What happened to country music?

uncle Alan said:
............... Not cheap so the radio got Nashville on Saturday night and then was turned to XERF,Vicauna Mexico for more. FCC regulated station wattage and XERF was a pirate station putting out 50,000 watts & could be heard coast to coast.
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Alan [ miss it ] Alan
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XERF was one of the stations that Wolfman Jack got his start on. He later got his own station, XERB, which was the one heard on "American Graffiti".


When CBS bought out TNN, country became corporate music, just like disco.
They want it all to sound the same.:barf:

I never liked country at anytime, but at least some of the older writers and singers had some individualism.
 
mike_mck2 said:
Country music has somehow become a parody of itself.
Some of the stuff I have been hearing lately is just, well, pathetic.

It's probably what killed Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash....
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Country is about all I've listened to since the early 70's. Rap, metal, etc isn't music. Alot of it sux today, but some is still good.

But Alan Jackson and Waylon agree with you (and I do too). Listen to their duet, "Murder on Music Row".
 
The closest thing to country I can take is some of the more skewed, ace-guitar-playin' stuff like Junior Brown and The Hellecasters. I heard a Shania Twain song the other day and couldn't figure out how it was supposed to be country. I mean, there really are no country elements to it whatsoever.
 
Our local "community" radio station, KDHX FM 88.1, has a number of shows that cater to the stuff I like (and thanks, Mongo, for remembering more!).

"Songwriter's showcase" on Friday morning from 10-12 is great. (The station does webcast)
Also "Fred Friction's" alternative country show in the same timeslot on Thursday.
 
Mike Hull said:
XERF was one of the stations that Wolfman Jack got his start on. He later got his own station, XERB, which was the one heard on "American Graffiti".


When CBS bought out TNN, country became corporate music, just like disco.
They want it all to sound the same.:barf:

I never liked country at anytime, but at least some of the older writers and singers had some individualism.
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"I heard it, I heard it, I heard it on the X..." -- ZZ Top
 
TorzJohnson said:
T........... I heard a Shania Twain song the other day and couldn't figure out how it was supposed to be country. I mean, there really are no country elements to it whatsoever.
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Yeah, whatever happened to drinkin till you puked, stabbin, shootin, Prison, and walking on down the line?
Seem to remember that doing this all in Memphis was the way to go.:eek:;)
 
well, A Friend Of Mine Named Steve Goodman Wrote That Song
And He Told Me It Was The Perfect Country & Western Song
I Wrote Him Back A Letter And I Told Him It Was Not The Perfect Country & Western Song
Because He Hadn't Said Anything At All About Mama,
Or Trains,
Or Trucks,
Or Prison,
Or Getting Drunk
Well He Sat Down And Wrote Another Verse To The Song
And He Sent It To Me,
And After Reading It,
I Realized That My Friend Had Written The Perfect
Country & Western Song
And I Felt Obliged To Include It On This Album
The Last Verse Goes Like This Here:

Well, I Was Drunk The Day My Mom Got Out Of Prison
And I Went To Pick Her Up In The Rain
But Before I Could Get To The Station In My Pickup Truck
She Got Runned Over By A Damned Old Train​
 
Point44 said:
No matter what anyone says i still like Dolly Parton's music. Her Ultimate album is full of all her great tunes (she's also a great songwriter). It's still country and not the country-pop music that they have now. I am proud of owning that album as i am of owning my Pantera albums.
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And she is one of the nicest people you would ever want to meet! We did several on-air promotions with her when I worked a short time for a country station. What a sweetheart. :)
 
Shania Twain, don't much care for her. I saw in concert on t.v many, many years ago. It was just after her "short tops to expose the belly button" thing. A reporter asked her when she planned on showing her belly button again. In a very indignant manner she responded that she would no longer be doing that and let her music speak for itself. Ok, it's not verbatim, but that's the jist of what happened as far as I can recall. My, my, my how she changed her tune on that one.

Don't get me worng, there are few songs and even fewer artists today that I care for. But for the most part, they get lost in the sea of hooey. For the most part, they can't even distinguish themselves from pop 40 anymore.

Mike
 
yam said:
.....lost in the sea of hooey....
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Sounds like a song title by MY favorite country artist - Billy Joe Shaver. (He's been one of my favorite singers/lyricists for many, many years - and I'm a Northerner! ;) )

Any other BJS fans around here?
 
And she is one of the nicest people you would ever want to meet! ...............What a sweetheart.
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I'm sure she is. She's been a big favourite in my family for as long as we can remember.
 
Yeah, I like Billy Joe Shaver too... though I gotta be in the mood. Just listened to him the other day in surgery. Not too sure if my employees liked it though. ;) Damn shame about his son overdosing though. What a talent!
 
If you have Sirius Radio tune in to their Outlaw Country channel. There you will hear country songs that you never heard before and probably never will again, mostly by artists you never heard of and never will again. Definitely not the carbon copy tripe. Some of it is a real hoot.
 
Hey, Mongo - great taste in music! Next you'll be telling me that you're a fan of...."Western Swing ain't dead, it's____________________!"

(fill in the blank)

Another one of my top favorites! :cool:
 
My daughter's best friend since she was 4 died of cancer when she was 17. Make A Wish sent her to Dollywood a a few months before she died and she was invited up on the stage and treated like a queen.She was buried wearing a wig Dolly gave her.
 
I turned on CMT the other day and saw... :eek: HOOTIE! What is the world coming to? :confused:

The only country CD's I have that I still listen to are Nickel Creek, Martina McBride and Toby Keith's older stuff. I used to have a huge crush on Toby Keith (years ago) before he apparently had some kind of makeover with "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" or something, and now I can't stand him. :rolleyes:

~ashes
 
I can listen to some country, but it's gotta have some good guitar work in it. None of that old time winey, cryin in your beer crap for me.
 
What everyone is complaining about here is typically "country-pop." It is surely dreadful stuff, about as rancid as rap.

On the other hand, some of my all-time favorite music is what I call country-rock, or Americana, and is basically a sub-category of alternative rock:

The Jayhawks
The Silos
Sun Volt
Wilco
Drive-By Truckers
The Volebeats
 
Danbo said:
I can listen to some country, but it's gotta have some good guitar work in it. None of that old time winey, cryin in your beer crap for me.
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You mean like Billy Ray Cyrus. :D

That man put line dancing on the map here in Sweden.
 
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