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[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago

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...

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

I got a beer I'm my beer and a Chevy in my truck...

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tomato go!

Pop music is also highly repetitive, that’s the appeal of it

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That gun was always up a butt. That was the one thing consistent in that song.

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Billy strings, sturgill simpson

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Billy strings is hella talented.

It's somewhere on the bluegrass<>country spectrum I wouldn't really call it country music.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Id argue bluegrass is a subset of country

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I wish radio stations felt that way too so they'd play some decent shit instead of pop garbage.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think so, I found them from reading something about the history of the dead

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Trampled by turtles, the devil makes three

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I love The Devil Makes Three

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sierra Ferrell is another great one, she does some songs with Billy Strings.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Those black eyes peas tasted alright to me, Earl

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Take a ride to laaaaake EARL...

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And, of course, their careers died because they dared to not be right-wing.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I suspect they are still not ready to make nice.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"now I see it"

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I love folk punk, and ska punk too.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Colter Wall, Joshua Quimby, and Nick Shoulders too!

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

“Goodbye, Earl!”

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Townes van zandt rolling in his grave right now seeing the state of modern country music

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Livin' on the road, my friend, was gonna keep us free and clean...

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Now our breath's as hard as kerosene

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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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, come on… I took one look at him and knew what team he played for lol

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's something about his voice that I have a hard time with.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have a hard time too… but in a good way. 🥰

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Country music used to be about solidarity with the working class. Now country music is all about who can like a boot the fastest.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That or stealing tropes from rap while being aggressively written by people who think wrap is "gang music"

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I would like to humbly suggest to you Brent Cobb.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Goodbye Earl -The Chicks

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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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ain't too many slurs I know that be worse than "Trashwina." Matter of fact, I might start using that.

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