All true, real country music is great. I respect George, Alan, George J. & Merle for their great music. Patsy Cline, Loretta L. & Tammy W. were good female country singers, these new ones don`t compare
Modern country music is made for white trash. It's not real country like merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette Conway Twitty, and Loretta Lynn. There are some good new country artists such as Dwight Yoakam, but modern country songs are either recycled bonehead Lynryd Skynrd southern rock or sensitive 80s hair metal power ballads. Long live Willie Nelson and Ray Price!
Country music has been revived at least twice in my lifetime. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band turned millions of young people on to Jimmy Martin, Maybelle Carter, Merle Travis and Doc Watson. Years later Kenny and Dolly started the pop/country movement. Randy Travis almost singlehandedly got country back on track. Now it's lost again. It will come full circle. Country music is blues. "And the blues ain't goin' nowhere"
YOU just cantr beat the OLD Coutry Great n Classics ~They will live on forever ~The Junk rRecorded now is a Slap on the face to the TRUE Greats Ray price, Faron Willie Waylon Carl Jimmy ~All of the Great old ones ~So many Still Putting out GREAT Coiuntry Music but think they can get a SONG recorded ~Hel Ray Price is now 85 and Sining Better than Ever ~When was the LAST recording he had out ~Whata Joke Nashville has become~Steve
W. R. Inge once said "There are two kinds of fools: one says, This is old, therefore it is good; the other says, This is new, therefore it is better". The music of singers such as Hank Sr., Hank Snow, Carl Smith, Flatt and Scruggs or Kitty Wells is great and timeless beyond any consideration of it's vintage, while almost all of that which is marketed as country music by the present day Nashville establishment is on an ever accelerating artistic nose dive.
To all people that play this song, the lyrics behind this song are true not fictional.
A Murder did happen on Music Row, one young artist was shoot to dead and the other was shot and the bullet is still in his shoulder today.
One of the Music Industry People involved in it turned State Evidence and was given immunity for his part and the guy that did the shooting was from the Flamingo Casino in Las Vegas and is serving life in prison
The death of Country music started looong time ago, in 1957 when the Nashville Sound was invented. Thats when steel guitars, fiddles and Hillbilly vocals was replaced with drums, rock n roll guitars and pop vocals.
to chevy0048-- What you said about this song is so true! I use to have my own country band called Pure Country, and we use to do this song, and I really enjoyed singing it. We were the only local band that did it. Of course country radio would not play it due to the conflict of intrest of it, imagine that!
@thpiv it is sad ! there are few outlets for musicians like you out there !!! if you truly stand true to the tradition of country music keep doing what you do for the rest of us that love it !!!!!!
@thpiv Well keep it up! As a singer/musician, I enjoy doing this type of country music! These newer artists just can not hold a candle to some of the older artists! It is now all about money, greed, fashion shows, videos, etc.. Nashville is now in the past. And the way the opry lets some of these artists dress on there stage is an insult I think! I am not that old either. I will be 50 soon. And I have played old and new country music in my bands I have had.
Money,greed, and looks are the main causes to the murder on music row. To me, Kenny,Toby,Tim just don't cut it, give me Haggard, Hank, and Coe, today's POP CuNtRy is the real murder down on mucic row. But hell, who am I? Guess I'll take the old over the new any day. I'm sorry, but there are some artist that are members of the Grand Ol Opry that could never hold a candle to G.Strait or Hiram Hank Williams. Nashville is just a washed up fashion show! Damn, I fell btr
FieryLocks ~What you say is SO True ~ALL that you hear nowdays is REGULTAED by a FEW PEOPLE who Decide WHA t40 songs will be played on AL FM Statios~IF your LUCKY you can get an AM statio that plys the OLD Country like we love~Last point is that its Really sad whe the NON PLAy of Faron YOUngs Songs was a BIG Part of his Suicide~Litterally Murder oin Music Row~Steve
I agree with so many of u! What the hell has happened to what we call country & rock n roll today? I was raised to have a backbone & morals & a soul& to be "God Fearin"... Music doesn't stand for any of those things anymore. People like me need & want music that send chills down your spine or riles you up. I'm personally sick & damn tired of havin to play CD's to hear good music!
Todays country is just to pop/rock, such as Keith Urban and Racal Flatts. The real country lies with Hank Williams, Lefty Frizell, Marty Robins, Merle Haggard, George Jones etc... Long live traditional country music.
@gharms8 exactly, some people think that just because they have a steel guitar or banjo and fiddle etc, they are country, when they arent. The music producers are just signing any old crap just to make a buck.
Traditional country music still has a pulse, you just have find it. It is in exile in Texas being sung in the dance halls by Amber Digby, Justin Trevino, Miss Leslie, Leona Williams, Heather Myles, etc.. Amber Digby, the best female traditional country singer performing today, is an exile from Nashville. She grew up watching Loretta Lynn and Connie Smith from backstage. Her mother sang with Connie Smith and her father played in Loretta Lynn's band for 20 years. She is ignored by Nashville.
so sad and so true. Why do some singers claim to be country when they aint.? and more to the point why why does the industry promote them as country? I've got nothing against ANY type of music even if I don't like it. For example I dislike classical but I would not dream of slagging off Mozart on any websites UNLESS he claimed to be country!!!
@TheFrankieDee As a 16 year old Marty Robbins, Hank 1, Sammi Smith, Patsy Cline, Jime Reeves, (the list could go in and on) fan, I can assure you that someone the youth today are at riving to keep REAL country alive!!!
@TheFrankieDee I have a2 and 3 year old grandbabies, and they will know old country and bluegrass as long as they live around me because there is no other music in my eyes
HW, I agree! The only thing Nashville has for me is history ! Larry Cordle, Del McCoury Band (add dot com for great voice w/o pretension. Cherryholmes Family bluegrass & Alt Country's James McMurtry has a voice & common lyrics that could "Murder Music Row's top artists" w/ his skills(His daddy was famous for writing Lonesome Dove & mom taught music). Cross Canadian Ragweed, Drive By Truckers, The Derailers & The Infamous Stringdusters are music you've never heard of.
This song says it all. I have often wondered who (in the last 20 years) could we compare to having the voice control of Jim Reeves? Or who has the vocal oscillation of Faron Young? The vocal delivery of George Jones? The writing and singing magic of Merle Haggard? The uniqueness of Charlie Pride? The vocal range of Marty Robbins? I could go on and on; but I think you understand what I mean.
What I really want is music with real heart and soul. Music that means something. I like neo-traditional music like Old Crow Medicine Show, or Gillian Welch. I also like alt. country music like Neko Case, who is one of the greatest female voices of my generation, IMO. I even like the foul-mouthed, punk rock influenced stuff that Hank III plays. Music with real feeling by artists with more to them than record company manufacturing.
It's not about whether the music is traditional or not for me. Johnny Cash could play great rock n' roll too. And Elvis could do a country song right. The Eagles, The Byrds, and The Band all made great country rock music. Then again, I also like traditional sounding stuff like Hank Sr, Union Station, Loretta Lynn, etc.
