It may very well be right as I don't listen to it anymore. Most of my life I've been mainly into jazz, blues and classical, but there was country music I listened to and enjoyed as a kid. Where did it go?


High Noon opening theme sung by Country Music Hall of Famer Tex Ritter:

which really I have heard that rock and roll is the love child of The Blues and Country.

But, by the eighties country really was getting very Pop oriented and machine driven.

Travis Tritt, Dwight Yokum, Clint Black, Alan Jackson, Hal Ketchum, John Anderson, Randy Travis, RoseAnn Cash, Rodney Crowell,
Reba McEntire ...


Those guys and gals(and this is stretching it)

they were the last of Really Good Solid Country Music

Cowboy boots instead of jackboots.

Fascistic ultranationalism is perfectly embodied in the phrase "Kick their ass 'n' take their gas!"

Heil Toby!

Not too fond of most country myself, and always ready to enjoy a good joke about it, but just because a bunch of fascists have appropriated the music for their soundtrack does not indict the music itself.

-- Mal

It's not my fault it's so shitty.

That description fits Nashville commercial stuff from the last 20 years (and 80s Nashville was pretty bad too, just in a different way.) And that Bon Jovi line is spot on. I was in middle school when they were big, and their fanbase really did jump straight over to Garth Brooks in the 90s.

But there are also artists like Gillian Welch (and David Rawlings), Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, etc.

And who doesn't like Johnny Cash?

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are Democrats.

. . .for a better appreciation for what country is/what it used to be/what it can be again, etc.

They've been up in arms against the Nashville music complex for a long long time.

http://www.savingcountrymusic.com/

and I detest country.

A few weeks before he died he had heart surgery. When they wheeled him into the operating room, they asked him if he was allergic to anything. "Yes. Country-and-Western music." And he got death threats in the South for going on a radio show and claiming country music was a plot by racist radio programmers to keep white people from listening to jazz.

Sure there's a lot of schlock out there like Taylor Swift etc.

However, as someone learning guitar, I can appreciate great country style guitar players and smoking hot banjo pickers.

I'm especially in love with it's bastard offspring's like Southern Rock, Rockabilly & outlaw country guys like Hank Williams Sr. and Hank Williams the III, Hellbound Glory, Blackberry Smoke & the great Unknown Hinson (voice of Early Kyler from Squid-billies).

I was a serious metal head before I got exposed to the blues, jazz and salsa/latin music. So much great music out there just to be dismissed arbitrarily because it's labeled country.

+1 for the one who asked, who don't like Johnny Cash?