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have you noticed that all the males sound like garth, and the females like loveless, i tell you nashville sure has lost it. back in the older days you knew it was haggard, or jones, nobody sounded like anyone else. share your thoughts thanks Joe

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..I suppose this topic really should be in the "Music" section, but since you asked..

..no, I don't think that at all..the women only wish they sounded as good as Patty Loveless, most don't even come close..

..if you think they all sound alike, I would suggest that the problem is in your ability to differentiate the sounds...or as was attributed to General Grant, and probably many others, "I know two tunes...one is Yankee Doodle and the other one isn't"..

I don't think Alan Jackson sounds any at all like Garth !! I also don't think Vince Gill sounds like Alan or Garth !!

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i dont mean any harm here guys its just my outlook is all, I nerver listen to this new stuff anyway and if i did im sure i could guess whos singing what i just cany get away from the classic stuff, it was real down to earth steel guitar picking music

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Think of it this way:

The Country Music recording industry is about 60 yrs old. By now every way to sing a Country song has been done. Today - like most any other period, and any other genre of music - a record company signs artists and releases music that sounds similar to the current most successful performer. This is not a new concept. I think George Jones still holds the record for most copied singer.

If you know Pop music at all you might be familiar with Christina Aguilara's Genie In A Bottle. That song became the basis for many other top songs by other artists this year. Same with the Cher song Believe. That vocal effect has found it's way into many hit recordings.

It all has to do with timing. If you were a big star in the 50s then everyone compares to YOU because you were fortunate enough to be born at the right time. If you had your heyday in 1850, nobody cares, because it's not on a record or video tape.

In summary: There's nothing new out there. Just different combinations.

Here 'tis. Nashville bad, classic country good.

<SMALL>all country singers sound the same these days</SMALL>

So do the gripes.

I know you're new to the forum but this is fairly pedestrian ground.

Teeny bopper music is and shall always remain teeny bopper music.

Bless Paul's heart for putting up with it. I'd prolly do the same.

hey i hope it gets here soon lol and Marty I would not call me a newbe here ive been here for 2 yrs have a wonderful day Joe

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It's not that the singers all sound the same. It's that most sound like they were arranged and produced/engineered by the same person and played by the same session pickers.

This is not a knock on the session pickers.

All the bitchin' in the world ain't going to change the current situation in Nashville. "MONEY"!! Nashville listens to "MONEY"!! The only chance any of us stands of hearing traditional country music, is if we buy the CD's and tapes of the artists recording it. If you stop and think about it; with the access we have to buy, listen, and discuss traditional country music on the internet---who needs radio??

Sorry Joseph. After reading what I'd posted, I realized that I had some serious "topic drift" going on. I'll just sit down now.....thank you..

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Tommy Minniear
<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Tommy M on 05 December 2000 at 10:36 AM.]</p></FONT><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Tommy M on 05 December 2000 at 10:42 AM.]</p></FONT>

everythings cool here guys

Since Jim mentioned "so-called DJ's"...I get the feeling sometimes that most modern DJ's don't know what "back timing", "cueing-up", and "trailing" are. One thing is for sure, though, they got that damn "voice-over" stuff down pat!

This is how it usually goes on a radio station today...

(Song intro starts...)
(Then the Voice Over...)
This is Steve Adore, playing all your favorite hits uninterrupted right here on radio station KRAP, 102.2 on your FM dial, from right downtown here in Smackton Oaklahoma, where you hear nothing but the best uninterrupted music 24 hours a day, seven days a week! And now, here's the latest song from Scaley Richter's latest album 'Some Cowgirls are Udderly Ridiculous'...and don't forget that Scaley will be here in the studio Saturday afternoon from 4:00 to 4:03 to answer all your questions! Take it away Scaley..."

(Mike fade, music up...you have just missed the first 35 seconds of the song! )

Yeah, that's what it's like!
(Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest!)

that was a good one lol here where i live we have a station that plays all the old stuff but seems like they play the same old stuff and we know theres 1000's of classic songs out there. now on sat nights theres a station that plays classic oldies i sometimes just stay home and sit in my chair with the recorder ready to catch that good steel stuff.

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i dont know who sounds like who and dont really care. i have played traditional [and still do] country for over 50 years. nothing else can touch it. i get the true sound of the steel in everything we do and it really touches me. i cant get that feeling even listening to the crap thats on there today. we still draw crowds where ever we play and they eat trational country up. we play a lot of shows which i like so i can give my steel player [ and the rest of the group] the credit they deserve. man i could go on and on and on, but i wont. to heck with all the kareoake and d.j. shows. their durn wop-bop la- boom-bam bam just kills the love of music. nuff said. bill ramsey, and the pure country band. if it aint country it aint worth listening to.

Jim,
I actually live in the philippi area belington is 12 miles north of there, from parkersburg clarksburg is 67 miles north of that or east lol then phillipi is 20 miles from there. so why did you leave good ole wva?

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My wife is from Good Hope (just south of Clarksburg). She originally moved away from there because of all the great jobs available in the area....<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jack Stoner on 06 December 2000 at 04:45 AM.]</p></FONT>

With the notable exceptions already mentioned above... it does sometimes seem as if there are maybe 4 or 5 sound tracks that have been recorded and kept on file (no reflection on the great studio musicians)and that those tracks are recycled over and over with the chord progressions slightly changed on much of the material being released currently...so much so that when you hear an occasional simple mix of 2m, III and VI chords (please forget the 7b), it is almost exhilarating. But then, like the above, this is just one man's opinion.

the bad thing about living here though is no place tp play the steels we are a small area and the older steel players take the space lol so we have to just sit back and wait for a chance lol. But i have my own place where i bring the music to me and i get to play the steel lol some of the entertainers are good and others are very bad but all in all we let them all have there time. it got down to 5 above the other night here

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Joe ,You are not too far off saying that most sound alike...There are many exceptions that one can identify right away,however there are plenty that even when you see them on video that you have to wait for the credits..Nashville should start a New Studio and Label called "Clone" Records.Even they could use the same studio musicians and become sucessful...like yours it's JMHO..

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