Loretta Lynn, who made a brilliant record with Jack White in her later career.
...Whos gonna fill their shoes? We'll this song is kinda a grim answer to that question. Im not saying theres absolutely no good country music out there anymore, but no one can deny that its not what it used to be. I mean, the best country music is still played in small bars and such. Not in crowded concerts that cost an arm and a leg. (Hank 3, Colt Ford, Unknown Hinson etc.) Give me a hell yeah if you agree in part or total of what I am screamin!
Taylor Swift is a nice kid, but she has no idea what country music is. Most of the new artist don't either. What is Keith Urban playing? Did they kill Randy Travis? He was about the last true country music newcomer
It's a bit ironic, but this song is one that wouldn't have a chance either. There are very few radio stations anymore that play the classics and it's a rotten shame. At least the old classics had something to say, but now all the so called "country stars" pick two or three words and just keep repeating them and believe it or not, a song like that will hit the top of the charts...what's wrong with this picture? Just think about it....
Awesome song, but more importantly, spot on thoughts. Sadly, country music is dead. It was killed off long ago. Hank, Cash, Whitley (partial list), would not be accepted, or make it, in today's Nashville. How sad is that? Country music has changed...... for the worst, and will never be what it once was: AWESOME. RIP: Country Music
Why don't you take your stuck up, holier than thou ass somewhere where it will be appreciated? "Real" country music is some of the most raw, honest music there is. It sure as hell beats skank pop like Kesha or hip hop songs about killing cops. And for the record, it is possible to be "simple folk" AND have the ability to think for yourself. Perhaps if you could think for yourself, you wouldn't dismiss an entire genre of music and the people that listen to it. Jackass.
@shelton705 Real conutry music is simplified, for simple minds. Yes, you are correct that Keisha is garbage as well, but that does not make country good. It isn't. It is for simple people that cannot fathom layersing and need their stories told directly and in linera fashion. Literary hierarchy, learn it.. Country is at the bottom of the pyramid. Simple folk that listen to country DO NOT think for themselves, if they did they would never listen to country. It tells you what to think.
Do you understand irony as well as you understand literary hierarchy? Because you're doing exactly what you're accusing country music of doing; telling people how to think.
IMO, the greatest country songs are about raw, visceral emotion. I could care less if it appeals to elitists or how the artists tell their stories. But it's never influenced the way I think. And for the record, I listen to other genres as well. Good music is good music as far as I'm concerned.
@rdecredico - "Simple minds", eh? Well, you'd better tell Kristen Scott-Benson (Larry' Cordle's banjoist on that album) that her "simple" mind somehow managed to get her through Vanderbilt with a 4.0 summa cum laude, 'cause she's probably too STUPID to know it. And Tim Stafford of Blue Highway - I guess his PhDs (he has two - Ethnomusicology & Education) that he's STUPID, too. Throw in Kris Kristofferson too while you're at it - he was just a Rhodes Scholar.
Cowboy Cassanova won video of the year, proof country IS dead, had it not got it, pop diva Taylor Swift would have been a shoe if with her teenie bopping crap!
This story encapsulates the plight of country music, the country musicians, and the country music lovers. If the music played isn't amplified sufficiently to fill a mega-stadium, then you don't get a contract. I've been to one concert in a large venue. You have to watch the big screen to see the performer! And the tickets cost a hundred bucks! I'll never go to another one! 'Cause country music is about folks - singing about em and to 'em
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!!! That's why you can't find a station out there that is devoted to "REAL" Country Music anywhere, anymore. If you find one you'd better support it with as much money as you can, or the Nash. Exec's 'll be down there to buy them out!!! It happened here!!!
you know, to be quite honest with all of you. i don't think garth brooks is the one who killed country music, because the beginning of the chorus says "the steel guitars no longer cry, and fiddles barely play" and brooks had those in his music. it makes him sound more country than all the junk i'm hearing by Gaylor Swift and Rascall Fags today. any time i hear a song that has both a steel guitar and a fiddle, i think of that as real country simply because of that chorus, you know?
everyone has there own style of music.. and thais is one of the best songs i have heard for awhile. i love the old country but if everyone likes there style then let them sing it.. i am not putting anyone of them down.. but hank william sen. and george jones and all the oleder ones i love to hear.. but i also like to hear hank jr and the rest at times to.. but never the less this is a great great song and i love it..
At 01:59 they talk about Hank Williams (one of the best, imo). Hank Williams III is an embarrassment to the name he is carrying. I can imagine the opinion his grandfather would have of him if he were still living.
This is A true story about what happened when the people from LA. and New York, started ruining country music in Nashville, TN. Along with Gaylord buying up every thing in country like the Grand Ole Opry
Murder of true Blues music has also been committed at the so-called Blues Festivals in the state of Wisconsin and elsewhere. This song sums up the reason not only for Trad. Country, but also Trad. Blues and Trad. Jazz music.
@chevy0048 What you said about this song is so very true! I use to have a country band called Pure Country, and we use to play this song. Of course country radio would not play it due to the conflict of intrest of it. Imagine that!
put a band togeather today,and play old country and you will starve to death, it's a fact, it is not supported by people anymore, but that don't change the fact that the new stuff is all electronics and garbage. nothing is being created
just manufactured..........................................
waymore - well stated. Music, in general, is just superfluous nonsense. While I support your idea that it's not "supported", I also submit that it's not even "offered for consideration". Everything (mostly) is just "vending machine" music - drink it fast...take the can back for recycling.
I firmly believe that an artist who has the wherewithal to withstand the shunning will eventually get recognized. I look at bands like the Foo Fighters, who never bowed to the establishment. Check them out.
Well then Itdan676 You must be a young person who wouldn't know the real thing if it jumped up and bit ya on the ass! It' not your fault tho...don't take offense..
Oh duh! LOL!!! Ya'll seriously didn't know this was Larry Cordle? He's so awesome and we love him in bluegrass. Learn something new everyday don't we.
I think a lot of folks need to do a little research and see who wrote this song you will find that it is Larry Cordle. Now where we at just my honest opinion
First time I heard this song I saw Garth Brooks with his ear piece swangin on that thing he used to fly through the air on! I saw him bubblin and bawlin into the camera that half dozen or more times he said he was finally gonna "retire" That toad made me sick! Glad he finally disappeared. Unfortunately he murdered country music before he left. The fuck oughta be in prison along with people like Martina McBride.
@mysteria31 My feeling exactly! You mentioned Martina McBride. Well, In terms of country song subject matter, even, She helped kill it here with "Concrete Angel". It's like she's stretching out into Pat Benatar's ("Hell Is For Children") Territory in terms of both this AND musical styles. Terrible!
Larry sounds great here. What a great singer and song writer he is. This song tells it like it is and I do wish money hadn't been behind so much of what has changed country music today.
