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In reply to the discussion: About the Country Music of this decade-> [View all]riqster
(13,986 posts)4. Remember "Man, I Feel Like a Woman"?
It was a straight ripoff of Aerosmith's "Uncle Salty".
Country Music has become classic rock with nasal vocals.
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Especially as practiced by "Larry The Cable Guy"...who ISN'T blue-collar(or Southern)
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#45
Word! AND there are no radio stations which play the real stuff anymore either.
Skidmore
Jan 2013
#11
Broadcast radio is there to bring as many people as they can to that spot on the dial...
WCGreen
Jan 2013
#24
It must make the composer, lyricist and singer feel like they are doing protest music...
Tikki
Jan 2013
#14
Best propaganda in the world! Glorifies working for the minumum wage, guns, toxic relationships, etc
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#25
There's plenty of good alt country out there, like Old Crow Medicine Show and others
alcibiades_mystery
Jan 2013
#27
For those who don't know, here's an example of how country music *used* to sound.
reformist2
Jan 2013
#32
Zac Brown I like....saw a crossroads special with Zac and Jimmy Buffet. Pretty good.
yourout
Jan 2013
#39
Most of the "country" artists nowadays are really horrible! There are a couple who are really quite
DearHeart
Jan 2013
#40
Johnny Cash wrote about Zimmerman when he sang he shot a man in reno, just to watch him die
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#52