylon and Willie... there's some real Bros!
I wuz cuntry whan cuntry weren't kool!
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 12 Jul 2015 3:51 am
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T-shirt worn by Waylon's son Shooter Jennings at a concert several years ago:
"Put the 'o' back into Cuntry"
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Dale Rottacker
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Walla Walla Washington, USA
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Storm Rosson
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Silver City, NM. USA
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Posted 12 Jul 2015 8:43 am
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Steven is a bit older than the "bro-country" clowns out there, and given the schite they play it doesn't surprise me.(His country music acumen, not his age)  |
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Michael Haselman
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St. Paul
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Posted 13 Jul 2015 5:32 pm
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I swore to myself I was never going to post in threads like this again, but in my mind it's simple: When the corporate suits take over the music business (not just "bro country" but pop music today in general) the quality goes away in favor of the almighty $. No more radio DJ's that hear something they think is good and play it over and over. No more creative A&R men like John Hammond, e.g. that go out into the country and find hidden talents. Those days are gone forever.
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Richard Sinkler
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Posted 14 Jul 2015 5:42 am
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| Rich Upright wrote: |
| I call it bad rock with a cowboy hat. |
I hope you're sitting down. They also wear baseball caps, and some were nothing at all (on their head).
I am an old classic country guy, but I only kind of liked Waylon, and although he is a great songwriter, I can't stand Willie Nelson. I wouldn't walk across the street to see him, even if he was playing for free.
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Curt Trisko
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St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2015 4:10 pm
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| It's all for teenagers and early twenties kids. Once you think about it that way it all makes sense and it's not offensive anymore. For all we know some of the young folks will grow up and move on to more classic country that is more relatable to aging folks. |
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Richard Sinkler
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Posted 14 Jul 2015 6:52 pm
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I don't know about where you are Curt, but that's not what I see here.
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Chris Templeton
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The Green Mountain State
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Curt Trisko
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St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 15 Jul 2015 7:42 am
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| Richard Sinkler wrote: |
| I don't know about where you are Curt, but that's not what I see here. |
That's a good point. Bro Country is written with kids in mind, but that hasn't stopped a lot of older people from enjoying it too. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 15 Jul 2015 8:40 am
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| Bro Country is written with kids in mind, but that hasn't stopped a lot of older people from enjoying it too. |
Yes, but I find a lot of older people are too easily amused..
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 15 Jul 2015 10:23 am
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Plus, the younger kids do grow into older people. I still like the music I liked when I was younger.
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Curt Trisko
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St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 15 Jul 2015 11:39 am
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| Richard Sinkler wrote: |
| Plus, the younger kids do grow into older people. I still like the music I liked when I was younger. |
This might be different. I find almost all bro country songs to be forgettable. I don't think it's just my bias. It's like they purposely try to make them that way with how aggressively they use clichés. Heck, the only way those songs would stick with you is if you associate them with a memory, like the time that I took my girl out down the dirt road in my Chevy, and then swam in the river and sat on the tailgate drinking beers under the stars in our skin tight jeans. |
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Richard Sinkler
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Posted 15 Jul 2015 1:44 pm
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It's not the songs that will stick in their minds. It's the style and sound. There are many reasons I like classic country that don't necessarily come from a particular song. Just as you might remember songs like "Together Again" and "A Way To Survive", the younger folks today might remember what ever the latest Luke Bryan or Miranda Lambert song is. Their mind is set to like those songs, just as yours was back in the day. There's no way you can get into their mind. You say the songs today are forgettable. Well, maybe to you and me, but to the people that are enjoying it today, well "forgettable" might not apply. Even though I am old and from the old school country era, I have had to play "new Country" now going on 10 years. Some of these songs I remember playing 10 years ago that I haven't played since. Just did a gig where one of these old "new country" songs was requested. I hadn't played it for at least 9 years, and could play it like I learned it yesterday, and it wasn't an easy 3 chord song.
