Why does country music get shit on so much? Is it just because what's on the radio is garbage?

Because it's not this:
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Pedal steel guitar

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JFC, maybe the faggot gene is repulsed by it or something, but any band that doesn't have pedal steel and twin fiddles ain't worth a fuck in a tornado of razors.

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I'm bisexual as hell and I love country music.

I'm one of them north eastern city slickers who hates country I hear on the radio but I am listening Sturgill Simpson for the first time out of curiosity and am pleased with it. Post more good recommendation billy bobs

Yeah anyone who doesn't like them should honestly just jump off a tall cliff

Here you go.

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And have some fantastic (and pretty funny) storytelling and song playing in conjunction, which has always been a part of folk music, including American folk music (and including parts of the tradition of country):

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He's a retard.

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Oh boy any time they try to say folk, you know it's going to be a bad sounding dreadlock smelly hippy and absolutely nothing like Country.

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I haven't listened to that song but
>oh no he thinks conservatives are fucking annoying
So does basically everybody.

Absolutely none of them are as smart as they think they are and they sound stupid as FUCK too

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Country-Pop is definitely the worst form of pop music but I don't think that's the whole story. I think that country music is too tied to a lifestyle to appeal to people who aren't part of that lifestyle. If you didn't grow up throwing hay bails in Nebraska you aren't going to have the necessary frame of reference to enjoy the music.

Great horny toadies. Thanks for all the recommendations partner

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Some Country pop is good

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And you're stupid too

Recommend me some country with female vocals

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Country music is too tied the "country culture" and it comes across as insincere. Country music seems to try to live up to and pander to the those who 'identify' as "country"/ and the "country music" culture.

But country music is dead anyway, it's just pop music with a different accent, and Nashville is the new Los Angeles.

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No I'm not. You're stupid, Jimbob,

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At least learn punctuation if you're going to attempt to insult people, you stupid hipster.

based

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It's dead because of Jason Owens.

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Take this crappy song for example

You can't go wrong with the Judds or Trisha Yearwood also Loretta Lynn Crystal Gayle

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I liked the way A Sailor's Guide To Earth blended elements of various genres together. I've never heard a country album be so funky, psychedelic, and soulful before. Any other albums like that?

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Clever response because I obviously thought commas ended sentences too.

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Don't you have a shot of wheatgrass to get to?

Alison Krauss

Gretchen Wilson

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All music is like that to an extent. It's the soundtrack to a lifestyle and you need to be part of that lifestyle to understand the stuff.

No thanks bud I'm not a fan but I'll let you know if I change my mind alright cousinfucker

Cute cousins are a lot better than sticking it in buttholes like you're used to.

Like I've never entirely been able to get into the 50s-60s jazz classics because it conjurs up images of a Playboy Mansion cocktail party that I'm unable to identify with.

OP here. I did not intend for this thread to turn into two people insulting each other by calling each other redneck and hipster, respectively, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Try this one, user:

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check out tyler childers he's pretty great
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I'll take your word for it

"When you really get down to it, nobody actually listens to music for its own sake--it's merely the background noise to their particular lifestyle. For example, if you're a young urban professional, you'll listen to jazz-fusion. If you're a laid-back romantic type, you have the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt. As for my listeners, I feel that they're cynics who appreciate knowing that there's someone else out there who shares their views."

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It's all in good fun I'll stop if you want

Sturgill is in his own league a lot of the time, imo. Corb Lund might be worth your time tho.

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part of the reason i hate it is because it tries to sell this long-dead image of downhome americana that only ever existed in Rockwell paintings to a bunch of retarded, drunk rednecks with meth-addict children.

My music consumption when I'm not driving is mostly Melt-Banana, independent country artists, and folk punk, and when I'm driving I usually either listen to podcasts or sing along really badly to Paramore, even though I'm a 32-year-old man.

Psychoanalyze me, Zappa.

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That's pop country, though. Plenty of actual country artists, even contemporary ones, make music that reflects their real experi--
JESUS CHRIST

flying burrito brothers, earl scruggs (maybe thats not country, more folk dunno), some american girl i heard recently too, need to get back to ya on the name but like 60s style rock (e.g. bob dylan, the band) sung soulfully but feels quite country how she sings, the melodies, what she sings about.

The Nashville scene always lent itself to glossy pop country and it's been this way since probably the 50s. It's well known that Patsy Cline's live performances were far superior to the dated 50s-60s studio effects that they forced into her recordings.

The prob with country is they're still adhering to the old radio/record label model for pumping out bland generic pop that all sounds the same.

