No, you hate pop country
True statement. Miss me with that truck-beer-girl-dog shit.
Steve Goodman and John Prine are said to have written the “perfect” country song. Incorporating as it does trucks, trains, the rain, mama, drinkin’ and prison.
“Well, I was drunk the day my mama got out of prison And I went to pick her up in the rain But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck She got run over by a damned old train…”
Honorable mention to King Turd on Shit Mountain by Sturgill.
Don’t forget jeans. Gotta throw those in
I get the hate for truck beers, don’t DUI folks. But what’s wrong with girl dogs?
Girl-dog
I’m sure there’s some dumbass country “truck-beer-girl-dog” songs that are great. Haven’t heard any but still
Yeah this is more folk, like Fleetwood Mac or others. What would be called stadium country is pure trash, but god damn that folk music…
I just hate songs I don’t vibe with
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Today’s “country” is pop with a southern accent. Long live Lefty Frizzell, Marty Robbins, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Jeannie C. Reily, Hank Sr, Charlie Pride, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Porter Wagoner…
The list of amazing old country music is long as fuck if given a chance. The list of today’s good country artists? Charley Crockett, Sturgil Simpson, Hank III, John Moreland, American Aquarium. That’s about it, few more I’m forgetting I’m sure.
Today’s POPULAR country is that way. There are still great country artists, they just don’t get as big. Molly Tuttle, Billy Strings, Charlie Crockett, Margo Price, Sarah Jarosz
You’ll see I also mentioned Charley Crockett! I surely know there is some good out there, I mentioned a few others myself. Forgot Billy Strings though thanks. Also I’m both unfortunately and fortunately unfamilliar with Tuttle, Price, and Jarosz, fortunate because now I get to go check out some new (to me) shit I’ll probably like, so thanks!
They’re not straight country. More Americana/roots. There’s a Canadian fellow called Daniel Romano who made some really good straight country, but sadly only a couple albums then went to other genres. His album Come Cry With Me is the closest I’ve found to that 60s/70s sound and lyricism.
And probably still a lot more I haven’t found yet.
That’s just fine, I like Americana too. Thanks for the reccomendation, I’m grabbing that as I type!
Jsson Isbell, Sierra Hull, and I’m With Her also deserve a listen before judgement.
I’m aware of Jason Isbell and forgot to mention him too, he’s pretty good! I’ll definitely check out those other two, thanks!
These obscure folk are worth a look on this here song.
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Honestly, even some of the more pop stuff pre-2000s was good. I do love me some Dwight Yoakam. But I can’t handle any of the stuff they play on country stations these days. All the songs sound the same and are almost all about the same exact things. I wouldn’t be surprised if they just have AI coming up these songs at this point.
For sure, not one of the artists I mentioned from today ever gets radio play (…I think).
Tbf a lot of Lefty Frizzell’s songs are about wantin’ yer lady back and bein’ sorry you done her wrong, as are many other country artists, there’s for sure common themes throuought the various ages, but still, I don’t really mind that when they’re all good as fuck! There’s no twang today, and no soul, no feeling behind the words or chords, that’s my main issue.
For most of my life I haven’t been interested in country music because the contemporary popular stuff tend to be terrible. I’m currently discovering some of the old(er) good stuff for the first time (also watching that Ken Burns documentary a few years ago really ignited my appreciation). Currently (as in this minute as I type this), listening to some old Steven Earle songs for the first time and wondering why I didn’t know about this.
Steve Earle fucking rules. Everyone knows Copperhead Road but tbh like everything else he wrote is even better.
I kinda grew up with Steve Earle, Johnny Cash, and some of the other southern rock-y stuff like The Marshall Tucker band, then I found American Aquarium in like '06, but I really only got into country/western around the time Fallout New Vegas came out, I just couldn’t get enough of it.
Can’t talk about great, old country without mentioning John Prine and of course Johnny Cash. There really is a lot of it.
Don’t forget the theme song to Rawhide lol
For sure! There were a lot of artists hidden in those “…” dots lol.
Absolutely. Og country has more in common with punk than modern Ford truck month country.
