The bulk of pop country up to about 1975 was great. The bulk ever since has been ghastly horse manure.

Lefty Frizzell, Webb Pierce, all the Hanks (Snow, Williams, Garland, Locklin, etc.), Faron Young, Ferlin Husky, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Wanda Jackson, Loretta Lynn, Carl Smith, Little Jimmy Dickens, June Carter, Porter Wagoner, Jim Reeves, Chet Atkins, Buck Owens and all the other good ones FTW.

What carmody said.

/My country & bluegrass vinyl collection, let me show it to you.

Hank was great performer, and a pretty good promoter. But let us not forget, he was responsible for getting Colonel Tom Parker's claws into Elvis.

Ugh, yet another local radio station switched formats to Nashville Pop.

/kisses XM receiver

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//"Garth Brooks did for country music what pantyhose did for finger farking" ~ Waylon Jennings

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//"Garth Brooks did for country music what pantyhose did for finger farking" ~ Waylon Jennings

Kinky Friedman calls Garth The Anti-Hank

So there are 7 of us on Fark that like old, outlaw country?

good to know

Naw, there's 8 of us actually.

I personally think Kenny Rogers killed country music stone dead in 1980 with his cross-over shiat.

After that, every suit in Nashville was at work conforming music to country/pop markets.

Rogers killed the country artist died.

9.

Wow...love for Hank Snow on Fark. Good to see it.

Dr.Zom: 9.

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I recently learned all the words to I've Been Everywhere, and now everytime I perform it, people run up and say something along the lines of "OMG I LOVE THAT SONG JOHNNY CASH FTW!!!"

I won't allow myself the pleasure of smacking them, cuz I can't alienate my fans.

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You normally approve with more pictures, what gives? :P

Make me number 11. Subby, my morning just got a whole hell of a lot better!

/soon as the boss goes to lunch, I'm looking for some Ernest Tubb

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So there are 7 of us on Fark that like old, outlaw country?

Add one more! :)

I hate saying this, but I blame my parents (outside of my dad's taste in classic rock). They made me listen to their hippy, feel good music of the 60s. I think my Grandpa saw what they were doing and let me listen to good ol' American Country music like Hank Snow, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash, good times!

Johnny Cash winning the Grammy for American Recordings was the one small victory in the last 15 years of Nashville Pop.

Taylor Swift....country star or stripper? YOU DECIDE!

Actually, the roots of bad things being done to country goes back at least as far as Chet Atkins. Great guitarist, populist producer.

And, +1.

/Loves the Cash.
//Wanted to name son Cash.
///but 'Cash Millians' doesn't work vis-a-vis the standard mispronunciation of Millians, my wife noticed.

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Yellow Roses is great.

One of my favorites. I miss cool inlaid guitars, suits, and the "taco" cowboy hat.

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For your listening pleasure Link (new window)

specialk111: good ol' American Country music like Hank Snow

Nova Scotia.

/Oh this is the place where the fishermen gather
Oil-skins and boots and the Cape hands batten down;
All sizes of figures with squid lines and jiggers,
They congregate here on the Squid Jiggin' Ground.

If anyone on Fark actually listened to pop country, would they admit it?

barefoot in the head: specialk111: good ol' American Country music like Hank Snow

Nova Scotia.

/Oh this is the place where the fishermen gather
Oil-skins and boots and the Cape hands batten down;
All sizes of figures with squid lines and jiggers,
They congregate here on the Squid Jiggin' Ground.

Not familiar with that one, but I do love me some Natalie McMaster, from Nova Scotia. Hot fiddler, hot dancer, just downright hot.

superspeck: If anyone on Fark actually listened to pop country, would they admit it?

Those people don't know how to operate newfangled contraptions like the cornputer. They're too busy picking ticks off each other anyway.

/Brad Paisley, please shut up and just play the guitar...

carmody: The bulk of pop country up to about 1975 was great. The bulk ever since has been ghastly horse manure.

Lefty Frizzell, Webb Pierce, all the Hanks (Snow, Williams, Garland, Locklin, etc.), Faron Young, Ferlin Husky, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Wanda Jackson, Loretta Lynn, Carl Smith, Little Jimmy Dickens, June Carter, Porter Wagoner, Jim Reeves, Chet Atkins, Buck Owens and all the other good ones FTW.

If you like those guys, you should also check out, Dale Watson, Wayne "The Train" Hancock, Eleven Hundred Springs, Two Tons of Steel, Justin Trevino, The Derailers, Boys named Sue. These are just a few of the next generation of artist keeping country music alive.

CDP: carmody: The bulk of pop country up to about 1975 was great. The bulk ever since has been ghastly horse manure.

