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Well, Gram was the visionary artist, the Eagles commercialized his schtick, and today’s country rockers have commercialized it more.

The artistic thread of it runs more through the country-influenced indie rock acts like Drive-By Truckers and Magnolia Electric Co. and such. I don’t listen to that stuff so much though, tried DBTs and didn’t like em, and I preferred Molina’s Songs:Ohia stuff and then he died so that was that.

I would like very much to go to Joshua Tree and stay in the room Gram died in. Husband and I went to Joshua Tree years ago but just drove through the park and looked at rocks, didn’t stay. I never could stand Emmylou Harris though. I didnt care for her vocals.
 
My mom loved him too. 🙂
She was old enough to be his mother. Maybe even his grandmother, lol!
 
I too like 90s and earlier. Today’s country for the most part, I don’t like.
 
I’m a Blake Shelton fan. Got three of his CDs in my car (had another album on my phone before losing my password).
 
The Bellamy Brothers has this weird, quirky reality show on The Cowboy Channel called Honky Tonk Ranch.

I watch it whenever I can wrest the remote from the rest of my family who do NOT understand why I like anything on The Cowboy Channel.
 
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Yeah, most of the bro country of today is just slightly modernized 70s top 40, especially if one was heavy into the Eagles and all the related/ soundalike bands. Someone mentioned Blackberry Smoke, I don’t even think of them as country. They’re classic rock.
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That’s similar to my cousin’s theory. The country stars today are doing what classic rock stars did in the 70s.
 
I love country music, but I love the old school. I love Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Lefty Frizzell etc.
Since I am from Kentucky, I love Bluegrass music and I am a HUGE fan of Dwight Yoakam (who is from Kentucky).
 
Another great star from years gone by…Glen Campbell. His rendition of “Gentle on My Mind”, although not the original (John Hartford wrote the song and recorded the initial release), is a classic. The cover of that song by the Band Perry is terrific too…especially the live version recorded at the 2014 CMAs. Outstanding.
 
More old school country my husband and I enjoy:
Merle Haggard
Conway Twitty
George Jones
Johnny Cash
 
LOVE both kinds–Country AND Western!

Also bluegrass, Cajun, and Zydeco, Southern Gospel, and some folk, but it has to be real folk songs, not just songs about drugs and world peace sung in a folk style.

I love Johnny Cash, too–what a voice! And George Jones–his life matched his voice and both matched his songs.

I love a group called Riders in the Sky–my husband and I have been fans since we first saw them in college decades ago. So glad they won a Grammy for Toy Story II. Great performers and great men.

And I absolutely love anything by Ronny Milsap! Such a great singer and pianist, and what a life story!

Oh, what a nice thread!

My daughters like Country, too. And opera.
 
If any of y’all are bluegrass fans, check out the Hillbilly Thomists.
They’re some Dominicans from the House of Studies in DC who are just rocking.
 
Loved Johnny Cash as a youth. Willie, Waylon, Kris K . Hank W now and then. But recently got back into it with Cody Jinx, Chris Stapleton, Aaron Lewis, etc. They mix old and new with original sounds
 
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I came home the other day and my father was listening to Ray Price. Loudly. It was funny because it used to be that my parents would come home and my sister and I were blasting music, now the roles have reversed. 🙂
 
Though much of the country music over the last few decades leaves me pretty cold - it doesn’t feel real to me - I love, LOVE, country music from the golden age, from the late 40s through to about 1970…maybe a little later. There is something about that music that sums up so much of the American experience; it could also laugh at life and itself, which is pretty rare in modern music. So yes to Cash, Wynette, Frizzel, Jones, Cline, Gentleman Jim Reeves and a host of others too many to name. And another cheer for bluegrass and real folk music!

Fun topic! 🙂
 
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