Country Music

Country Music

Goober

#1Oct 28th, 2010

Country Music
Grew up listening to it and it is still my favourite music to listen to. Yes I like R&R, Blues etc - But a good Country Song has some critical components - Good beat - and an excellent story to tell or feeling that are expressed.

So this Thread is solely for C&W Music
A few samples of what I mean - and I also like them as well
So please feel free to post your favourites

YouTube - Love like Crazy-Lee Brice with lyrics

For a friend on this Forum who knows what I mean and this is for him. Take care my friend.

YouTube - Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying - HQ Official

And like I mentioned earlier - a beat and a down to earth real story of an everyday man

YouTube - Small Town Southern Man - Alan Jackson

taxslave

Re: Country Music

Oct 28th, 2010

You are aware that the suicide rate goes up in direct proportion to the amount of country music listened to?

Goober

#3 Top Rated Post

Re: Country Music

Oct 28th, 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by taxslave

You are aware that the suicide rate goes up in direct proportion to the amount of country music listened to?

And if you play the music back wards you get back the house, the car, the money and your ex wife - Trick is to stop it at the 3rd step.

Nuggler

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by taxslave

You are aware that the suicide rate goes up in direct proportion to the amount of country music listened to?

At work, we used to call it "shotgun music".........Listen to enough of it, and you want to take a shotgun to something/one. Mostly goddam depressin.

kinda liked Boxcar Willie's rendition of the Wabash Cannonball, though, and the Carter Family's 'Cannonball Blues'.

Even Chuck Berry played guitar better'n Mother Maybell.

Then there's Doc Watson and Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, but that's true talent and a whole nuther story.

JLM

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Right on Goober, definitely the best genre of music, it stirs the emotions. C.B.C. radio (which I generally like) plays quite a bit of this high brow stuff like Beethoven and Chopin which does absolutely nothing for me. Tchychoffski is the one exception. Now if they'd play more Johnny Cash, Hank Thompson and Ernie Tubb, they might attract a bigger audience.

Cliffy

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Cowboys whining in their beer and cowgirls pining over some young stud muffin who would rather hump heifers. Yup, gotta love country music.

JLM

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by Cliffy

Cowboys whining in their beer and cowgirls pining over some young stud muffin who would rather hump heifers. Yup, gotta love country music.

You bet Cliff, there's no song to compare with "There's a tear in my beer"- Hank Thompson.

Cliffy

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

You bet Cliff, there's no song to compare with "There's a tear in my beer"- Hank Thompson.

I kinda like the Fugs song:
My baby done left me,
My baby done went to the drive-in movie with someone else,
and I feel like homemade sh*t.

karrie

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

I love music Goober... pop, heavy metal, opera, jazz, country.... any and all have a place, a mood, a perfect moment. I don't care how anyone wants to turn their nose up at country music.... good luck dancing with your little kid, hand in hand, at a wedding without some country music. No little girl should be robbed of a two step with her daddy because he was too damn hip to put up with some country. lol.

For me it tends to be 'old country' that I listen to. Johnny Cash, etc. Not quite as tawngy and high pitched as the new stuff in general, but, every so often something will surprise me. Love the Tim McGraw one you posted.

my favourite 'country music' song, even though it wasn't his originally. He just sang it ten times better. lol.

YouTube - Johnny Cash - Hurtquot

Last edited by karrie; Oct 29th, 2010 at 09:19 AM..

JLM

#10

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by karrie

I love music Goober... pop, heavy metal, opera, jazz, country.... any and all have a place, a mood, a perfect moment. I don't care how anyone wants to turn their nose up at country music.... good luck dancing with your little kid, hand in hand, at a wedding without some country music. No little girl should be robbed of a two step with her daddy because he was too damn hip to put up with some country. lol.

For me it tends to be 'old country' that I listen to. Johnny Cash, etc. Not quite as tawngy and high pitched as the new stuff in general, but, every so often something will surprise me. Love the Tim McGraw one you posted.

my favourite 'country music' song, even though it wasn't his originally. He just sang it ten times better. lol.

YouTube - Johnny Cash - Hurtquot

Geez Karrie you are even more sensible than I thought you were.

Last edited by karrie; Oct 29th, 2010 at 09:20 AM..Reason: fixed her odd spelling mistake in her own quote

karrie

#11

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

Geez Karrie you are even more sensible than I thought you were.

