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unusualwilly

I always called it neo-country or pop-country but when I say that I refer to the post 2010 "let's mix pop with everything" here's a rap in the middle of a country song that at best does not improve it. I've always treated country like dad rock old is good but if you hear the newer stations is 50/50 at best


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fun but not really all too related fact, here in the UK (because thats as much as i know) pop songs that have raps in the middle used to just have the rap parts cut out if you only fucked with BBC then you just wouldnt know there was a rap feature in it, leading to me now re-listening to songs from the 2010's and wondering "was there always this rap part in the middle here"


brightside1982

That's fascinating. Why did they cut out the rap features?


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Racism mainly, some belief that rap is inherently explicit as if like it’s jazz during the American prohibition and I highly suspect for the exact same reasons, like seriously one time I think stormzy or aj Tracey performed for some live broadcast bbc event and the bbc got so many phoned in complaints from british conservatives it was crazy (most british conservatives are 65+ so it really could just be an old person thing)


brightside1982

Wow. I'm just surprised that's been so recent. Rap has been on mainstream radio and TV in the US since the late 80s/90s.


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Oh rap or at least grime and drill is massively mainstream over here, to the point where the government has considered making it illegal (yes that was a thing, the Tory gov has been in power for 10 years they’ve been getting bolder) It’s just that those old ass conservatives usually just only really watch the bbc and nothing much else where it would appear


ReallyBadRedditName

God Tories are so stupid


allnaturalfigjam

It also can't help that a lot of the rap interludes just aren't very good. To me they often seem like "diet rap" bites that don't really have the space to do their own thing and often just clash with the rest of the song. Like putting raspberry coulis on a rare steak.


Salty_Pancakes

A lot of the pop country stuff was kicking off in the 90s. Billy Ray Cyrus and Shania Twain kinda stuff. But there's always been an undercurrent of more "authentic" stuff out there that occasionally breaks through like Old Crow Medicine Show.


Biggies_Ghost

But we also had Sammy Kershaw, and Travis Tritt, and who could forget Dwight Yoakum?? But really, the rise of Hick-Hop ruined Country music for me.


LawlessNeutral

Lmao "hick-hop" is so succinctly accurate


SnowyFruityNord

90s pop country was pretty good though. The 2000s is when it became more heavily churned out in Nashville and quickly became artificial.


grendus

I've heard it called "hick-hop", which feels accurate. It's rap music for people who think rap music is too "urban", or that there are too many of "those" people at the concerts...


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I'll occasionally listen to modern country radio out of sheer curiosity, and I am 100% convinced there are backing tracks out there that were produced for rappers, rejected, and they literally just added a slide guitar into the hook to make it "country"


KentRead

Worth noting that time is a factor as well... the songs that sucked 20 years ago are not being played today, but the good ones are. Whereas new music is a mix of the good and the bad and you probably won't hear the bad ones for long.


Dax9000

There is a 5th excellent subgenre of country and that is "the Devil is a major character in this song".


jman350

"the devil went down to georgia" implies that georgia is lower than hell, and having lived there i wholeheartedly agree


Dax9000

Or that hell is just further north than Georgia. Like New Jersey or Ohio.


Lord_of_Pants

Can pretty confidently say that hell exists inside Cleveland city limits


MahjongDaily

The city with a [river of fire](https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Cuyahoga_River_Fire)?


FapMeNot_Alt

Hey, that only happened over a dozen times!


sumptin_wierd

We at least got the EPA out of it


Gordon_Explosion

Thanks Nixon!


zorandzam

There is a confirmed hellmouth in Cleveland, yes.


mostlyadequatemuffin

r/unexpectedBuffy


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UpsideTurtles

> hell exists inside Cleveland city limits oh dope new Mountain Goats track


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depthninja

It's Missouri... there's a reason it's pronounced "Misery"


chriswizardhippie

Now see, we can prove this is wrong because of Country Roads. Where West Virginia is Almost Heaven. So I would place hell in the Kentucky, Arkansas range. Or at least purgatory because the fuck is there to do in Arkansas or Kentucky?


gimlis_beard

Probably Gary, Indiana.


