Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny cash, Dolly Parton…I don’t like “country music” but can enjoy all of these artists. Country music has been bastardized by clearchannel, along with almost all other types of music. Fuck clearchannel (now rebranded as “I heart radio” which is…such a stupid fucking name)
There’s so much great music everywhere, and I truly enjoy nearly all music. But if you listen to FM radio it’s a damn shame that almost all of it is just the stale, overplayed, corporate safe stuff. THAT is the country most people dislike
Newer bands I can think of with an old school country feel are First Aid Kit, Gregory Alan Isakov, Secret Sisters etc. And the new Hunger Games movie soundtrack is a great sampler of slow and fast folk/bluegrass vibes
I’m the opposite side of the same coin: if I like it, I don’t consider it country music.
Lots of stuff without twang I’d just call folk music (add other terms if needed, American, western etc).
Also I’m glad the same thing didn’t happen to rock. Like there is a certain mostly-post-grunge vocal style popular in the 2000s that’d be really annoying if it was part of most rock music.
As long as Johnny Cash is considered Country Music, it’s not possible to “hate country music” anyway.
Country music doesn’t have to be bad. Which means that the recent stuff is a deliberate stylistic choice. Do with that as you will.
Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny cash, Dolly Parton…I don’t like “country music” but can enjoy all of these artists. Country music has been bastardized by clearchannel, along with almost all other types of music. Fuck clearchannel (now rebranded as “I heart radio” which is…such a stupid fucking name)
“i heart corporate daddy for telling me what music to listen to”
There’s so much great music everywhere, and I truly enjoy nearly all music. But if you listen to FM radio it’s a damn shame that almost all of it is just the stale, overplayed, corporate safe stuff. THAT is the country most people dislike
Newer bands I can think of with an old school country feel are First Aid Kit, Gregory Alan Isakov, Secret Sisters etc. And the new Hunger Games movie soundtrack is a great sampler of slow and fast folk/bluegrass vibes
Local radio station plays Isakov, I wouldn’t have labeled him country, but I like him a lot.
That’s fair the acoustic indie/folk/country categories blur together in my head
We owe our appreciation of Johnny Cash to Rick Rubin who rescued him from literal dinner theater hell.
Townes Van Zandt is the peak of country music for me
I’m the opposite side of the same coin: if I like it, I don’t consider it country music.
Lots of stuff without twang I’d just call folk music (add other terms if needed, American, western etc).
Also I’m glad the same thing didn’t happen to rock. Like there is a certain mostly-post-grunge vocal style popular in the 2000s that’d be really annoying if it was part of most rock music.
Folk, blue grass, fast grass. All amazing and technically country…but not to me
I’d put Marty Robbins above Johnny Cash, though I guess he’s more western than country.
Country is like Rock, it’s a side genre with mini genres. Johnny Cash and Kane Brown aren’t the same
I’ve never gotten the appeal of Johnny Cash. I guess I’m just not one for Texican yeehaw mumblecore.