Tim McGraw, Zac Brown Band, and Brad Paisley make me wanna kill muslims? Nah. But FGL makes me wanna rip my ears off, few good bonfire songs but the rest is garbage, and of course the country stations play a majority of pop country.

Also, whatever happened to the hillbilly genre? It just kinda get mixed in with country and blue grass?

(03-27-2015 02:48 PM)I45owl Wrote:  

(03-27-2015 10:27 AM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  Don't tell, but the guy who founded Motown Records was a _HUGE_ country music fan. He even tried to get a few country labels started separate from Motown Records.

Fun fact, but his son is RedFoo, of "Your happy and you know it fame". You know, LMAO

LOL.. I did not know that bit of history :)

(03-27-2015 03:20 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(03-27-2015 02:48 PM)I45owl Wrote:  I literally crash my car at high speed every time that song comes on the radio to make the noise stop. I pour battery acid into the CD tray when they play a snippet to promote a concert by that guy.

edit: oh, sorry, that's "Take me to church" by Hoser.

What song? His album "Carolina" was amazing.

That's my bit of sarcasm. I have no idea who Eric Church is...

Current country music absolutely blows. As much as I like Garth Brooks he's a big reason for the decline in good country music. I grew up listening to Waylon and Willie from my papa. I'm a HUGE Dolly fan. Real country music has that thin reedy sound to it because they were from the actual country. Not this slicked up pop crap that they play now.

That being said I FAR prefer bluegrass to country music nowadays. I'm headed to Nashville in a month and hopefully some of the joints on Broadway will still have some good music going.

(03-31-2015 09:02 AM)BucFyre Wrote:  Current country music absolutely blows. As much as I like Garth Brooks he's a big reason for the decline in good country music. I grew up listening to Waylon and Willie from my papa. I'm a HUGE Dolly fan. Real country music has that thin reedy sound to it because they were from the actual country. Not this slicked up pop crap that they play now.

That being said I FAR prefer bluegrass to country music nowadays. I'm headed to Nashville in a month and hopefully some of the joints on Broadway will still have some good music going.

I also prefer bluegrass, but I wouldn't say that ALL current country music blows. Of course nobody sounds like Waylon, Hank Jr, Merle, etc. It was a different time.

I will say that a LOT of current country sucks. Florida-Georgia Line, Jason Aldean, Brantley Gilbert, etc are all atrociously bad. A lot of it can't be differentiated from pop music.

However, there ARE some artists that still make great music. The Zac Brown Band is one of the most talented, wide-ranging bands I've ever heard. They write & play great country music, but also pay homage to other genres. I went to a ZBB concert in Charleston, which was amazing.. and in addition to their songs, they covered "Can't You See" (Marshall Tucker Band), Piano Man (Billy Joel), Kashmir (Led Zepplin), The Devil Went Down To Georgia (Charlie Daniels), and Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen).

Most of Eric Church's stuff is good, Dierks Bentley is fantastic (please listen to more than "Drunk on a Plane"), some of Jon Pardi's stuff is great.

(03-31-2015 09:02 AM)BucFyre Wrote:  Current country music absolutely blows. As much as I like Garth Brooks he's a big reason for the decline in good country music. I grew up listening to Waylon and Willie from my papa. I'm a HUGE Dolly fan. Real country music has that thin reedy sound to it because they were from the actual country. Not this slicked up pop crap that they play now.

That being said I FAR prefer bluegrass to country music nowadays. I'm headed to Nashville in a month and hopefully some of the joints on Broadway will still have some good music going.

I think you've pretty well hit it - production value has distorted and ruined the genre.

My father used to organize local bands for a yearly celebration sponsored by a local newspaper in central Texas (he finished his career there). He'd spend all spring going out to town halls and listening to bands play, then sign them up. I'm convinced the music still exists, but it's not what hits the airways.

The Eric Church song isn't bad, I just can't imagine myself listening to it in the same way that I would George Strait.