Any old Blues, Country, Gospel or Jazz music fans here?

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I was curious if anyone else here likes old Blues, Country music or Jazz?

For me I love old Country music like Hank Williams Senior, Jimmie Rodgers, George Jones, Johnny Cash, Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff, Porter Wagoner, and Bill Monroe. I don’t listen to much of the stuff made after the 1960’s.

In terms of Jazz, I love Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Django Reinhardt, John Coltrane, most of the stuff they made in the 1920s,1930s and 1940s.

and as for Blues music, B.B. King, and stuff like his I enjoy.

I love old Gospel music: I love the traditional Catholic Hymns in Latin from the Middle Ages, and I love the old Southern gospel Hymns. Those old Southern Gospel Hymns have so much feeling in them, I love to play them and sing them.

I just don’'t really listen or care much for the newer stuff out there, and that goes for Blues, Jazz, and Country music as well.
 
Yes to Country! I love all the musicians you cite, but I also like many of the new artists and songs. I didn’t like country music growing up (twangy!), but when artists like Ronnie Milsap and Crystal Gayle came along in the late 1970s and early 80s, I loved their music. As I listened to them on the country stations, I heard some of the older artists, and I started developing an interest in their music, too.

I think that new music often leads to an exploration of and eventually a love for the older forms of that style of music.

I LOVE Patsy Cline–one of the most beautiful voices ever, and I love her reincarnation, K.D. Lang–the voice is so gorgeous.

I like gospel music, but I prefer it live, with local artists. Years ago, a Southern-born and bred pastor told me that many of the gospel artists live totally non-gospel lives off stage. When I go to concerts by our local gospel singers and groups, I KNOW many of these people–I know where they go to church and what their lives are like off stage.

I love bluegrass music. Bill Monroe is one of my idols, and I love Flatt and Scruggs and all their imitators!

Don’t really listen to a lot of current jazz, but I absolutely love Ella Fitzgerald and consider her one of the greatest singers of all time throughout the world. Her voice was amazing.

I tend to like a lot of the African American artists (Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, Leslie Uggams, the Supremes, etc.), and I currently love listening to Jennifer Hudson and Bruno Mars (Mars does more pop than jazz, but I think he’s an amazing musician).

I also love the “new” Lady Gaga–the one that does duets with Tony Bennett! I think her voice is unique and I appreciate her career arc, which I believe she planned all along. Brilliant woman and musician.
 
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In terms of Jazz, I love Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Django Reinhardt, John Coltrane, most of the stuff they made in the 1920s,1930s and 1940s.
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My swing dance club plays a lot of that kind of music. Don’t forget Count Basie.
 
Oh yeah. Johnny Cash, Uncle Dave Macon, Bill Monroe, Eddie Noack, Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt.

Howlin’ Wolf!

Charles Mingus, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, Thelonoius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and my guitar hero Sonny Sharrock.
 
I never thought I’d hear someone on here say Eddie Noack, or Uncle Dave Macon. Its funny because Uncle Dave Macon is actually my Cousin my Marriage (3 times removed, so he isn’t technically blood related), but it is awesome to hear someone bring up his name!
 
Blues – yes, altho I don’t listen to it a lot. Country – yes, real country; country rock not so much. Gospel – my mother’s extended family was and still is deep into Southern Gospel, so that would be a yes, also. Jazz – the big bands.

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I am 19 years old, I listen to all the stuff from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s conscientiously. I even dress up in suits and clothes from that era. My great grandma on my moms side was from Tennessee. Her siblings all played a musical instruments and used to play Bluegrass and old Country music, and I’ve got recordings of them singing and playing on old tapes. Before she died, she told my grandma and mom that Uncle Dave Macon was our Cousin by marriage, and he had a log cabin she would go to take care of his wife who was sick. I never met my great grandparents, but my mom and grandma told me all about them. My great grandpa was a big Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams Senior fan, and saw Hank play at the Grand Ole opry with my great grandma, grandma (who was very young) and some of my other relatives. I wish I could’ve been there to see and hear the music from that time.
 

my Two favorite Country singers are Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams Senior.
 
I am a fan of such music(s). Gospel is special to me and while I love Gregorian chant in liturgy, at home old gospel music is a joy! Blind Willie Johnson, Mahaila Jackson, Rosetta Tharpe are all great. In Jazz the pianist Mary Lou Williams, a convert to Catholicism. Gene Krupa was amazing on drums. Lionel Hampton was innovative and energetic. On the lighter jazz front, Cal Tjader.
 
I love jazz music and blues. I used to play jazz when I was younger as a saxophonist.

I love Coltrane, Miles Davis, and all the greats. For blues, one of my favorites, even though he did not live long was Stevie Ray Vaughan.
 
I don’t really know much about country music, but I recently found a CD at Half-Priced Books of the Chieftains playing country music songs. I really like it. Maybe I should explore country music more? I do enjoy Bluegrass.
 
Love Jazz! and I don’t care for the new stuff out here. The weird thing is I’m young!
 
I love classical music and traditional English church music, but my other great love is American country! Specifically American country. Not jazz, not blues, not Australian country - American country, from most eras, and also American Folk. My favourites are women from the 50s, 60s and 70s, especially Emmylou Harris, and a current performer - Dave Rawlings. Garth Brooks and Kris Kristofferson are other favourites, but I love ‘em all. 😀
 
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A genre which seems almost entirely overlooked is Hawaiian music - and i most definitely do not mean “Tiny Bubbles” In the 1950’s our family would listen to Hawaii Calls, provided via underwater cable from Hawaii. The list of performers is long… and you can start with any of the Pahanuis - Gabby especially.
 
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I don’t really know much about country music, but I recently found a CD at Half-Priced Books of the Chieftains playing country music songs. I really like it. Maybe I should explore country music more? I do enjoy Bluegrass.
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The Irish folk band The Chieftans? I love them and haven’t heard their country music album. I expect it’s very good!
 
Okay I also like Frank Sinatra and Begee Adair (sp?) don’t really know what categories those fall in but those are specifics that I can think of that may apply
 
Son Seals was great! I love the old stuff like Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, T-Bone Walker, Son House, and stuff like Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Louis Jordan
 
Sinatra was a Jazz singer, specifically a Crooner, which was a style that developed in the late 1920s with the invention of electric microphones! I love Frank, but one of my favorite Crooners is Bing Crosby, and Nat King Cole! Bing Crosbys recordings from the 1920s and 1930s were great!
 
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