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Edward Meisse
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Posted 31 Aug 2015 8:55 am |
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I heard a modern, poppish style song on the radio the other day that one of our teenagers called, "Country Music." The only thing country about it as far as I could see was that the singer had a southern accent. Is that what country music has come to? It is just generic pop music with a southern accent? Say it ain't so!! I get gladder every year that I gave up listening to commercial music. What is the world coming ot?
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Don R Brown
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Rochester, New York, USA
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Posted 31 Aug 2015 10:10 am Re: Country Music??
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| Edward Meisse wrote: |
| What is the world coming to? |
I got news for ya - it's already been there for quite some time! |
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LJ Eiffert
From:
California, USA
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Posted 31 Aug 2015 1:00 pm
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Yer Sirs! To days Country Music here in 2015 is called " HEMROIDS " Country.  |
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 31 Aug 2015 1:00 pm
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I thought Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton were too uptown. But there is really nothing left of country music. It's no wonder the whole industry is dying. Everything sounds the same. Even on Broadway. Everybody is trying to copy Andrew Lloyd Weber, who I don't think much of to start with. So predictable!! Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhh!! But I guess this has been talked to death here if it has been the case for long. I'm kind of out of the loop. I quit commercial music in the late 1960's. So I only get a brief taste by accident now and then. And as you can tell by my comments, that is way more than enough.
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LJ Eiffert
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California, USA
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Posted 1 Sep 2015 5:47 am
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| When the circle take care of it's circle and dealer take care of the dealers. You get in the picture til they think you don't fit what they need from you any more. Money takes care of money and the wireless changes happen. Country music today from these high profile Artist who are leftovers cut right into you. The Story lines are finished. You real think Edward Meisse folks on this forum or any other forum care about opinions of truth or even how the power mat works. At 70 believe me their ain't much hope for old dogs to recover in a living in Traditional Country Music unless some Red Hot rebel pocket book helping hand jumps in. Ain't Happening for the real 60's,70's,80's & 90's real neighborhood Musicians/Artist in this Country USA who made Merle,Willie & Jones & Price with Hank Willimas Sr.,Conway Twitty,Charley Pride & Faron Young the Kings of Night Clubs Super Star Artist of their History. You know what the NEW World Of Country Music is so need in I recapping on that crap. |
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Rich Upright
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Florida, USA
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Posted 19 Sep 2015 10:18 pm
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Today's country is just bad rock with a cowboy hat.
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 20 Sep 2015 1:28 am
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| bad rock |
I think it just gives rock a bad name. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 21 Sep 2015 8:07 am
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I think it gives bad rock a bad name. |
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Dustin Rhodes
From:
Owasso OK
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Posted 21 Sep 2015 8:22 am
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| Rich Upright wrote: |
| Today's country is just bad rock with a cowboy hat. |
It would be if any of them wore cowboy hats. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 21 Sep 2015 9:03 am
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Rich Upright wrote:
Today's country is just bad rock with a cowboy hat.
It would be if any of them wore cowboy hats. |
These guys are wearing cowboy hats..
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 21 Sep 2015 10:31 am
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Rich Upright wrote:
Today's country is just bad rock with a cowboy hat.
It would be if any of them wore cowboy hats. |
These guys are wearing cowboy hats..
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Richie Sambora, Kid Rock and ... Rob Halford? |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 21 Sep 2015 11:30 am
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Back in the eighties, when New Wave was all over the radio, Pete Townshend predicted that in the future there will be no more guitars in popular music. He was almost right.
Guitar players now found their niche in "Country". Blues, without a doubt, will always be a place for guitar players and they will always have a fan base.
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Chris Templeton
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Posted 26 Sep 2015 5:19 pm
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I had a 5 hour car ride today and listened to some "country". Didn't hear hardly any female singers or steel. The male singers were all about selling alcohol and trucks.
