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I DONT MEAN TO AFFEND ANYBODY WHO LIKES NEW COUNTRY BUT I WAS WONDERING IF ANYBODY ELSE IS WONDER WHAT IS GOING ON WITH COUNTRY MUSIC THESE DAYS TO ME IT DONT EVEN SOUND COUNTRY I WOULD PAY TO HERE WHAT ERNEST TUBB ROY ACUFF AND BUCK OWENS WOULD HAVE TO SAY. TO ME IT DONT SOUND LIKE COUNTRY IT SOUNDS LIKE 70S SOFT ROCK WITH A TWANG TO IT. AND ALL THE FANCY LIGHTING AND FIREWORKS ON STAGE THATS ROCK STUFF NOT COUNTRY. I MISS THE OLD STUFF ITS REALLY GOTTEN BAD IT THE PAST 6 YEARS LEAST THERES ALAN JACKSON. IM CURIOUS WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY THANKS JAKE.

I Love The old Country Music. This Stuff Today To Me Is Junk Not Country. I Still Play Good Old Country. I Woun't Play This New Stuff There's Nothing To Play In It. Thats Me. SONNY.

Here we go again...

This subject has been hashed over and over,I agree[just my opinion]this top forty stuff that's called country today sounds [to me anyway] like a very POOR attempt at 70's rock,And there's NOTHING out there that can even come close to say the Eagles,etc,What the industry promotes today is HollyWEIRD sex appeal,By what comes out of Nashville today,It seems there is more Hollywooden heads in Tenn,than in Calif.Some of these young ladies[not all but most]that you see on GAC[great American crap] and the opry are VERY beautiful and appealing,but could'nt sing on key if it was hung around their neck,The same for most[again not all but most]of the guys,if they spent as much time with a vocal coach as they do in a gym working on their abs and biceps they might be able to sing on key,The bottom line is the suits in the music industry make millions with this %$^& and has brainwashed the public until there are millions of people that REALLY DOES BELIEVE that artist such as Chesney,Cowboy Troy,Big and Rich,Montgomery Gentry,are country artist,For the ones that think this is country music,you have EVERY right to do so,support it and enjoy,Just please find another name for it,don't insult the memory of the REAL country artist such as Marty,Jim Reeves,Hank Sr.,Earnest,Patsy,Kitty,Mr. Acuff,Billy Walker,Webb,etc,by calling these contemporary artist country.DYKBC,

CHARLES I CANT AGREE WITH YOU MORE PERFECT WAY OF DESCRIBING EVERY TIME I PASS THROU GAC OR CMT I GET RED HOT MAD I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THIS WAY FROM TALKING TO OTHER PEOPLE.

It's sad, but overhere in Holland it is..... Johan

Bob Wills wrote:

Time Changes Everything.

Music is Music... There is good, bad and mediocre music in all styles. I too have lamented the passing of the greats of Country Music, But life goes on and the world keeps changing. There are still a few country artists out there doing some wonderful songs. Enjoy them until we all meet up in "Hillbilly Heaven"

Be sure to ask Jesus for permission to enter!

Dom Franco



[size=9]Tex Ritter - Dreamed of a hillbilly heaven
words & music Eddie Dean & Hal Sothern
year 1961

I dreamed I was there in hillbilly heaven
Oh what a beautiful sight

Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven. And you know who greeted
me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself, Will Rogers. He said
to me, he said "Tex, the Big Boss of the riders up here has asked me to
kinda show you around. Now, over yonder are a couple of your ole
compadres." My, was I glad to see them, Carson Robison and the
Mississippi blue yodeler Jimmie Rodgers.

I dreamed I was there in hillbilly heaven
Oh what a beautiful sight

He introduced me to Wiley Post, and he showed me the Hall of Fame with
all the gold guitars and fiddles hanging on the walls. Then he said,
"Tex, step over this way, there are two more of your friends I know
you'll want to see, they're waitin' for you." There they were standin'
side by side and smilin' at me--Hank Williams and Johnny Horton.


I met all the stars in hillbilly heaven
Oh what a star-studded night

Then I asked him who else do you expect in the next, uh, say a hundred
years? He handed me a large book covered with star dust. Will called it
the Big Tally Book. In it were many names and each name was branded in
pure gold. I began to read some of them as I turned the pages: Red Foley,
Ernest Tubb, Gene Autry, Roy Acuff, Eddy Arnold, Tennessee Ernie, Jimmy
Dean, Andy Griffith, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter
Whaaaatttt???
Tex Ritter? Oh, well, that's when I woke up, and I'm sorry I did, because


I dreamed I was there in hillbilly heaven
Oh what a beautiful sight [/size]

What about this: will the pedal-steelguitar disappear? Are we a dying species?

Dom,It's more like Hillbilly HELL today,seems to be on a fast track that way.The old saying[what goes round,comes round]I'm waiting for something REAL to come round,may have a long wait,There are real ones out there like Dale Watson,but don't hold your breath waiting to hear him on FM radio or TV.He's just too damn GOOD.DYKBC.

Well, if we are going to open this


again;

The Time Jumpers

Dawn Sears

Mandy Barnett
These are just a few.

The younger artists need to get the younger fans into listening to country music. After a while they come around. I know I did. Let's see, Waylon and Willie, Charlie Daniels, Johnny Paycheck. I seem to remember some people thought country music was dying then too.
Oh, gotta go, Taylor Swift's on....

Jake, I agree with you and Charles. The music now is pitiful, to say the least.

Another gal to check out is Heather Myles. She's pretty good. But then again, you won't hear her on the radio except on Willies Place.

Dennis

NO!

www.1100springs.com


Country Music Dying????

I Think Not.

Y'know the country sound is alive and well in Americana. But the lyrical sensibilities are decidedly more folksy than the uptown country of the 40's and 50's or the western swing of the 20's and thirties.

More people taking up steel here than ever !

Classic and Traditional Country music is alive and kicking; just not on top-forty radio and TV.

What is on TV is more a spectator sport than music. The video is everything, while the music,though expertly played by great musicians, is merely background ambiance to highlight the young and pretty performers.
What is on radio is so pro-tooled and over compressed, that it's not a true representation of the artist.
That's my observation.

You can make all these top 40 songs sound like old country. No matter how many chords the song has just play it with three.

Oh, like blues? I get it...

Maybe it just needs more C6.

oh, wait.... it's been pronounced dead too...


-John

Johan Jansen wrote:What about this: will the pedal-steel guitar disappear? Are we a dying species?

No, but the traditional whiney country E9th style may go the way of the dinosaur.

Perhaps after another couple generations pass on, a future generation of guitarists will rediscover the pedal steel guitar and create a whole new sound. By then the PSG's country stereotype will be gone.

In another couple of generations the only thing gone will be the guys whining about country music dying...

Theresa,
You simply must stop those long winded posts of yours.

Andy,Don't worry,I'm SURE I wan't last two more generations,Nor will Chesney,RF's,Big and Rich,or Cowboy Troy,But I bet Hank Sr.'s music will STILL be alive.DYKBC.