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What do you get when you play a country song backwards? You get your house back. You get your truck back. You get your Wife back. You get your dog back………. |
Yep – in fact there is a new song that is all about that from Rascal Flatts… |
Yes! I discovered country music a few years ago. I don’t listen to much of anything these days, but I enjoyed discovering country in my early 30′s because: |
Count me in as a secret country fan, too. I was brought to it for pretty much the same reason as jks. |
GAC, Great American Country, is the only music channel available on the cable TV in our fitness center. (Basic MTV and VH1 don’t play music anymore.) I do like some of the newer 20- and 30-somethings with their new generation of country. But it’s so new, that it seems almost a new genre, a fusion of country and pop. |
Johnny Cash is about all I can stand. |
I went on a business trip and my wife went with me to have a couple days break from the kids. As I worked she sat in the hotel room watching TV (and taking a quiet bath). Anyways I got back to the room that night and she was crying her eyes out. I was immediately wooried to what was wrong and what I could do to make it better. What tragedy had befallen her. It turns out she had accidently come across the Country Music Video channel. Not normally a country fan she watched it for about 6 hours and had become enthralled with all the stories, including a lot which involved someones loved one dying at the end. For the 7 hour car ride home I got to hear all about them (like “He was walling her in the basement and then he realized he was on the wrong side of the wall!”). That has been two years and she is die hard country all the way now. At least it is better than the Barbara S she used to liste too. |
I like Johnny Cash and some of the other outlaw country, and I don’t mind a lot of the alt.country stuff out there. But I really can’t stomach current country music any more than I can stomach current pop. |
3. jks – yep agreed completely 4. Proud Daughter of Eve – it is funny how the many country fans out there are like alcoholics and hide it 5. Bookslinger – agreed that the new country is effectively a fusion – I like it. My favorites are Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Faith Hill 6. queuno – Cash is one of the few old twangy singers I like. You really should listen to the “new” country… 7. TStevens – Great story and absolutely better than Barbara S 8. Sam B. – well if you don’t like pop you won’t like newer country |
Sugarland rocks. Allison Krauss, but then you have Robert Plant too. Awesome. I lived with a couple of other girls in a small house the last half of my senior year in high school. I worked and went to school. We were, of course, poor as church mice, but we had a record player and I think, three records. The one we played over and over was Jim Reeves. I still know all the words to his songs. I love Kenny Chesney’s Lucky Old Sun. Not all the songs, but most of them. |
D, I fully expect you to do the following now after your confession. 1. Buy a pickup truck, deer rifle, coonhound 2. trade in your G’s for “wifebeaters” 3. Adopt a southern twang and hillbilly swagger 4. Start drinking in honky tonks And thats just a start :) |
It didn’t suck like old school country. This is literally painful to read. Please define old school country. Popular country today has the following things going for it: 1. Most of the artists don’t write their own music, so they can pick and choose songs to record. |
lets see: 1 – I have a Chrysler Pacifica, a water squirter, and a one year old who acts like a puppy! 2 – or I could alter them… :) 3 – how about a Revehe, Mass twang? 4 – I do that all the time :) |
I’d like country music more openly but my husband doesn’t share my interest in it. I get tired of the ribbing from him and my friend (who’s from Texas! Really). First country song I remember liking: “Stand Me Up By The Jukebox (When I’m Gone).” It made me laugh. :) |
I heart Dixie Chicks. It doesn’t get any better than “Goodbye, Earl.” |
PDOE – that is a pretty good song. What a Texan who does not appreciate country – must be from Austin… Emily – that is a good song – it always makes me chuckle. Poor Earl. |
PDOE, the song is “Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (When I Die),” by Alan Jackson. Many of his songs tend to be very sentimental, so he is a particular favorite of mine. I can’t listen to his song, “Remember When,” when my wife is around or I end up bawling like a baby. It’s the story of out life, so far. But, my tastes are eclectic; I like both kinds of music: country and western. |
Sorry, it’s not Alan Jackson. The song is by Joe Diffie. Their voices are similar, but the Diffie’s songs aren’t as sentimental. |
The other day we were driving and my wife turned the radio to a country station, which usually will lead to a disagreement between us, since I can’t stand the stuff. And this song “Live Like You Were Dying” came on. I listened for a while and then I turned to her and said, “If I was going to live like I was dying, wouldn’t that mean that I would be coughing up blood and writhing in extreme pain? Why would anyone want to live like they were in the agony of impending death?” She remained silent for a while, and then turned off the radio. So my unsolicited advice to you all if you want someone to stop listening to whatever kind of music they are listening to: analyze the hell out of the lyrics. It makes the music much less fun. |