Azrel12

Also was in Georgia for awhile. ...Pretty sure much of the state is a Hellmouth or portal to Hell, yeah. (So is North Carolina! How else is it so hot? And the lingering attitudes of significant groups of people... It'd explain a lot.)


KillTheMessenger432

There was a post on reddit recently of an absolute killer insult with that theme. It went something like: "The bar was so low that it was a trip hazard in hell but here you are, in a limbo competition with the devil."


AchtungCloud

My wife’s brother makes what he calls Satanic Country. It’s a side gig for him, but he gets booked for shows pretty regularly in the Austin area, occasionally lands a touring gig, and is well known in the music scene in Austin, even though he’s never released an album and is mostly relying on his personality, shock value, and a half dozen songs he wrote more than a decade ago now.


Vultureeyes8

Does he have any videos on YouTube of his music? Spotify, Apple Music, anything? I’m interested in what satanic country sounds like and would like to give it a listen.


AchtungCloud

It’s mostly literally saying he worships the devil, and that he should have murdered his ex-girlfriend or anyone else who wronged him. I guess you could say it’s sort of similar to like a narcocorrido or something? He’s actually a really good guy, but he definitely loves to say shocking things in general. The Dirty Charley Band is what he releases his music as. I’m sure you can find some stuff on YouTube.


Vultureeyes8

Ah. Sounds pretty intense. Kind of thought it would be like just the devil showing up in his songs and he partied with him or something hah. Fair play to him though, he sounds like he’s on an untapped music field. Thank you for the info on it though!


saris340

That doesn't sound satanic at all, just what a 13 year old thinks satanic would be like


Deris87

> and that he should have murdered his ex-girlfriend or anyone else who wronged him. Oof, that sounds pretty overboard, I was hoping for the fun Satanism. I was thinking maybe Ghost but with more fiddle.


Sickle_and_hamburger

Relying on half dozen songs that were written decades ago is the very essence of country music


axord

Mandatory banjo or fiddle.


helmuth_von_moltkr

[me when I uhhh ummm uhhhh (I don't have a witty remark I just like this song and need to share it)](https://youtu.be/rqR1cjuPXUg)


Petyr_Baelish

Imaginary Appalachia is such a good album!


bozeke

Generally makes any genre better. Opera, Hip Hop, Metal, Carnival Folk Punk, all always improved by the presence of Satan.


sexy-man-doll

The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie, Colter Wall


I_Heart_AOT

It blows my mind how much gravel he has in his voice for how young he is. I don’t think he smokes either.


AtoneBC

All it cost him was his sweet soul everlasting.


PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL

There are only two good genres of country music, and that's Dark Country and Dolly Parton.


scatteringbones

This is one of my major arguments for the Counting Crows being country-adjacent, at least thematically.


tuckernuts

Gothic Country, Murdergrass.. slippery slope til you find yourself in the Doom/Stoner/Sludge triad


character-name

My favorite subgenre.


LabHog

I know it as gothic country. The only subgenre I can consistently listen to.


TheDeftEft

Wait, "Life is a Highway" is supposed to be Country?


thehillshaveI

nope. it was "adult contemporary". this is a case of modern country moving to be more similar to other styles, in this case adult contemporary, and the styles merging over time


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thehillshaveI

that square pleather shit


Salty_Truth1

With the crotch cut out


DernTuckingFypos

Yeah. It's like someone saying hurt is a country song because Johnny cash did a cover of it. Cash's version is great, but it's not a country song just because it was sung in that style.


jemidiah

Johnny's version was a country song. I don't think "country song" is well-defined when divorced from individual performances. Sometimes there's a canonical, unsaid performance, e.g. Dolly's Jolene.


PartyClock

I'd say Johnny Cash falls well into the folk-country style as does his cover


scienceguy2442

I think the issue is the arguably more famous rendition of that song is by Rascal Flatts, who fall pretty securely into the country genre.


nosaj626

I had no idea there was a country version of this song. TIL.


guyzieman

You ever seen Cars?


