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Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
18. I am spoiled
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 04:29 PM
Jan 2013

we have WSM, 650AM, which plays the Grand Ol Opry.

Last night they did a retrospective on Hank Williams - 60 years since his death - and it was wonderful listening to old broadcasts of Hank playing live for hours.

There's another FM station that plays classic country, and they have a great mix, out of Chattanooga, but can't remember the name.

The New Country makes me want to call drone strikes on my own radio.



"Blue-collar" comedy didn't help either. sadbear Jan 2013 #1
Especially as practiced by "Larry The Cable Guy"...who ISN'T blue-collar(or Southern) Ken Burch Jan 2013 #45
There's nothing country about country music anymore. Puzzledtraveller Jan 2013 #2
It ain't country and I'm not so sure it's music either tularetom Jan 2013 #3
Remember "Man, I Feel Like a Woman"? riqster Jan 2013 #4
Boot Scootin Boogie! are you serious!? Puzzledtraveller Jan 2013 #5
That, and Garth Brooks made it culturally ok to be a redneck idiot in America. Volaris Jan 2013 #12
Garth Brooks is a Democrat pamela Jan 2013 #38
Garth is okay TlalocW Jan 2013 #53
Country went commercial and that was the beginning of the end. Tempest Jan 2013 #28
When they started doing what rock-n-roll had done thirty years before.... lastlib Jan 2013 #44
"New Country" is just bad Pop Tsiyu Jan 2013 #6
Word! AND there are no radio stations which play the real stuff anymore either. Skidmore Jan 2013 #11
I am spoiled Tsiyu Jan 2013 #18
go after the Internet Radio Shows and search for Americana... WCGreen Jan 2013 #19
True..hard to stream on dialup Tsiyu Jan 2013 #21
Broadcast radio is there to bring as many people as they can to that spot on the dial... WCGreen Jan 2013 #24
I'm so old, I remember Tsiyu Jan 2013 #26
We have a winner. Boomerproud Jan 2013 #16
Welcome to DU Tsiyu Jan 2013 #22
Links? I'd love to read more about what they think. :) reformist2 Jan 2013 #31
Taylor Swift made $25M last year DollarBillHines Jan 2013 #29
A fool and his or her money and all that Tsiyu Jan 2013 #36
Thank you! TM99 Jan 2013 #55
"Nashville Music Factory" Country is SHITE. HughBeaumont Jan 2013 #7
How 'bout this home grown guy? RC Jan 2013 #8
Blah Blah Blah.... WCGreen Jan 2013 #17
Well, OK. RC Jan 2013 #41
. Go Vols Jan 2013 #9
Modern country music exists so untalented people can have careers, too. Aristus Jan 2013 #10
Yes, unlike hip-hop and pop hughee99 Jan 2013 #47
Rural defensiveness against Urban snobbishness maxsolomon Jan 2013 #13
It must make the composer, lyricist and singer feel like they are doing protest music... Tikki Jan 2013 #14
Commercial Country Music is pretty formulaic just as much as pop music... WCGreen Jan 2013 #15
one thing for sure - KT2000 Jan 2013 #20
Yes, the whole country genre changed after Obama won in 2008. NCTraveler Jan 2013 #23
+1 onenote Jan 2013 #46
Best propaganda in the world! Glorifies working for the minumum wage, guns, toxic relationships, etc MightyMopar Jan 2013 #25
+1 PM Martin Jan 2013 #50
There's plenty of good alt country out there, like Old Crow Medicine Show and others alcibiades_mystery Jan 2013 #27
About the only Country performer I can stomach is Brad Paisley. yourout Jan 2013 #30
Brad mainstreetonce Jan 2013 #34
Saw him last year with Scotty McReady and The Band Perry. Good show. yourout Jan 2013 #35
I like that song of his about the kid in his parents basement LeftofObama Jan 2013 #43
This one.... yourout Jan 2013 #48
Yeah! That's the one! LeftofObama Jan 2013 #49
For those who don't know, here's an example of how country music *used* to sound. reformist2 Jan 2013 #32
Here is a little Roy Clark yourout Jan 2013 #33
If any of y'all mainstreetonce Jan 2013 #37
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
I see your Justin Moore and I raise you Toby Keith - Cold Beer Country Initech Jan 2013 #42
There's still good music being made tularetom Jan 2013 #51
Johnny Cash wrote about Zimmerman when he sang he shot a man in reno, just to watch him die graham4anything Jan 2013 #52
Whenever I visit my mom TlalocW Jan 2013 #54
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