Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time

I love how songwriter Harlan Howard (4,000 recordings of his songs! In the early-60’s, 15 of the Top 40 songs on the Billboard Country charts were his!! Amongst them are Patsy Cline’s "I Fall To Pieces" and Guy Mitchell’s "Heartaches By The Number". Ray Price, Willie Nelson, George Jones, Waylon Jennings, Dwight Yoakam, Rosanne Cash, Cyndi Lauper, and even Country Joe & The Fish! have recorded the latter) characterized Country music:

"Three chords and the truth." Harlan is being modest; some of his songs have four chords ;-) .

Emmylou Harris is one of Harlan’s biggest fans (as is Elvis Costello), and about him Marty Stuart said "He was truly a master." Did you know Marty became a professional musician at the age of 13, when he joined Lester Flatt’s band? 13! That’s the age at which many Rock guitarists are just beginning to learn how to play. I met Marty in the early-90’s, at The Palomino Club on Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood, and he couldn’t have been a nicer person. Believe it or not, that’s where The Pretenders played in L.A. on their first U.S.A. tour. The place was stuffed to the gills! They were great live, by the way.

@bdp24 what a great story/history lesson, thanks for sharing.

How this post turned out is a testament to those that actually care about music, and to do that, you must have an open mind.

A country show came on the radio.

Between songs, they played a snippet of a recording from a movie? a recording? a variety show? I don’t know.

Man: Tell me, what kinds of music do you have?

Woman: Why, we have BOTH kinds, Country AND Western.

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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I got this,..

@jpwarren58      Dylan didn't say he was playing folk when he was amplified.  In fact he has always disliked dividing music into genres.