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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. 😁
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.
Tyler Childers, Colter Wall, Chris Stapleton - there’s still good country out there.
Country music started to suck not when it became political, there was always political country music. It started to suck when it became the refuge for conservatives and no other viewpoints were allowed.
But there was a real hunger in a lot of parts of America for representation, and country music did offer a landscape that was talking a lot about old-fashioned values.
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I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that country radio, which remains very corporate, does have a lock on who can become a superstar and who cannot. And so, if you get sort of an organized fan backlash against a musician over their politics. their career is done. And the most – the high-profile example of that that people will be familiar with is what happened to the Dixie Chicks during the Iraq War.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/how-country-music-went-conservative
Country music from before 1970 can be good. There are occasionally things post 1970 that are also good, but they’re much harder to find because it has become a style of music that caters to conservatives, and they expect it to glorify their values.
Not even Jerry Reed? Merle Haggard? Johnny Cash!??
Glen Campbell, Dolly Parton.
You might know about Marty Robbins of Big Iron fame, but I’m here to tell you that the entire Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs album is a nonstop parade of bangers.
Although Marty himself had some problematic views about snti-Vietnam war folks, I still love his music.
My advice? Skip the country music, focus on western music.
We listen to both kinds of music! Country AND western!
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.
Casualties of Cool (Devin Townsend!)
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…
Not sure quite where Corb Lund falls, sometimes blues, sometimes country, and others yodeling, but he is worthy of any music collection
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.
Does she wear an Imperial uniform from Star Wars?
What gave it away? The delightfully catchy marching tune?
I mean there is good country especially pre 2000 and outside the mainstream.
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.
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