When the 'Industry' finds the next big Country 'star' on stupid ass shows like American Idol what can we expect? Great music is being slaughtered in the name of profits. It's no longer a love for the music but the lust for quick fame and making an even quicker buck. The real Country Music of the 40s 50s and 60s was the greatest because the artists then actually lived the stories and lives they sang about...they sang from experience. Music then had heart. Now it's phony made up bullshit!
Clive Davis (the head of Sony/BMG Records) is to blame ... He signs ALL of those AI "kids" to record deals ...
Btw - Miranda Lambert was a loser (not the winner) on CMT's version of American Idol called "Nashville Star" ... It was a dumb show, but at least they had to write & perform a song for the show ...
Stupid reality shows are killing the music industry ...
I think a lot of you guys might be overlooking one person who singlehandedly started country/rock. that was Gram Parsons. while he was just doing what he wanted to do...he wound up introducing country to rock.
It's not just Country music that has died, all good music is gone, today's music is not up to the standards of this. I say Country music is dead, but it Ireland it is popular.
People always talk about how country has too much rock. Let me tell you, some of the best country music rocked out pretty good. Have you heard Move it on Over? Blue Suede Shoes? My point is that they've taken the POP aspect of rock and made all their music into soulless twanged pop hooks. It's bastardized country and bastardized rock. No talent rednecks playing power chords is neither country nor rock. The blues and expression are no longer valued.
Okay...if y'all want to blame ONE person who started Rock influences into Country music....look no further than 1989 when Mr. Garth Brooks came on to the scene. The guy LOVED(s) rock and he blasted right into it then. The "country" went NUTZOID over it and made a multi millionaire out of Brooks and the rest is as they say........history.
Everything changes folks......everything. ; )
Just do as what's been suggested already here...if you're a Country Western player...then keep it up!
@bfeme I don't know I am 66 years old and I don't think it will ever come back again. This music was killed and now look what we have left. Yes there was murder on music row.
Yeah, so-called "Country Music" is only labled Country. It's pathetic. It is NOT Country. Now I will say that I like some of the stuff that they play on the so-called Country stations, but I don't dare call it Country.
You're 110% right bubba. Country music these days has died. There oughta be a law against cowboy rap, and all this boy band crap, a little sissy in a cowboy hat aint country. Yeah, thank the good lord for george strait and alan jackson. i think shania twain and faith hill are the ones that committed the murder, cause if you think about it, everything after them is more pop-rock than country
@Redneck19862008 . No now all you see is young pretty girls dressed up like street walkers singing Rock music and producer's that never played country music, then they will put a steel guitar in just to say it's country. Then pay country radio to play it. That Is my opinion.Payola is alive and well.
Great video! I miss the traditional country music. Thank goodness for George Strait and Alan Jackson. If not for them, we would not hear any "real" country on the radio. All the Nashville people did not like it when George and Alan sang this at an award show - I guess the truth hurts!
Well.....I for one disagree totally. What they are speaking of here is C&W music. Country & Western is what they are claiming that has died. Sure, the so-called "new Country" is nothing but Rock 'n Roll. That may be true....but, it's selling and making "country " Stars millionaires. Besides, they ARE STILL MAKING LOTS of Country & Western songs. So, to all that's moaning and complaining: Write a sad song about it like this......it'll sell. See what I mean? -10-4 I'm gone sugar boog.
You're full of shit. Real Country Music has obviously died. Nowadays it's all about the fame, the show biz, the smoke and the lights, and the electric guitars at all the "big shows." It's people like you who made it this way. Go burn in fucking hell you stupid piece of shit.
Well, Redneck, you can turn that "go to hell" around and kiss my Texan ass. I ain't NEVER goin' to hell. Jesus saved me. Got that? Or are you so full of hate with your narrow opinion you can't understand kind opinions from Christian folk?
And, I still say, as I said before, the "new country" is nothin but rock 'n roll. But, THEY ARE INDEED making GREAT C&W tunes too. This tune here was only written in 2000 by TWO of those "MILLIONAIRES" you are complaining about. Dumbass.
Yeah, youre a real christian, sayin Kiss My Texan Ass, is that what they call christian these days, didnt think so. Alan and George are millionaires, but they dont care about the money. They sing country music because they love it, they hate to see it die, like it obviously already has. Like i said before, today's country, or pop-rock, is all about the smoke and the light shows, and the shows now are too damn noisy. With these new guys it's all about the hype and the fame. Thanks the end
What? You don't believe a "real Christian" that uses a flame back to someone who tells me "Go burn in fucking hell you stupid piece of shit." ....is indeed a REAL Christian. LOL you're nuttier 'n a fruitcake! Oh, and btw, I enjoy a "cold one" too once in awhile. I suppose you never met a Baptist that who cussed a bit or enjoyed an "adult beverage" every now&then, eh?
Alan and George don't care about the money, huh? You know that for a fact? You need to look closer at reality. Hater.
I guess you're RIGHT ON, about this song...it is real country style but the majority of the new so-called couintry is not real couintry as it supposed to be.
Half the time one cannot make out what they're singing about...country rap?? you got to be kidding!!! That's a no, no,.
I hear ya Mike. I've never hear "country rap". ?? If they are playing it (like Kid Rock) it's not that popular. It's a "style" I guess...but, it's definitely NOT C&W.
I get this argument a lot from all the guys 'n gals I jam with every Friday night in my area. We play old and new stuff. The tunes we hear around here on the Country stations are ALL Traditional sounding pieces.
IMO, it's just sour grapes from losing the old stars and very narrow thinking. Same as the church music spat.
That WHAT!? I suppose you think the same low-life, slimy, chicken shit- racist mentality of Charlie Pride ...don't you?
I don't really care especially for Troy's stylizations either...but, he's worth a lot more than a racist's remark hiding behind a keyboard. Btw, I understand Troy is a born and raised Texan. Stick that in your trailer trash mouth and smoke it.
Thanks for posting this. You did great. I've given up on today's radio. I did find a young guy while looking at several YouTube posts that does indeed sing country music.
Hes Jason Dupre and hes from South Louisiana. Seems to be the real deal. Check him out.
Thanks for posting this! There is a few of us still true to our country roots. I am a singer/songwriter and I still enjoy bringing that TRUE country sound to the stage. Check it out. This is not a spam message. I am legit.
I have to disagree with all of you. The electric instruments are there to amplify the sound. A steel guitar is a steel guitar, electric or not. I do, however, agree that country music has died. I hate the way most of it's played now, and I'm only 15! I prefer artists like Conway Twitty, Johnny Cash, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Charlie Pride, Kenny Rogers, Vince Gill, ect.
You guys have it totally wrong about the electrics, though. Do your homework.
Country music died the day they let electric instruments and drums on the stage of the Rhyman Auditorium. Bill Monroe did not need none of that nor did The Stanley Brothers or Jim and Jesse I could go on ...... but I won't
If you like this theme, you should definitely check out "Nashville's Gone Hollywood," by the outstanding but sadly little known or promoted Heather Myles, an "old-school" Bakersfield-sound-oriented songwriter and singer. The song which she wrote is on her album Sweet Talk and Good Lies.
