Old country is much better than the complete garbage of modern day country
Country music
Submitted 6 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Today’s “country” is pop with a southern accent. Long live Lefty Frizzell, Marty Robbins, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Jeannie C. Reily, Hank Sr, Charlie Pride, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Porter Wagoner…
The list of amazing old country music is long as fuck if given a chance. The list of today’s good country artists? Charley Crockett, Sturgil Simpson, Hank III, John Moreland, American Aquarium. That’s about it, few more I’m forgetting I’m sure.
Pilkins@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Today’s POPULAR country is that way. There are still great country artists, they just don’t get as big. Molly Tuttle, Billy Strings, Charlie Crockett, Margo Price, Sarah Jarosz
MagikarpeDiem@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Honestly, even some of the more pop stuff pre-2000s was good. I do love me some Dwight Yoakam. But I can’t handle any of the stuff they play on country stations these days. All the songs sound the same and are almost all about the same exact things. I wouldn’t be surprised if they just have AI coming up these songs at this point.
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Can’t talk about great, old country without mentioning John Prine and of course Johnny Cash. There really is a lot of it.
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Absolutely. Og country has more in common with punk than modern Ford truck month country.
Happy you mentioned modern ones. It ain’t my jam, but people often lament how it’s all shit now when there are almost always artists keeping it alive. Just have to look a little harder.
Steeve@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Most old country is dogshit too, we just carry the good songs through decades!
ickplant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I absolutely agree with that.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Not sure when it’s about West Virginia
slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
You mean the home of the battle of Blair Mountain, union history making, miner rights fighting for, West Virginia!? You probably need to listen to more country music. Or read
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 6 months ago
🎶WEST VIRGINIA!
MOUNT YER MAMMA!
TAKE ME HOME!
TO MY COUSIN’S HOLE!🎶
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Hot cousin is just free xp you’re not sure if you want to farm
Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
That doggamn sky cowboy
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
The original music vid is funny how sincere it is.
I liked the memes too
kernelle@0d.gs 6 months ago
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
If you haven’t seen it, I implore you to watch the Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart. This song features heavily. It’s my favorite Ghibli film, heck it’s possibly my favorite film period.
nul@programming.dev 6 months ago
Just saw it for the first time a couple days ago. Beautiful film. Been keeping a running list of what age I should show Ghibli movies to my niece. I put this one at 13. She turns 4 soon, which I think is a good age to start her with Ponyo.
ickplant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thank you, this is an unexpectedly wholesome recommendation on a shitpost.
letsgo@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Or sing “Wet Vagina” and see if anyone notices.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Why do you think the other line is “mount’n mamma”?
PissinSelfNdriveway@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Had Mr sunshine on his goddamn shoulders ever visited wv he would have changed the lyrics… Ain’t nobody Wana go the the shithole that is wv
ickplant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ll say this, it’s one of the most beautiful states as far as nature goes. Going white-water rafting in the fall when the leaves are changing in the New River Gorge was spectacular. But everything else about the state… yeah. I traveled quite extensively there when I financially audited a coal company. It’s honestly just hopeless how poor and uneducated the people are, and how they vote against their own interests every single time, only making their situation more desperate.
PissinSelfNdriveway@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
100% this. I live like 4 miles from wv and have spent My whole life traveling through and doing industrial contractor work through every part of that state. The only parts that aren’t absolutely trash are the places people can’t live. We should just exterminate it and turn it into a national park…mother fuckers from there can’t even drive once they cross the line, they are always the ones that are going 10mph under the speed limit because they are confused by roads that aren’t shit.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Littering and?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Creating a public nuisance
HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Boon County matin’ call
ZetaLightning94@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Good ol song about Maryland
Forester@yiffit.net 6 months ago
It’s about NOVA
ZetaLightning94@lemmy.world 6 months ago
John Denver confirmed it was written about Clopper rd in Gaithersburg, MD when he would frequent it on his way home to WV.
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hell, even Germans love 'em some Country Roads.
HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I was in a pretty remote village (small road in) in the north and I heard a stereo play country road
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nice! My gf is from Manilla, total city girl. It’s a continuing joy learning what she does and doesn’t know about our pop culture.
Hopefully we’ll get her back home in the next year or two and I can put myself in her place.
How you like it? I have vague plans of us retiring there.
lud@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I didn’t know the NFL played games outside the USA. Odd that two American teams are playing in Germany. I wonder what the audience demographics are. Do Americans travel to Germany to watch the games or are there mostly Germans there?
Furedadmins@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Is that country or folk?
RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It was country music, back when it came out.
Now it would probably be called “Americana” or something.
Pharmacokinetics@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I am not American but I still like these songs.
Highwayman Wichita Lineman Hello Walls Funny how time slips away
Litany@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Check out Murder by Death’s new cover of Highway Man: youtu.be/tQh0RkGSvmY?si=0am1F9v9LMyPNJva
Etterra@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I exclusively associate that song with RTGame on YouTube obliterating his cities in Cities Skylines.
As an aside, IRL I like to call the state “Left Virginia” for ironic shits and giggles.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
That works on two levels, whether you’re bad at maps or want to reference it’s origin of leaving Virginia to stay with the Union during the civil war.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
The most modern country music I will listen to is Garth Brooks.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Jason Isbell?
Sturgill Simpson?
Blackberry Smoke?
Or do you like music about American flags, cheating pickup trucks, dead dogs, and terminally ill wives?
___spannungsbogen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
By odd chance, I got turned onto Sturgill last month and I’ve had all the albums on repeat since. I had always liked the odd bluegrass or folk song, but never had a real in with country before this. Excited to check out the rest of this list!
Fingers crossed that one of these are still touring.
Owljfien@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 months ago
Garth needs to tell the families where the bodies are buried, they need closure
Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Also me whenever Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ comes on
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My Filipina gf knew that one too! OTOH, “I do not know, what’s this?, Metallica?”
Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 6 months ago
Johnny Cash too!
cmbabul@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Give Dixieland Delight a try, similar vibe
AngryHumanoid@reddthat.com 6 months ago
This is accurate, I hate country music with a passion but freely acknowledge this is one of the 3 good ones.
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hell, even Germans love 'em some Country Roads.
nxdefiant@startrek.website 6 months ago
It’s much better in the original Klingon.
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 6 months ago
MOUNTAIN KAALAAAAAA
skeeter_dave@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
No, you hate pop country
ickplant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
True statement. Miss me with that truck-beer-girl-dog shit.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Huntin’ deer, chasin’ trout. A Bud Light with the logo facin’ out!
SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Steve Goodman and John Prine are said to have written the “perfect” country song. Incorporating as it does trucks, trains, the rain, mama, drinkin’ and prison.
“Well, I was drunk the day my mama got out of prison And I went to pick her up in the rain But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck She got run over by a damned old train…”
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’m sure there’s some dumbass country “truck-beer-girl-dog” songs that are great. Haven’t heard any but still
unoriginalsin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I get the hate for truck beers, don’t DUI folks. But what’s wrong with girl dogs?
willeypete23@reddthat.com 6 months ago
It called hick-hop
Torvum@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah this is more folk, like Fleetwood Mac or others. What would be called stadium country is pure trash, but god damn that folk music…
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I just hate songs I don’t vibe with
Classy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Bro country
savingcountrymusic.com/move-over-bro-country-boyf…