What happened to country music?

Fell to the wayside awhile back for sure!

Chris

Country was ruined when they tried to add beat to get the girls to dance...

There is still some good country if you search it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA4z743VQiM

Bout kilt me when I played this for my college daughter and she said she'd never heard of these guys......I have banished her from my humble abode..

Popularity corrupted country music.

Keith

My grand son can sing you
Billy billy bijou and hes 2

The Last Cowboy Song- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKeDcF1v_Y4

The only country I listen to is from the 80s and 90s. I'm not much for modern country where songs start with the words: "Hey girl...wassup. You lookin' fine..."

With that said, however, there is a small group of modern country artists who are bringing country back to country roots:

Tyler Childers
Colter Wall
Jamey Johnson
Chris Stapleton
Ryan Bingham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxHjRqnY7zA
Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes

Here's couple I like … great if you like to do a fast clog ….. when I was kid the only thing we could on the radio after 9:00 PM was WWVA radio station (No TV) … we called it Hillbilly Music





Garry-

I liked country in the 80s. Was turned onto it by then girlfriend, a sweet Wisconsin farmgirl. Can't stand it now, at least what's played on the radio. My favorite is "Your the reason God made Oklahoma". Spent a little time near Lawton OK in 90s, and enjoyed it, probably because of that song. Good people and good food.

They ( music critics) say John Denver is responsible for the charge in country music.

IMO if you add Glenn Campbell you have the ones who popularized and added "pop" to country music that we have and is popular today.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eRalJveqbvQ

I’m into bluegrass for the stories country used to tell

The Steeldrivers
The white buffalo - the whistler I’ll post it below. Dark dark song. Amazing.
Billy Strings
etc.

I also listen to a lot of classic folk. But it’s Quebec French stuff so I won’t bother y’all with it haha.

Road Hog Moran & His Cadillac Cowboys

+2 on the bluegrass

Anytime producers tried to make country appeal to a larger popular audience was another chunk in the quality.

In the 80s it was trying to sound more like rock, 90s more ballads and huge concerts (Garth) 21st century rap and pop.


Nice is though with the internet and YouTube you can find young people still trying to sing good country.

Browse this site: Saving Country Music

the dog died,the truck blew up,wife left,boat sunk,nothin left for a song.

the good country and bluegrass is still alive in the hills here.

john denver sang rocky mountain high about the time the cockroachs started creeping in. glen campbell sounded to me like he ought to be performing in one of those all male san fransisco bath houses that were responsible for the rapid spread of aids in the 80's.

that is when country music started changing into the earache causing cacophony being played today.

forgot-someone stole the tractor.

Asleep at the Wheel

Miles and Miles of Texas is a goodin

Chris

Best country singer of all time is George Strait. Hearing songs by Justin Bieber on country radio stations make me sick.

Real country music is dead, I agree with Mrs Loretta.

People finally got sick of that twangy whining. Good riddance.

Check out this kid

Bringing it Back!!! Sawyer Brown!

I knew it was doomed when shania twain led the charts

Daughters took me to see Loretta a couple three years ago at a casino in Oklahoma.. She was great.

All the legendary country artists and rock and roll both wrote most of the music they performed. Today it sounds like it came out of a computer or something.

We have both kinds of music here-Country AND Western.

Not good at posting links, but if you want to hear some decent " modern " countryish songs look up Chris Knight songs on youtube." Framed " and " Down The River " are a couple good ones.If anyone looks em up,,I would like to hear your opinion.

Here you go upstateNY....for your listening pleasure!

Do yourselves a favor and listen to Sturgill Simpson. He's the real deal. Sounds like Merle.
I've also been into Billy Strings and the Marcus King Band. I saw Marcus twice. Rita is gone and Plant your corn early are good tuned. He's a heck of a singer and guitarist. You definitely have to dig deep to find good music in today's world.

Thanks ole boy.Down The River is definitely one of his "darker" mood songs but I still like it.Listen to some of his other stuff,little more upbeat.At least I can understand his lyrics.

been listening to some Corb Lund - it aint all good country, but some is - The truth comes out is one my favs

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

I recently found this fellow on Youtube...

i like that john moreland song

What happened to country music? Was documented a few months back in an 8 part, 16 hour special on PBS television called "Country Music". Long story short, it died 20 years ago. In the modern era, 99.9% of all stations are owned by a handful of outfits with only 1 or 2 program directors for all of them. I call it "corporate country". So no matter what modern era station you listen to, 99.9% of it is all the same.........just hideous noise by some pretty boy hat rack........each has his own brand.....gotta have a brand.

So the real deal stuff is still alive.........but hard to find. A few oldies country stations.......not many but a few.........Youtube and a few back street joints in Nashville.

it is part of the degradation of our society

Pretty much died with Hank.

Country music started going down hill when the took Hank Williams Jr. off Monday night football and when the NFL would not stand for the National Anthem.

Check out Cody Jinks, Jason Isbell, and Aaron Lewis, good stuff is still being made it’s just not getting played much.

Probably about the time washed up rock act Conway Twitty was releasing "his new country hits" in the 1970's which were all rock n roll hits, was an indication that Country was dying. "Country" under Garth and the crotch jean girls and boys all became BAD rock n roll. The reason I state it is bad rock is because rock was based on the blues and this stuff coming out of Nashville now is just Sean Hannity gunk. Country was rooted in Holler music and Spirituals of the old Irish and English tunes.
Rock music is as dead as country. I still listen to the Bluegrass which is local, but when you can not tell the difference between Justine Bieber and I honestly do not know what is the din coming out of Nashville now as "stars", that is not music. It is the same horrid sound.
I personally think the reason it sells, is because unlike Johnny Cash's up tempo sound, everything now is miserable and people are all miserable. When I start hearing my brother saying' "I like that song if you listen to the lyrics", I know it is time to pull the plug as the prose of. "Yeah we're comin' to your city. Gonna play our guitars and sing you some country songs" is not "I was a willow last night in a dream. I bent down over a clear running stream."

This is why radio plays all oldies and God help this world when the Boomers all go to the grave, as the oldies will disappear on market share. It is unsettling to remember the kids of rock n roll, to see people with canes and white hair as a rock audience.

Jason Isbell is very good. He does the best cover of Into the Mystic that I've heard.
Johnny Lang comes to mind also. I've seen him live twice. He does more gospel music now. Amazing performer.

Great comment

We had the pleasure of hosting Larry Cordel Carl Jackson, and Jerry Salley at our farm a few years ago when they were doing a nearby show. It was interesting to talk to them about it as good artists and even better songs are written everyday but corporate country music wants nothing to do with it. Larry wrote murder on music row that got a lot of backlash. It doesn't take much to get a recording contract or songwriting contract nowadays but if you don't have a look or huge cult following your nothing to then executives.

When country was country...






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This guy does a real good job of doing the OLDER and REAL country music.

Technology has fixed this issue!

Turn the radio off, stream whatever you want from smart phone into Bluetooth speaker!

I couldn't even name one song on the radio am I'm on the road 10 hours a day now. Cash and military cadence are about all I listen to anymore.

TRAPDOC57... X2 on Marcus King and Billy Strings... ton of talent for 2 men in there 20's...
John Moreland's "Cherokee" makes you think too... good stuff.