Scarlett Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Rascal Flats Ricky Skaggs Loretta Lynne George Strait Elvis Presley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TypeO Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 Delbert McClinton David Allen Coe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrophile Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 What about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Klu Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard pretty much sums it up for me so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock Action Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 Not a fan. Though I have a rather interesting CD by David Allan Coe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Tripper Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 Modern-day country is mostly shit. There's a great song by Hank III talking about how Nashville has turned into Trashville... But older stuff, and music that doesn't sound like prepackaged Nashville tripe, is generally brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternal light Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 Hank Williams Patsy Kline Hank "Bocephus" Williams Jr. Ronnie Milsap Waylon Jennings Willie Nelson Dwight Yoakum Honorable mention Felice and Boudleaux Bryant because I love the song ROCKY TOP!!! Crystal Gayle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 Johnny Cash Hank Williams George Jones Ry Cooder Patsy Kline Doc Watson Emmylou Harris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockthing Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Willie Nelson: I've only touched the tip of the iceberg, but Willie's for me Waylon Jennings: could anyone who watched Dukes of Hazard on TV NOT like Waylon? The Sons of The Pioneers I don't know if you can still get the original albums anymore Johnny Cash (of course) Juice Newton Queen of Hearts was all over the radio back in the day. John Prine I first heard of him when my band covered Paradise. He's awesome. Honky Tonk Man by Dwight Yoakam is cool, but I haven't really listened to anything else. Born To Boogie is my favorite Bocephus tune. and who could forget Johnny Paycheck's Take This Job And Shove It! Was a big Kenny Rogers fan when I was in like 3rd grade... The Gambler was a big cross-over hit in my area. I used to know the words to a lot of songs off his greatest hits record. Does Jerry Reed do the whole Smokey and The Bandit soundtrack? after that it's bluegrass/newgrass I recently started listening to Drew Emmett, who I instantly became a fan of. Apparently he's been around for a while. I highly recommend his solo work. I still haven't heard Leftover Salmon, his first band. Another band that I saw once and really liked is The Hicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 My dawg has died 'n' my horse has gone lame, My wife done left me for her cousin Daisy. The crop's all burnt 'n' The creeks dried up so the cows can't drink. Gonna buy me rope to hang from a tree.... This worlds ain't for livin' i need to be free..............lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattmc1973 Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I love banjo/fiddle music about broken dreams, smokehouse BBQ, and F150's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maven2blue Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 My dawg has died 'n' my horse has gone lame, My wife done left me for her cousin Daisy. The crop's all burnt 'n' The creeks dried up so the cows can't drink. Gonna buy me rope to hang from a tree.... This worlds ain't for livin' i need to be free..............lol I know what you mean. I'm not a country fan but I decided to give the local country station a try one day. This guy was singing a song about how he had fumbled a pass in a high school football game, ten years previously. Seems like it cost him his girlfriend. I said wtf? Get a life. Find something better to sing about. That did it for me. Havent listened to anything country since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waterwitch Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I don't know that you could call Elvis a county artist. Maybe by today's standards.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 I love Patsy cline I always sing her songs,my roommate says i have the best voice he EVER heard maybe I should try being a singer. Crazy I fall to peices back where I am from there really is no oppurtunities in music so when i moved to L.A. I heard Patsy Cline on the jukebox and loved her ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irg82 Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Johnny Cash is the only country I actually listen to regularly, but I don't really mind any of it, it's okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadScreamingGallery Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I wasn't going to chime in here because I don't listen to country music. But then I saw that artists who I wouldn't have classified as country were listed. Personally, when I hear "Elvis", I still think of early rock and roll. Hank Williams Patsy Kline Hank "Bocephus" Williams Jr. Ronnie Milsap Waylon Jennings Willie Nelson Dwight Yoakum Honorable mention Felice and Boudleaux Bryant because I love the song ROCKY TOP!!! Johnny Cash Hank Williams George Jones Ry Cooder Patsy Kline Doc Watson Emmylou Harris Ry Cooder? I love Ry Cooder but I thought he was more bluesy (and, more recently, connected to "world music") than country. I am thinking of his collaborations with Taj Mahal and Ali Farka Toure, both of which I love. To be honest, I'm not very accurate when it come to putting musicians into their "correct" musical genres. Patsy Cline. When it comes to a song about heartbreak, it doesn't get much more painful than her wrenching "I Fall to Pieces." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzyMerkin Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 My dawg has died 'n' my horse has gone lame, My wife done left me for her cousin Daisy. The crop's all burnt 'n' The creeks dried up so the cows can't drink. Gonna buy me rope to hang from a tree.... This worlds ain't for livin' i need to be free..............lol But if you love me you'll forgive me Even though it's hard to understand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 I like some of the old style country.....most notably Johnny Cash. I love some of Patsy Cline's work too... 'Back in Baby's Arms' is nice I also like quite a bit of bluegrass...and some countryrock.....just recently, I got a boot of Peter Rowan and Friends from a few years back and it's fantastic !! And Emmylou branches in many directions, my fave by her may be the most unusual 'country' album I have...and it won a grammy ... Wrecking Ball produced by Daniel Lanios....no wonder it's unusual ! ...and the Rick Rubin produced Johnny Cash is like that...very unusual sounding 'country'.... Interesting stuff... Doesn't some of Led Zeppelin have alot of country influences other then blues in their songs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59LesPaul Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 You know what happens when you listen to a country song backwards? You get your wife back,your job back,your dog back,your house back,your truck back.... .....and you're sober. *Thanks to Richard Belzer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzfan715 Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 ^That's funny. Raising Sand and Hot Dog is about as country as I get. It is strange though how T-Bone Burnett has said he thinks Zep was a country band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadScreamingGallery Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 ^That's funny. Raising Sand and Hot Dog is about as country as I get. It is strange though how T-Bone Burnett has said he thinks Zep was a country band. I always thought that Bron-Y-Aur Stomp had country (or maybe folk?) influences. But, again, I don't know enough about music genres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzfan715 Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I think that's more folk, but then again I don't know much about musical generes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadScreamingGallery Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I think that's more folk, but then again I don't know much about musical generes. I think you're right about the folk. I'm really horrible at this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzfan715 Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 When people ask me what music I listen to I tell them my kind. They think I'm being smart but I never know what to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manderlyh Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard pretty much sums it up for me so far. Johnny Cash is the only country I actually listen to regularly, but I don't really mind any of it, it's okay. I've seen more than a few say something about good old Johnny---I was two or three posts into the thread, and I was a bit worried because no one had mentioned him. I like country---even some of the more modern stuff...but not the "pop-country" shit of today. As for a young, HOT country man.... Tim McGraw... :swoon: His wife's not bad, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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