Not only is that a great song but you did such a bang up job on the video! Do you do this as a profession? Heck,I,m still trying to figure out how to use Audacity editing!
Yeah, the old traditional country just reaches out and grabs you. The Nashville music managers, and even some of the performers, DID commit murder. I do not have to listen to the new stuff because of my collection of oldies. Visit my channel and see what you think. This is a ***** video for sure.
Your right, Nashville is full of city folks singing their Pop/Rock crap, ruining a great genre of music. Can't stand their stuff, It's just so fake, ain't none of them ever worked on a farm before.
All true, real country music is great. I respect George, Alan, George J. & Merle for their great music. Patsy Cline, Loretta L. & Tammy W. were good female country singers, these new ones don`t compare
nickijynette 1 month ago 2
so damn true! country music just ain't what it used to be!
tracytcole 2 months ago 2
Modern country music is made for white trash. It's not real country like merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette Conway Twitty, and Loretta Lynn. There are some good new country artists such as Dwight Yoakam, but modern country songs are either recycled bonehead Lynryd Skynrd southern rock or sensitive 80s hair metal power ballads. Long live Willie Nelson and Ray Price!
hectorsalinasisback 2 months ago
Country music has been revived at least twice in my lifetime. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band turned millions of young people on to Jimmy Martin, Maybelle Carter, Merle Travis and Doc Watson. Years later Kenny and Dolly started the pop/country movement. Randy Travis almost singlehandedly got country back on track. Now it's lost again. It will come full circle. Country music is blues. "And the blues ain't goin' nowhere"
chub4play 2 months ago
THE TRUTH IS SUNG HERE...
ERIK TIELMAN, FLORIDADADADAA
tickyreal 4 months ago
YOU just cantr beat the OLD Coutry Great n Classics ~They will live on forever ~The Junk rRecorded now is a Slap on the face to the TRUE Greats Ray price, Faron Willie Waylon Carl Jimmy ~All of the Great old ones ~So many Still Putting out GREAT Coiuntry Music but think they can get a SONG recorded ~Hel Ray Price is now 85 and Sining Better than Ever ~When was the LAST recording he had out ~Whata Joke Nashville has become~Steve
Payola65 6 months ago
W. R. Inge once said "There are two kinds of fools: one says, This is old, therefore it is good; the other says, This is new, therefore it is better". The music of singers such as Hank Sr., Hank Snow, Carl Smith, Flatt and Scruggs or Kitty Wells is great and timeless beyond any consideration of it's vintage, while almost all of that which is marketed as country music by the present day Nashville establishment is on an ever accelerating artistic nose dive.
clyderf 6 months ago
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To all people that play this song, the lyrics behind this song are true not fictional.
A Murder did happen on Music Row, one young artist was shoot to dead and the other was shot and the bullet is still in his shoulder today.
One of the Music Industry People involved in it turned State Evidence and was given immunity for his part and the guy that did the shooting was from the Flamingo Casino in Las Vegas and is serving life in prison
dannyd461223 7 months ago
@aplaf1 then hollywoods star sing county music now
madd871 7 months ago 4
Amen
clyderf 9 months ago
how did Taylor Swift get to vote 7 times?
mnaicck 9 months ago
@mnaicck haha....good one
evansco2 4 months ago
The death of Country music started looong time ago, in 1957 when the Nashville Sound was invented. Thats when steel guitars, fiddles and Hillbilly vocals was replaced with drums, rock n roll guitars and pop vocals.
1950sRockabilly 10 months ago 3
I wish it was like it used to be. We didn't have that rap crap years and years ago.
Ammyai 10 months ago
7 Reba fans disagree, lol.
ndguy13243546 11 months ago
to chevy0048-- What you said about this song is so true! I use to have my own country band called Pure Country, and we use to do this song, and I really enjoyed singing it. We were the only local band that did it. Of course country radio would not play it due to the conflict of intrest of it, imagine that!
Vendingguy1961 11 months ago
GOD i miss this kind of true , pure Country music!!!!
garthbrx1 11 months ago
Best version of this song.
ZoneFighter1 1 year ago
@ZoneFighter1 you are right
madd871 7 months ago
I'm still writing songs like this ..but I'm not gettin any play or interest.....sad this song is great and true.........sad
thpiv 1 year ago
@thpiv it is sad ! there are few outlets for musicians like you out there !!! if you truly stand true to the tradition of country music keep doing what you do for the rest of us that love it !!!!!!
84jgk 1 year ago
@thpiv Well keep it up! As a singer/musician, I enjoy doing this type of country music! These newer artists just can not hold a candle to some of the older artists! It is now all about money, greed, fashion shows, videos, etc.. Nashville is now in the past. And the way the opry lets some of these artists dress on there stage is an insult I think! I am not that old either. I will be 50 soon. And I have played old and new country music in my bands I have had.
Vendingguy1961 11 months ago
I'm still writing songs like this ..but I'm not gettin any play or interest.....sad this song is great and true.........sadt
thpiv 1 year ago
Unfortunate we can not hear this genre of music on the radio any longer. I have to go to internet radio to hear such.
mathmind1 1 year ago 12
@mathmind1 Thats very True
johona96 7 months ago
Money,greed, and looks are the main causes to the murder on music row. To me, Kenny,Toby,Tim just don't cut it, give me Haggard, Hank, and Coe, today's POP CuNtRy is the real murder down on mucic row. But hell, who am I? Guess I'll take the old over the new any day. I'm sorry, but there are some artist that are members of the Grand Ol Opry that could never hold a candle to G.Strait or Hiram Hank Williams. Nashville is just a washed up fashion show! Damn, I fell btr
357hank 1 year ago
true country music !!!!
mammie64 1 year ago
FieryLocks ~What you say is SO True ~ALL that you hear nowdays is REGULTAED by a FEW PEOPLE who Decide WHA t40 songs will be played on AL FM Statios~IF your LUCKY you can get an AM statio that plys the OLD Country like we love~Last point is that its Really sad whe the NON PLAy of Faron YOUngs Songs was a BIG Part of his Suicide~Litterally Murder oin Music Row~Steve
Payola65 1 year ago
I agree with so many of u! What the hell has happened to what we call country & rock n roll today? I was raised to have a backbone & morals & a soul& to be "God Fearin"... Music doesn't stand for any of those things anymore. People like me need & want music that send chills down your spine or riles you up. I'm personally sick & damn tired of havin to play CD's to hear good music!
mtnangel2000 1 year ago
Todays country is just to pop/rock, such as Keith Urban and Racal Flatts. The real country lies with Hank Williams, Lefty Frizell, Marty Robins, Merle Haggard, George Jones etc... Long live traditional country music.
