Stick it in her pooper and not return her calls?

it seems the country music industry is doing to Taylor Swift what John Mayer and the Kennedy kid did

Which would be what, exactly?

Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert are fantastic and deserve those awards. Taylor Swift has won a ton of awards and probably will win a ton more in the future, so let's not get carried away.

SlothB77: Swift may be a good songwriter, but she is far from the best country vocalist or the best live show.

/also, i believe subby was going with 'The CMA's, John Mayer and the Kennedy kid all left her empty handed'. No rock. No stone. No medal. No award.

I was thinking the pooper thing.

gameshowhost: spelletrader: Stick it in her pooper and not return her calls?

Jerk off on her tits and make her clean the bathroom?

Tell her she's like a 10 year old boy and make her mow the lawn?

Peeing on her?

Do what now?

Country, My Ass!

exick: NuttierThanEver: now if she gets shut out next year then I will believe that the Country music elite are tired of her teen angst country-pop songs

If that is the case, they should just shut down the CMAs completely because country music is literally a neverending minefield of angst and sorrow. I'm not much of a fan of country, but I do listen to it on occasion and I'll be the first to tell you that adult angst country-pop songs aren't any more tolerable than their teen counterparts.

Much of country music is a catalog of the causality and condition of arrested development.

The CMAs strapped a dildo on her and made her peg an awards show?

TrainingWheelsNeeded: SlothB77: Swift may be a good songwriter, but she is far from the best country vocalist or the best live show.

/also, i believe subby was going with 'The CMA's, John Mayer and the Kennedy kid all left her empty handed'. No rock. No stone. No medal. No award.

I was thinking the pooper thing.

Gonna have to clean the santorum off

The CMAs made her blow them and spit it back in their mouth?

Not nearly enough love for the Zac Brown Band last night either. I was disappointed. Those guys are some of the most talented musicians working in any genre right now.

Hahaha, I get it subby, you're trying to say that the ACM farked her. The only problem with that is it implies that she should have won but got cheated, when in fact that vacuous twit got exactly what she deserved. She has absolutely no talent or skill as a vocalist or a performer or a songwriter, but she has this cute "girl next door" look to her so she gets to make millions of dollars. Personally I see her popularity among younger people as a sign that the younger generation has severely low standards.

/get off my lawn

The CMAs writhed all over her for a half hour, failed to become erect and then moped around the house all evening before muttering something about having to get up early, kissing her lightly on the cheek, avoiding eye contact and driving home without even turning on the radio so it could hear the sound of failure rushing by in the night air?

So she's going to write a trite, bubbly yet angry song about the CMAs?

2words1finger: She has absolutely no talent or skill as a vocalist or a performer or a songwriter, but she has this cute "girl next door" look to her so she gets to make millions of dollars.

Unlike which "country" star of today? It sure as hell isn't the karaoke game show winner they keep trotting out.

Country music nowadays is just regurgitated pop music with a steel guitar-twang and an incredibly transparently fake "just plain folks" vibe.

Whenever I hear some guy (or gal) with a net-worth in the tens of millions singing about the trials and tribulations of "living in a double-wide", part of my soul dies.

This shocks you, subby? Taylor belongs in country as much as GZA belongs in reggae.


She is,however,adept at:

This cuddly, Taylor Swift-shiat has to stop. It's not real country music.



Kick ass!

There is a country music singer named Mac McAnally? Really? No picked up on this?

WhippingBoy: Country music nowadays is just regurgitated pop music with a steel guitar-twang and an incredibly transparently fake "just plain folks" vibe.

Whenever I hear some guy (or gal) with a net-worth in the tens of millions singing about the trials and tribulations of "living in a double-wide", part of my soul dies.

Snoop Dogg got nominated. And Lionel Richie. And the Civil Wars. Taylor wasn't even the least-country person there last night. Country can't hang on to banjos and twang forever. That's just how music is going these days. Genres have gotten tossed in a blender and set to 'frappe'. Country is no different. People sing what they like, and as a result, the most popular country singer in the world drops dubstep on everyone and calls it one of her favorite tracks on the album.

 

"Or what? You'll light my country music award on fire?"

HKWolf: There is a country music singer named Mac McAnally? Really? No picked up on this?

I picked up on this. How is this possible? Could that actually be his real name? If it's not, why would you choose it.

It sounds like a horrible McDonald's character.

Wellon Dowd: This cuddly, Taylor Swift-shiat has to stop. It's not real country music.

Agreed:


Real Country

Real Country

Good Pop Country

Blowmonkey: HKWolf: There is a country music singer named Mac McAnally? Really? No picked up on this?

I picked up on this. How is this possible? Could that actually be his real name? If it's not, why would you choose it.

It sounds like a horrible McDonald's character.

the Kennedy kid

I'm pretty sure he changed that to Anderson.

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HKWolf: There is a country music singer named Mac McAnally? Really? No picked up on this?

dude...Mac is one of the best songwriters alive. He is a lead member of Jimmy Buffett's band. Read up on the dude.

Tom_Slick: Good Pop Country

I swear to whatever unholy deity is listening that if I go into one more farking bar where some fat swamp donkey plays that god damn song on the jukebox or sings it for karaoke I'm barring the doors and starting a Sambuca fire.

Hey Taylor, write a song without starting every line with the word "he" and then get back to us. Until then, walk away you whining, prissy biatch.

MightyPez: I swear to whatever unholy deity is listening that if I go into one more farking bar where some fat swamp donkey plays that god damn song on the jukebox or sings it for karaoke I'm barring the doors and starting a Sambuca fire.

It was a good song, I should have said, over play did kill it, but it was the first decent pop country song that I could think of.

Taylor Swift always looks like she's staring at the sun.

monoski: TrainingWheelsNeeded: SlothB77: Swift may be a good songwriter, but she is far from the best country vocalist or the best live show.

/also, i believe subby was going with 'The CMA's, John Mayer and the Kennedy kid all left her empty handed'. No rock. No stone. No medal. No award.

I was thinking the pooper thing.

Gonna have to clean the santorum off

Isn't that what the drapes are for?

Abe Vigoda's Ghost: [25.media.tumblr.com image 468x427]

Taylor Swift giving head to the invisible man

Apparently the Invisible Man is hung like red bull can.

2words1finger: Personally I see her popularity among younger people as a sign that the younger generation has severely low standards.

I suspect you let your subscription to Tiger Beat magazine lapse.

EyeballKid: Country, My Ass!


Agrees

No mention of Jackson Taylor, Shooter Jennings, Kyle Park, Aaron Watson, Blackberry Smoke, Dale Watson, Hoss Howard and so forth goes to prove that not only has the Opry sinner, Nashville couldn't find country if it drove a train down Music Row.

Sweet jeebus - if you're not sick of taylor swift already, I don't know what to tell you.

spelletrader: Stick it in her pooper and not return her calls?

Hit her on the head with a woody?

Or was it a wedge?

Raug the Dwarf: Zac Brown Band


I'll second that.

But still....Mac McAnally? The name is just....it's something he probably should have changed long ago. Oh and i'm sure he's never been teased about it. No way.