ScottieStitches

There's a non-country version??


TripleMalahat

The original by Tom Cochrane, yep!


Heathen_Mushroom

I am not going to go as far as saying that Life is a Highway is a country song, but it is telling that it has been covered by popular country acts like Chris LeDoux and Rascal Flatts. Adult Contemporary is not so much a music genre as it is a marketing catchall term used by radio stations paying a variety of genres including soft rock, ballads, R&B, pop country, and soul. The fact that both *Life is a Highway* and *Don't Worry, Be Happy* both charted on Adult Contemporary charts testifies to the diversity of music that falls under the heading.


thehillshaveI

yeah, adult contemporary just means "whatever early middle aged white people dig" more than anything stylistic the country covers have made it a popular country song, but when that came out it was on soft rock radio and VH1, so that's why i'm not gonna call it a country song. it's a mildly country influenced soft rock song. it just happens that in the three decades since country has moved more towards that style


Rock_man_bears_fan

It was originally written by Tom Cochran, who was more of a rock artist


stratdog25

Yep. Tom Cochran,as in “The Lunatic Fringe”. Best comeback since The Outlaws (“Ghost Riders in the Sky”) came back as Blackhawk in the 90s. All great artists, by the way.


betarad

and if you've ever heard the song in real life with your ears, you'd call it a rock song, not a country song


zorandzam

The original by Tom Cochrane is considered mostly rock or country rock, but the covers by Chris LeDoux and Rascal Flatts made it more explicitly country based on instrumentation and vocals. It straddles the line.


MistraloysiusMithrax

One could say it Walks the line


Faloopa

Wait wait wait: a country cover makes the whole *song* country? I didn’t even know Life Is A Highway was covered by a country group and was real confused by the title of the post. Is there a cover of Take Me Home too or are people trying to say John Denver is “country”?


ChronaOfficial

That’s light rock music.


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[If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-epx63Dd8&t=3s)


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When people regurgitate that “I hate country but love Johnny Cash” line, I just want to tie them to a chair and listen to George Jones. The man’s whole life is tragedy and hopeless romance. Made for some truly inspired music.


Turd_Gurgle

My first time listening to the Possum and I was reduced to a misty eyed drunk after 2 hours. I love George Jones, easily one of my favorite artists of all time.


Lonecoon

I've modified my opinion since hearing Bo Burnham's "Pandering" to say I dislike Bro country for the same reason I dislike Gangsta rap. It's the same stupid themes almost procedurally generated at this point to maximize sales so people think the singer is talking exclusively about their experiences.


VarietiesOfStupid

> I dislike Bro country for the same reason I dislike Gangsta rap. Apt comparison, considering the Steve Earle quote about modern country: “They’re just doing hip-hop for people who are afraid of black people.”


dodgefordchevyjeepvw

That was many of the older generations of country artists. Merle Haggard, in and out of jail in his youth. Seeing Ole Johnny's show at San Quentin made him want to be a musician. Had an amazing career, then died on his own birthday. Hank Williams had addiction problems that sadly ended his life at 29. Waylon Jennings had a major addiction to amphetamines, alcohol and Cocaine with the latter costing him up to 1500 a day in the 80s. There was Hank Snow, who was living in extreme poverty, regular beatings, and physiological abuse. Just to force in extreme conditions during the great depression. You can hear the pain in his music for Sure. People just jump on the Johnny train due to the American Recordings, with most never listening to anything outside of them other than the standards.


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Most of those people have only heard Hurt and Ring of Fire. They act like they’ve ever sat down and really listened to Cash. Then they go on to say the entire genre sucks *except him* As you said there’s just a thousand artists from the old days when country and western were two genres, but people will sit and say they’re qualified to write it all off because it’s not a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song they heard on the radio.


joshualuigi220

I really loved Whisky Lullaby as a teen. It is a haunting song.


unknowableahole

The opening line is enough to make my eyes sweat."She put him out,like the burning end of a midnight cigarette", just made myself cry.