will confess that I did a double-take on the word “recreate” – usually that shows up in noun form. thought at first it was “We started driving to New Hampshire occassionally to procreate” :-) |
Jimbob, probably also a good recipe to make your marriage less fun. Devyn, shocked to read this! What a great post. I love it. |
“Everything is Fine” by Josh Turner Darius Rucker also has some classic sounding stuff. |
Susan – I don’t mind the cheesiness – it seems to grow on me over time. 17. Bull Moose I really love “Remember When,†as well 19. jimbob – ouch… 20. fda – I don’t kiss (or procreate) and tell 21. skl – thanks life changes you doesn’t it. There is a country song that talks about how “tough little boys grow up to be big babies” because they cry more often once they have kids – that I can relate to. |
I can enjoy country-inflected rock – the Eagles, Jackson Browne, etc. I can listen to some Johnny Cash songs. But for the most part I can’t stand country music. I feel just a touch of guilt about that – because country music is very American and even Ray Charles appreciated country music – but on the few occasions I even try, I just can’t understand the appeal. |
Oh I have sinned so greatly, Brother Brigham, Brother Young And the rest of the song is even better. Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans Check out the Mother Truckers and Hayes Carll (She Left Me for Jesus is a particular favorite) |
I like country music. It would be hard to be in the south and not appreciate it. I like ‘Jesus and Mama’ by Confederate Railroad. There isn’t a ‘Jesus and Mama’ video on Youtube by Confederate Railroad, but there is a nice cover by James Dupre. James is a Paramedic in Louisanna who sings in his kitchen with his guitar. He has a lovely voice. Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMst6yi0yPY |
Never been able to do much Country music, especially the new stuff. I can usually guess most of the words that are coming up. I do like the outlaw country- Johnny Cash is unbelievable, especially his latest “American” records with various covers of latest hits. Newer country is just overproduced, twangy pop to me, and I don’t like twang, and I don’t like pop. I’m a sucker for unique sounds, songs, and songwriters. |
“Jimbob, probably also a good recipe to make your marriage less fun.” You know, it’s remarkable, but that’s what my wife keeps saying too. Have you two been talking? |
Marriage is supposed to be fun? |
24. danithew – if you don’t like any pop then you won’t like more modern country. But it is certainly an American icon – makes you feel better when you drive your Japanese made car :) 25. bloggernacleburner – now those bring tears to me eyes (of laughter) 26. JA Benson – I would guess if you did not like Country in the South you are in danger… 27. nasamomdele – yep if you don’t like pop you won’t like new Country, but I really like Cash too – he did some good stuff |
Great post. I tend to prefer the old-school, hard-luck country. Like Johnny Cash: “I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die” or “Early one mornin’ while makin’ the rounds, I took a shot of cocaine, and I shot my woman down. I went right home, and I went to bed. I stuck that lovin’ 44 beneath my head.” Them’s good lyrics! |
Johnny Cash and twang do not exist in the same universe. |
#30Devyn, I wouldn’t know about danger, but you’d just be sick of hearing it. :) |
I was thinking danger socially – It may be one of the few things that could offend a Southerner… |
Well depends on what you said. if you were careful and did not call Johnny Cash a girl (thems fightin’ words), and just said, ” I don’t like country”. All that would happen is they would talk about you behind your back and say, “Bless his/her heart. They’s just a yankee”. You’d probably get forgiven for it. |
Cash covering NIN is about my style… |
NYC used to have a country station, based in Manhattan. They even sponsored donkey baseball games somewhere out on Staten Island, near Fresh Kills. That has been a while though. |
MAC – Boston has one country station and on cloudy days I can get one from Rhode Island and one from New Hampshire. Speaking of Donkey basketball, my high school use to have a fundraiser in which students played teachers in Donkey basketball – it was loads of fun |
queuno, Great song. He does a U2 cover that is incredible, too. |
I don’t want Southerners to forgive me. |
#40 danithew- Well bless your heart. :) |
Devyn, I wrote a similar post over at M* about a year or so ago. If I weren’t so lazy, I’d go find it and link it. Anyway, I have found that most people who hate country music have never really listened to the lyrics. The old “my truck broke down, my wife left me, I went to the honkytonk with my dog” stereotype about country just isn’t true. Most of the songs these days are about everyday concerns, loving your family, romance, etc. What could be bad about that? |
Geoff – I found it – thanks – and I agree with you entirely! |
This piece by Darius Rucker is representative of the new style of country that I like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSA_McQtSes “It won’t by like this for long” The lyrics of this song are almost Mormon-like in its family orientation. Heartwarming without being too sentimental. |
I like David Allen Coe, he used to live in a Hearse in my hometown for a while and later lived in a cave. |
I really can’t stand modern country music. |