REDNECKXF 1 year ago 3
@REDNECKXF AMEN BROTHER!
Vendingguy1961 11 months ago
I been around Country Music sense Jimmie Rodgers (Singing Brakeman). Jimmie, Earnest and Hank would roll over in their grave now.
MrCraig1930 1 year ago 2
Oh how true.... They did it to Country Music and now they're doing it to
my favorite kind of music....Bluegrass!
Money talks and good music slowly loses it's soul and fades away with
each new fad. Sad .Ain't it?
rolamustang1 1 year ago
Im w you all the way FieryLocks !
barbararuben68 1 year ago
This is what real music is all about.
Not the crap they force on us today.
KEEP IT REAL OLD CONTRY.
Thankyou for a thumbs up 5***** post.
Geena
geena6 1 year ago 2
How appropriate. Someone said, "To be a country star today, one must wear a cowboy hat, be skinny, wear tight jeans, and not be able to sing?"
gharms8 1 year ago 2
@gharms8 exactly, some people think that just because they have a steel guitar or banjo and fiddle etc, they are country, when they arent. The music producers are just signing any old crap just to make a buck.
REDNECKXF 1 year ago
Traditional country music still has a pulse, you just have find it. It is in exile in Texas being sung in the dance halls by Amber Digby, Justin Trevino, Miss Leslie, Leona Williams, Heather Myles, etc.. Amber Digby, the best female traditional country singer performing today, is an exile from Nashville. She grew up watching Loretta Lynn and Connie Smith from backstage. Her mother sang with Connie Smith and her father played in Loretta Lynn's band for 20 years. She is ignored by Nashville.
stopwishing 1 year ago
so sad and so true. Why do some singers claim to be country when they aint.? and more to the point why why does the industry promote them as country? I've got nothing against ANY type of music even if I don't like it. For example I dislike classical but I would not dream of slagging off Mozart on any websites UNLESS he claimed to be country!!!
lazynlovinit 1 year ago
i love songs like this
xerosoul 1 year ago
YEP!
MusicCityMiracle 1 year ago
@TheFrankieDee As a 16 year old Marty Robbins, Hank 1, Sammi Smith, Patsy Cline, Jime Reeves, (the list could go in and on) fan, I can assure you that someone the youth today are at riving to keep REAL country alive!!!
libertylovescience 1 year ago
THIS IS WHAT REAL OLD COUNTRY IS ALL ABOUT THE GOOD OLE SONGS OF YESTER YEAR
gpappy60 1 year ago
its a shame the kids today will never know what real country was...and it will never be country again
TheFrankieDee 1 year ago
@TheFrankieDee I have a2 and 3 year old grandbabies, and they will know old country and bluegrass as long as they live around me because there is no other music in my eyes
hillbillywillie28806 1 year ago
HW, I agree! The only thing Nashville has for me is history ! Larry Cordle, Del McCoury Band (add dot com for great voice w/o pretension. Cherryholmes Family bluegrass & Alt Country's James McMurtry has a voice & common lyrics that could "Murder Music Row's top artists" w/ his skills(His daddy was famous for writing Lonesome Dove & mom taught music). Cross Canadian Ragweed, Drive By Truckers, The Derailers & The Infamous Stringdusters are music you've never heard of.
mcshawnboy 1 year ago
@utoobube -HELL YEAH--- "...as far as sellin out goes, I ain't lookin for a deal." Bob Wayne
JohnGaleCountry 1 year ago
This song says it all. I have often wondered who (in the last 20 years) could we compare to having the voice control of Jim Reeves? Or who has the vocal oscillation of Faron Young? The vocal delivery of George Jones? The writing and singing magic of Merle Haggard? The uniqueness of Charlie Pride? The vocal range of Marty Robbins? I could go on and on; but I think you understand what I mean.
YoungAtHeart1941 1 year ago
Truer words were never spoken -- or sung. This is a wonderfully produced video and the lyrics and singer are superb. Thank you so much!!
David Mills
Huntington, WV
davidamills 1 year ago
"Elvis Presley Blues" by Gillian Welch. A beautiful voice singing about The King with mournful reverence. Heart and soul.
mintiejellie 1 year ago
What I really want is music with real heart and soul. Music that means something. I like neo-traditional music like Old Crow Medicine Show, or Gillian Welch. I also like alt. country music like Neko Case, who is one of the greatest female voices of my generation, IMO. I even like the foul-mouthed, punk rock influenced stuff that Hank III plays. Music with real feeling by artists with more to them than record company manufacturing.
mintiejellie 1 year ago
It's not about whether the music is traditional or not for me. Johnny Cash could play great rock n' roll too. And Elvis could do a country song right. The Eagles, The Byrds, and The Band all made great country rock music. Then again, I also like traditional sounding stuff like Hank Sr, Union Station, Loretta Lynn, etc.
Loretta Lynn, who made a brilliant record with Jack White in her later career.
mintiejellie 1 year ago
...Whos gonna fill their shoes? We'll this song is kinda a grim answer to that question. Im not saying theres absolutely no good country music out there anymore, but no one can deny that its not what it used to be. I mean, the best country music is still played in small bars and such. Not in crowded concerts that cost an arm and a leg. (Hank 3, Colt Ford, Unknown Hinson etc.) Give me a hell yeah if you agree in part or total of what I am screamin!
utoobube 1 year ago
Taylor Swift is a nice kid, but she has no idea what country music is. Most of the new artist don't either. What is Keith Urban playing? Did they kill Randy Travis? He was about the last true country music newcomer
bounj2 1 year ago
It's a bit ironic, but this song is one that wouldn't have a chance either. There are very few radio stations anymore that play the classics and it's a rotten shame. At least the old classics had something to say, but now all the so called "country stars" pick two or three words and just keep repeating them and believe it or not, a song like that will hit the top of the charts...what's wrong with this picture? Just think about it....
jd450lh 1 year ago
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bunnyjoke 1 year ago
Awesome song, but more importantly, spot on thoughts. Sadly, country music is dead. It was killed off long ago. Hank, Cash, Whitley (partial list), would not be accepted, or make it, in today's Nashville. How sad is that? Country music has changed...... for the worst, and will never be what it once was: AWESOME. RIP: Country Music
RedRoo13 1 year ago
Suggest you go listen to something else, rdecredico. You must really enjoy your SNL mindset....
brendastockton got it! Go read that post for the other side.
moppy4G 1 year ago
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The truth about what happened to true C&W Music. Lenny
smdad 1 year ago
this song tell s the gods truth.....
whiskygirl43 1 year ago
Ain't it the truth!
CntryInVa 1 year ago
Country music, "real" or not, is still lame. It is shallow, linear story telling, and appeals mostly to simple folk unable to think for themselves.