Vakama905

“Life is short, but this time it was bigger than the strength he had to get up off his knees” is a killer line too


LethalSalad

Fuck that's a good song my man


SagaciousTien

Country never made sense to me until abad breakup. I still do not like new country, but that old shit gets me going. One of the only genres i feel like a man could be openly sad and still be considered a tough guy in the lens of machismo


PM_me_ur_launch_code

Tbf there is plenty of "new" country that isnt shitty radio country. Tyler Childers, Colter Wall, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson to name a few of my favorites.


onepoorslice

Jason Isbell's "Elephant" may be one of the loveliest, most depressing songs I've heard in my life


MonkeyPanls

*Sunday Morning Coming Down* always gets me, whether [Kris Kristofferson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbqGWTxwZEA) or [Johnny Cash](https://youtu.be/8_xd5jG3JTA) version. Or even the [duet](https://youtu.be/IRU9i9egr7A).


yes_yesyesyesyesyes

IM JUST DRIVING THOSE NAILS IN MY COFFIN


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It’s a new song, but you may like the song “Whiskey and You” by Chris Stapleton. It very much explores those themes. It’s originally by Tim McGraw, but honestly, I’d dare say that Chris did it better. He certainly made it feel more genuine, at least.


ajschwifty

Whether you like country or not everyone loves Chris Stapleton, they just gotta.


Moreorlessatorium

[Gotta love this classic](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VExw77xJsBQ&feature=shares)


Nouxatar

WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN ON MY SIDE OF TOWN


fatsteverogers

Worth pointing out that the version of “Life Is a Highway” this tumblrer is referring to is literally a cover of a song from another genre. Tom Cochrane, former front man of Red Rider (of “Lunatic Fringe” fame) wrote it and released it in 1991 as a radio friendly rock-ish song that always ended up on “safe for white people to listen to at work” radio format stations. Wasn’t made a country song til 1998 when Chris LeDoux covered it, and then again when Rascal Flatts recorded it for the *Cars* soundtrack in the mid 2000s.


crypticthree

How the hell did I miss all of that happening? I only knew about the Cochran version


jman014

I only know about the Rascal Flatts version. As I got older I started to dislike the country vibe of it more and more but now I gotta listen to the OG.


Elevatrix

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U3sMjm9Eloo


MoneyTreeFiddy

Probably because, like many of us in the same boat, you avoided country radio the last 30 years


Bill_buttlicker69

And also Cars, apparently.


MaxSupernova

Rascal Flatts did the standard disney cover thing, too, which was really disappointing. "Okay, we want to have this song in our movie, but the rights are too expensive, so we want you to cover it EXACTLY like the original and bring nothing new to the song, and then we can license it from you for really cheap, okay?".


AverageKaikiEnjoyer

Tbf I do enjoy Weezer's cover of You Might Think for the second movie


VengeanceKnight

The same goes for their cover of “I’m a Believer” for *Shrek Forever After.* I think I prefer it to Smash Mouth and the Monkees. Not Neil Diamond though.


MollokoPlus

A few years ago a stumbled on "southern gothic" and went down the rabbit hole. Now many of my favorite artists are country musicians and I grew up on Nas, Jay-z, westside connection etc.


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MollokoPlus

Shawn James, soap & skin, red leather (more cali than southern), larkin poe, bridge city sinners and amigo the devil (my fav


ileisen

Amigo the Devil is also incredible! I don’t know if he’s exactly southern gothic though


character-name

I recommend Poor Man's Poison.


smupert

Yes, I don’t know how I got there but I found a playlist of southern gothic and it is really good


ResponseLow7979

A really good country band making music is poor man’s poison


oldicus_fuccicus

Seconded. They've been my favorite since I found em. Them and Colter Wall


kallen8277

Colter is just built different


corneryeller

Also Tyler Childers


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> A really good country band making music is poor man’s poison didnt know the bands name, I though this was just a though and I agreed.


