I love non contempary country music

I was born, raised and I'm gonna die listening to country music. Some of you mentioned how bad modern country music is.

My personal opinion why modern country music "sucks" is:
1. It all sounds alike. The singers go into recording studios where the same band plays day after day to different "artists." In the "good ole' days", every singer had his own band. Hank Williams had the Drifting Cowboys, Johnny Cash had the Tennessee Two, Jim Reeves had his Blue Boys, Hank Snow had the Rainbow Ranch Boys and Hank Thompson had the Brazo Valley Boys.
2. Way too much twang in the voice. When Marty Robbins, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash or Stonewall Jackson sang you could easily understand every word. No way today.
3. The recording studios have the band turned up so loud that often you cannot clearly heard nor understand the singer. Maybe it's just as well.
 
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ChiroDoc said:
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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I'm a big fan of the Mississippi Blue Yodeler, Jimmie Rodgers. Actually, I visited the Jimmie Rodgers museum and grave site in Meridian, Mississippi. The truth be known I have traveled there twice over the years. I love his yodeling and his "down to earth" songs.
 
Twostep said:
Macktexas - pull up some of Johnny Horton lesser known tunes.
Sorry but autocorrect is not user-friendly today.
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Johnny Horton had a beautiful voice. Listen to "Whispering Pines" and you might agree. He recorded many song dealing with American history: North to Alaska, Big John Bull & Uncle Sam, Johnny Reb, When It's Springtime in Alaska, The Battle of New Orleans, Sink the Bismarck,Comanche, Jim Bridger, Sam Magee, Snow-Shoe Thompson, O'Leary's Cow, John Paul Jones, Young Abe Lincoln, The Sinking of The Reuben James and Johnny Freedom.

I know this because I have 5 of this original LP records and I'm not selling them. He died way too young at the age of 35 in 1960 in a car accident.
 

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Packerjohn said:
I was born, raised and I'm gonna die listening to country music. Some of you mentioned how bad modern country music is.

My personal opinion why modern country music "sucks" is:
1. It all sounds alike. The singers go into recording studios where the same band plays day after day to different "artists." In the "good ole' days", every singer had his own band. Hank Williams had the Drifting Cowboys, Johnny Cash had the Tennessee Two, Jim Reeves had his Blue Boys, Hank Snow had the Rainbow Ranch Boys and Hank Thompson had the Brazo Valley Boys.
2. Way too much twang in the voice. When Marty Robbins, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash or Stonewall Jackson sang you could easily understand every word. No way today.
3. The recording studios have the band turned up so loud that often you cannot clearly heard nor understand the singer. Maybe it's just as well.
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Real country singers have names like Jelly Roll…not. Rappers are not country singers, or so called today country music.
 
Packerjohn said:
I'm a big fan of the Mississippi Blue Yodeler, Jimmie Rodgers. Actually, I visited the Jimmie Rodgers museum and grave site in Meridian, Mississippi. The truth be known I have traveled there twice over the years. I love his yodeling and his "down to earth" songs.
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Me too, John! Went there about 20 years ago, and enjoyed the museum and the famous merry-go-round. It's not easy to find. Meridian was obviously laid out by a bunch of drunks...😄

Even though I live in Mississippi, I've never been over to either of the Hank Williams museums in Alabama. Maybe one day...
 
Packerjohn said:
Johnny Horton had a beautiful voice. Listen to "Whispering Pines" and you might agree. He recorded many song dealing with American history: North to Alaska, Big John Bull & Uncle Sam, Johnny Reb, When It's Springtime in Alaska, The Battle of New Orleans, Sink the Bismarck,Comanche, Jim Bridger, Sam Magee, Snow-Shoe Thompson, O'Leary's Cow, John Paul Jones, Young Abe Lincoln, The Sinking of The Reuben James and Johnny Freedom.

I know this because I have 5 of this original LP records and I'm not selling them. He died way too young at the age of 35 in 1960 in a car accident.
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He has done
Nathan said:
All these newer CM artists sound the same, and sound more "urban" than country. :rolleyes:

Gimme George Strait, Buck Owens, Reba and Patty Loveless!
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George, the old crooner, is great in concerts. He handles a crowd.
SO told me we have tickets for Reba. Great!!! Billy Dean is opening. We are barely on time, the place is crowded and he pushes forward. Front row seating for an unforgettable concert. Her costume changes are unbelievable.
Dolly and Kenny was worth getting tickets.
At our last Alabama concert they were an hour late, said to please get refunds and played without froofroo for hours.

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