REAL Country music

I don't know most of the newer Country artists. I was raised on Merle Haggard, Red Sovine, Minnie Pearl, et-al. I even have a very RARE song by Jim Reeves!
"The Blizzard" is hard to get.

Anyone else like the old REAL Country music?

 

http://www.uncleshaker.us
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Alternative-Country/Folk-Rock with a horn section... currently my favorite indie band.

 

By the way... listen to Bells Of St. Mary... sounds unbelievably like Neil Young.

 

Matt man your dead on. thats why i hate the country music scene! im open to all types of music but this new wave country blows. its all about how getting knocked up and living in a trailer makes you a real american, not white trash. the old days of willie nelson(my first concert was willie!!) and the patriotic americans, and the strong female not the fat housewife, were the better days of country.

 

I love some of the older country. David Allan Coe is probably one of my favorites. The new stuff seriously gets on my nerves though.

 

http://www.corblundband.com/
these guys are my new favotire country guys...

 

I really dig old, old bluegrass and country. Not much into that new stuff

 

only old country for me....the new stuff is a terrible mixture of country/bad rock/bad lyrics

I love Willie Nelson, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, etc....

 

I don't even listen to Garth Brooks. TOO NEW. I have a slew of the old "Trucker" songs. And I'm still in love with Patsy Cline! (Even that Cole Miner's Daughter is too new for me. But I also love true FOLK, and decent Bluegrass. Flatt & Scruggs for example. (Yes, even the Beverly Hillbillies theme.)

 

Garth Brooks does it for me...i have that off the old tape...i wish "River" wasn't on and "red strokes" was though...

 

Gotta love Willie,Waylon,Merle and Johnny Cash. After all The Dead covered songs by Merle and Johnny Cash as well as that George Jones song Race is On. I heard a new version of that song the other day. It was down right pitiful but not quite as bad as the recent butchering of John Denver's Thank God I'm a Country Boy. Hearing that remake was like someone dragging a cheese grater over my ears.

I love going to Bluegrass shows/fests and seeing all the country folks mixing it up with the hippies.


Hank SR (not Jr) is awesome as well. Anyone dig western swing like Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys or Asleep at the Wheel?

(sings in exxagerated off key voice) Yerr cheating heart will make you weep.You cry n cry and and try to sleep.

 

I grew up listening to Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Kitty Wells,Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard (My mom's middle name is Merle...after him),Dolly Parton,Red Sovine,Waylon Jennings, Hank Snow, Hank Williams, Porter Wagner, Buck Owens, and other oldies.
I don't listen to the old country much anymore (except I do own a Dolly Parton CD).
For yrs when I was married my ex hated hearing any country music playing cuz he says it was too depressing. Now it's surprising that my kids like a mixture of music including Hank Williams JR, Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, Keith Urban, Brooks & Dunn, Dixie Chicks....along with the new Rock-n-Roll.

 

I wouldn't venture so far as to call Jim Reeves "real country". Jim Reeves stylized waht is known as the Nashvile Sound, It owes more to Frank and Dino than Hank and Bluegrass. It's a veyr elaborate and complex style with strings and such added. Willie Nelson had so much trouble with his career in the 60's because of this. Waylon also had trouble because he wasn't allowed by CHet Atkins to use his heavy backbeat that he used live on his records.

 

I like the old stuff 60s-80s. johnny cash, willie nelson, waylon jennings, conway twitty, dolly parton, kenny rogers......... etc

 

THOSE are the names I know. I too own a Dolly CD. Plus, I own a copy of "The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas". "Hard Candy Cristmas" is our FAVORITE song from that. And, her Theme song "I Will Always Love You" is dedicated to my first wife.

 

I like David Allen Coe, Willie Nelson, Patsy Clien, Lorreta Lynn, Waylon Jennings, I like listening to old country when i'm relaxing or cooking for some reason...David Allen Coe is fun to play on roadtrips...

 

Some of you might like the Texas Tornados too. Combine rock,TexMex and country and add a touch of blues, and you have some idea of what they were like. Doug Sahm died a few years ago though so what they did is about all you'll get. Doug Sahm was in the Sir Douglas Quintet back in 65.

 

Doug Sahm is so awesome, You all should get out Little Feat too, they made some country rock that is great.