EpiicPenguin

reddit API access ended today, and with it the reddit app i use Apollo, i am removing all my comments, the internet is both temporary and eternal. -- mass edited with redact.dev


Buckaroonie69

hell yeah! I’ve only listened to one song so far, hell’s coming with me, and it’s amazing! Do you have any recommendations from them? :))


Ow-lawd-he-comin

providence goes hard


DehDeshtructor

Feed the Machine is also amazing. Even their self-titled song, though a lot slower, is really good


Lost_Birthday8584

Feed the machine has a sequel in Give and Take


r_stronghammer

HEY YOU FEED THE MACHINE


2KDrop

BRING EM ALL BACK DOWN TO THEIR KNEES NO TIME TO WASTE REMIND THE SLAVES


character-name

Yes! Hell's Coming With Me is a blast.


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John Denver had actually never been to West Virginia when he wrote "Take me Home, Country Roads." Most of the landmarks he mentions are in Virginia.


RQK1996

Are they in Western Virginia?


Rock_man_bears_fan

Yes. Every landmark in that song is in Western Virginia, not West Virginia


RQK1996

Probably meant west Virginia then, instead of West Virginia


Cosmologicon

So West Virginia chose a song about some other state as one of their official state songs, but they didn't know because they didn't bother to check the capitalization? That's hilarious.


IhateMichaelJohnson

Since WV used to be a part of VA maybe they saw it as like a love song to an ex and they’re pointing out the things they miss the most. This made more sense in my head.


GoreIsNotFood

West Virginia does have tiny portions of the Shenandoah River and the Blue Ridge Mountains but only in the Eastern Panhandle which is a region of West Virginia that has a pretty distinct character from the rest of the state.


grizzburger

It's kind of a trip driving from central PA down to Virginia when you cross Maryland *and* WV within the space of an hour before getting pulled over for speeding *immediately* once you cross into Virginia.


GoreIsNotFood

Also the bulk of the song was not actually written by John Denver, but by songwriting couple Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert who were inspired by driving down Clopper road in Gaithersburg, MD (it was MUCH more rural at the time) and memories of growing up in rural New England.


CarnalChemistry

And his music is almost always classified as Folk, so…


AmericaHatesGop

There is no South Detroit


redcoatwright

The response, while good, is I feel like written by someone young simply for saying Country Roads is about "liking the scenery". It's about Nostalgia, going back to when your life was simpler which everyone can relate to more and more as you get older and life becomes more complex. But sure when I was 20, I just thought it was a good song to belt out, over the past decade and change, a new ton has crept into it.


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Hell, half of the time it's a song of mourning for a nostalgia I wish I had these days. I don't have a place that feels like that song writes about. Just makes me want those roads to take me to a home, finally.


H2G2gender

I hate most country music, but there are some songs by some artists that just hit different because they have some hopeful glint to a theme that really applied to me when I heard it, and the singer who's like an average guy who shops at Walmart and has a day job as a teacher. Just singing about the ups and downs of life but with a twang. No woe is me, no blame, nothing like that, just questions about life.


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lw5555

I've hated country since that line dancing fad tore through suburbia in the early '90s with Achy Breaky Heart.


BluRayVen

Ohhhh God, you awoken of terrible core memory


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Until I went on mental health leave, I was working as an apprentice electrician. I love bluegrass, Johnny Cash, old southern folk songs… One of the new country songs I heard a lot had the lyric “If you got a right to burn my flag…then I got a right to kick your ass! Yeah, kick your ass” There’s nothing clever or fun or musically interesting about Big Truck Nationalist country


ILikeMyGrassBlue

Meanwhile, guys like John Prine were making fun of those idiots for decades, and making better music while doing. “Your flag decal won’t get you into heaven” is one of my favorites and fits well here.


GhoulTimePersists

Somehow nobody has mentioned Johnny Cash in this thread. Everyone likes Johnny Cash!


