Don't they make a medicine for heartbreak????
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And people wonder why 'new' country music is horrible. Just awful. Can't say it any other way.
Some of the new stuff is good, but so much of the new stuff is pop sh!t with non-country beats in the background.
I swear nowadays Metallica/Bon Jovi/Hüsker Dü could remake a hits record with their old songs and release it as country music and it would be played on the country stations. It's like these guys who decide what kind of music can be released into what genre are walking around with their heads in the clouds, makes no sense at all...
It's like country music is the 'in' thing and so everyone is throwing their hat into the ring and just calling their music country when it isn't country at all.
First off, pop country sucks. Robert Earl Keen, Charlie Robison, Steve Earl is country music.
Secondly, yes they make medicine for a heartbreak. It's called alcohol.
Secondly, yes they make medicine for a heartbreak. It's called alcohol.
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Jamie Johnson, Chris Stapleton, ZBB, etc. There is a lot of good country out there, just not a lot on the radio.
If you want to hear what current actual country music sounds like listen to Turnpike Troubadours. They're the real deal.
Guess I haven't herd those people sing i usually listen to Willies Road house on xm or a couple of very good local am and fm stations that play traditional country
Ya know, I tried listening to those guys, and I still think those guys are a little too close to modern country for my tastes. Don't get me wrong...I would much rather listen to them than the usual new country tripe, but I could listen to Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris everyday for the rest of my life and not complain one bit..
I love Emmylou Harris. Her and John Prine singing Angel from Montgomery is my all time favorite song.
I really like some of Robert Earle Keen's stuff. Great voice. I would definitely call it Americana vs country, but Americana is where 'good' country influenced music resides. I still have a hard time listening to Steve Earle, because of that crummy Copperhead Road song, but like his son, Justin Townes Earl.
Shoot, I could listen to Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown all day too..
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Steve Earl has some great deep tracks. Robert Earl Keen is one of my all time favorites. Chris LeDoux, I mentioned Charlie Robison, but I like his brother Bruce better, Chris Knight, Hayes Carll, Lucero, and Reckless Kellys older stuff are all really good listens.
Johnny Cash was once asked who he thought was the greatest country singer. He replied "you mean besides George Jones?"
