Is country music dead?

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

[a fool in paradise]

The awards shows don’t get it right. That’s industry handshakes for the cameras.

Country, R&B, and R&R were rejected by the music publishing industry in post war America. BMI took up publishing the songs that ASCAP refused to.

There is music out there that would be accepted by the market if it wasn’t shut out by the monopoly industry.

Just because the media influenced culture doesn’t listen to it doesn’t mean you can’t listen to it.

Got to work for it. Or else fall back on mainstay recordings by now deceased performers. But even then, don’t stick to just the “top 10 hits”. Different reasons this or that song, artist, or label didn’t climb the charts (including payola or even just stiff chart competition or poor distribution). If it’s “new” to you, then consider it to be new music. Sometimes even the charts agree (it can take 2 years or more for a song to become a “hit”).

[Zionist Conspirator]

Billy Bragg??? He’s a hard core socialist folk singer from the U.K.! *spit*

Aren't most of the "old timey," "Americana," "roots," and "alt-country" acts big lefties?

[a fool in paradise]

Achy Breaky Truck PING!

[Elsie]

GREAT!

Now I’ll have to Google translate BOTH acht and your tagline!

[Elsie]

Has anyone listened to what passes for ‘contemporary’ Christian music these days?

[GeronL]

The Combat Kitty Got Loose...

[a fool in paradise]

From the Achy Breaky Ha Ha album by Hasil Adkins:

Gonna Have Me A Yard Sale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le6KBw75vOo&list=ALBTKoXRg38BDbkUUCwPTG86xpL_SAU7Oq&index=5

Leaves In Autumn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDQ-Cy6yNI&list=ALBTKoXRg38BDbkUUCwPTG86xpL_SAU7Oq&index=2

Cookin Chicken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KjbYxYvoNw

I can't find the letter he got from Nixon in the 1970s but here's one from Johnny Cash in 1958.

[Elsie]

AMEN!

[Elsie]

Wind noise...

Must be why I’m glued to Rush all day...

[Elsie]

It’s final indignity was having winners of American Idol singing their version of country.

Yellin' and screechin' and light shows!

[Elsie]

What a classic movie!

And then there’s Oh Brother... for REAL country music!

[Elsie]

Family forum?

If it can’t be said in 140 chrtrs kds wnt rd it.

[Tammy8]

Sad thing is I liked Garth Brooks’ early music...then he announced he was going to sing what he wanted to instead of what he was “told” to sing. I bought the first album he came out with after that announcement- I couldn’t even listen to the whole thing...trashed it.

[Elsie]

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You do now!!

[Elsie]

...all new music today is crap....

Bears repeating...

[GeronL]

agreed

[Elsie]

It seems not too many in this threads are watching Nashville on the tube...

[Elsie]

Rawhide!

[Elsie]

Stand by your man...

[Nowhere Man]

Give me Slim Bryant and the Wild Cats anyday. He passed away a few years ago at 102 years of age. He used to have a regular show on KDKA radio back in the 1930’s here in Pittsburgh and later on, WDTV (and then KDKA-TV) from the late 1940’s and on for many years. I also like Johnny Cash, my favorite song, “One Piece At A Time.”