Give Taylor the ole' Eiffel Tower?

The Muthaship: She doesn't get over sh*t.

Bunny Boiler

Back in the day you had do prison time (or at least pretend you did) and be a Level 5 alcoholic with 4 ex wives before you were "country".

At least that is what all the songs led me to believe.

/my lawn, it has a pickup and old dog on it.

Smeggy Smurf: EyeballKid: Country, My Ass!

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Agrees

No mention of Jackson Taylor, Shooter Jennings, Kyle Park, Aaron Watson, Blackberry Smoke, Dale Watson, Hoss Howard and so forth goes to prove that not only has the Opry sinner, Nashville couldn't find country if it drove a train down Music Row.

I saw Dale a few weeks ago...

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UNF

Exactly the noise she made when we were doing it.
I need to use more duct tape, obviously.

She is never, ever, ever getting a CMA!

Psycoholic_Slag: Back in the day you had do prison time (or at least pretend you did) and be a Level 5 alcoholic with 4 ex wives before you were "country".

At least that is what all the songs led me to believe.

/my lawn, it has a pickup and old dog on it.

Obvious country song for that comment

vudukungfu: spelletrader: Stick it in her pooper and not return her calls?

Hit her on the head with a woody?

Oh and Humperdinck! Makes me think of Prince Humpdinck and Carol Kane chasing Billy Crystal around the hut yelling "HUMPERDINCK!".

/Humperdinck sounds dirty

vudukungfu: spelletrader: Stick it in her pooper and not return her calls?

Hit her on the head with a woody?

That thar is called a mushroom stamp.

Tom_Slick: Psycoholic_Slag: Back in the day you had do prison time (or at least pretend you did) and be a Level 5 alcoholic with 4 ex wives before you were "country".

At least that is what all the songs led me to believe.

/my lawn, it has a pickup and old dog on it.

Obvious country song for that comment

I was thinking more David Allen Coe:

"WELL, I WAS DRUNK THE DAY MY MOM GOT OUT OF PRISON
AND I WENT TO PICK HER UP IN THE RAIN
BUT BEFORE I COULD GET TO THE STATION IN MY PICKUP TRUCK
SHE GOT RUNNED OVER BY A DAMNED OLD TRAIN"

HKWolf: But still....Mac McAnally? The name is just....it's something he probably should have changed long ago. Oh and i'm sure he's never been teased about it. No way.

I have an uncle named Mac McCullough same thing. Some people enjoy giving their children alliterate names.

I don't know anything about Country music because I'm just a humble beaner, but...



This is Julie Ho or whatever, I'm sure I got her name wrong but if I was deaf I would totally love Country.

red5ish: I'm pretty sure that David Cassidy didn't give a rip about my opinion of him or his music and I'm pretty sure Taylor Swift doesn't either.

Good comparison. I don't give a damn about either's music but I will fap myself raw while looking at pictures of them.

red5ish: The Muthaship: red5ish: I'm sure she'll get over not winning anything at the CMA this year

You clearly haven't listened to any of her music. She doesn't get over sh*t.

You make a compelling point. (I laughed.)

A lot of folks in this thread seem to be missing another point, to wit, that they are nowhere to be found in Swift's target demographic, unless there are 'tweens and women under 18 with disposable income and iPods' among us Farkers.

As far back as I can remember there have been pop stars targeting the teeny bopper bubble gum market; I even remember resenting those pop stars in a petulant way when I was younger. I'm pretty sure that David Cassidy didn't give a rip about my opinion of him or his music and I'm pretty sure Taylor Swift doesn't either.

I believe the main reason Taylor Swift articles get posted on Fark is to give the community an opportunity to post pictures of her and make salacious comments, and I am totally OK with that. I do find comments that criticize her music a little tiresome as they typically are a display of misplaced outrage. It's like railing against romance novels.

Well said. And I'm only in this thread for the pictures and salacious comments.

Lando Lincoln: Her career is ruined forever. Pity her.

Forever ever ever?

Well I was drunk the day my mom got outta prison
and I went to pick her up in the rain
but before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
she got runned over by a damned old train


/you don't have to call me darlin, darlin.

Country Music my Ass.

Pop icons have a short shelf life by design. If I never hear about Taylor Swift again, I'll be ok. She's country music's Missy Elliot. I hope The Civil Wars have a long and fruitful career though.
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max_pooper: Smeggy Smurf: EyeballKid: Country, My Ass!

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Agrees

No mention of Jackson Taylor, Shooter Jennings, Kyle Park, Aaron Watson, Blackberry Smoke, Dale Watson, Hoss Howard and so forth goes to prove that not only has the Opry sinner, Nashville couldn't find country if it drove a train down Music Row.

I saw Dale a few weeks ago...

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I have to see Dale live. Or Wayne Hancock, or Junior Brown, or....

Eternal Virgin: I don't know anything about Country music because I'm just a humble beaner, but...

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This is Julie Ho or whatever, I'm sure I got her name wrong but if I was deaf I would totally love Country.

You might want to check out John Arthur Martinez or Freddy Fender. Two of the best Mexican country singers period.

babysealclubber: Country Music my Ass.

Americana is what country music should be. The Civil Wars, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Jason Isbell, The Mavericks, Alabama Shakes, Todd Snider, Slaid Cleaves. A lot of excellent music being made that isn't getting noticed

red5ish: Eternal Virgin: I don't know anything about Country music because I'm just a humble beaner, but...

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This is Julie Ho or whatever, I'm sure I got her name wrong but if I was deaf I would totally love Country.

Hate to be the one to break it to you but Julianne Hough is a Mormon, a Romney supporter, and has been dating Ryan Seacrest for the last 3 years. She is good looking but I find the above mentioned traits repellent.

Not everyone lets stupid shiat get in the way of spanking it to a hot chick. It'd be different if I actually had a shot at women like that, but since I don't, shiat like that doesn't matter in the least.

A coworker listens to the country station and I've noticed an awful lot of songs are about beer. But at some point doesn't even the biggest beer-chuggin moron begin to think, "Hey, am I being pandered to?"

I guess not.

red5ish: Eternal Virgin: I don't know anything about Country music because I'm just a humble beaner, but...

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This is Julie Ho or whatever, I'm sure I got her name wrong but if I was deaf I would totally love Country.

Hate to be the one to break it to you but Julianne Hough is a Mormon, a Romney supporter, and has been dating Ryan Seacrest for the last 3 years. She is good looking but I find the above mentioned traits repellent.

At least that means we might have something in common....

The Muthaship: theflatline: Coe wrote such timeless classics as

"Fark in the Butt"
"I am the man who made Linda Lovelace gag."
"He has to pay for what I get for Free"
"Don't bite the Dick that Feeds you"
"Masturbation Blues"
"Cum Stains on the Pillow"(about a boy and his dog)
"Itty Bitty Titties"

And a ton of others.

/loves me some david allen coe.

You left out all his White Power Ballads.


David Allen Coe used the N word like Rob Zombie uses "YEAH".

HKWolf: Mac

I came here to point that out too. Wow!