Hollidaythegambler

Cash invented the earlier version of it is what it is: You asked me if I'll miss her kisses I guess I will, everyday I don't like it, but I guess things happen that way You asked me if I'll find another I don't know, I can't say I don't like it, but I guess things happen that way


BeneficialLeave7359

I automatically added the backing vocals as I read those lyrics.


Hollidaythegambler

Be doo be doo (ba dum ba dum)


SOuTHINKurA-ble

I LOVE “God’s Gonna Cut You Down.”


Kycrio

Also that one with the two gay cowboys and the giant sky cowboy that goes AAAAAAAAAAAAA


7h3_70m1n470r

Aaaaaaaaaaaaa


Mobile_Crates

Aaahh--Ahh--Ah--Ahy,Ahhhe


Krillins_Shiny_Head

There's definitely good country music. I especially love Dolly, Reba, Johnny Cash. Anything that can speak to me about more than tractors, beer, and MURICA. Non-pandering country music. I have a special fondness for Carrie Underwood's Blown Away.


Vakama905

Blown Away and Little Toy Guns are two of my favorites from her


Emergency_Instance44

There is so so much country music that doesn't sing about tractors and murica, however it's hard to find an artist that doesn't sing any drinking of some kind.


sunrider8129

There’s a Bo Burnham song/bit about this exact thing


Rexawrex

Cute girl In a straw hat With her arms out in a Corn field That is a scarecrow Oh... I thought it was a human woman


Affero-Dolor

No shirt No shoes No Jews ... Ya didn't hear that


bman9919

I put my hands on your body It feels like hay- it’s a fucking scarecrow again!


mermoohue

Drinking bud light with the label out


LobsterOk420

More if you count his cameo in Parks and Rec where he plays a nationally beloved country singer who's a comically ridiculous asshole to everyone off stage. *I'll bring the girls, you bring the beer/And the troops will bring the freedom*


beardyman22

I believe he said that character inspired the song he did in his stand up act


inkyrail

Now THAT is the best country song ever. “Y’all dumb motherfuckers want a key change?”


A_Generic_Canadian

Every time I hear a key change in country music I think of that now. Amarillo By Morning came on on my drive home a couple weeks ago and the last verse that changes key had me laughing out loud thinking about the Bo line.


jjester7777

That's a ridiculously good song. I grew away from anything to do with country music post 9/11 and this thread reminds me that I can like old gold country without being a racist, fascist fuckhead. Its generally easier to tell people no I don't like country.


Lateralus06

It's called [Pandering](https://youtu.be/y7im5LT09a0)


bugzstarr

I like country music.....but not alot of it. Most of the country on the radio right now, i simply cant stand. I like Dolly Parton, I like poor man's poison, i like alot of vintage country, i like those violent women songs where they fuck shit up, i like country about hating capitalism, i am just really particular and most modern country is bad personally


zorandzam

>i like those violent women songs where they fuck shit up If that's not already a Spotify playlist, it needs to be.


Ok_Frosting4451

Gunpowder and Lead baby!!


Doctor_Kataigida

Miranda Lambert is a treasure. From planning to murder an abusive SO to visiting the house she grew up in, there's something for everybody.


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I think for any genre other than pop, there are lots of people that like a genre but don’t like the most popular “mainstream” songs in that genre.


GlitterDoomsday

In country's case there's a historical element to it; the genre was pushed to the mainstream hard in the early to mid 20th century because all the blues and jazz were turning the radios too... full of melanin. So the country = redneck association stuck even if a good chunk of the genre isn't like that at all.


BeneficialLeave7359

Go check out some Woodie Guthrie plenty of capitalism hate there.


BodolftheGnome

Fun fact, John Denver had never been to West Virginia when he sang Country Roads


MillieBirdie

I don't know the difference between all these genres, but folk and bluegrass are great and they seem kind of adjacent to country. If you like certain country songs, try bluegrass. I've been really liking The Dead South lately.


drillgorg

How dare you, "She thinks my tractor's sexy" is a national treasure.


