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Nelly feat. Tim McGraw "Over & Over"
Trauma-san:
^ You're so full of shit, nearly all country from the 60's and 70's was in a similar vein as Johnny Cash, if you like him, you'd like dozens of others. You're just too stereotyped against listening to it. Country music is great.
Shallow:
--- Quote from: SMiLE on September 15, 2004, 06:30:08 AM ---^ You're so full of shit, nearly all country from the 60's and 70's was in a similar vein as Johnny Cash, if you like him, you'd like dozens of others. You're just too stereotyped against listening to it. Country music is great.
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He's obviously never took the time out to listen to Merle. And yes country music is great. Not a fan of a lot of the new stuff though.
Lincoln:
--- Quote from: Shallow on September 15, 2004, 07:23:55 AM ---
--- Quote from: SMiLE on September 15, 2004, 06:30:08 AM ---^ You're so full of shit, nearly all country from the 60's and 70's was in a similar vein as Johnny Cash, if you like him, you'd like dozens of others. You're just too stereotyped against listening to it. Country music is great.
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He's obviously never took the time out to listen to Merle. And yes country music is great. Not a fan of a lot of the new stuff though.
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Agreed.
Trauma-san:
Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Conway Twitty, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Randy Travis, Glen Cambell, there's dozens of great country artists who had dozens of hits.
The real beauty in Country Music is generally, they aren't singer-songwriters (some are). The reason this is a benefit is that in Nashville, you have groups of GREAT songwriters who sit around all day writing songs for the artists... so you have someone with a great voice like Randy Travis, who can release an album every 6 months if he wants, because all he has to do is pick and choose from all these great songs. So typically, country musicians will have album after album of good, quality songs.
On the flip side, you have the norm in Rock, and Rap; the band is pretentious enough to think they can write, so they sit around writing for 4 years, then put out an album; half the songs suck because they don't have the talent to produce enough songs to whittle away down to a good solid dozen tracks, and you only get 1 album every 3 or 4 years.
In the meanwhile, George Strait has released 5 albums with 60 songs written by the greatest songwriters alive.
Country REALLY gets slept on. I understand it's just not some people's flavor, though, depends on where you come from, I guess you have to relate to it a little bit.
Shallow:
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Country still sells huge though. It's the only genre that hasn't suffered since the internet file sharing revolution.
And there are great singer song writers their too. Kristofferson was always a champ, and Cash and Merle wrote a lot of their songs.
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