Altman's NASHVILLE nailed it for the watse product that it is.
rdecredico 1 year ago
@rdecredico
Why don't you take your stuck up, holier than thou ass somewhere where it will be appreciated? "Real" country music is some of the most raw, honest music there is. It sure as hell beats skank pop like Kesha or hip hop songs about killing cops. And for the record, it is possible to be "simple folk" AND have the ability to think for yourself. Perhaps if you could think for yourself, you wouldn't dismiss an entire genre of music and the people that listen to it. Jackass.
shelton705 1 year ago 2
@shelton705 Real conutry music is simplified, for simple minds. Yes, you are correct that Keisha is garbage as well, but that does not make country good. It isn't. It is for simple people that cannot fathom layersing and need their stories told directly and in linera fashion. Literary hierarchy, learn it.. Country is at the bottom of the pyramid. Simple folk that listen to country DO NOT think for themselves, if they did they would never listen to country. It tells you what to think.
rdecredico 1 year ago
@rdecredico
Do you understand irony as well as you understand literary hierarchy? Because you're doing exactly what you're accusing country music of doing; telling people how to think.
IMO, the greatest country songs are about raw, visceral emotion. I could care less if it appeals to elitists or how the artists tell their stories. But it's never influenced the way I think. And for the record, I listen to other genres as well. Good music is good music as far as I'm concerned.
shelton705 1 year ago
@rdecredico - "Simple minds", eh? Well, you'd better tell Kristen Scott-Benson (Larry' Cordle's banjoist on that album) that her "simple" mind somehow managed to get her through Vanderbilt with a 4.0 summa cum laude, 'cause she's probably too STUPID to know it. And Tim Stafford of Blue Highway - I guess his PhDs (he has two - Ethnomusicology & Education) that he's STUPID, too. Throw in Kris Kristofferson too while you're at it - he was just a Rhodes Scholar.
brendastockton 1 year ago
@brendastockton
Amen, brendastocton, amen!
moppy4G 1 year ago
Cowboy Cassanova won video of the year, proof country IS dead, had it not got it, pop diva Taylor Swift would have been a shoe if with her teenie bopping crap!
Maples01 1 year ago
This story encapsulates the plight of country music, the country musicians, and the country music lovers. If the music played isn't amplified sufficiently to fill a mega-stadium, then you don't get a contract. I've been to one concert in a large venue. You have to watch the big screen to see the performer! And the tickets cost a hundred bucks! I'll never go to another one! 'Cause country music is about folks - singing about em and to 'em
eymsirius 1 year ago
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!!! That's why you can't find a station out there that is devoted to "REAL" Country Music anywhere, anymore. If you find one you'd better support it with as much money as you can, or the Nash. Exec's 'll be down there to buy them out!!! It happened here!!!
jalsante75 1 year ago
@jalsante75
willies station on xm radio has good singers and music better than the new country they have now!
sccole56 1 year ago
you know, to be quite honest with all of you. i don't think garth brooks is the one who killed country music, because the beginning of the chorus says "the steel guitars no longer cry, and fiddles barely play" and brooks had those in his music. it makes him sound more country than all the junk i'm hearing by Gaylor Swift and Rascall Fags today. any time i hear a song that has both a steel guitar and a fiddle, i think of that as real country simply because of that chorus, you know?
ryanmacdaddy1000 1 year ago
These Corporate Assholes should be taken out and STRUNG UP!.
They Killed our Music out period!.
THese Punks running around like Keith Urban Rascal Flatts should be next!.
POP ROCK is ALL it is!.
Country Music My ASS!
packingten 1 year ago
everyone has there own style of music.. and thais is one of the best songs i have heard for awhile. i love the old country but if everyone likes there style then let them sing it.. i am not putting anyone of them down.. but hank william sen. and george jones and all the oleder ones i love to hear.. but i also like to hear hank jr and the rest at times to.. but never the less this is a great great song and i love it..
rubybarton 1 year ago
I am glad I came across this!
At 01:59 they talk about Hank Williams (one of the best, imo). Hank Williams III is an embarrassment to the name he is carrying. I can imagine the opinion his grandfather would have of him if he were still living.
AlbertaWildman 1 year ago
This is A true story about what happened when the people from LA. and New York, started ruining country music in Nashville, TN. Along with Gaylord buying up every thing in country like the Grand Ole Opry
DannyMack42076 1 year ago
This shit they are pumping out of nashville these days should be called pop cause it damn sure isnt country
Sartak1977 1 year ago 4
I don't listen to The Country Stations here anymore. And I won't until they start playing REAL COUNTRY Music again!
apike6 2 years ago 5
Nice job on this.
Jackie371 2 years ago
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freak701Juniper53590 2 years ago
this song couldnt be anymore truer.
TrexTony117 2 years ago 2
We need a whole lot more of Jesus and lot less rock and roll.
badgirl3333 2 years ago
ole larry couldn't wrote a truer song
SUPERPICKER100 2 years ago 5
Murder of true Blues music has also been committed at the so-called Blues Festivals in the state of Wisconsin and elsewhere. This song sums up the reason not only for Trad. Country, but also Trad. Blues and Trad. Jazz music.
jnorman111 2 years ago
its so sad that this song is true
chevy0048 2 years ago 13
@chevy0048 What you said about this song is so very true! I use to have a country band called Pure Country, and we use to play this song. Of course country radio would not play it due to the conflict of intrest of it. Imagine that!
Vendingguy1961 11 months ago
Same thing with jazz . " Jazz used to be Frank Sinatra - now it's Kenny G. and his saxophone today ?
rolenvi 2 years ago
put a band togeather today,and play old country and you will starve to death, it's a fact, it is not supported by people anymore, but that don't change the fact that the new stuff is all electronics and garbage. nothing is being created
just manufactured..........................................
waymore500 2 years ago 3
waymore - well stated. Music, in general, is just superfluous nonsense. While I support your idea that it's not "supported", I also submit that it's not even "offered for consideration". Everything (mostly) is just "vending machine" music - drink it fast...take the can back for recycling.
I firmly believe that an artist who has the wherewithal to withstand the shunning will eventually get recognized. I look at bands like the Foo Fighters, who never bowed to the establishment. Check them out.
BBCater 2 years ago
You sure got that right!
drakeycakes 2 years ago
People will support it. But first you have to get it out there, that is where the monopoly of radio and record companies screw real country singers.
6stringgunslinger 2 years ago
AMEN !!!!
mjpk6269 2 years ago
Well then Itdan676 You must be a young person who wouldn't know the real thing if it jumped up and bit ya on the ass! It' not your fault tho...don't take offense..
mysteria31 2 years ago
Oh duh! LOL!!! Ya'll seriously didn't know this was Larry Cordle? He's so awesome and we love him in bluegrass. Learn something new everyday don't we.
4theluvofpete 2 years ago
I think a lot of folks need to do a little research and see who wrote this song you will find that it is Larry Cordle. Now where we at just my honest opinion
bluegrassman56 2 years ago 2
What is wrong with Martina??? You gotta be mistaken ... Why do you hate her???!!