I love the farkers in this thread who think that country is exceptional in some way -

THE LYRICS ARE STUPID AND TRIVIAL - go back and listen to the Beatles' lyrics.

JOHNNY CASH IS REAL COUNTRY - how many songs did he actually write? A life of drug addiction does not somehow make you "real country"

THEY'RE NOT EVEN REAL COWBOYS - pssstttt - Ice Cube's average day does not involve using an AK-47. Never has. Dave Matthews does not have an actual satellite in his eyes.

THEY PLAY ON RACIAL STEREOTYPES - see Ice Cube comment above.

Wellon Dowd: This cuddly, Taylor Swift-shiat has to stop. It's not real country music.

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Kick ass!

Joe Pesci has aged pretty well.

Tim Hus. Good old Alberta country.

If Talyor Swift came up to me and proved that in order to save the lives of 16 orphan toddlers I would have to defeat her in hand to hand combat of her choosing, I would reluctantly punch her in the face repeatedly until she was utterly defeated, praying that she wouldn't suffer a debilitating head injury resulting in blindness or memory loss.

Then I would feel bad, yet relieved. Also timidly hopeful that none of the spared toddlers would become the next Hitler.

/for the children

No CMA award? That's as it should be. Swift is not exactly going to be mistaken for Loretta Lynn or Crystal Gayle. If she's won anything in the past, that's worth getting upset about, maybe.

MorePeasPlease: If Talyor Swift came up to me and proved that in order to save the lives of 16 orphan toddlers I would have to defeat her in hand to hand combat ....

that is as far as she would get before being fisted to death.

Wellon Dowd: red5ish: I'm pretty sure that David Cassidy didn't give a rip about my opinion of him or his music and I'm pretty sure Taylor Swift doesn't either.

Good comparison. I don't give a damn about either's music but I will fap myself raw while looking at pictures of them.

Yah, I don't know if I've ever heard a complete song by either of them, but I hate to think what evil I would be willing to do in order to be the meat in a Taylor Swift/Faith Hill sandwich.

/yeah, I have a "type". Sue me

I'm thinking the number of country songs in existence that could be described as "epic" or "masterpiece" is somewhere in the neighborhood of 0-2.

browntimmy: I'm thinking the number of country songs in existence that could be described as "epic" or "masterpiece" is somewhere in the neighborhood of 0-2.

Then you're a pretentious ass. Just about anything by Townes Van Zandt could be described as a masterpiece. An that's not counting Hank Williams, M

Merle

browntimmy: I'm thinking the number of country songs in existence that could be described as "epic" or "masterpiece" is somewhere in the neighborhood of 0-2.

"Whiskey River" puts the number at > 1

Sapper_Topo: tnpir: Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert are fantastic and deserve those awards

I honestly thought Jason Aldean deserved it more than Blake but I have to admit seeing Blak and Miranda so farked up was refreshing. Blake even admitted he was trashed. It gave me new found respect for him.

Agreed - that was pretty funny. But then, I've been a Blake Shelton fan since "Some Beach" so I was pretty happy for him.

FLMountainMan: A life of drug addiction does not somehow make you "real country"


It is sufficient grounds to call yourself a musician, though.


/gonna write a song called "Acid 'n' Bennies" as soon as my pen stops breathing purple-scented bubbles.

Crewmannumber6: Merle

Buck freaking Owens

dletter: I mean, you are going to tell me "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" is a country song?

Some people think I Will Wait for You by Mumford and Sons belongs on rock radio, so maybe....

dletter: Is she even really country anymore? I mean, you are going to tell me "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" is a country song? In that case, I am incensed that Katy Perry didn't even get nominated for any CMAs!

Although, it did give us the very good Breaking Bad parody of the song/video... Link

Pretty much this, but I prefer the parody by The Key of Awesome.

She puts out an album that has a bunch of pop and dance tunes on it, and doesn't win any country music awards !? I'm speechless.

/Public Enemy was robbed of the 1988 best Rock/Metal performance grammy !!!!

dletter: Is she even really country anymore? I mean, you are going to tell me "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" is a country song? In that case, I am incensed that Katy Perry didn't even get nominated for any CMAs!

Country music in the sense of the CMAs or the radio is a marketing term referring loosely to the target audience of the product. It doesn't actually have anything to do with the content or the composition of the music itself. Same as Rock or Urban, for instance. Or Pop. It's entirely possible for a given song to work in two or more such categories at once, it's not like, say, Blues, where a song is or isn't Blues based on whether it uses the 0/5/7 chord progression and its subcategory is based on quantitative factors like whether a steel guitar or acoustic is used, etc.

//And, yes, a song with a specific musical category (blues, bluegrass, rap, electro, etc) can often also belong to one or more marketing categories (country, rock, pop). I'm also not down on the industry for preferring the latter, I would kind of question any industry that wasn't more focused on who is buying the product than the details of its design.

Ow! That was my feelings!: Well we're losing all the outlaws
that had to stand their ground
and they're being replaced by these kids
from a manufactured town
And they don't have no idea
about sorrow and woe
'Cause they're all just too damn busy
kissin' ass on Music Row

So I'm here to put the "dick" in Dixie
and the "coont" back in country
'Cause the kind of country I hear nowdays
is a bunch of farkin' shiat to me
And they say that I'm ill-mannered
that I'm gonna self-destruct
But if you know what I'm thinkin'
you'll know that pop country really sucks

And if you know what I'm thinkin'
you'll know that pop country really sucks

You better watch out, man. Once the country DJs know that you're an outlaw, they'll never come to see you in this dive...

//Kinda fond of this genre, heh.

SirDigbyChickenCaesar: Well I was drunk the day my mom got outta prison
and I went to pick her up in the rain
but before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
she got runned over by a damned old train


/you don't have to call me darlin, darlin.

and not it's officially a country song

/welcome to Willie's Roadhouse

Do you know what you get when you play country music backwards?

You get your wife back, your horse back, your dog back....

Kurmudgeon: dletter: I mean, you are going to tell me "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" is a country song?

Some people think I Will Wait for You by Mumford and Sons belongs on rock radio, so maybe....

Yup. Hell, I work for a Hot A/C station and we're playing Mumford and Taylor. I love Mumford but they in no way fit our format.

monoski: TrainingWheelsNeeded: SlothB77: Swift may be a good songwriter, but she is far from the best country vocalist or the best live show.

/also, i believe subby was going with 'The CMA's, John Mayer and the Kennedy kid all left her empty handed'. No rock. No stone. No medal. No award.

I was thinking the pooper thing.

Gonna have to clean the santorum monoski off

ftftrou

red5ish: Eternal Virgin: I don't know anything about Country music because I'm just a humble beaner, but...

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This is Julie Ho or whatever, I'm sure I got her name wrong but if I was deaf I would totally love Country.

Hate to be the one to break it to you but Julianne Hough is a Mormon, a Romney supporter, and has been dating Ryan Seacrest for the last 3 years. She is good looking but I find the above mentioned traits repellent.

That's because you're a bigot.

So much for your vaunted 'liberal tolerance'.

Didn't watch the CMA; any mention of (songwriter) Bill Dees who passed away a few days back?

