Country Music *spit*

Famous Last Words: Who likes country music here? Favorites?

My West Virginia upbringing makes this inevitable.

I like a few artists. Garth Brooks and Suzy Bogguss are my favorites. I also love old school country like Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings.

The new pop country crap is just that in my book. Manufactured image with no substance.

My wife LOVES Garth Brooks...she also listens to most of the "new pop country" stuff (Gretchen Wilson, Trace Adkins, Carrie Underwood, etc., etc.) so I hear tons of it. It doesn't bother me. (It could be worse, she could listen to rap!) I kinda like some of the more "rockin'" current stuff (i.e. Gretchen, Trace, Big & Rich) ... I wouldn't mind seeing Big & Rich in concert if they came thru this area, judging from their videos (which are full of stuff blowin' up, hot chicks running around, midgets, guns going off, etc.) they look like they'd be one hella funny live show!

I took my wife to see Alan Jackson and Martina McBride a few years back and enjoyed the show a lot more than I expected to. That scored me a few husbandly brownie points.

Surprisingly, my wife seems to the the lone female country music fan who is immune to the music of Rascal Flatts. Not that I'm complaining (because they suck!), but it's just a surprise. When they first came out I figured they were right up her alley, but whenever one of their songs comes on she sez "I HATE these guys, they're such candy asses!" Haha!

Is your wife hot?

spectrefate wrote:

Is your wife hot?

I married her didn't I??

Good point.

Old stuff, Honkey Tonk (Hank Sr.) and bluegrass. Modern country (around 82-84 and following) sucks wretchedly...

By the way:
Pound for pound, the video for the Dixie Chicks' "Goodbye Earl" is one of the funniest damn things ever filmed.

Fat Freddy wrote:

By the way:
Pound for pound, the video for the Dixie Chicks' "Goodbye Earl" is one of the funniest damn things ever filmed.

Yes I like that as well.

I like Johhny Cash,Hank Williams,and alot of Bluegrass.Actually Bluegrass would be my favorite next to metal.I guess being a life-long Kentucky resident will do that to ya.

Johnny Cash rules - All though, I would not concider him all-the-way country.

Fat Freddy - Does your wife ever view this site?

Mglaffas81 wrote:

Fat Freddy - Does your wife ever view this site?

Of course not. She's SO not metal.

No - country is very underground here seing as there is very little country at all

Johnny Rebel

Very little new country that I can stand...

MONTGOMERY GENTRY are kinda alright, GRETCHEN WILSON and RYAN BINGHAM...

I stick to the old guard:

HANK WILLIAMS
WILLIE NELSON
FARON YOUNG
WAYLON JENNINGS
RAY PRICE
GEORGE JONE
PATSY CLINE
LORETTA LYNN
JAMES HAND
MERLE HAGGARD

and I love bluegrass old and new....BANJOS ROCK!!!

MONTGOMERY GENTRY
JOHNNY CASH
BLAKE SHELTON
TRACE ADKINS
CHARLIE DANIELS
BIG N RICH
SUGARLAND
THE WRECKERS
LONESTAR
AARON TIPPIN
ALAN JACKSON
PIRATES OF THE MISSSISSIPPI
SAWYER BROWN
ALABAMA
JO DEE MESSINA
MARTY STUART
BRAD PAISLEY
BLACKHAWK
MCBRIDE AND THE RIDE

and maybe my all-time favorite country song:
Old Hippy - THE BELLAMY BROTHERS

T-Roy wrote:

MONTGOMERY GENTRY
JOHNNY CASH
BLAKE SHELTON
TRACE ADKINS
CHARLIE DANIELS
BIG N RICH
SUGARLAND
THE WRECKERS
LONESTAR
AARON TIPPIN
ALAN JACKSON
PIRATES OF THE MISSSISSIPPI
SAWYER BROWN
ALABAMA
JO DEE MESSINA
MARTY STUART
BRAD PAISLEY
BLACKHAWK
MCBRIDE AND THE RIDE

Minus the Johnny Cash and Charlie Daniels, that looks like my wife's entire CD collection, right there. Yeeeee haw.

SO, DID YOU JUST CALL ME A GIRL?! :kickbutt:

T-Roy wrote:

SO, DID YOU JUST CALL ME A GIRL?! :kickbutt:

Ditch the facial hair and get me a couple bottles of Boone's Farm, you may even start LOOKING like a girl.

Hank 3 , Shooter Jennings, Unknown Hinson, & pretty much all up tempo bluegrass. Bluegrass is the metal of country music, some of those cats can SHRED.

**why is that bald dude over in the corner staring at me like that**
*feals weird, makes sure to "sit" at all times*

Anything Young Country and after (except alternative country) gets me .

I prefer older stuff and 80s. Some favs:

The Highway Men
Johnny Cash
Johhny Horton
Steve Earl
Charlie Daniels
Willie Nelson
Kenny Rogers
Ronnie Milsap
The Lost Dogs (alternative country)
Mac Davis
Marty Robbins
Jimmy Buffet (not quite country but he does have an escence of it and he did start with it)
Elvis Presley (ditto)
Alabama

There are more that I don't know by name or can't remember. I didn't include anybody considered southern rock (except Charlie Daniels and Steve Earl though they sit comfortably in between both) but there are some that border on country that I like (CCR for example).

T-Roy wrote:

SO, DID YOU JUST CALL ME A GIRL?! :kickbutt:

Drop the lawsuit you threatened me with in the KISS thread I started today, and we'll call it a draw.

The only country I can stand is Johnny Cash. However, maybe if I check out some more old time stuff, I might find some more I can stomach.

However, country in general is beyond awful.

I like country alot, although I havent listened to it much lately. I do like it alot during the summertime, when I'm outdoors fishing and stuff. I dunno, it's just the way I feel, I dont expect anyone else to understand and thats ok with me.

I hate the new stuff, I dig the old school, more bar band type, not crying-in-my-beer-cuz-she-left-me crap.