What can I say... I'm an Alberta girl.

gerryh

#12

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

YouTube - Darius Rucker - Come Back Song

JLM

#13

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by karrie

What can I say... I'm an Alberta girl.

Here's one you should love.

YouTube - Hank Thompson What Made Milwaukee Famous

karrie

#14

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Had to look up Darius to figure out where I knew that voice from! lol.

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

Here's one you should love.

well... not so much. lol.

gerryh

#15

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Jenn and I saw him with Brad Paisley in Calgary a few weeks ago.

YouTube - Brad Paisley - Water

The concert was awe........wait for it......SOME!

JLM

#16

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

It's too bad that most of the good C & W artists are dead. I think Mel is still alive though. --

karrie

#17

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Oh, another one... if you've ever had a relate arrested for making moonshine, you HAVE to like Copperhead Road. lol.

Cliffy

#18

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

I can relate to that:

YouTube - Steve Earle - Copperhead Road

DaSleeper

#19

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

George Jones and Merle Haggard have always been favorites of mine .....

YouTube - George JonesMerle Haggard - Frequency

JLM

#20

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by DaSleeper

George Jones and Merle Haggard have always been favorites of mine .....

YouTube - George JonesMerle Haggard - Frequency

You bet- Okie from Muskogee was at the top of the hit parade in 1970, George is good, pretty tragic life too much booze.

DaSleeper

#21

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

One of my favorites from "The Hag"

YouTube - Merle Haggard -- The Fightin Side Of Me

JLM

#22

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by DaSleeper

One of my favorites from "The Hag"

YouTube - Merle Haggard -- The Fightin Side Of Me

Yep, that's a dandy!

YukonJack

#23

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Since the great ones (Marty Robbins, Charlie Pride, Eddie Arnold, Jim Reeves, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline and many, many more) have gone, CW has become - with a very few exceptions - a poor hybrid of no redeeming value.

Cliffy

#24

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by DaSleeper

One of my favorites from "The Hag"

YouTube - Merle Haggard -- The Fightin Side Of Me

When I was a kid, my hero was Roy Rogers but when I was bout 20, I saw him and Dale sing that song and he fell off his pedestal. Bein' a peacenic and all, that song just gets my goat.

JLM

#25

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by YukonJack

Since the great ones (Marty Robbins, Charlie Pride, Eddie Arnold, Jim Reeves, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline and many, many more) have gone, CW has become - with a very few exceptions - a poor hybrid of no redeeming value.

You're talkin' sense again. Didn't realise Charlie Pride was gone. Hank Thompson (Squaws Along the Yukon) was another great.

Another dandy from 1968 (Pay attention to the lyrics)

YouTube - Son of a Hickory Hollers Tramp Kenny Rogers Cover -- Dallas Fraziers

karrie

#26

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

If we're going to get political with the country music, here's one of my faves...

YouTube - Dixie Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice

JLM

#27

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by karrie

If we're going to get political with the country music, here's one of my faves...

YouTube - Dixie Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice

It's powerful, Karrie.

DaSleeper

#28

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by Cliffy

When I was a kid, my hero was Roy Rogers but when I was bout 20, I saw him and Dale sing that song and he fell off his pedestal. Bein' a peacenic and all, that song just gets my goat.

I wonder if that's why I post it every chance I get?.......

karrie

#29

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Here's one that tugs hard on my heart strings....

YouTube - The Rankin FamilyFare thee well love

Goober

#30

Re: Country Music

Oct 29th, 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by karrie

I love music Goober... pop, heavy metal, opera, jazz, country.... any and all have a place, a mood, a perfect moment. I don't care how anyone wants to turn their nose up at country music.... good luck dancing with your little kid, hand in hand, at a wedding without some country music. No little girl should be robbed of a two step with her daddy because he was too damn hip to put up with some country. lol.

For me it tends to be 'old country' that I listen to. Johnny Cash, etc. Not quite as tawngy and high pitched as the new stuff in general, but, every so often something will surprise me. Love the Tim McGraw one you posted.

my favourite 'country music' song, even though it wasn't his originally. He just sang it ten times better. lol.

YouTube - Johnny Cash - Hurtquot

Love his music he was not to far from passing when he recorded that one. It does tear at your heart and soul.

Quote: Originally Posted by karrie

Oh, another one... if you've ever had a relate arrested for making moonshine, you HAVE to like Copperhead Road. lol.

Dad used to make moonshine, came close to getting arrested but that is another story for another time. Yes to Copperhead Road.

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