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 27 Sep 2015 2:47 am
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| I had a 5 hour car ride today and listened to some "country". |
Reminds me of the answer to the television ad 'How long has it been since you've had a bowl of Wolf Brand Chili?'
"Well, that's too long." |
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 27 Sep 2015 5:05 am
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| Chris Templeton wrote: |
| I had a 5 hour car ride today and listened to some "country". Didn't hear hardly any female singers or steel. The male singers were all about selling alcohol and trucks. |
I hope it was just for some of the car ride and you didn't have tolerate it for the whole five hours. If it were you're either a glutton for punishment or a better man than I.
I think I have intentionally listened to cumulatively, maybe one to two hours of commercial "today's hot country!" radio in about the last 20 years.
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Chris Templeton
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The Green Mountain State
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Glenn Demichele
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Posted 12 Oct 2015 11:12 am
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This is a great song about that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK9e1LC2eVw
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John Booth
From:
Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 12 Oct 2015 12:29 pm
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We're the dinosaurs.
They are the meteors.
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Larry Carlson
From:
My Computer
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Posted 12 Oct 2015 1:15 pm
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We're the dinosaurs.
They are the meteors. |
I beg your pardon!!!!!
I am not a dinosaur.
Although on occasion I do smell like one.
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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 Oct 2015 1:46 pm
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That Jerry Kilgore song linked above is pretty good.
I like this one even better, it's called "Country Music I'm Talkin' To You" by the late Dr. Ben Bullington
As he comments in the video shot in Nashville at The Station Inn, Ben practiced medicine in Montana, and was a singer/songwriter on the side. He sadly passed away from pancreatic cancer in November 2013 at age 58.
Late in his life he became friends with Rodney Crowell, and after his cancer diagnosis he traded in his medical bag for a gig bag, and while he was still able he lived out the remainder of his life singing and playing.
In the video Rodney is looking on while Darrell Scott and Will Kimbrough accompany Ben on this great song, I think he nailed it on the head:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfe4LWPzLgc
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Bo Borland
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Posted 12 Oct 2015 4:49 pm
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I played a benefit show yesterday. The crowd was appreciative but really only clapped for a couple tunes.. now you realize this band plays a little older stuff, George Strait, Merle, etc and a lot of the newer stuff (because we like to work) and I don't mind playing it.
We got finished and another "group" set up their gear which consisted of a sign, a podium, a laptop, and a couple wireless mics..
They sang karaoke to tracks, strutting around the stage like they were something. One of the 3 even did a rap.. the kids loved it.. but seriously .. they couldn't sing or play anything .. it was sad. |
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Dave Hopping
From:
Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 12 Oct 2015 5:43 pm
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| As long as there were honky-tonks,there was country music.Not many of the former,so not much of the latter.....Could be we'll have country TRIBUTES in the future.Kinda like Elvis impersonators grinding out "Heartbreak Hotel" on variety shows. |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 13 Oct 2015 6:22 am
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I don't think that the quality of todays Country can be judged without looking at the quality of other mainstream music. What got me into Country, was the eighties with people like Dwight Yoakum, Ricky Scaggs, the so called new traditionalists. At the same time there was some pretty good music played by R&B and Rock acts like Anita Baker, the Hooters for example. Popular music today, and I mean not niches that are often proudly mentioned here to proof the opposite, is dominated by clones. I think there's always interaction between the genres.
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 13 Oct 2015 7:41 am Re: Country Music??
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| Edward Meisse wrote: |
| ...The only thing country about it as far as I could see was that the singer had a southern accent. Is that what country music has come to? It is just generic pop music with a southern accent? |
Yeah, the southern accent is almost mandatory nowadays. Funny how so many famous country singers of the past (Eddy Arnold, Ray Price, Patsy Cline, Faron Young, Marty Robbins, Connie Smith, Jim Reeves, Roy Drusky, Bill Anderson, etc.) made a career singing country music without the stereotypical country/western drawl.  |
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