Lefty Frizzell, Webb Pierce, all the Hanks (Snow, Williams, Garland, Locklin, etc.), Faron Young, Ferlin Husky, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Wanda Jackson, Loretta Lynn, Carl Smith, Little Jimmy Dickens, June Carter, Porter Wagoner, Jim Reeves, Chet Atkins, Buck Owens and all the other good ones FTW.

If you like those guys, you should also check out, Dale Watson, Wayne "The Train" Hancock, Eleven Hundred Springs, Two Tons of Steel, Justin Trevino, The Derailers, Boys named Sue. These are just a few of the next generation of artist keeping country music alive.

Thanks for the tip. Just downloaded Wayne Hancock "That's What Daddy Wants"

CDP: If you like those guys, you should also check out, Dale Watson, Wayne "The Train" Hancock, Eleven Hundred Springs, Two Tons of Steel, Justin Trevino, The Derailers, Boys named Sue. These are just a few of the next generation of artist keeping country music alive.

Dale Watson is a farkin' genius. Also, as long as we're rattling off names, I love Junior Brown. And Dave Alvin is my perennial choice for best guitar player, of the non-flashy pure tone sort, and he's a heckuva songwriter too.

In general, look for a radio station labeled as 'Americana' as you stand a good chance of hearing actual country music made by younger folk.

/help me merle, i'm breaking out in a nashville rash.

millia: CDP: If you like those guys, you should also check out, Dale Watson, Wayne "The Train" Hancock, Eleven Hundred Springs, Two Tons of Steel, Justin Trevino, The Derailers, Boys named Sue. These are just a few of the next generation of artist keeping country music alive.

Dale Watson is a farkin' genius. Also, as long as we're rattling off names, I love Junior Brown. And Dave Alvin is my perennial choice for best guitar player, of the non-flashy pure tone sort, and he's a heckuva songwriter too.

In general, look for a radio station labeled as 'Americana' as you stand a good chance of hearing actual country music made by younger folk.

/help me merle, i'm breaking out in a nashville rash.

"How can you grow when you rip your root out of the ground" ~ Dale Watson

Check out the Knitters is you like Dave Alvin.
First saw Dave play with The Blasters back in 1984. It was a Right after Hollywood fats died and he filled in for the show. I have not missed a show since then.

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1100 Springs! Hell Yes!

I love 70s country. It reminds me of when I was a kid.
Good stuff. There's not much difference between a greasy blues suffle and TX swing.


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I've seen Junior and his guit-steel a few times. Good fun. And Dave Alvin's been around for ever. He played a summer concert series here in Philly for a few years in a row in the 90's, after the Blasters years. I would have loved to have caught the Knitters. And didn't Dave produce The Derailers?

As far as the "Americana" genre, I was a big Uncle Tupelo fan, and still like Son Volt. Wilco, not so much. A great local band that has toured nationally a few times and just released a new disc is Frog Holler, out of Lancaster County, PA

We got both kinds of music in here...

13ish... (lost count)

rbaron71: Wow...love for Hank Snow on Fark.

Every once in a blue moon we get things right. :)

CDP:

TWO TONS!!
/you officially rock

OK I didn't read the whole thing but my votes go for

James McMurtry
Hank III
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Bleu Edmondson (click it now)

The Hank Snow Country Music Centre (new window) is in an old train station. How cool is that?

JB Beverly and the Wayward Drifters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckuYLGdwpj0&feature=related

Drive-By Truckers

best one I could find (new window)

there are more. Hank III

Derwood: Drive-By Truckers

This...also Corb Lund (new window)

/Worked a farm and ranch show when I was with CFCW beside a giant Hank Snow statue

another (new window) Dix in cixie

Jimmy Mac too (new window)We can't make it here anymore

And Steve Earle (new window)

More Steve Earle (new window)

theewhiterhino: barefoot in the head: specialk111: good ol' American Country music like Hank Snow

Nova Scotia.

/Oh this is the place where the fishermen gather
Oil-skins and boots and the Cape hands batten down;
All sizes of figures with squid lines and jiggers,
They congregate here on the Squid Jiggin' Ground.

Not familiar with that one, but I do love me some Natalie McMaster, from Nova Scotia. Hot fiddler, hot dancer, just downright hot.

Squid Jiggin' Ground is an old one of Hank's, not written by him. I still have the 78, along with the rest of my dad's collection. He loved that tune.

Another local fave, Ridley Bent (new window)

And how I forgot Fred Eaglesmith I don't know.
As for general quality, I've never heard a bad record on the Hightone record label.

/i wore out two copies of the 1st Knitters record
//and the CD is horribly horribly mastered, alas.
///and saw them in Atlanta! w00t!

Neko Case anyone?

Please +1 me to the list.

I'm not sure why Nashville is going the direction it is, but it really is depressing.

Thanks everyone for the suggested music.

James McMurtry? Huh.
Bob Wills FTW.
Plus, Alvin Crow, Ray Benson, and George Strait... a real cowboy.