School me on GOOD country music

[KQ]

Classic




something a little tighter:




and a little rough:





Oh so good for two steppin:





and maybe a ten-step or a Schottische:

[KQ]

This thread became irrelevant at "Keith Urban" and should've been locked and/or purged. But Hell, there was probably a "Toby Keith" in there at some point before that I didn't catch due to selective blindness.

But I guess that's ok as very little of this thread has been country.... In general, whenever someone uses the word "GOOD" in front of "country music", what they invariably mean is "I asked my Redneck buddy for some recommendations but I can't stand this twangy-George Strait shit" and are really looking for Americana or at most, country rock. In which case, just stick to Lady Antebellum and Wilco, or Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bruce Springsteen for the classics.

so how do you feel about Texas Country Music?


Texas Country Music (more popularly known just as Texas Country or Texas Music) is a rapidly growing subgenre of American country music. Texas Country is known for fusing traditionalist root sounds (similar to neotraditional country) with the outspoken, care-free views of outlaw country. Texas Country blends these sub-genres by featuring a "take it or leave it" approach, a "common working man" theme, and witty undertones. These often combine with stripped down music sound. Texas Country Music can also be called "Red Dirt" Country Music. Sounds from Texas and Oklahoma have influenced the scene of this particular genre.

Neither the location of birth nor the location of upbringing seems to calculate in the definition of a Texas Country artist, as long as the origin is not in the corporate Nashville scene as the genre tends to be anti-Nashville. For example, Chris Knight is considered by some to be a Texas Country musician, despite his Kentucky ties. Adam Hood, an Alabama native, also has had success in the genre. Even international musicians, such as Alberta, Canada native Corb Lund, have been successful in the Texas Country scene. This just shows how many musicians all over the world have adopted the Texas sound.

[Woodsy]

so how do you feel about Texas Country Music?
.[/I]

it works

[I've seen black diamonds!]

But I guess that's ok as very little of this thread has been country.... In general, whenever someone uses the word "GOOD" in front of "country music", what they invariably mean is "I asked my Redneck buddy for some recommendations but I can't stand this twangy-George Strait shit" and are really looking for Americana

I agree that there are some crap country songs here, and some examples that just aren't country, and that there are plenty of folks who like country music only when it isn't very country, but think the genre is pretty darn expansive.

Americana isn't so much a genre, as a catch-all phrase for music that isn't being sold within any more mainstream format. It's similar to the way the term "Folk Music" was used 50 years ago. There is plenty of "Americana" that is more "Country" than much of the right-wing-pop-music-with-cowboy-boots that is played on most country radio stations. There is also plenty of "Americana" that is nothing more than excessively strummy pop music with folksy outfits. Country represents both an ever-broadening genre, like Rock 'N Roll, and a marketing track that only represents a far more narrow section of that genre.

Example:



This was on a country album back in 2000. Today it would be classified as Americana because of who will buy it. I still call it country. Emmylou Harris was country now she is Americana. Hell, they might even call Johnny Cash "Americana" today. Fuck that noise.

On an unrelated note, here is the original version of "Why Baby Why" before it was shortened to fit more songs on a 45:

[KQ]

I know what this thread needs - some Hoyt Axton!

[CountryFunk]

[KQ]

That there is Bluegrass son.

[snowaddict91]

so how do you feel about Texas Country Music?


Texas Country Music (more popularly known just as Texas Country or Texas Music) is a rapidly growing subgenre of American country music. Texas Country is known for fusing traditionalist root sounds (similar to neotraditional country) with the outspoken, care-free views of outlaw country. Texas Country blends these sub-genres by featuring a "take it or leave it" approach, a "common working man" theme, and witty undertones. These often combine with stripped down music sound. Texas Country Music can also be called "Red Dirt" Country Music. Sounds from Texas and Oklahoma have influenced the scene of this particular genre.