Happy you mentioned modern ones. It ain’t my jam, but people often lament how it’s all shit now when there are almost always artists keeping it alive. Just have to look a little harder.
I absolutely agree with that.
Not sure when it’s about West Virginia
You mean the home of the battle of Blair Mountain, union history making, miner rights fighting for, West Virginia!? You probably need to listen to more country music. Or read
Unless there’s more than one West Virginia then yeah that’s the one I mean
🎶WEST VIRGINIA!
MOUNT YER MAMMA!
TAKE ME HOME!
TO MY COUSIN’S HOLE!🎶
Hot cousin is just free xp you’re not sure if you want to farm
If you haven’t seen it, I implore you to watch the Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart. This song features heavily. It’s my favorite Ghibli film, heck it’s possibly my favorite film period.
Thank you, this is an unexpectedly wholesome recommendation on a shitpost.
That doggamn sky cowboy
The original music vid is funny how sincere it is.
I liked the memes too
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Had Mr sunshine on his goddamn shoulders ever visited wv he would have changed the lyrics… Ain’t nobody Wana go the the shithole that is wv
I’ll say this, it’s one of the most beautiful states as far as nature goes. Going white-water rafting in the fall when the leaves are changing in the New River Gorge was spectacular. But everything else about the state… yeah. I traveled quite extensively there when I financially audited a coal company. It’s honestly just hopeless how poor and uneducated the people are, and how they vote against their own interests every single time, only making their situation more desperate.
100% this. I live like 4 miles from wv and have spent My whole life traveling through and doing industrial contractor work through every part of that state. The only parts that aren’t absolutely trash are the places people can’t live. We should just exterminate it and turn it into a national park…mother fuckers from there can’t even drive once they cross the line, they are always the ones that are going 10mph under the speed limit because they are confused by roads that aren’t shit.
Littering and?
Creating a public nuisance
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Or sing “Wet Vagina” and see if anyone notices.
Why do you think the other line is “mount’n mamma”?
Good ol song about Maryland
Hell, even Germans love 'em some Country Roads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDFXyIrCmr0
EDIT: Forgot to add, when I met my Filipina fiancé I wasn’t sure what sorts of American culture she had been exposed to. LOL, put on Country Roads and she started belting it out. 9 to 5 also!
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Nice! My gf is from Manilla, total city girl. It’s a continuing joy learning what she does and doesn’t know about our pop culture.
Hopefully we’ll get her back home in the next year or two and I can put myself in her place.
How you like it? I have vague plans of us retiring there.
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Yeah, we’re both 52, and I have jack saved for retirement, but I’ll own this house very soon, so I got that to rent out for funds.
Can’t get over how many old white guys are married to far younger women, it’s kinda hilarious. Her ex, a real POS, was 72 and that same guy just married her niece! I sincerely hope she’s gold digging on that man.
At every gathering it’s a bunch a white dudes, even older than me, and their women, slightly younger that mine. LOL, my girl was legitimately upset to find she’s 6-months older than me! I talk shit in front of her friends about my “old woman”.
I didn’t know the NFL played games outside the USA. Odd that two American teams are playing in Germany. I wonder what the audience demographics are. Do Americans travel to Germany to watch the games or are there mostly Germans there?
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Also me whenever Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ comes on
My Filipina gf knew that one too! OTOH, “I do not know, what’s this?, Metallica?”
WEST MAKAHA MOUNT KA’ALA Take me home, Braddah Iz 🌈 https://youtu.be/vQJTIlKKYK8?feature=shared
I am not American but I still like these songs.
Highwayman
Wichita Lineman
Hello Walls
Funny how time slips awayCheck out Murder by Death’s new cover of Highway Man: https://youtu.be/tQh0RkGSvmY?si=0am1F9v9LMyPNJva
Give Dixieland Delight a try, similar vibe
Anything by Alabama tbh.
Is that country or folk?
It was country music, back when it came out.
Now it would probably be called “Americana” or something.
I exclusively associate that song with RTGame on YouTube obliterating his cities in Cities Skylines.
As an aside, IRL I like to call the state “Left Virginia” for ironic shits and giggles.