Flipping through the channels last night I stumbled upon the CMA's for a few minutes to see this song about "moterboatin' on a pontoon" being performed by some contrived Disney-looking vocal quartet. It was so pandering and phoney, it looked like a Christoper Guest parody.

Wrote some of Jason Aldeans hits, still wins nothing.

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browntimmy: I'm thinking the number of country songs in existence that could be described as "epic" or "masterpiece" is somewhere in the neighborhood of 0-2.

He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
The Gambler - Kenny Rogers
Good Hearted Woman - Waylon Jennings

and most important of all:
This Cowboy's Hat - Chris Ledoux

Seven Spanish Angels - Willie Nelson and Ray Charles
Pancho and Lefty - Willie Nelson
Lonesome Dove - Michael Martin Murphy

Maybe she'll write a song about the failed relationship between her and the CMA.

Prey4reign: Maybe she'll write a song about the failed relationship between her and the CMA.

DAC already cut Pussy Whipped Again

GRCooper: browntimmy: I'm thinking the number of country songs in existence that could be described as "epic" or "masterpiece" is somewhere in the neighborhood of 0-2.

"Whiskey River" puts the number at > 1

erm, "> than 0". I'm a tard. Since I owe one or two:

"El Paso"
"Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain"
"Rocky Top"
"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
"Kentucky Rain"
"Green, Green Grass of Home"
"Help Me Make It Through the Night"

/and I'm not even a country fan

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She has filled out quite nicely, and she's getting just old enough that I don't feel quite as creepy for noticing.

Taylor, I have some hardware you can take home, it just needs a warm moist place to display it.

FLMountainMan: I love the farkers in this thread who think that country is exceptional in some way -

THE LYRICS ARE STUPID AND TRIVIAL - go back and listen to the Beatles' lyrics.

JOHNNY CASH IS REAL COUNTRY - how many songs did he actually write? A life of drug addiction does not somehow make you "real country"

THEY'RE NOT EVEN REAL COWBOYS - pssstttt - Ice Cube's average day does not involve using an AK-47. Never has. Dave Matthews does not have an actual satellite in his eyes.

THEY PLAY ON RACIAL STEREOTYPES - see Ice Cube comment above.

It sounds exceptionally bad. Give me anything Johnny Cash wrote over anything that a country radio station has played in the past 25 years.

red5ish: Hate to be the one to break it to you but Julianne Hough is a Mormon, a Romney supporter, and has been dating Ryan Seacrest for the last 3 years. She is good looking but I find the above mentioned traits repellent.

People like you are the reason the words "liberal tolerance" is becoming an oxymoron. Your kind are the most close-minded, petty, immature people there are. You only tolerate those who have the same exact views as yourself and loudly insult those who don't.

I'm conservative and the love of my life is practically a communist. We strongly disagree on a lot of issues but in the end what matters is how we love each other.

Jamdug!: She really takes the 'O' out of 'Country'.

And puts it into her "OH" face.

FLMountainMan: how many songs did he actually write?

Writer(s) Johnny Cash

Katy Too
I Walk the Line
Big River
Cry! Cry! Cry!
Don't Take Your Guns to Town
Flesh and Blood (Johnny Cash song)
The Folk Singer
Folsom Prison Blues
Get Rhythm
Hey, Porter
Home of the Blues
I Still Miss Someone
The Man Comes Around
Man in Black
The Matador
So Doggone Lonesome
Tennessee Flat Top Box
Understand Your Man
What Is Truth

That is from a fast Google search.

Kuroshin: Hey now, there's tolerance, then there's "used to date Ryan Seacrest" tolerance. Somethings just can't be overlooked.



Touché

Smeggy Smurf: browntimmy: I'm thinking the number of country songs in existence that could be described as "epic" or "masterpiece" is somewhere in the neighborhood of 0-2.

He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
The Gambler - Kenny Rogers
Good Hearted Woman - Waylon Jennings