There's actually more sub-subgenres of cutting edge country that sound great than there are of what's left of indie rock, but it's just real fucking hard to find it for all the pablum being puked out of Nashville and L.A.

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This. I mean, the Opry kind of shit on Hank Sr. and to a lesser extent Johnny Cash when they were alive, and now they use them to make bank.

Keywords for searching for these genres? Or even just names of artists? Besides the obvious (I do read Saving Country Music and all, or at least the reviews.)

It seems like country music is becoming a lot more respected and socially accepted these days. When I was growing up, if you weren't a hick, you didn't fuck with country and you usually made fun of it. Now everyone thinks it's dope, which it is, but it's just funny how much more open-minded to it people are now. Probably because modern music is such dogshit, so the only good things that's new to people is different old music.

Garth Brooks sucks.

>no dolly or tammy recs
disgraceful
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I have a pretty good sniffer for this. I can listen to a song and pretty much immediately figure out what was intended for (background music on the Gap sound system while you're shopping for khakis, yuppie cocktail party cheese, dudeweed fratbros, etc).

Go geographic: Country Music + (your choice of) Austin, Minneapolis, Seattle, or New Orleans. Bakersfield if you want the retro stuff.

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I completely disagree. The only other genre I think that might apply to is hip hop, especially the more "ghetto" stuff.

>t.

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Zappa always mouths off as if he ever wrote a good song in his life.

Long dead? Just because you live in the ghetto doesn't mean everyone does.

bahahahaah what?

you think the Playboy Mansion was playing Miles Davis or Coltrane at their parties?

Take, say, Toni Braxton. That's music for 30-something yuppies who have a cocktail party.

Believe me, that shit was the soundtrack to the whole 50s-60s swinger lifestyle.

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ya back then it was known as "nashville sound", country pop "officially" became a thing in the 70s. which i don't really get cause there was some artists like skeeter davis who were literally releasing full on pop albums just sang in a southern accent.
but she had some good stuff so w/e
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This song is about his daughter who died. It's a heartbreak.

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Not a big Garth fan, but even I have to agree this song is really good.

That "dead image of downhome americana" literally exists right now in more than half of the US. Go drive through fucking Kansas or Wyoming and get back to me.

Tanya Tucker was LeAnn Rimes before LeAnn Rimes.

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That's why Yea Forums is unnervingly dominated by music that connects with suburban white males.

t. has never left Jew York

Oh boo hoo. Go start your own forum then, dipshit.

Yeah my partner hates Garth Brooks but some of his stuff is really good. His attempt to go Rock was ridiculous though

DELTA DAWN WHAT'S THAT FLOWER YOU HAVE ON

Exactly. I have no idea what he's talking about.

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Also I remember a Cuckgau review of her where he comments on the shape of a 15 year old's ass.

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Best country song:

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bitches cant be honest about their feelings and they also cant change a tire

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most of Yea Forums think it's for white trash despite hank williams, johnny cash and townes van zandt being cooler and more talented than their favorite artists

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I don't get what you're trying to prove. There's tons and tons of threads about stuff that isn't white guys with guitars.

Neko Case is pretty good

Nice the main singer is awesome and so are the instruments

>no Waylon
how
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god I could make this list so long
>no Willie
HOW
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Fbb is the shit. The byrds and anything else gram parsons touched was great.

I agree with you. Though I really would have liked for you to use an oxford comma.

>how
Mostly faggots here is my guess. I mean, look, they are even speaking positively regarding Garth above, as if he is even in any way related to country music. The absolute state. Still though, it don't matter who's in Austin, Bob Wills is still the king.

Talking blues

But not all country music is like that. Roots with carter family isn’t like that. Johnny cash has music that appeals to anyone. You didn’t have to go to prison to like Folsom prison blues. Everyone knows DAC and you never even called me by my name and he pokes fun at the stereotypes in that song. Most people are just stupid and think pop country is it. Or Garth brooks singing about some cowboy shit or something. While GB has great songs. I mean Dolly Partons music doesn’t just appeal to country bumpkins.

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And being genuine and having way more soul than any of the shit like ITAOTS

like COlter Wall but feel he gets a bit gimmicky.
favourites are
Merle
Paycheck
Kristofferson
Willie ( specifically Shotgun Willie era)

As somebody who doesn't listen to Country, but has been listening to the songs posted in this thread: what I'm gleaming from this thread is that country used to be good, but it's shit now. Because everything in this thread that isn't old school is dogshit.

Mainstream radio country just turned into pop music with the same trap beats.

There's still good stuff being made though.

