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There's a Tiktok account (yes, boo hiss tomato, etc) that makes AI generated music, and the country songs are indistinguishable from actual country songs on the radio until you listen to the lyrics.
There was one where the lyrics were something like "thinking about corn/gun up my butt" that I still think about...
Tomato go!
Pop music is also highly repetitive, that’s the appeal of it
That gun was always up a butt. That was the one thing consistent in that song.
Billy strings, sturgill simpson
Went to a show w/ a friend, didn't know what I was getting into. Billy Strings had me dancing my ass off and I mostly don't like country music. It's all about when they they're just jamming, it's incredible.
Billy strings is hella talented.
It's somewhere on the bluegrass<>country spectrum I wouldn't really call it country music.
Id argue bluegrass is a subset of country
I wish radio stations felt that way too so they'd play some decent shit instead of pop garbage.
Technically true but nowadays someone will say they like or don't like country it could mean almost anything lol. But when it comes up I presume modern pop country.
It's definitely not the first thing people will think of when you say "country", but it goes hard and definitely has more rural/smalltown/backwoods roots so I think it counts as a subset of country
I love the jamming too! The grateful dead/jerry garcia started out with a more bluegrass sound, which apparently is what the jammy nature of their music was inspired by. See the hart valley drifters
Ya I love the Dead, especially when they play the trippy less structured (my old Deadhead friend says it's called "space")
See the hart valley drifters
I like it! This is Jerry pre-Dead?
I think so, I found them from reading something about the history of the dead
Trampled by turtles, the devil makes three
I love The Devil Makes Three
Sierra Ferrell is another great one, she does some songs with Billy Strings.
Those black eyes peas tasted alright to me, Earl
Take a ride to laaaaake EARL...
And, of course, their careers died because they dared to not be right-wing.
I suspect they are still not ready to make nice.
look up folk punk
I love folk punk, and ska punk too.
Fascinating history of country music: In the 1920's, the recorded music industry hit a slump, and started to recognize the lucrative potential of sales to Black Americans. They created a category called "race records," which lumped together jazz, blues, R&B, and other genres which came out of Black communities. This was in contrast to "country music," which originally grew out of white folk traditions, but appropriated other genres to expand to country&western, country swing, and later borrowed from rock 'n roll and pop. So it wasn't at all unprecedented for country music to borrow rap and hip-hop elements in recent decades.
In brief, country music isn't so much a genre as a code word for "white people music." Once you know this, the hysterics over Lil' Nas X, or Beyoncé, making country songs makes a lot more sense.
Tyler Childers
The catechism I would put on Reddit when the 20 something men would say country music sucks:
Jason Isbell
Hayes Carll
Sturgill Simpson
Tyler Childers
Margo Price
And I would now add Charley Crockett and Joshua Ray Walker, so good.
Colter Wall, Joshua Quimby, and Nick Shoulders too!
“Goodbye, Earl!”
Townes van zandt rolling in his grave right now seeing the state of modern country music
Livin' on the road, my friend, was gonna keep us free and clean...
Now our breath's as hard as kerosene
Orville Peck
I asked my kids one time to play "that gay cowboy with the deep voice" because I couldn't remember his name. They both said "Orville Peck is gay?" Lol.
I mean, come on… I took one look at him and knew what team he played for lol
I'm not really into his music but boy do I love that guy. I'll bet he's despised by the latter category of country musicians described in the post
There's something about his voice that I have a hard time with.
I have a hard time too… but in a good way. 🥰
Country music used to be about solidarity with the working class. Now country music is all about who can like a boot the fastest.
That or stealing tropes from rap while being aggressively written by people who think wrap is "gang music"
I would like to humbly suggest to you Brent Cobb.
Goodbye Earl -The Chicks
Ain't too many slurs I know that be worse than "Trashwina." Matter of fact, I might start using that.
Geordi-Yes.jpg: Cocaine Blues, a story about stuffing your nostrils with nose candy, killing your wife, going on the lamb, getting caught, and begging not to be locked up for the rest of your life.
Geordi-No.jpg: Accidental Racist, a story about being a white guy who asks permission to say the n-word.