And some players don't like new country because maybe there is no real 'up front' steel guitar in it, if any at all. If you have to play the song with a band, talk to them about giving you artistic license to add what you think should have been there in the first place. As long as you don't "ruin" the song, what harm can it do? Every band I have ever played with gave me that freedom. If they didn't, I wouldn't stay with them very long.
Now, with that said, I wish the old country could come back, I wish there were country nightclubs on just about every corner (like in the late 70's - early 80's.
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 15 Jul 2015 2:11 pm Re: Bro Country?
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| Billy McCombs wrote: |
| This is what there calling the new country Male artist like Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Etc. So much of the music played on country radio is defiantly not country. Just my 2 cents. |
Billy, I'm not sure if you meant defiantly not country or definitely not country, both would seem to apply.
The people whom use the expression are like a lot us here. Bro Country is not a "term of endearment."
As it sort of sprung out of ghetto culture, many of us decades back started referring to our buddies as "bros."
Now to my three kids who are in their 20s, they snicker when they use the term and refer to younger guys with a certain look and vibe as "bros" - and it's not a compliment.
So naturally at some point the modern male dominated so called country music about pickup trucks, beer drinkin' down at the lake while going for catfish with cute girls in Daisy Dukes has been coined Bro Country.
For anyone by now whom has heard their music being referred to as Bro Country, they've probably figured out that they are being laughed at.
Or in the case of some of these jokers like for example Florida/Georgia Line, they're laughing all the way to the bank. 
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Curt Trisko
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Posted 15 Jul 2015 4:46 pm Re: Bro Country?
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| Mark Eaton wrote: |
| Or in the case of some of these jokers like for example Florida/Georgia Line, they're laughing all the way to the bank. |
I'm impressed that they don't burn out. I can't imagine they like playing that music anymore than we like listening to it. No one who is a lifelong musician could find fulfillment in it and no one takes up music just for the money.
I'm an understanding kind of person, but even I twinge when bro-country artists try to be part of the heritage of country music. I'd like to think that many of them would truly like to carry on that artform. Their pain must be palpable.
Look at this, I'm feeling sorry for famous, successful musicians for having to play bro-country!  |
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Dave Hopping
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Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 16 Jul 2015 9:24 am
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| In this context,I've wondered whether "Bro" was short for "Brokeback". |
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Ronald Sikes
From:
Corsicana, Tx
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Posted 16 Jul 2015 10:15 am
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Bro Country = No (KNOW) Country
This is the real deal. People like Dale Watson, Jake Hooker , Amber Digby , Justin Trevino etc ......
Listen to this. New lyrics with real country music.
http://youtu.be/_2B85PyZr0Y
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 16 Jul 2015 10:16 am
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| Look at this, I'm feeling sorry for famous, successful musicians for having to play bro-country! |
Every pro player I know that is on the road or does studio work, don't blast the "Bro-Country" artists. They are supplying them with work. Work pays their bills. Some of the bro-country stuff, even the Country-rap Crap, is fun to play. That's where I stand on new country. No.. I do not listen to it on the radio. I don't watch it on TV (if I can help it). No, I don't go to their concerts. But, if I want to gig, and the only band choices play new country, then I will play new (Bro) country.
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Ronald Sikes
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Corsicana, Tx
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Posted 16 Jul 2015 10:31 am
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I've played in a couple of bands recently and still do jobs with them from time to time that does a large variety of music. Miranda , Aldean, Luke Bryan .... even some Fleetwood Mac. It's fun stuff to play and it makes you think outside the box. Like a lot of us here , I grew up on Haggard, Jones , Pride ......on the rock side Zepplin , Hendrix ,Skynard and all those guy. I still listen to this from time to time and play some of this stuff.
I certainly don't blame the guys on the road for working with these guys,and some of the new material today is good , excluding rap. IMO.
However it is not Country and should be renamed .....or maybe they did. cheers
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