and most important of all:
This Cowboy's Hat - Chris Ledoux



128 "King Of The Road" - Roger Miller
127 "Lonesome On'ry and Mean" - Waylon Jennings
126 "Blood Red And Goin' Down" - Tanya Tucker
125 "Candy Kisses" - George Morgan
124 "Orange Blossom Special" - Johnny Cash
123 "Take This Job and Shove It" - Johnny Paycheck
122 "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" - Eddy Arnold
121 "18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses" - Kathy Mattea
120 "Rose Garden (aka I Never Promised You A Rose Garden)" - Lynn Anderson
119 "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" - David Allen Coe
118 "Why Don't Ya Love Me" - Hank Williams, Sr.
117 "Country Bumpkin" - Cal Smith
116 "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" - Mary Chapin Carpenter
115 "Blue Suede Shoes" - Carl Perkins
114 "Amarillo By Morning" - George Strait
113 "North To Alaska" - Johnny Horton
112 "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind" - George Strait
111 "I'm Not Lisa" - Jessi Colter
110 "If You've Got The Money, I've Got The Time" - Lefty Frizzell
109 "The Gambler" - Kenny Rogers
108 "Silver Medals, and Sweet Memories" - Statler Brothers
107 "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?" - Waylon Jennings
106 "Lookin' At The World Through a Windshield" - Del Reeves
105 "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere" - Dwight Yoakam
104 "Walkin' After Midnight" - Patsy Cline
103 "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" - Hank Williams, Sr.
102 "Tennessee River" - Alabama
101 "Giddyup Go" - Red Sovine
100 "Wildwood Flower" - The Carter Family
99 "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" - Tammy Wynette
98 "Cool Water" - Bob Nolan & The Sons Of The Pioneers
97 "What a Difference You've Made In My Life" - Ronnie Milsap
96 "Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone" - Charley Pride
95 "Sweet Dreams" - Patsy Cline
94 "Long Black Veil" - Lefty Frizzell
93 "Linda On My Mind" - Conway Twitty
92 "Phantom 309″ - Red Sovine
91 "There Goes My Everything" - Jack Greene
90 "Kaw-Liga" - Hank Williams, Sr.
89 "You Don't Even Know Who I Am" - Patty Loveless
88 "Cold, Cold Heart" - Hank Williams, Sr
87 "The Year That Clayton Delaney Died" - Tom T. Hall
86 "I Need You" - Sonny James
85 "Uncle Pen" - Bill Monroe
84 "There's No Getting Over Me" - Ronnie Milsap
83 "Behind Closed Doors" - Charlie Rich
82 "It Must Be Love" - Don Williams
81 "Seven Year Ache" - Rosanne Cash
80 "Silver Wings" - Merle Haggard
79 "You Are My Sunshine" - Jimmie Davis
78 "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed" - Barbara Mandrell
77 "Harper Valley P.T.A." - Jeannie C. Riley
76 "Luckenbach, Texas" - Waylon Jennings
75 "She's Got You" - Patsy Cline
74 "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" - Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings
73 "Lead Me On" - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
72 "Jolene" - Dolly Parton
71 "I'm Movin' On" - Hank Snow
70 "Love in the Hot Afternoon" - Gene Watson
69 "Waltz Across Texas" - Ernest Tubb
68 "You've Never Been This Far Before" - Conway Twitty
67 "Help Me Make It Through The Night" - Sammi Smith
66 "Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)" - Travis Tritt
65 "Crazy Arms" - Ray Price
64 "Sunday Morning Comin' Down" - Johnny Cash
63. "Coca Cola Cowboy" - Mel Tillis
62 "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
61 "Pure Love" - Ronnie Milsap
60 "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain" - Willie Nelson
59 "Rocky Top" - The Osborne Brothers
58 "Okie From Muskogee" - Merle Haggard
57 "I Sang Dixie" - Dwight Yoakam
56 "Good-Hearted Woman" - Waylon Jennings
55 "Bouquet of Roses" - Eddy Arnold
54 "Here In The Real World" - Alan Jackson
53 "Hello Walls" - Faron Young
52 "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink" - Merle Haggard
51 "I Will Always Love You" - Dolly Parton
50 "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" - The Sons Of The Pioneers
49 "Anytime" - Eddy Arnold
48 "Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line" - Waylon Jennings
47 "Dreaming My Dreams With You" - Waylon Jennings
46 "Delta Dawn" - Tanya Tucker
45 "Hello Darlin'" - Conway Twitty
44 "Tight Fittin' Jeans" - Conway Twitty
43 "Chiseled In Stone" - Vern Gosdin
42 "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)" - Hank Williams, Sr.
41 "The Cattle Call" - Eddy Arnold
40 "The Battle of New Orleans" - Johnny Horton
39 "Wabash Cannonball" - Roy Acuff
38 "Suspicious Minds" - Elvis Presley
37 "Hey Good Lookin'" - Hank Williams, Sr
36. "Act Naturally" - Buck Owens
35 "Faded Love" - Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys
34 "How Can I Help You To Say Goodbye?" -
33 "Walking The Floor Over You - Ernest Tubb
32 "Coat Of Many Colors" - Dolly Parton
31 "Make The World Go Away" - Eddy Arnold
30 "Rainy Day Woman" - Waylon Jennings
29 "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels" - Kitty Wells
28 "I Can't Stop Loving You" - Don Gibson
27 "Tennessee Waltz" - Patti Page
26 "The Last Thing On My Mind" - Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton
25 "White Lightning" - George Jones
24 "For The Good Times" - Ray Price
23 "Ring of Fire" - Johnny Cash
22 "Jambalaya" - Hank Williams Sr.
21 "Stand By Your Man" - Tammy Wynette
20 "Tiger by the Tail" - Buck Owens
19 "Oh, Lonesome Me" - Don Gibson
18 "Always On My Mind" - Willie Nelson
17 "Old Dogs, Children, And Watermelon Wine" - Tom T Hall
16 "Coal Miner's Daughter" - Loretta Lynn
15 "Mama Tried" - Merle Haggard
14 "I Walk The Line" - Johnny Cash
13 "Workin' Man Blues" - Merle Haggard
12 "San Antonio Rose" - Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys
11 "Sixteen Tons" - Tennessee Ernie Ford
10 "Smokey Mountain Rain" - Ronnie Milsap
09 "He'll Have To Go" - Jim Reeves
08 "Lovesick Blues" - Hank Williams, Sr.
07 "Today I Started Loving You Again" - Merle Haggard
06 "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" - Hank Williams, Sr.
05 "El Paso" - Marty Robbins
04 "I Fall To Pieces" - Patsy Cline
03 "Your Cheatin' Heart" - Hank Williams, Sr.
02 "Crazy" - Patsy Cline
01 "He Stopped Loving Her Today" - George Jones


What can I say? My mother was almost all country (and my father was quite a bit rock and roll).

/and no, neither were Latter-Day Saints.

Meant to add:

If country radio actually played any of the above songs (or, hell, artists) more than once every 8 months (if at all) I'd listen to it. But it doesn't*, so I won't.

I've a few people around me who DO choose to listen to it full time and tell me these things. All I hear on the extremely rare occasions when I'm exposed to it is mediocre-at-best pop music with an occasional all-but-subliminal hint of steel guitar and/or fiddle and/or mandolin used for "flavoring".

*I've a few...

The Muthaship: theflatline: Coe wrote such timeless classics as

"Fark in the Butt"
"I am the man who made Linda Lovelace gag."
"He has to pay for what I get for Free"
"Don't bite the Dick that Feeds you"
"Masturbation Blues"
"Cum Stains on the Pillow"(about a boy and his dog)
"Itty Bitty Titties"

And a ton of others.

/loves me some david allen coe.

You left out all his White Power Ballads.

Fortunately he doesn't do those anymore. They do however still his X rated stuff at his shows. I saw him in concert last year and they basically had to wheel him on stage. He put on a good show, though it only lasted an hour.



Also...

"And if that ain't 'Country', I'll kiss your ass.
If that ain't 'country', it'll hair-lip the Pope.
If that ain't 'country', it's a damn good joke.
I've seen the Grand Ol' Opry, and I've met Johnny Cash.
If that ain't 'Country', I'll kiss your ass."

Pandora's Litterbox: Meant to add:

If country radio actually played any of the above songs (or, hell, artists) more than once every 8 months (if at all) I'd listen to it. But it doesn't*, so I won't.

I've a few people around me who DO choose to listen to it full time and tell me these things. All I hear on the extremely rare occasions when I'm exposed to it is mediocre-at-best pop music with an occasional all-but-subliminal hint of steel guitar and/or fiddle and/or mandolin used for "flavoring".

I'm not sure how you feel about Clear Channel, but the I heart Radio app has a pretty good "Roots of Country Music" station.

Pandora's Litterbox: Meant to add:

If country radio actually played any of the above songs (or, hell, artists) more than once every 8 months (if at all) I'd listen to it. But it doesn't*, so I won't.

I've a few people around me who DO choose to listen to it full time and tell me these things. All I hear on the extremely rare occasions when I'm exposed to it is mediocre-at-best pop music with an occasional all-but-subliminal hint of steel guitar and/or fiddle and/or mandolin used for "flavoring".

Since EVERY radio station is now on the internet, I highly recommend WNKU, public radio based in Northern Kentucky University. They don't play classic country, but they do play new Americana, and I have heard more good new music there than anywhere else lately.

And Townes Van Zandt wrote Waitin' Round To Die when he was 15. FIFTEEN.
Link

If your song makes an old black man cry, then you've got something special.

GameSprocket: Pandora's Litterbox: Meant to add:

If country radio actually played any of the above songs (or, hell, artists) more than once every 8 months (if at all) I'd listen to it. But it doesn't*, so I won't.

I've a few people around me who DO choose to listen to it full time and tell me these things. All I hear on the extremely rare occasions when I'm exposed to it is mediocre-at-best pop music with an occasional all-but-subliminal hint of steel guitar and/or fiddle and/or mandolin used for "flavoring".

I'm not sure how you feel about Clear Channel, but the I heart Radio app has a pretty good "Roots of Country Music" station.

I have a channel on Pandora for Iris DeMent It also plays a lot of Emmylou Harris and the like. Dwight Yoakam channel is also good.