She's a "DOLL"
mike1409040 2 years ago
Great song. Nice job Alan.
gravedigger1997 2 years ago
I like to think that as long as fans like us are alive real country will survive.
swmpmn85 2 years ago 3
First time I heard this song I saw Garth Brooks with his ear piece swangin on that thing he used to fly through the air on! I saw him bubblin and bawlin into the camera that half dozen or more times he said he was finally gonna "retire" That toad made me sick! Glad he finally disappeared. Unfortunately he murdered country music before he left. The fuck oughta be in prison along with people like Martina McBride.
mysteria31 2 years ago 10
Mysteria31. You just told it like it is. I Give you 5 thumbs up .
mcamesc5383 2 years ago
he did not murder country music. he put on a show. sorry but when you pay for tickets to a show that's what you want to see.
ltdan676 2 years ago
@mysteria31 Goddamn! You couldn't have said it better! Well done.
jhyfyuk 9 months ago
@mysteria31 My feeling exactly! You mentioned Martina McBride. Well, In terms of country song subject matter, even, She helped kill it here with "Concrete Angel". It's like she's stretching out into Pat Benatar's ("Hell Is For Children") Territory in terms of both this AND musical styles. Terrible!
TheMKEWERBY 7 months ago
larry rocks i hate that alan jackson did it even tho he has every right to do it... lets face it, alan jackson is one of the "last of the heroes"
hillsdeville 2 years ago 3
Larry sounds great here. What a great singer and song writer he is. This song tells it like it is and I do wish money hadn't been behind so much of what has changed country music today.
Thank you for posting. - Paula
PaulinaRena 2 years ago 3
Makes me miss ole' Hank all the more.
badgirl3333 2 years ago 4
When the 'Industry' finds the next big Country 'star' on stupid ass shows like American Idol what can we expect? Great music is being slaughtered in the name of profits. It's no longer a love for the music but the lust for quick fame and making an even quicker buck. The real Country Music of the 40s 50s and 60s was the greatest because the artists then actually lived the stories and lives they sang about...they sang from experience. Music then had heart. Now it's phony made up bullshit!
FieryLocks 2 years ago 30
@FieryLocks Well said. Amen.
RedRoo13 1 year ago
@FieryLocks
Clive Davis (the head of Sony/BMG Records) is to blame ... He signs ALL of those AI "kids" to record deals ...
Btw - Miranda Lambert was a loser (not the winner) on CMT's version of American Idol called "Nashville Star" ... It was a dumb show, but at least they had to write & perform a song for the show ...
Stupid reality shows are killing the music industry ...
seattlesix6 10 months ago
I think a lot of you guys might be overlooking one person who singlehandedly started country/rock. that was Gram Parsons. while he was just doing what he wanted to do...he wound up introducing country to rock.
BigBoiJC 2 years ago
no im pretty sure it was johnny cash
Hoboscouts 2 years ago
they don't call Gram the father of country rock for no reason.
BigBoiJC 2 years ago
It's not just Country music that has died, all good music is gone, today's music is not up to the standards of this. I say Country music is dead, but it Ireland it is popular.
MrSean677 2 years ago 2
been a fan of bluegrass ever since i a little baby
gravedigger1997 2 years ago
People always talk about how country has too much rock. Let me tell you, some of the best country music rocked out pretty good. Have you heard Move it on Over? Blue Suede Shoes? My point is that they've taken the POP aspect of rock and made all their music into soulless twanged pop hooks. It's bastardized country and bastardized rock. No talent rednecks playing power chords is neither country nor rock. The blues and expression are no longer valued.
axldance3000 2 years ago
I love this song.. Totally agree. I just don't care for todays country. It is more rock sounding. Why can't we go back to yesterdays sound ?
pebbles606 2 years ago 4
Vintage = Love
nordyke1 2 years ago 2
don't get me wrong, modern country sounds good, but it just isn't the same as the stuff they played 40-50 years ago.
jed2j 2 years ago
Okay...if y'all want to blame ONE person who started Rock influences into Country music....look no further than 1989 when Mr. Garth Brooks came on to the scene. The guy LOVED(s) rock and he blasted right into it then. The "country" went NUTZOID over it and made a multi millionaire out of Brooks and the rest is as they say........history.
Everything changes folks......everything. ; )
Just do as what's been suggested already here...if you're a Country Western player...then keep it up!
GahDub 2 years ago 3
You said it best, I have said this about Garth Brooks all the time. I don't like Garth Brooks at all he is a skin flint.
pigpenthecat 2 years ago 4
country was better from 1940 to 1988
DRAGON244818 2 years ago 2
i hope that there is enough of us who know what real country music is to keep it alive
bfeme 2 years ago 37
@bfeme I don't know I am 66 years old and I don't think it will ever come back again. This music was killed and now look what we have left. Yes there was murder on music row.
vaughnrock 1 year ago 3
We ain't gonna allow it to happen. It up to us to carry it on, and people behind us.
Our music is not dead or buried, we've resurrected.
capt777737 2 years ago 2
All of this so called country music comes from cities like Nashville. There hasn't been real country music since the 30's.
redunzl5 2 years ago
hank III ...wayne hancock ......country as hell!
stop listening to shaniya twain
fallenstarx3 2 years ago
The tune is the same as Bocephus's 'Living Proof '. Great song with great lyrics
skeetabix36 2 years ago
Yeah, so-called "Country Music" is only labled Country. It's pathetic. It is NOT Country. Now I will say that I like some of the stuff that they play on the so-called Country stations, but I don't dare call it Country.
♫ Derek J. Holak ♫
boogertoots 2 years ago 2
You're 110% right bubba. Country music these days has died. There oughta be a law against cowboy rap, and all this boy band crap, a little sissy in a cowboy hat aint country. Yeah, thank the good lord for george strait and alan jackson. i think shania twain and faith hill are the ones that committed the murder, cause if you think about it, everything after them is more pop-rock than country
Redneck19862008 2 years ago
@Redneck19862008 . No now all you see is young pretty girls dressed up like street walkers singing Rock music and producer's that never played country music, then they will put a steel guitar in just to say it's country. Then pay country radio to play it. That Is my opinion.Payola is alive and well.
DannyMack42076 1 year ago
@DannyMack42076 Danny I'm a Pedal Steel player.
I for one WILL NOT play that TRASH!.
Some Idiot called me 2 days ago and wanting me to play
"TOP 40 COuntry", I told him there was no such thing as top 40 country anymore
Nothing but ROCK POP about Blonde Bimbos and Punks with Sun tans and Bleached frizzed hair trying to ACT like their singing Country Yeah RIGHT!
packingten 1 year ago
Great video! I miss the traditional country music. Thank goodness for George Strait and Alan Jackson. If not for them, we would not hear any "real" country on the radio. All the Nashville people did not like it when George and Alan sang this at an award show - I guess the truth hurts!
nitabonn 2 years ago 3
Well.....I for one disagree totally. What they are speaking of here is C&W music. Country & Western is what they are claiming that has died. Sure, the so-called "new Country" is nothing but Rock 'n Roll. That may be true....but, it's selling and making "country " Stars millionaires. Besides, they ARE STILL MAKING LOTS of Country & Western songs. So, to all that's moaning and complaining: Write a sad song about it like this......it'll sell. See what I mean? -10-4 I'm gone sugar boog.
