When did you start listening?
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When did you start listening?
The full title is "When did you start listening to and liking country music?"
Just a little research question.
Just a little research question.
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Somewhere around 1980 or so (pre- "Urban Cowboy", but just barely).
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I guess I started with Uncle Tupelo in... 1996? Discovered Hank and the Anthology in '98. But I was never really interested in trad. country. Too much clichés.
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Round about a couple of years after old Hank passed away, I was wowed by that wierd sound, I knew it was a steel guitar as we had friends of the family who "messed" with them.
I got started myself when I heard "Lonnie Donnegan" sing Rock Island Line back in 1956 and was instantly taken by the whole scene back then which kinda` jived with R&R coming out.
When I first came to these shores in 1967 I was "knocked-rotten" with the sounds that Buck Owens was getting with a certain - Mr Tom Brumley who was wowing us all about that time with those never to be forgotten sounds.
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I got started myself when I heard "Lonnie Donnegan" sing Rock Island Line back in 1956 and was instantly taken by the whole scene back then which kinda` jived with R&R coming out.
When I first came to these shores in 1967 I was "knocked-rotten" with the sounds that Buck Owens was getting with a certain - Mr Tom Brumley who was wowing us all about that time with those never to be forgotten sounds.
Bob Mainwaring Z.Bs. and other weird things.
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I guess I'm still a new convert of the hardcore country .
I just love those's clich'es.
I got into it alittle late in life tho,somewhere around 1943.
I began to sing hardrock early to,but only when that trusty razorstrap was put to my back side.
I though I had the meaness Momma in the world but she did teach me to dance early
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<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by BJ Bailey on 24 October 2000 at 11:34 PM.]</p></FONT>
I just love those's clich'es.
I got into it alittle late in life tho,somewhere around 1943.
I began to sing hardrock early to,but only when that trusty razorstrap was put to my back side.
I though I had the meaness Momma in the world but she did teach me to dance early
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<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by BJ Bailey on 24 October 2000 at 11:34 PM.]</p></FONT>
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I've always liked country music but this is what got me hooked. About 7 years ago I was listening to plenty of Bob Dylan, then when I heard Hank Williams after hearing Bob Dylan it all began to make a lot more sense. I understood the debt Bob and many other songwriters owed him.
I suppose when you are around 15 or 16 in Ireland you don't want to admit to liking country, but Hank Williams and Merle Haggard changed all that for me.
You gotta admit many of Bob Dylan, Neil Young and others of that ilk best records were the ones that featured plenty of steel guitar.....
I suppose when you are around 15 or 16 in Ireland you don't want to admit to liking country, but Hank Williams and Merle Haggard changed all that for me.
You gotta admit many of Bob Dylan, Neil Young and others of that ilk best records were the ones that featured plenty of steel guitar.....
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Well, if you don't count Hank, (which I won't in this case, since his music appeals to so many "non-country" folks, which is kind of weird, since he's so darn country...but I digress...) right after I started playing steel about 2 years ago, at the tender age of 30.
Before that, I never listened to country on purpose.
(...unless you think Uncle Tupelo is country. In which case, I'll have to say 1990 when they released the "No Depression" album.)<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by P Gleespen on 25 October 2000 at 04:58 AM.]</p></FONT>
Before that, I never listened to country on purpose.
(...unless you think Uncle Tupelo is country. In which case, I'll have to say 1990 when they released the "No Depression" album.)<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by P Gleespen on 25 October 2000 at 04:58 AM.]</p></FONT>
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Although I was exposed to it earlier because of my Dad, I seriously started listening around 68. I too, was a rocker at the time and continued to be a rocker as well as a country lover. I was a drummer at the time. Our band played everything from Led Zepplin to Merle Haggard. Great Variety.
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Around 1969-The Dead came out with the live skull and roses album, recorded at the Fillmore, and they had a version of Mama Tried on it. Got me looking for Merle.
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