I'm more of a Joe Ely-BR549-Webb Wilder-Jayhawks-Trent Summar-John Hiatt-Southern Culture On The Skids kinda country listener myself. Awards shows are nothing more than a circle jerk of "industry" wankers congratulating each other for peddling millions of "units" of watered-down fake tripe that glorifies stupidity to people who don't know better.

This is country

This is country

This is country

This is country

And even this... is more country that most of garbage you hear on the radio. Not to mention, just better in general.

A lot of the mass market "country" these days glorifies being an idiot, which I'm not a fan of. And Taylor Swift is as "country" like Britney Spears.

Also, I want to punch anyone who raps in a country song, right square in the yambag.

It is at least a positive thing Miranda Lambert won something rather than another pop tart. At least she has a measure of actual talent.

And Taylor Swift is as "country" like Britney Spears.

LOL. Nice sentence structure. Shoulda proofread.

Ryan Bingham is the real deal
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So is Slaid Cleaves
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Some day...
I'll be...
Well no, my songs'll still sound shiatty...

A little disappointed no one has given Gillian Welch any love yet (David Rawlings is an amazing musician)
Link

Old Crow Medicine Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKupUCL0fgw

Next year my debut single, Smells Like Pig shiat, will put me on stage at the CMAs. I'll be the one wearing the cowboy hat, boots and giant belt buckle. And nothing else!!

evilgreg: Love some old country-western. Been enjoying the song names and lists.

Don't think anyone's mentioned "Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (if I Die)" - Joe (somebody?). Awesome song to drink to.

Just remember that I like blondes...

Joe Diffie..I have that CD, good stuff.

/Yes I own CDs (though I havent bought a new one in like 10 years)
//Darn kids and their Itunas

GibbyTheMole: And Taylor Swift is as "country" like Britney Spears.

I dunno, Britney's life pretty much is a country song.

More OCMS (Alabama Hightest)
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Carolina Chocolate Drops - Hit Em Up Style
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Crewmannumber6: babysealclubber: Country Music my Ass.

Americana is what country music should be. The Civil Wars, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Jason Isbell, The Mavericks, Alabama Shakes, Todd Snider, Slaid Cleaves. A lot of excellent music being made that isn't getting noticed

This. I cannot figure out why what's played on the radio is considered 'country' now with a bigass big hat big pick up truck cowboy attitude when it sounds like country pop- super manufactured pop at that.

Meh.

/too skinny

ambercat: Crewmannumber6: babysealclubber: Country Music my Ass.

Americana is what country music should be. The Civil Wars, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Jason Isbell, The Mavericks, Alabama Shakes, Todd Snider, Slaid Cleaves. A lot of excellent music being made that isn't getting noticed

This. I cannot figure out why what's played on the radio is considered 'country' now with a bigass big hat big pick up truck cowboy attitude when it sounds like country pop- super manufactured pop at that.

Stop waiting for mainstream country to be anything other than a factory pandering to the lowest common denominator. find the outlets devoted to quality and support them

Crewmannumber6: Stop waiting for mainstream country to be anything other than a factory pandering to the lowest common denominator. find the outlets devoted to quality and support them

I have you favorited in green as a Prog fan. Was I drunk that night or are your musical tastes actually that broad?

Anderson's Pooper: Crewmannumber6: Stop waiting for mainstream country to be anything other than a factory pandering to the lowest common denominator. find the outlets devoted to quality and support them

I have you favorited in green as a Prog fan. Was I drunk that night or are your musical tastes actually that broad?

Good music is good music regardless of genre. I'm not a big fan of metal, but I like Filter, not big on punk but like Fugazi. There's even one or two rap songs I like

Crewmannumber6: And Townes Van Zandt wrote Waitin' Round To Die when he was 15. FIFTEEN.
Link

Thanks for that one. I'm gonna have to get some Townes stuff. I never heard that one before. Awesome songwriter, pretty tragic life.

Crewmannumber6: Good music is good music regardless of genre. I'm not a big fan of metal, but I like Filter, not big on punk but like Fugazi. There's even one or two rap songs I like

I agree with the "good music" sentiment. Even if something's not my style, if the talent is there you have to respect it. It's wading through the oceans of crap to find the good stuff that's difficult.

My playlist includes prog, classic rock, show tunes, blues, jazz, classical and Wagnerian opera so I'm open to a lot of stuff. I've performed both instrumentally and vocally during college, mostly church stuff.

Living only 5 miles from Country Concert Central has led me to the conclusion that listening to country music actually makes you lose IQ points. Those folks just ain't bright.

One of these days we need to do a Fark party in Dayton. You and I need to split a pitcher or two.

I remember a review of the Ramones that went something like this: "It's your fourth album. At some point you need to learn how to play your instruments." Same deal with Taylor Swift. After enough he-done-me-wrong songs, you become a self-parody. You were brave enough to change your hair and make-up. Now grow up.

/Not that it matters. She can't sing. Miranda Lambert got fat, old-looking and preachy. I like to look at Kelli Pickler and Julianne Hough, but I expect their music is awful.

GibbyTheMole:

Also, I want to punch anyone who raps in a country song, right square in the yambag.


Actually, I am strangely okay with Gangstagrass. Though not so much your link, yes.

On The Run

Gunslinging Rambler

Carl Perkins was more rockabilly than country

I have to second OCMS, Gillian Welch, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Todd Snider, Townes Van Zandt.

Might I add:

Steve Earle
Link

(Yeah, I could have went with Copperhead Road or I Feel Alright, but this one from his pairing with the Del McCoury Band spoke to me)

Robert Earl Keen
Link

The Secret Sisters
Link
(The red head sister is hot)

Shooter Jennings
Link

Guy Clark
Link

Turnpike Troubadores
Link

Ryan Bingham
Link

Punch Brothers
Link

Not only do they great country, but they blow the doors off Bach!
Link

ambercat: GibbyTheMole:

Also, I want to punch anyone who raps in a country song, right square in the yambag.


Actually, I am strangely okay with Gangstagrass. Though not so much your link, yes.

On The Run

Gunslinging Rambler

No doubt, My favorite is their original -Long Hard Times to Come

I had long individual responses typed up and then my computer hiccuped and ate 'em so I'm just going to give a blanket thanks to the lion's share of the posters on page 4 for the new (and new-to-me) leads on both worthy practitioners of modern Americana/Alt. Country (or: what (IMO) is the only music being produced these days that's at all fit to be called "country.") and the means by which to be introduced to more of them.

Your efforts couldn't be more appreciated.

Smeggy Smurf: EyeballKid: Country, My Ass!

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Agrees

No mention of Jackson Taylor, Shooter Jennings, Kyle Park, Aaron Watson, Blackberry Smoke, Dale Watson, Hoss Howard and so forth goes to prove that not only has the Opry sinner, Nashville couldn't find country if it drove a train down Music Row.

ung. Dat picture. I think I just came in my pants. WOW. hawt rawr buh rawr

Pandora's Litterbox: Smeggy Smurf: browntimmy: I'm thinking the number of country songs in existence that could be described as "epic" or "masterpiece" is somewhere in the neighborhood of 0-2.