GahDub 2 years ago
You're full of shit. Real Country Music has obviously died. Nowadays it's all about the fame, the show biz, the smoke and the lights, and the electric guitars at all the "big shows." It's people like you who made it this way. Go burn in fucking hell you stupid piece of shit.
Redneck19862008 2 years ago 2
Well, Redneck, you can turn that "go to hell" around and kiss my Texan ass. I ain't NEVER goin' to hell. Jesus saved me. Got that? Or are you so full of hate with your narrow opinion you can't understand kind opinions from Christian folk?
And, I still say, as I said before, the "new country" is nothin but rock 'n roll. But, THEY ARE INDEED making GREAT C&W tunes too. This tune here was only written in 2000 by TWO of those "MILLIONAIRES" you are complaining about. Dumbass.
GahDub 2 years ago
Yeah, youre a real christian, sayin Kiss My Texan Ass, is that what they call christian these days, didnt think so. Alan and George are millionaires, but they dont care about the money. They sing country music because they love it, they hate to see it die, like it obviously already has. Like i said before, today's country, or pop-rock, is all about the smoke and the light shows, and the shows now are too damn noisy. With these new guys it's all about the hype and the fame. Thanks the end
Redneck19862008 2 years ago
What? You don't believe a "real Christian" that uses a flame back to someone who tells me "Go burn in fucking hell you stupid piece of shit." ....is indeed a REAL Christian. LOL you're nuttier 'n a fruitcake! Oh, and btw, I enjoy a "cold one" too once in awhile. I suppose you never met a Baptist that who cussed a bit or enjoyed an "adult beverage" every now&then, eh?
Alan and George don't care about the money, huh? You know that for a fact? You need to look closer at reality. Hater.
GahDub 2 years ago
I guess you're RIGHT ON, about this song...it is real country style but the majority of the new so-called couintry is not real couintry as it supposed to be.
Half the time one cannot make out what they're singing about...country rap?? you got to be kidding!!! That's a no, no,.
mike1409040 2 years ago
I hear ya Mike. I've never hear "country rap". ?? If they are playing it (like Kid Rock) it's not that popular. It's a "style" I guess...but, it's definitely NOT C&W.
I get this argument a lot from all the guys 'n gals I jam with every Friday night in my area. We play old and new stuff. The tunes we hear around here on the Country stations are ALL Traditional sounding pieces.
IMO, it's just sour grapes from losing the old stars and very narrow thinking. Same as the church music spat.
GahDub 2 years ago
cowboy rap or "country rap" as some call it, is like Cowboy Troy - that nigger that plays with big & rich, and kid rock, too
Redneck19862008 2 years ago
That WHAT!? I suppose you think the same low-life, slimy, chicken shit- racist mentality of Charlie Pride ...don't you?
I don't really care especially for Troy's stylizations either...but, he's worth a lot more than a racist's remark hiding behind a keyboard. Btw, I understand Troy is a born and raised Texan. Stick that in your trailer trash mouth and smoke it.
GahDub 2 years ago
Colt ford is good.
ThaNorthFace 2 years ago
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nordyke1 2 years ago
wayne hancock and hank williwams III
fallenstarx3 2 years ago
I forgot about this song. Good video !!!
nixcrap 3 years ago 3
Support country's living legends: Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Loretta Lynn.
AdamSheets18 3 years ago 4
Also, I should have mentioned George Jones.
AdamSheets18 3 years ago 3
And Dolly Parton!
happyINcarolina 3 years ago 2
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Thanks for posting this. You did great. I've given up on today's radio. I did find a young guy while looking at several YouTube posts that does indeed sing country music.
Hes Jason Dupre and hes from South Louisiana. Seems to be the real deal. Check him out.
Joy007Too 3 years ago
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Joy007Too 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this! There is a few of us still true to our country roots. I am a singer/songwriter and I still enjoy bringing that TRUE country sound to the stage. Check it out. This is not a spam message. I am legit.
Ben Gonsioroski
"Ballads From The Heart"
benedictlg 3 years ago
It's a crime still wating to be solved
bpd0281 3 years ago 2
I have to disagree with all of you. The electric instruments are there to amplify the sound. A steel guitar is a steel guitar, electric or not. I do, however, agree that country music has died. I hate the way most of it's played now, and I'm only 15! I prefer artists like Conway Twitty, Johnny Cash, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Charlie Pride, Kenny Rogers, Vince Gill, ect.
You guys have it totally wrong about the electrics, though. Do your homework.
Pokechoppah93 3 years ago
Country music died the day they let electric instruments and drums on the stage of the Rhyman Auditorium. Bill Monroe did not need none of that nor did The Stanley Brothers or Jim and Jesse I could go on ...... but I won't
Paul0169 3 years ago
It was Earnest Tubb who brought drums to the Opry stage and it was Jack Greene who was playing them.
johnwalterm 3 years ago
I'm not aware of a Rhyman Auditorium...there's still a RYMAN though...
jkingsley 3 years ago 3
If you like this theme, you should definitely check out "Nashville's Gone Hollywood," by the outstanding but sadly little known or promoted Heather Myles, an "old-school" Bakersfield-sound-oriented songwriter and singer. The song which she wrote is on her album Sweet Talk and Good Lies.
geohabe 3 years ago
Not only is that a great song but you did such a bang up job on the video! Do you do this as a profession? Heck,I,m still trying to figure out how to use Audacity editing!
TennesseeJimmie 3 years ago
good ole country music
but i have to admit country music is starting to come back
gravedigger1997 3 years ago
Yeah, the old traditional country just reaches out and grabs you. The Nashville music managers, and even some of the performers, DID commit murder. I do not have to listen to the new stuff because of my collection of oldies. Visit my channel and see what you think. This is a ***** video for sure.
oldcountrytunes 3 years ago
Fuck Keith Urban,Rascal Flatts,Tim McGraw,Kenny Chesney ,Jason Aldean all those rocking girly voiced losers. This song tells the Truth !
EvanTN1988 3 years ago 16
so true!...which is the reason I prefer bluegrass...hard to pretty-boy that stuff up!
Either it is or it ain't!!
geohabe 3 years ago 4
Your right, Nashville is full of city folks singing their Pop/Rock crap, ruining a great genre of music. Can't stand their stuff, It's just so fake, ain't none of them ever worked on a farm before.
Collecian 3 years ago 3
bluegrass pretty much rules.
Paul0169 3 years ago 3
maybe but modern rock may for the most part suck, but it is still rock, todays country is no longer country. Music Row truly got away with murder
bluecollarteen 3 years ago 3
rock and roll died in the 70s when a little thing called disco came along.