Country music is just as commercial as any other music these days. Nashville is a machine that pumps out corporate friendly garbage.
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shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoSomehow I’m not surprised that the music genre attributable to poor rural white folk I’d heavy on boot licking, especially considering how many voted for Trump.
bigfondue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s striking how much better country was when they had class consciousness
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Well you had songs like Sixteen Tons, what else am I missing?
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh, so many! Check out Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Sixteen tons was written by Merle Travis, who’s got a bunch of other great music as well.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
were those country (was that even a genre back then idk) or “folk”? I mean i think of the Guthries as folk musicians now, but i missed their heyday.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tyler Childers gets it. You just gotta stay away from the shit that airs on the radio.