He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
The Gambler - Kenny Rogers
Good Hearted Woman - Waylon Jennings

and most important of all:
This Cowboy's Hat - Chris Ledoux



128 "King Of The Road" - Roger Miller
127 "Lonesome On'ry and Mean" - Waylon Jennings
126 "Blood Red And Goin' Down" - Tanya Tucker
125 "Candy Kisses" - George Morgan
124 "Orange Blossom Special" - Johnny Cash
123 "Take This Job and Shove It" - Johnny Paycheck
122 "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" - Eddy Arnold
121 "18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses" - Kathy Mattea
120 "Rose Garden (aka I Never Promised You A Rose Garden)" - Lynn Anderson
119 "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" - David Allen Coe
118 "Why Don't Ya Love Me" - Hank Williams, Sr.
117 "Country Bumpkin" - Cal Smith
116 "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" - Mary Chapin Carpenter
115 "Blue Suede Shoes" - Carl Perkins
114 "Amarillo By Morning" - George Strait
113 "North To Alaska" - Johnny Horton
112 "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind" - George Strait
111 "I'm Not Lisa" - Jessi Colter
110 "If You've Got The Money, I've Got The Time" - Lefty Frizzell
109 "The Gambler" - Kenny Rogers
108 "Silver Medals, and Sweet Memories" - Statler Brothers
107 "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?" - Waylon Jennings
106 "Lookin' At The World Through a Windshield" - Del Reeves
105 "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere" - Dwight Yoakam
104 "Walkin' After Midnight" - Patsy Cline
103 "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" - Hank Williams, Sr.
102 "Tennessee River" - Alabama
101 "Giddyup Go" - Red Sovine
100 "Wildwood Flower" - The Carter Family
99 "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" - Tammy Wynette
98 "Cool Water" - Bob Nolan & The Sons Of The Pioneers
97 "What a Difference You've Made In My Life" - Ronnie Milsap
96 "Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone" - Charley Pride
95 "Sweet Dreams" - Patsy Cline
...
I've decided to add some to your list.


I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - Stanley Brothers
Friends In Low Places - Garth Brooks
Panco and Lefty - Willy Nelson and Merle Haggard
Should've Been A Cowboy - Toby Keith
Long Black Train - Josh Turner
Highwaymen - The Highwayman
Guitars, Cadillacs - Dwight Yoakam
The House That Built Me - Miranda Lambert
Midnight in Montgomery - Alan Jackson
Mountain Music - Alabama
I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack
Go Rest High On That Mountain - Vince Gill
Here's a Quarter - Travis Tritt
Fishin' in the Dark - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

It's really too bad that every other country song that comes on the radio nowadays is about drinking, women, pickup trucks, or some combination of the 3.

Is there a more over-exposed singer out there right now?

Kuroshin: peterthx: red5ish: Hate to be the one to break it to you but Julianne Hough is a Mormon, a Romney supporter, and has been dating Ryan Seacrest for the last 3 years. She is good looking but I find the above mentioned traits repellent.

People like you are the reason the words "liberal tolerance" is becoming an oxymoron. Your kind are the most close-minded, petty, immature people there are. You only tolerate those who have the same exact views as yourself and loudly insult those who don't.

I'm conservative and the love of my life is practically a communist. We strongly disagree on a lot of issues but in the end what matters is how we love each other.

Hey now, there's tolerance, then there's "used to date Ryan Seacrest" tolerance. Somethings just can't be overlooked.

Yeah, but unless everybody on the planet has faulty gaydar, it's not like she's actually having sex with Ryan Seacrest. It's not like you'd catch any Ryan Seacrest germs from hooking up with her.

rynthetyn: Yeah, but unless everybody on the planet has faulty gaydar, it's not like she's actually having sex with Ryan Seacrest. It's not like you'd catch any Ryan Seacrest germs from hooking up with her.

Apparently, you can catch kale germs, though.

AmericanEagle: ambercat: GibbyTheMole:

Also, I want to punch anyone who raps in a country song, right square in the yambag.


Actually, I am strangely okay with Gangstagrass. Though not so much your link, yes.

On The Run

Gunslinging Rambler

No doubt, My favorite is their original -Long Hard Times to Come

I like that one too, but I thought people might know that as 'the theme to Justified'. Because I just assume nothing is obscure on fark.

I'm compelled to post few more songs without rap on them....some of which I can't post from youtube because they have no youtube. But I'm sure that's still not too obscure for fark, right? RIGHT. Okay.

American Anodyne- Call My Brother

Oriole Post - New London

The Grisly Hand - Western Ave

Kane - Whiskey In Mind I can feel you judging me but it's catchy, dammit

And finally, more of a singer-songwriter-folk-country guy but still more country than Taylor, so...not everyone's cup of tea, but Jonathan Byrd - Diana Jones and May The River Run Dry, and Jonathan Byrd and Chris Kokesh - I Was An Oak Tree

ambercat & AmericanEagle Your newsletter... I would like to subscribe to it.

Crewmannumber6: Ryan Bingham is the real deal
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So is Slaid Cleaves
Link

I love this Slaid Cleaves song.

Link

Because I'm at work and can't go to youtube:

Sons of Bill - Broken Bottles
- Joey's Arm

Griffin House - Live to be Free
- Remember (It's Happening Again)

Almost forgot a truly classic country song: Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice".

Link

/fo shizzle
//no really, fo shizzle. Check it out.

Anderson's Pooper: Crewmannumber6: Good music is good music regardless of genre. I'm not a big fan of metal, but I like Filter, not big on punk but like Fugazi. There's even one or two rap songs I like

I agree with the "good music" sentiment. Even if something's not my style, if the talent is there you have to respect it. It's wading through the oceans of crap to find the good stuff that's difficult.

My playlist includes prog, classic rock, show tunes, blues, jazz, classical and Wagnerian opera so I'm open to a lot of stuff. I've performed both instrumentally and vocally during college, mostly church stuff.

Living only 5 miles from Country Concert Central has led me to the conclusion that listening to country music actually makes you lose IQ points. Those folks just ain't bright.

One of these days we need to do a Fark party in Dayton. You and I need to split a pitcher or two.

I'm west of Cincinnati so the next one should in the Middletown area

fenianfark: Crewmannumber6: Ryan Bingham is the real deal
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So is Slaid Cleaves
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I love this Slaid Cleaves song.

Link

I'm not surprised someone named fenianfark likes Slaid Cleaves, he spent years busking on the streets of Cork.

I agree with Robert Earl Keen's opinion of Toby Kieth
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Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together PARODY!! KOA #64

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGOtPBka3J8&feature=relmfu

GameSprocket: FLMountainMan: how many songs did he actually write?

Writer(s) Johnny Cash

(snip)

The Man Comes Around

That is from a fast Google search.

That one song is a great example of how awesome Johnny Cash ( & old Country Music) was.

/ contrast that with the spineless and poppy "Country" Music today...

Smeggy Smurf: EyeballKid: Country, My Ass!


