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Other than that it's a lot of oldsters bemoaning how the good 'ol days were better.

"I mind the time that 'ol Roy Acuff and Cowboy Copas was on the victer-ola. It was way better back then when you shixt in a hole in the ground and lighted up a kero lantern to see with. Yach, yach, yaw! Hee haw! Wellll doggies!"

"Hell's far son, on a Sunday after the meetin', we'd go out to the hayfield and stir up some bumble bees for the fun of it! Oncet upon a time I got stung on my dick and it got three times its normal size! Hell it must have been a full four inches long! Woooweee boy howdy yee haw!"

Do you even realize what you said? Country Music is SUPPOSED TO BE a twangy. Where do you think it came from? If you like pop music, fine, listen to pop music.....just don't call it Country.

Yeah. it changed from good to crappy.

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Absolutely! He’s immensely talented and true to the tradition. His music can stand against anything that’s been recorded previously.

Cody Jenks is the real deal, he makes great music! He has some great waltz song if you like to waltz.

I think it was better as it felt original every time something came out. Originality is the biggest rush you can get. Like many things nowadays kids are just repackaging old ideas whilst wearing hipster beards and tattoos and calling it new.

Yeah, tell me about it y'all that weren't born yet! I lived it back then and I'm here livin' now. Yeah we have more niceties now no doubt, but the music was better by far. And I'll go on to say that the music in my parent's time was great too. I still listen to Glenn Miller. I think we went for about 40 years there with music iiust getting better. From the mid 30s to the early 70s was what I call the golden years. From Bing Crosby to the Beatles, and Country was paralleling pop. I loved country music from the 50s to the 80s. Music just had more class back then.

Country music or what they call country today hasn't been country music in decades. Haven't listened to it since the mid or late 70's. Its real heyday was between the 30's -50's, even the 60's is pushing it.

Phil

I noticed PBS picked it up. They're all about keeping dying music alive.

Country Music is not dead.

#1 Granddaughter, the Mooselette, told me over the weekend that she like country music better than anything. That's odd, because I don't think either her father or mother listen to it. She just found it on her own.

We were out in the truck, riding into Falmouth for plumbing parts when she made the announcement. Right away I switched playlists-- Man of Constant Sorrow was the first to come on. She has a definite preference: Bluegrass tops Texas Swing and Zydeco and Contemporary Country. We didn't get too far into Classic Country or Cowboy.

Go figure. #1 son got turned on to Rockabilly and Little Richard. #2 found Led Zep and Pink Floyd. #3 -- bagpipes and Bluegrass.

I was wondering why you clumped Zydeco with Contemporary Country, but realized I don't know what Texas Swing is. It might clear it up if I find out it's something that is also foreign to Country Music.

Looked it up. Seems Texas Swing is some Kind of Country, while I never considered Zydeco to be related. So, I don't get why Zydeco was in the same sentence as Country, unless Texas Swing is also assumed to be separate.

Texas Swing or Western Swing is stuff like Bob Wills and Asleep at the Wheel. Zydeco is Louisana Creole. It's all Country in some fashion or the other.

My Dad was sort of a behind-the-scenes guy in the heydey of the Midwestern Hayride on WLW and WLWT. He used to hang with the cast, and return, they'd all rent his apartments. As a result, I got a broad view of Country Music as a young'un. I don't remember folks slicing and dicing Country up as much as they do now. It was more about the sound of individual artists. A show like Midwestern Hayride would have it all. One number might be Old Timey, one would be Western, one would be Country Gospel, and another Bluegrass or Rockabilly.


Here's a list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_Hayride

Back in the 50's and 60's if they didn't stay in his apartments, they were at least coming over to visit. Guys like Bonnie Lou, and Kenny Price, were around in my day.


When Hee-Haw came on, Dad used to point at the screen and go "I know that guy!" and then launch into a story. In its heydey, Midwestern Hayride fielded 3 complete acts for playing out during the week, and the demand was incredible, because Crosley had a regional network of radio and TV all through our part of the country, and the home station, WLW reached all over the world at 700 AM.

Texas Swing music is Bob Wills type music, which is country. Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel play the same kind of country, lots of fiddle and steel guitar. Zydeco is different to me, Louisiana music, closer to old time black music.

Lots of Texas red dirt bands play traditional country. Jason Boland, Charlie Robison, Aaron Watson, Cody Johnson to name a few. I think the new music is just as good as the old, just different. Wifey and I are going to Fort Worth to Dr Hinky Tonk tonight at the Stagecoach Ballroom and the band Midland tomorrow night at Billy Bobs. I’ll be tired driving home Sunday.