Is country music dead?

Fox News ^ | 05/16/2014 | Collin Raye

[Elsie]

Aren't most of the "old timey,"

Why.... they ain't even BLACK!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3eTSbC3neA

[5Madman2]

True, but I just don’t feel right dropping the F-Bomb here.

While I have no problem with salty language, and honed that skill over more than 30 years in the military and police work, it falls into the time and place category.

This is not the place.

Just an explanatory comment. Not coming back at you or lecturing in any way.

[Elsie]

Not coming back at you or lecturing in any way.

No problem - I agree with you.

[GeronL]

The problem with country music is that it was never translated into other languages.

*heh*

Think about that one.

[Liberty Valance]

Real country isn’t dead...it just doesn’t get played on the radio much anymore. The young’ns like the new truck-beer-tanktop-ticks-hip-hop “country”. The Time Jumpers is a direct repudiation of Nashville’s new pretty boy star maker machinery. No big record company involved. And we are lucky to have some of the best country music singers/writers/musicians in the USA right here in Texas.

Together Again-Vince Gill & Paul Franklin

The Time Jumpers - "Texas On A Saturday Night"

[Liberty Valance]

I also like Dolly's new album of classic American folk/traditional songs.
Here's an old Bob Dylan tune ...

Dolly Parton - Don't Think Twice

[Mariner]

It is Ranchera that I'm referring to.

Mexican Country.

[ru4liberty]

I stopped listening to music radio when I discovered Rush and Levin. But when I can't listen to one of them, I listen to 97.1 Country Legends, which is where I heard that song. Says it all, doesn't it?

Here's a good one: Good Ol' Boys (by Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley)

[ru4liberty]

Oops! I meant to direct posts 178 and 308 to you as the thread host. Nevertheless, they’re intended for everyone on the thread. Oh well, at least CinnamonTea got pinged! ;)

[Revolting cat!]

EVERYTHING WAS BETTER WHEN I WAS YOUNG OLD FARTS PING!

[Ditter]

You could find country and western oldies if you were in Houston and tuned into FM97.1. Every day all day long, it’s great!

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

It has been several years ago that I turned the Country Music channel on and the first video that came on was Exile - I Want to Kiss You Allover. Don’t get me wrong, that is good music but I knew right then they were expanding the definition of country music. It’s been down hill every since.

[GeronL]

bump

[mylife]

Yeah same here on KGVL

I still enjoy the morning "Farm Report" ☺

[OldPossum]

I grew up listening to country music on the radio in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s and what I hear today (briefly, because I cannot stand more than a minute of it) is not what I think of as country and western music. Fake and formulaic.

It’s a shame that “novices” might actually believe that what they’re hearing is C&W.

[Jane Long]

Dylan. Cool.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

It has basically been rock with a southern accent for a long time now.

[foreverfree]

bump

[machman]

Yes it does...

Here she is with Buck Owens.

http://youtu.be/BD_LhTNwzaM

[ru4liberty]

Link to Country Legends 97.1 in post 308.