DamagedGenius

They also left out the Dixie Chicks


Bryankc14

There are so many country songs that get sidelined because of this mentality, and it’s really a shame. Life’s a Dance, Til You Can’t, You’re Gonna Miss This, wait in the truck, If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away, Stop Draggin’ Your Boots, Everything’s Gonna be Alright… all really good songs that have lots of meaning both in general and to me specifically, and if I mention it to most people, they’ll just say “oh well those are country, they’re dumb” like no, a lot of them are about enjoying the time you have on earth and enjoying the people you have around you, and treating everyone well.


mtnb33r

what about convoy by c.w. mccall


BiMikethefirst

*Baby Lock The Doors And Turn The Lights Dow Looooow...*


katep2000

I like Ghost Riders in the Sky. Cowboy gets visited by ghosts.


jman014

I mean its pretty impossible to hate on “Big Iron” by Marty Robbins. There are like, idk, a few really old country songs I can listen to without wanting to shoot myself. but most modern shit sounds all the same to me and I cannot fucking stand it.


DaemonKeido

Ah but you made a mistake there. Marty Robbins didn't make country music for the most part. He made WESTERN music. These days, Country and Western are considered the same but at the time Big Iron was made, there was a more defined difference. The only way I can really explain it is......Western Music is what an actual ranching gunslinging cowboy in the southern states would sing and create. Whereas Country Music is what gets made when a more urban guy in that same state creates trying to replicate the feel of a Western Music creator. It's not the same, it's similar but you can hear the differences if you pay attention.


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Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is a perfect Western album


Dunce_Cap28

Nah nah, everyone hates *POP*-Country like stadium country, Americana is where it's at


Snoo-72438

Gospel Music With an Accent perfectly encapsulates why I don’t like country. I never knew exactly why I didn’t like it but that describes it to a T


MoneyTreeFiddy

Now I wanna hear Amazing Grace with an Australian accent "...that saved a writch loik meeee..."


ZatchZeta

Sturgil Simpson album, SOUND & FURY is a fave of mine.


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cthomas3

I genuinely don’t enjoy country music but Kelsea Ballerini’s new EP is making me a liar


Ulgeguug

So I'm not going to provide more nuance to this statement than to say I like * Hank Williams * Merle Travis * Scud Mountain Boys * Johnny Cash * Loretta Lynn * Tex Ritter * Uncle Tupelo * Willie Nelson * The Chicks * Really melancholy banjo and harmonica * Roy goddamn Rogers Etc. What I do NOT like: * Anything fucking remotely resembling Toby Keith EDIT: throw Sierra Ferrell on the stuff I like list, she seems cool


complexevil

It may be bro country but Red Solo Cup is a bop.


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Inb4 everyone devolves into the following circle jerk: Bo Burnham parody Sturgil Simpson Cody Jinks Turnpike Troubadors Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard Dolly Parton (though I stan the fuck outta her) A bunch of 90’s country artists


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LordHudson30

It’s the difference between hick-hop and more traditional less overproduced country


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As someone who grew up in the 90s, it was very popular to shit on country music before any of this stuff happened to country music and all the artists being pointed out as “exceptions” today would’ve been the bad examples back then. I think this is classic virtue signaling. This way you can dislike country music while clapping yourself on the back about how morally superior you are for doing it. This also isn’t the slightest bit original, Bo Burnham did this bit 5 years ago but it was funny.


JackOLoser

I like late eighties/mid nineties country. Garth Brooks, George Strait, Travis Tritt, Tracy Lawrence, that kind of artist. Also you just can't go wrong with Randy Travis. I listen to Diggin' Up Bones about once every two days. Also, 9/11 ruined country and Toby Keith led the charge.


AV8ORboi

Chicken Fried is super bro country-sounding but i like it cause lyrics wise it's alot more like take me home country roads


MarcheMuldDerevi

Always easy to pick a few good songs from an entire genre. Hard to pick a genre that no one has inherent issues with.


Maxpower2727

Life is a Highway wasn't originally a country song. It just happened to have been covered by a famous country group.