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The real reason country music, a cousin of folk, was really a rural newspaper for people who
couldn't read or write. If you remember the main stay music in the old west was honky tonk
piano, a relation to dixieland sort of. Folk music went way back and when people got together
for weddings, funerals or they were travelling through and staying overnight, they would exchange
songs about things they lived or heard about. It really became a rural newspaper.
Johnny Horton was someone who was able to capture the flavour of that in a real way.
That is also why country music is able to tell such a good story today, country and folk parted ways
sometime ago but they are related. Once the romance or broken home stories started country
became closer related to blues and now its almost top forty prior to the Beatles, in beat.
At least the influences are there. As an old broadcaster I used to do radio shows on some of this
stuff, and the odd article. Just some of the history, but some of the names coming up are great.
Keep it up.
couldn't read or write. If you remember the main stay music in the old west was honky tonk
piano, a relation to dixieland sort of. Folk music went way back and when people got together
for weddings, funerals or they were travelling through and staying overnight, they would exchange
songs about things they lived or heard about. It really became a rural newspaper.
Johnny Horton was someone who was able to capture the flavour of that in a real way.
That is also why country music is able to tell such a good story today, country and folk parted ways
sometime ago but they are related. Once the romance or broken home stories started country
became closer related to blues and now its almost top forty prior to the Beatles, in beat.
At least the influences are there. As an old broadcaster I used to do radio shows on some of this
stuff, and the odd article. Just some of the history, but some of the names coming up are great.
Keep it up.
Perhaps the best recording of the modern era- more typical of something from the 50s
YouTube - Lorrie Morgan - What Part Of No
YouTube - Lorrie Morgan - What Part Of No
Patsy Montana wrote and recorded this son in 1935
YouTube - Patsy Montana - Cowboys Sweetheart
Then this version by Holly Dunn I took from an old Nashville network recording I made on VHS in 1987 or 88 and transfered on DVD when I noticed the deterioration got too bad.....
YouTube - Cowboy Sweetheart
YouTube - Patsy Montana - Cowboys Sweetheart
Then this version by Holly Dunn I took from an old Nashville network recording I made on VHS in 1987 or 88 and transfered on DVD when I noticed the deterioration got too bad.....
YouTube - Cowboy Sweetheart
The King of Country Music
YouTube - Roy Acuff The Great Speckled Bird
A real tear jerker
YouTube - Old Shep Red Foley
That's a dandy by Patsy Montana (the female version of Wilf Carter)
YouTube - Roy Acuff The Great Speckled Bird
A real tear jerker
YouTube - Old Shep Red Foley
That's a dandy by Patsy Montana (the female version of Wilf Carter)
This gorgeous gal is Carolina Cotton - yodeling queen of the 1940s.
As I wrote above, C & W was a lot better in the old days. But, I suppose, that can be said to be true for just about every musical genre there is.
The Singing Ranger
YouTube - The Wreck Of The Old 97 by Hank Snow
A big hit in 1957
YouTube - Leroy Vandyke-The Auctioneer Song
Another dandy
YouTube - THAT'S MY PA by SHEB WOOLEY
YouTube - The Wreck Of The Old 97 by Hank Snow
A big hit in 1957
YouTube - Leroy Vandyke-The Auctioneer Song
Another dandy
YouTube - THAT'S MY PA by SHEB WOOLEY
The very recent country music is very good, much better than it has been over the past 20 years or so.
When I was very young I loved all of the old country songs and singers, now days I can't stand them,
but then I don't like a lot of the old rock and roll either, or newer pop music.
I have grown away from all of that style of music, now I love soft classical and old pop music, and
'the three tenors' and the like.
It's all in the eyes of the beholder, Gerry. There's no right or wrong kind of music, just what appeals to us, although it will be awhile before this modern stuff laced with violent thoughts and profanity will appeal to me. :lol:
Geryy H
One of the newer fellas that can sing and tell a story - Now that;s great country.
YouTube - Randy Travis Forever And Ever , Amen .. Song + Lyrics...
YouTube - Randy Travis - Three Wooden Crosses
YouTube - Deeper Than the Holler -- Randy Travis
I know - He was at the Northern Jubilee a couple of years back and I missed his show. He can still sing and wrote great songs.
Some people are saying its too bad we are not open minded enough to
accept the new country, I do accept the material that is real country.
Some of the stuff is not country, I even like the outlaw stuff, after all
Willie, Waylon, Jerry Jeff Walker and others were outlaw and they were
great.
The Allman Brother, Poco and Skynard were country as well, southern
country. These people were not mainstream but they had talent as
opposed to some of the shallow, shlock that is passed off as country
music today.
Some of those other artists that were really good also come to mind.
Gene Watson, Carl Smith, Leroy Vandike, Ernie Tubb, Henson Cargil
remember skip a Rope? Mel McDaniel.
accept the new country, I do accept the material that is real country.
Some of the stuff is not country, I even like the outlaw stuff, after all
Willie, Waylon, Jerry Jeff Walker and others were outlaw and they were
great.
The Allman Brother, Poco and Skynard were country as well, southern
country. These people were not mainstream but they had talent as
opposed to some of the shallow, shlock that is passed off as country
music today.
Some of those other artists that were really good also come to mind.
Gene Watson, Carl Smith, Leroy Vandike, Ernie Tubb, Henson Cargil
remember skip a Rope? Mel McDaniel.
I don't doubt the talent out there today but let's be realistic. Country music today is, for the most part, pop music sung by people with cowboy hats on and fake accents.
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Reba McEntire is good, GArth Brooks is a little over rated. Alan Jackson is another good one of the Pseudo Country era.
Yep, that's a good one, however it is the watered down version. When the song first came out the words at the end were "at the bottom of this mine lies a Hell of a man", but it had to be edited because the radio stations couldn't be playing something with that filthy language. :lol:
Carl Smith
YouTube - Cal Smith -- Country Bumpkin
Gerry h
All fine artists that you mention - C&W has changed over the decades and as one stated there is a lot of country pap out there. But also a lot of really fine artists as well.