Those were the good old days of music. The bubble gum coming out of Nashville today is a turn off. I am so sick of Taylor Swift sound a like songs. I put music on a USB stick for my car so I don’t have to listen to the garbage.
I find this old song very app, apply it to our country as we knew it. It’s Slipping Away.
This version is done by Jean Shepard. Nut note the Grand Ladies of C & W who join her Kitty Wells, Skeeter Davis, and more I can’t name. Look at those gathered around the circle. All Legends of C & W from host Whispering Bill Anderson. Some of them have since passed on like Grandpa Jones, Johnny Russel, and many more, including the steel guitar player for Hank Sr, who played for 54 Hall of Fame C & W stars. I watched the night that one aired. Charley Pride and Vince Gill made up the last 2. RFDTV carries Family Reunion and Larry’s Country Diner good clean entertainment. Fans of blue grass will love the Blue Grass with Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver. Osborne, and you can’t forget Arron Trippin, or Lee Greenwood.
Slipping Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgu74uQgZNc
Lee Greenwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbIKTYu4Q_k
Riding with Private Malone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34IwQglPak8
I feel about Rock the same way I do about today's country music. I stopped listening to the radio in the mid 1980's or so for both rock and country. People stopped playing instruments and machines took over playing automated sound loops. Joe Walsh talks about it and did a song called Analog Man.
Today's country music fans likely never heard of Johnny Horton. Many of today's rock fans never heard of Johnny Rivers. Both were top of the chart in their day. Most of the best musicians we've heard their works but they never gained the fame the singers did. Studio musicians made many a record great instead of just good. Hal Blaine a drummer was on many records from Simon and Garfunkle to The Beach Boys. On the other hand groups like Lynyrd Skynyrd were good enough their live playing was a good as studio. The real test is what can they do acoustic with out special effects. For that sometimes just walking into an old country store when they have pickin night will give you some of the best music you'll ever hear as well.
I'll never forget my nephew {about 21 years my junior} said hey listen to this new song he had in his CD player by Eric Clapton. It was Layla and it was the newer acoustic version and sounded good. I said OK now listen to this and popped in Clapton's original version of it which I like better because I grew up listening to it and liked the piano part. He asked me who is that? I said it's Eric Clapton playing "Layla" LOL. Wonderful Tonight and Tears in Heaven are my favorite of his though.
I never got to go to a Skynyrd concert. When the crash happened I was at sea I think. Same when Elvis died. When I was in high school Jim Croce died. IMO Croce ranks among the top all time great musicians and song writers who died way too soon.