>pop country is 100% dogsh-

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people didnt like it because their parents did, country was all about depressing stories growing up poor as fuck in the south or midwest and being an unapologetic nonconformist telling the (((wealthier))) class that they didn't desire to participate in their rat races

then over time it became more and more jewed and inauthentic, just like every other genre

haggard, cash, jones..... shit was based in it's time

Merle Haggard "Big City"
>I'm tired of this dirty old city
>And tired of too much work
>And never enough play
>And I'm tired of these dirty old sidewalks
>Think I'll walk off my steady job today
>Turn me loose, set me free
>Somewhere in the middle of Montana
>And give me all I've got coming to me
>And keep your retirement
>And your so-called Social Security
>Big city turn me loose and set me free
>Been working everyday since I was twenty
>Haven't got a thing to show
>For anything I've done
>There's folks who never work and they've got >plenty
>Think it's time some guys like me had some fun
>Turn me loose, set me free
>Somewhere in the middle of Montana
>And give me all I've got coming to me
>And keep your retirement
>And your so-called Social Security
>Big city turn me loose and set me free

Merle was celebrating being a smug NEET 50 years ago

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i wish this fat fuck would put his music on streaming services god damn

there's plenty of good inoffensive pop country for a church picnic my guy, it's good for what it's suppose to be

The Judds are absolutely amazing, and hella underrated.
It's a shame that you rarely hear about people outside of Kentucky having heard of them.

I mean everybody already expects people to like Dolly.
Not liking Dolly is like not liking The Beach Boys.

The only country I've ever listened to and liked has been certain Johnny Cash songs, certain bluegrass, and overall only stuff with a "dark" aesthetic or minor chords and vocal harmonies. I also like that meme Gunfigher Ballads album and the theme from Smokey and the Bandit. I share the sentiments of towards the slide guitar and slow fiddle sound in pop country by the way. Are there any other albums or artists I might enjoy if I wanted to explore the genre within my limited tastes?

She sucks

Yep

My dick

Well that's what it takes these days it's not about talent. She's unlikable. She's a smug libtard.

>There's folks who never work and they've got plenty
Sounds like skinny, A/C office Silicone Valley Liberals who are also using their power to change our culture

Dope, thanks. Is Milwaukee dead after the. 357 String Band split up?

If it's about not being a conservative, you're going to be disappointed by a lot of modern country artists. If you just don't like smugness, I'm sure you can find some good artists.

I really dislike the vocals in the majority of country and also 100% of pop country is pure shit

Is this country?
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I don't like Modern "artists" (if you can call them that) they suck

It is about being a Conservative. Liberals are bad people that's why they like folk music, not country music.

I saw the Hag live twice. Not only did his band have proper pedal steel and twin fiddles, but he played the fiddle himself. He also did a shockingly good Marty Robbins impression:

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Liberty have no heart. That's why they can't play country. That's why it's gotta be folk. It's gotta be smug. They can take imitations of the sound but they won't be beloved bec they're just nasty and evil. They don't write touching lyrics, they write what they think is poetry. It's just the truth. They can't even help themselves.

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Liberals*

Mainstream country is like the modern Democratic Party. By trying to appeal to everyone, it's become appealing to no one

This is a really good speech by Johnny Cash's daughter. He was a guy who couldn't be boxed in.

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I love this one:

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Also Aerosmith blatantly stole this song and turned it into Last Child.

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Marie Osmond did a great duet with Dan Seals. She is so stunning.

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Hurray For the Riff Raff: Small town Heroes

ever since 9/11, country music became political in nature by appealing to the more conservative audiences. it isnt until now that some country artists are getting exposure for their talents as songwriters and vocalists who do no express the pro American/right-sided views. Pic related are some of my favorite contemporary country records.

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Before Liberals ruined America, we had integrity and morals.

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Pathetic taste. Like I said, bad people can't make good Country music.

fuck you Zappa, you couldn't write an earnest piece of music if your own father crawled up your ass and died

Where are you from? I've never met a non-patriotic American. Even Liberals are patriotic.

K I'm confused

These people aren't popular for a reason. They're not good. They aren't going anywhere. Country music has higher standards than the ghetto trash they peddle on the radio now. Miranda Lambert and her ex husband are probably the best you'll see in a while. They're just not putting out good stuff. Jason Aldean makes me sick. I really don't respect him after seeing how he handled the liberal shootings.

What about straight up leftists?

Also, a lot of country greats were further left than you'd think.

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You mean like the backing track here?

Yes.

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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are Liberals and they're good so I know that. But their music content is not.

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This is supposed to be about Sharon Stone

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Pretty good chart countrybro. Throw some Margo price on there too
Chris Stapleton is a huge star you moron

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