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Topic: No comment (Joshua Ray Walker on Jimmy Fallon) |
Don R Brown
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Rochester, New York, USA
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 8 Dec 2023 2:34 pm |
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It’s…uhh, different…full of the stuff that young people seem to like. And believe it or not, I’ve played that kind of music; and did it for years. I can play that stuff in my sleep, it’s just “easy” for me to do (probably because of my early rock music background). I don’t think you could call it country, but it still works for many listeners.
At least they’re working, and doing the “big show”, much as I did in my younger daze. |
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Craig Stock
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Westfield, NJ USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2023 4:47 pm
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Joshua is great, the other guy that is burning it up in Texas is Vincent Neil Emerson, my daughter is seeing him in Austin tomorrow night.
Also check out 'The Wilder Blue', so much great stuff out there now!
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Mitch Ellis
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Collins, Mississippi USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2023 7:28 pm
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| Donny Hinson wrote: |
I don’t think you could call it country, but it still works for many listeners.
At least they’re working, and doing the “big show”, much as I did in my younger daze. |
It doesn't work for me, "Big show" or not.
Mitch |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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K Maul
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Hadley, NY/Hobe Sound, FL
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Posted 9 Dec 2023 5:41 am
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That guy is a great singer. I know it’s not worth trying to convince the people who are set in their ways but I like it too. I’m really thinking about getting a helmet like that. It’s really not any different than Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton doing Dark end of the Street in 1968. Black music styles and country styles have been mixed together for years. That said, I don’t think Country music has been the same since you people started tap dancing instead of playing real steel like good old Bob Dunn, Don Helms and Leon McAuliffe did. This Music is going to hell in a handbasket.
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Jim Cooley
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The 'Ville, Texas, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2023 6:02 am
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| He's a really good singer. I don't like the costumes, they're too circus-y for my taste, but many probably do. I expect they appeal to younger fans more than the more traditional crowd. As for the steel playing, it's not all that difficult, but effective in its own right. How many threads have been posted about steel guitar dying because the instrument is too twangy/old school, not versatile, and does not appeal to younger people? Here you are, boys and girls. |
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Dale Rottacker
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Walla Walla Washington, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2023 6:58 am
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Music isn't a static thing in a state of stasis, if it was we'd be playing more Bach and Mozart on the radio than Brad and Merle. I can only imagine what those folks would think of the music being played today or even a hundred years or so after they were gone.
I grew up thinking there shouldn't be Accordion, (though I played one) Horns or Orchestration in "Country" music, consider Cash, Haggard and Price. I remember in the 60's it was Western Music we listened to then Country Western then Country and on and on the names and style changes. Shoot some folks are still wearing the mullet they had when they were young cause they're stuck in time. (I might too if I had the hair to do it  )
Solomon said there is NOTHING New under the Sun ... what goes around comes around and what was old becomes new again. (don't think he actually said those last two) I recall the Mavericks and The Dessert Rose Band, both a bit of a throw back or look back and really refreshing when they came out. Remember those sequins? ... You'd have thought they were the long lost children of Hank Snow or Porter Waggoner.
If the music's good, the music's good. And in my humble un-opinionated opinion "Sexy After Dark" was good. If you like it, listen to it. Do you really have to put a genre name on it to qualify whether it's good or not? I don't think so, though we do, I know I sure have, and after awhile it becomes wearisome doing the math to determine if there are the correct configuration of instruments. Does finding out the configuration is wrong change if the musics good or not? I don't know, maybe ... I can listen from Mozart to Merle to Metallica and other letters of the alphabet and enjoy what each of them are doing. But is it Country? ... With HORNS, No/Little Steel most of the time from Merle and what of the Ray Price Ochestration? Truthfully it really wasn't for me, yet the music was good and I still listened.
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Kenny Davis
From:
Great State of Oklahoma
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Posted 9 Dec 2023 5:43 pm
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Having a Pedal Steel Guitar in the band doesn't make it country music. Neither does Western shirts and bolo ties. Guy has a great voice and knows how to use it. Kinda working R&B into country-like instrumentation (Tele, Sho~Bud). Pretty cool that he's created a unique sound. Perfect for late night shows.
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