Does Country Music Exist Outside The United States?

Discussion in 'Country, Bluegrass and Old Time' started by Fueled by Coffee, Mar 9, 2017.

  1. 6-eyed shaman

    6-eyed shaman Sock-eye salmon

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    By exist, I mean have an enthusiastic fan base. Are their any non-American country singers? It seems like it's just an American invention that, unlike other American inventions, that just won't cross over into international territory.
     
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  3. FireflyInTheDark

    FireflyInTheDark Sell-out with a Heart of Gold

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqEvRqCnfQA
     
  4. Heat

    Heat Smile, it's contagious! :) Lifetime Supporter

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    We have a large country base in Canada.

    Australia also has a country base.

    I do not think it is a regional thing.
     
  5. The Walking Dickhead

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    There's a few in Holland
     
  6. BlackBillBlake

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    The UK has it's country fans, and even a few performers who put on a Stetson and pretend to be cowboys and cowgirls.

    A few years ago I lived in a village where the one pub had a country/confederate style of deco. Totally out of place I always thought, but the landlord was a fan.
     
  7. Meliai

    Meliai Banned

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    I'm still trying to come to terms with a man asking me to play Travis Tritt on a jukebox in NYC once, i cant think about other countries yet. I genuinely thought it was just a southern US thing until the incident with the jukebox happened

    Most country music written after like 1995 is horrible, just throwing that out there
     
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  8. FireflyInTheDark

    FireflyInTheDark Sell-out with a Heart of Gold

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    Good. That's about when I stopped listening to it.

    Yay 90's country [​IMG]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nopBvlKfYgY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Vjj9XxMHg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKAYUShRLy8
     
  9. I'minmyunderwear

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    it seems to me it's mostly city people that listen to country, so someone from nyc seems logical enough. at least, that's the case in my part of the north; rural people either rebel and go all out with the rap music, or they embrace their inner redneck and listen to classic rock. but if you go to the city, there's people rebelling the other way and listening to country music.
     
  10. 6-eyed shaman

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    I'm my part of the country, the opinion of country music is very polarized; folks either love it or they hate it. There's little to no in-between.

    I decided that I hated country music when I was still a kid and the radio would keep playing Achy Breaky Heart over and over again. But since then I matured and found some country songs tolerable, if not enjoyable. However I don't pay much attention to it

    I do notice that when I'm far from civilization, the radio stations that have the best signal are country music stations for some reason.
     
  11. YouFreeMe

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    Same here, but most of the people who like it are a bit white trash, to but it bluntly. I can get down with some old country music (Cash and similar performers)--the rest of the stuff is pretty painful, imo. I guess it's pretty clear which camp I fall into ;).

    Not sure about the answer to the op, however.
     
  12. guerillabedlam

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    Keith Urban was born in New Zealand.
     
  13. rjhangover

    rjhangover Senior Member

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    From Australia.....

     
  14. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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    Yup.
     
  15. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    Y'all slackers dunno country till y'all done gone done come ova to Germany and swig moonshine with Irm I tell yer hwat.
     
  16. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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    Schlager is the real country.

     
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  17. bft4evr

    bft4evr Senior Member

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    Maybe this explains it:
     
  18. MikeE

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    Scandinavian danseband music sure sounds like country to my ear
     
  19. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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    There's schlager, and there's modern schlager.
    Kind of the same with country.

    edit: one thing is certain: Hansi Hintersee -Ski twist always cracks me up :grinning:
     

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