As Justin Townes Earle (RIP) once said, "I liked country music before they decided to take the blues out of country music."
Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time
I seriously can’t think of anything worse. I grew up listening to country music in the late 80s and early 90s, and a lot of that was pretty bad. But this new stuff, yikes.
Who sees some pretty boy on a stage with a badly exaggerated generic southern accent and a 600 dollar denim jacket shoehorning the words “ice cold beer” into every third line of a song and says “Ooh I like this, this music is for me!”
I would literally rather listen to anything else.Seriously, there’s nothing I can think of, at least not in my lifetime or the hundred or so years of recorded music I own, that seems worse.
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@dekay MORE COWBELL!!! LOL!!! |
Shout-out to yogiboy for sharing those PBS links. I saw part of the Burns series on country music, and have always meant to finish it. I did get the box set of CDs from it, and the ones from his jazz series. Ken Burns is a national treasure!
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@bdp24 Long out of Austin but I saw some great people there, including Cornell Hurd. Others too many to mention. Saw some jaw dropping performances at Antones, Cactus Cafe, La Zona Rosa, Continental Club, UT Campus, and on and on. |
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