Neither the location of birth nor the location of upbringing seems to calculate in the definition of a Texas Country artist, as long as the origin is not in the corporate Nashville scene as the genre tends to be anti-Nashville. For example, Chris Knight is considered by some to be a Texas Country musician, despite his Kentucky ties. Adam Hood, an Alabama native, also has had success in the genre. Even international musicians, such as Alberta, Canada native Corb Lund, have been successful in the Texas Country scene. This just shows how many musicians all over the world have adopted the Texas sound.

Its one of the few things from Texas I like.

[Peruvian]

[CountryFunk]

That there is Bluegrass son.

[Woodsy]

That there is Bluegrass son.

if you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band...

[Jong Lafitte]

if you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band...

Especially if you’re from Oklahoma.

Prolly posted this earlier but that bow gets pretty hot:


https://youtu.be/vyqbWd9YJJE


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[KQ]

if you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band...

so love this song:

[Jong Lafitte]

I ain’t got a dime but what I got is mine

And I ain’t rich but lord I’m free


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[KQ]

Especially if you’re from Oklahoma.

Prolly posted this earlier but that bow gets pretty hot:

Nice.

[KQ]

I posted an audio of this the other day but now the actual performance from The Voice is online. This guy is going places - take note

[KQ]

LOL! Oh I remember this song...........sing it Barbara!

[Peruvian]

I agree that there are some crap country songs here, and some examples that just aren't country, and that there are plenty of folks who like country music only when it isn't very country, but think the genre is pretty darn expansive.

Americana isn't so much a genre, as a catch-all phrase for music that isn't being sold within any more mainstream format. It's similar to the way the term "Folk Music" was used 50 years ago. There is plenty of "Americana" that is more "Country" than much of the right-wing-pop-music-with-cowboy-boots that is played on most country radio stations. There is also plenty of "Americana" that is nothing more than excessively strummy pop music with folksy outfits. Country represents both an ever-broadening genre, like Rock 'N Roll, and a marketing track that only represents a far more narrow section of that genre.

Brian Henneman of The Bottle Rockets spends about 5 minutes explaining how they have been pigeon-holed into a sub-genre of Country music.

[CountryFunk]

Super-Maggotty Bottle Rockets tune, possibly bluegrass

[I've seen black diamonds!]

Brian Henneman of The Bottle Rockets spends about 5 minutes explaining how they have been pigeon-holed into a sub-genre of Country music.

Yeah, that's perfect.

[CountryFunk]

Ok, I'll STFU now.

[KQ]

technically considered "folk music"

[sb]

I luv me some country music.

[I've seen black diamonds!]

[Woodsy]

Brian Henneman of The Bottle Rockets spends about 5 minutes explaining how they have been pigeon-holed into a sub-genre of Country music.

thats some bullshit. Just a lead in to their new song.

1st off the Bottle Rockets are and will always be in the same Genre. "bands that NPR DJ and Music programmers and dudes that like bands"before they get big" like because they never get big as they are good, not great"

2nd he knows and we know "Outlaw Country" started back in the early 70s with Willie, Shaver and Merle & many others. You can argue who and when but Waylon Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser, ( see above) released an album called, wait for it, "Wanted! The Outlaws" in 76 so it was already well underway as it was a Platinum record, maybe the first in "country music?"

Any how he even made fun of it ( and being hounded for blow) in a song later in the 70s



Outlaw Country from then on got applied to anything out side the Mainstream of county ( funny as see PLATINUM RECORD for Outlaw Country)

In the 80s & 90s this was really anything not getting airplay on increasingly commodotized & sterile country radio.

2000 on it would be applied to Roots Rock, Alt Country, etc that the Bottle rockets were lumped into occasionally but more crossed paths with because of where they played and who they played to.

Now, Outlaw Country is a lot of things from insta accounts to 1000s of spotify playlists and including a pretty good Sirius station I listen to sometimes (funny never heard the Bottle rockets on there)

Call it what you want, argue about what it includes.
Good music is good music and everyone defines good differently.