When did country go hippy? Thought they were the 'conservatives" music?
Anyway, the dude sounds like most country music to me....a cat screeching through its nostrils while being skinned...(while the guitars play rockabilly/Berry licks from the Fifties).
Country long ago tried to get 'hip' by copying Southern Rock (while adding violins and steel guitars)...something they're very poor at. Doesn't seem to stop the masses, though...
Now for full disclosure...I have taken somewhat of a liking recently to the ZBB. I'll deny everything if that gets out....
It ain't what you don't know that makes you an idiot...it's what you know for certain, that just ain't so...
Most people don't want to believe the truth~they want the truth to be what they believe.
That is true, Sam. But, seriously, I've often wondered how that came about because the early days they were all clean cut (even Willie!).
Was it 'outlaw' country and who was its perceived audience. From what I remember listening to old farts . during the 50's and 60's long hair pretty much painted you as a hippie and therefore, probably anti-American. Considering country always seemed to have the rep as the music of the 'heartland' as opposed to those filthy rockers(!) , I wonder how they (the hippie country guys) were perceived during that time by country's core constituency?
It ain't what you don't know that makes you an idiot...it's what you know for certain, that just ain't so...
Most people don't want to believe the truth~they want the truth to be what they believe.
Stugills words are a new twist -" been spending all my money on weed and pills trying to write a song that will pay the bills " -you just don't hear music like that anymore -it's all bubble gum country on the radio these days. I like the old boys sound -hey --I don't always have to know every word -gives me a chance to throw my own in there if I been boozen smoking or popping pills.
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Stugills words are a new twist -" been spending all my money on weed and pills trying to write a song that will pay the bills " -you just don't hear music like that anymore -it's all bubble gum country on the radio these days.
At the risk of losing all street cred I will admit to listening to this on the radio.
Sam , Well your street cred is still intact -since those chicks are hot , -now you're trying to learn their dance steps and wearing tight pants are you ? laf..
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It is okay for chicks to wear 'stylish' tight jeans but please, if you want to remain a dude, don't wear chick pants with chit/patterns all over the ass pockets.
And then try to wear a queer shaped cowboy hat and be 'country'.
Stugills words are a new twist -" been spending all my money on weed and pills trying to write a song that will pay the bills " -you just don't hear music like that anymore -it's all bubble gum country on the radio these days.
At the risk of losing all street cred I will admit to listening to this on the radio.
I think there has been "Outlaw Country" since the beginning. It just took a few of them rebelling against the over produced "Nashville" sound sometime during the early 70's I think.
The Outlaw name came about as I recall due to the artists refusing to follow the rules that the big producers and record execs. had set for them.
Here ya go. Straight off Wikipedia so it has to be 100% correct.
From Wikipedia:
"Outlaw country is a subgenre of country music, most popular during the late 1960s and the 1970s (and even into the 1980s in some cases), sometimes referred to as the outlaw movement or simply outlaw music.[1][2] The focus of the movement has been on "outlaws", such as Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, David Allan Coe and his Eli Radish Band, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Leon Russell[citation needed], Hank Williams Jr., Townes Van Zandt, Billy Joe Shaver, Steve Earle, and Gary Stewart. The reason for the movement has been attributed to a reaction to the Nashville sound, developed by record producers like Chet Atkins who softened the raw honky tonk sound that was predominant in the music of performers like Jimmie Rodgers, and his successors such as Hank Williams, George Jones and Lefty Frizzell.[clarification needed] According to Aaron Fox, "the fundamental opposition between law-and-order authoritarianism and the image of 'outlaw' authenticity... has structured country's discourse of masculinity since the days of Jimmie Rodgers.""
Country long ago tried to get 'hip' by copying Southern Rock (while adding violins and steel guitars)...something they're very poor at. Doesn't seem to stop the masses, though...
Now for full disclosure...I have taken somewhat of a liking recently to the ZBB. I'll deny everything if that gets out....
Pretty sure that Country and Western had Fiddles and Pedal Steel "Hawaiian" guitars long before there was ever a "Southern Rock" genre.
ZBB?...really? Don't worry your guilty pleasure is safe with me.
. during the 50's and 60's long hair pretty much painted you as a hippie and therefore, probably anti-American. Considering country always seemed to have the rep as the music of the 'heartland' as opposed to those filthy rockers(!) 
, I wonder how they (the hippie country guys) were perceived during that time by country's core constituency?
