There is actually some good country, but it’s never played on the radio. Artists like Sturghill Simpson, Cody jinks, and Tyler Childers really saved country for me
Childers is maybe the best of this generation.
Yeah, and does bluegrass count as country? Because some people can absolutely shred on the banjo
I would put in the same ecosystem. And yeah Billy strings gets it.
Skip past all the “pop” country; the “bro” country; and there’s a lot of good country artists. Artists that have real songs and stories to tell. Not just jeans, pick up trucks, and being “southern”. But are actually sorrowful, thoughtful, and sometimes, extremely progressive.
- Lost Dog Street Band / Benjamin Tod
- Sturgill Simpson
- Amigo the Devil
- Tyler Childers
- IV and The Strange Band
and so many others, Matt Heckler, Dead South, Colter Wall… go listen to real country, indie country. Not corpo country.
Need Hank Williams (the og, not ii or iii), Johnny Cash, merl haggard, Waylon Jennings on that list, to name a few.
And thanks for the recommendations, will have to check them outOh yeah, for sure. I was just trying to think up modern artists to illustrate that good country music is still being made today. Otherwise I’d add people like Willie Nelson, Woodie Gunthrie, Johnny Paycheck, etc etc etc… and the list would be eternally long.
It’s like, generally accepted that old country is good, but modern day country sucks. I just wanted to disprove that. There’s still great country music being made post Garth Brooks.
EDIT: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Seger, Charlie Daniels, Chris Stapleton, Kenny Rogers…
Casualties of Cool (Devin Townsend!)
I’m ready for the country hate. Here’s some YouTube links.
Cast Iron Pansexual by Adeem the Artist
For some classic class consciousness:
Sounds more like folk music than country music.
Where do you draw the line?
There’s such a huge difference between the sound and lyrical stylings in the genres, the line separating them is an entire ocean. 🤨
I’m probably not cultured enough. I have heard modern country that resembles pop music. Taylor Swift tried that new fangled rapping after all.
Country is a weird genre.
In NO OTHER genre do you hear an accent, and it’s more or less required for country. That twang, the drawl. Its playing in the background of the dive bar I’m at right now.
If you get someone from the deep south to sing alongside someone from the Netherlands, alongside a french person, maybe a Russian for kicks, the only genre you’ll notice they aren’t from the same country in country music will you hear where they are from. But not really because like any music its an affectation.
Conclusion: country music is fake bullshit made to pander to fucking stupid people who think their redneck culture exists, rather than being just profitable. 😁
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My favorite part of that set is how he adopts the accent in the lead-up to the jokes. Im big on language, always have been a mimic, and I notice the code switch. I assume he does it unconsciously to put himself in the mindset for the rest of the jokes.
But yea thats how I feel about it, always have.
Plenty of hip hop has all sorts of accents. Also, there’s no such thing as “no accent”.
Listen to your average unknown random song and tell me where the people who sing it came from. Thats what I mean by no accent. It doesn’t exist in language, but it VERY MUCH exists in music. A-accent is the default for singing.
Hip hop I question that, but rap i could see because I’ve heard rap in other languages and being spoken poetry that does pick up a bit, but it isn’t characteristic of the music, and you still usually cant tell unless you understand the specific language… so id give that as a maybe at best.
I’ve gotten into “dark country” through amigo the devil and Harley poe. Brought me to brown bird, holy locust, bridge city sinners, and more. Don’t throw out the beans with the bathwater.
Lmfao Trve
Dude country is not my genre but this is just bait
My country music is fucking awesome. I don’t listen to Country tho
It helps to know that there are several different subgenres of Country, just like Rock has a ton.
I think the country most people don’t like is “Pop” Country.
Not sure quite where Corb Lund falls, sometimes blues, sometimes country, and others yodeling, but he is worthy of any music collection
Your country collection should consist of 2 songs. Jolene and Take Me Home, Country Roads. No need for anything else. And the second one is optional.
If the vocals don’t bother me (little-or-no twang), I just consider those folk music (or some variation).
I would definitely classify John Denver as more folk than country. The two often overlap, but Denver is majority on one side of it.
Not even Jerry Reed? Merle Haggard? Johnny Cash!??
Glen Campbell, Dolly Parton.
Dolly Parton is a fuckin treasure.
Johnny Cash is acceptable.
Not if you lived with my uni housemate. He was obsessed. I’m 100% done with it.
He’s just ok but massively overrated and sometimes even hack-y, in my opinion. An image artist.
We listen to both kinds of music! Country AND western!
