I love non contempary country music

Bretrick

Bretrick

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I think I first heard the song - I Don’t Wanna Play House in about 1976.
Staying with my best friend at the seaside town of Strahan on the West Coast of Tasmania.
Even at that time, my love of country music was growing stronger every year.
Though I am definitely not into contemporary Country Music.
Once all my favourites from the 60s, 70s and 80s have gone then I will be replaying their great tunes until I too am gone.
In the song, the narrator, a young mother whose husband has left her, overhears her daughter describing to a neighborhood boy their broken home, and informing him that she doesn’t want to play “House” - (a traditional children’s game. It is a form of make-believe where players take on the roles of a family. Common roles Including parents, children, a newborn, and pets) since, after observing her parents’ troubles, she knows that it cannot be fun.
I Don’t Wanna Play House - Tammy Wynette 1967
 

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Mom & Dad always played country music growing up in the 70s, but I also listened to pop & rock as well. I will listen to classic country, but I do like the newer music that sounds country. Not a big fan of some of the "cross-over" songs or singers.

I still listen & enjoy the pop/rock that I've always liked, but I found myself gravitating back to country music for various reasons. I've also found new pop/rock bands by falling down the rabbit-hole watching YouTube that you don't hear on the radio very much. IMO some of these people rival, if are not better, than some of the big-named "stars".
 

Bretrick said:
I think I first heard the song - I Don’t Wanna Play House in about 1976.
Staying with my best friend at the seaside town of Strahan on the West Coast of Tasmania.
Even at that time, my love of country music was growing stronger every year.
Though I am definitely not into contemporary Country Music.
Once all my favourites from the 60s, 70s and 80s have gone then I will be replaying their great tunes until I too am gone.
In the song, the narrator, a young mother whose husband has left her, overhears her daughter describing to a neighborhood boy their broken home, and informing him that she doesn’t want to play “House” - (a traditional children’s game. It is a form of make-believe where players take on the roles of a family. Common roles Including parents, children, a newborn, and pets) since, after observing her parents’ troubles, she knows that it cannot be fun.
I Don’t Wanna Play House - Tammy Wynette 1967
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I have to agree. I think the first country music tunes I remember are "Sea of Heartbreak" by Don Gibson and “How High the Moon” by Les Paul & Mary Ford. There have been many favourites since then like "Stand by Your Man" by Tammy and nearly everything Charley Pride did. I also agree that the contemporary songs mean nothing to me.
 
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I'm a huge fan of traditional country music from the 1930s up through the 1960s. Jimmie Rodgers ("the Singing Brakeman") really got it all started. He has some beautiful stuff --much of it bluesy-- which is mostly available due to long recording sessions as he was near death from T.B. at aged 35 in 1937.

But to me the main man was Hank Williams, Sr. I can recall in the early '50s as a kid visiting a farm by my grandparents home, where they had an old radio playing on the front porch. That's the first time I heard Hank.

But I didn't really get into country music until the mid '70s when we went to hear a show at the Wheeling Jamboree (W. Va.). I got hooked then, and went straight back to the beginning. Naturally I loved some of the early folks like Hank Snow, Roy Acuff, Kitty Wells, Ernest Tubb, and later Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline. George Jones was great, Buck Owens, and many more.

But those were all COUNTRY singers. I don't know what to call the stuff that's labeled "country" today. It's almost not listenable. It's hardly fit for the junk they play over the p.a. in the rest rooms at Interstate stops. It drones on with no style, no class, nothing to identify it as country. I think it's all composed by a computer.

Happily most all the old music is still available on recording.
 
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