Agrees

No mention of Jackson Taylor, Shooter Jennings, Kyle Park, Aaron Watson, Blackberry Smoke, Dale Watson, Hoss Howard and so forth goes to prove that not only has the Opry sinner, Nashville couldn't find country if it drove a train down Music Row.

Hayes Carll. Wayne Hancock.

red5ish: doctor wu: Is there a more over-exposed singer out there right now?

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I don't know, can't go through the check-out aisle without seeing her on at least two magazine covers and she's on the goddamned radio every freakin' hour! The only time I hear Beiber is when I drive my neices somewhere.

Some of my favorite "country" artists...



 



 

Psycoholic_Slag: Tom_Slick: Psycoholic_Slag: Back in the day you had do prison time (or at least pretend you did) and be a Level 5 alcoholic with 4 ex wives before you were "country".

At least that is what all the songs led me to believe.

/my lawn, it has a pickup and old dog on it.

Obvious country song for that comment

I was thinking more David Allen Coe:

"WELL, I WAS DRUNK THE DAY MY MOM GOT OUT OF PRISON
AND I WENT TO PICK HER UP IN THE RAIN
BUT BEFORE I COULD GET TO THE STATION IN MY PICKUP TRUCK
SHE GOT RUNNED OVER BY A DAMNED OLD TRAIN"

What has 100 legs and 600 teeth??..........The front row at a David Allen Coe concert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y8fMHJ0zt0
(bad livers - corn liquor made a fool of me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS33YDThMl8
(BR5-49 - bettie bettie)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWsuVuw5JO4
(johnny cash - folson prison blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv55Kq462LM
(lambchop - the saturday option)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERhhkjqDGsA
(gram parsons - in my hour of darkness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otTW0JczoGQ
(steve earle - guitar town)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=holBS44V5gU
(buck owens - streets of bakersfield)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqkJUHSBYHY
(joe ely - she never spoke spanish to me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsV7vpHhR9g
(alison krauss and union station - baby, now that i've found you)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7hdsSxrYqk
(the mavericks - what a crying shame)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0IRNMg0KVw
(patty loveless - timber, i'm falling in love)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbB5TRLF9mo
(guy clarke - desperadoes waiting for the train)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRfzAWUf3W4
(iris dement - our town)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVzFowQRgQo
(alejandro escovedo - five hearts breaking)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rJERwDC8rs
(the hole dozen - how i love them old songs)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCyAIDfGte4
(meat puppets - lost)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdV8shVoYPs
(willie nelson - i never cared for you)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7F7Cg7e0LQ (kelly hogan and the pine valley cosmonauts - 13 nights)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrHLzIsb_gg
(freakwater - little black train)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_0bMYj7okM
hazel dickens and alice gerrard - the one i love is gone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFTcsBVAY7Q
(16 horsepower - black soul choir)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4h5KbmtWKM
(cowboy junkies - murder, tonight, in the trailer park)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT1EbMTqYek
(uncle tupelo - no depression)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWOsE-8jS1w
(grievous angels - no more room in hell)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTy4AoF40-Y
(junior brown - little red rivi airhead)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1mQvHXRlZE
(the flatlanders - dallas)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqflffdmhHM
(whiskeytown - nervous breakdown)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Goeh9WsTyDw
(the be good tanyas - rain and snow)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlDKiMhmuYY
(the carter family - no depression in heaven)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YauyNTaiQ38
(blue mountain - blue canoe)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAqBB3r0Hgg
(the long ryders - harriet tubman's gonna carry me home)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AXVBtBJjLw
neko case and her boyfriends - thrice all american

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5qnuxM3mHI
kasey chambers - dam


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9H9ZqurXss
doug sahm - cowboy peyton place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxpPL_aY190
(lucinda williams - car wheels on a gravel road)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eEOPuSwK_s
nanci griffith - last of the true believers

Pandora's Litterbox: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y8fMHJ0zt0
(bad livers - corn liquor made a fool of me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS33YDThMl8
(BR5-49 - bettie bettie)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWsuVuw5JO4
(johnny cash - folson prison blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv55Kq462LM
(lambchop - the saturday option)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERhhkjqDGsA
(gram parsons - in my hour of darkness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otTW0JczoGQ
(steve earle - guitar town)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=holBS44V5gU
(buck owens - streets of bakersfield)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqkJUHSBYHY
(joe ely - she never spoke spanish to me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsV7vpHhR9g
(alison krauss and union station - baby, now that i've found you)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7hdsSxrYqk
(the mavericks - what a crying shame)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0IRNMg0KVw
(patty loveless - timber, i'm falling in love)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbB5TRLF9mo
(guy clarke - desperadoes waiting for the train)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRfzAWUf3W4
(iris dement - our town)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVzFowQRgQo
(alejandro escovedo - five hearts breaking)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rJERwDC8rs
(the hole dozen - how i love them old songs)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCyAIDfGte4
(meat puppets - lost)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdV8shVoYPs
(willie nelson - i never cared for you)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7F7Cg7e0LQ (kelly hogan and the pine valley cosmonauts - 13 nights)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrHLzIsb_gg
(freakwater - little black train)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_0bMYj7okM
hazel dickens and alice gerrard - the one i love is gone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFTcsBVAY7Q
(16 horsepower - black soul choir)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4h5KbmtWKM
(cowboy junkies - murder, tonight, in the trailer park)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT1EbMTqYek
(uncle tupelo - no depression)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWOsE-8jS1w
(grievous ange ...

YAY! Neko Case makes the list.................

Eternal Virgin: I don't know anything about Country music because I'm just a humble beaner, but...

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This is Julie Ho or whatever, I'm sure I got her name wrong but if I was deaf I would totally love Country.


Clearly you don't know antrhing about "country" music.

real country:


Waylon Jennings


Billie Joe Shaver


Johnny Paycheck

/ladies love outlaws

This debate goes on and on...at least back to the late 30's there were 2 classifications of the genre..Western and Hillbilly.When it eventually merged into country&western,there was unhappy people on both sides...In the late 50's when the electric bass and pedal steel guitar replaced the upright acoustic bass and lap steel..same uproar..In the 60's Buck Owens' "Bakersfield Sound" was considered too rock and roll..The 70's Willie and Waylons' outlaw country..same thing....
I am a die hard traditionalist wth a small band..We dont do "crying in your beer country'..we do slit your wrist country...But you cant help the new kids, coming along wanting it bigger,better,flashier and louder..
Garth Brooks did for country like Chris Moneymaker did for poker....

red5ish: doctor wu: I don't know, can't go through the check-out aisle without seeing her on at least two magazine covers and she's on the goddamned radio every freakin' hour! The only time I hear Beiber is when I drive my neices somewhere.

#1 Pop song on the Billboard Hot 100 is One More Night by the band Maroon 5 off their new CD "Overexposed"
#2 Pop song on the Billboard Hot 100 is We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Taylor Swift - Red
#3 ditto ditto is As Long As You Love Me by Justin Bieber

I think you are right. I just thought that picture was perfect. Taylor Swift is a huge property right now.



Yeah, it would be interesting to know what she makes from magazine covers alone, wow!! She gotta be in Jennifer Anniston territory by now.