There are occasional country tunes that I like from today's musicians but not many and the folks singing them don't seem to live the country life style anymore, but I guess most of the old timers were also more into whiskey, coke, and hookers than they were into withers, slickers and canvas bed rolls, but at least they looked the part, if they didn't actually live it. Now days most of the main stream country singers are all about tee shirts, tight jeans, and blondes that can't afford enough fabric to cover the rubber. Don't ya just love high grade surgery.......sh!t! Their Sculptors should be getting the awards, they're the ones with the magic!
Your right Sage, present country is more like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, Dion, Holly, Nelsen, the Everly Bro.etc. I liked early rock and roll, unless you call current country music the current rock and roll there is no longer any such thing as real rock and roll music. The black rock and roll artists that were the back bone of early rock and roll disappeared and it's all mostly rap and hate now.
As a kid I never did like the real old country, way too much nose and whine for my taste, (Snow, Hank Williams Senior, Wagner, couldn't stand Buck Owens, Jimmy Dickins, Roy Akuff, George Jones early stuff was hard for me but I liked his later stuff.
I really liked the "early new country". This is what I call "early new country".
I like almost everything done by Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings (Holly's bass player) Willie Nelsen (but not all). I could listen all day to Hank Williams Junior, Don Wiiliams, The Oak Ridge Boys, Statler Bro., Crystal Gail, Lacy J. Dalton, Emmylue Harris, Tom T Hall, Mel McDanials, Marty Robbins, Floyd Cramer, blues singer Delbert McClinton is fantastic, I like all of John Fogerty's stuff, in side and out of his Creedence period. I really like the Blue Grass singers from this period as well, The Dirt Band, Vince Gill, Ricky Skagges etc. I like Cajun and some Zydeco music as well it's all counrty music to me, and your absolutely right Sag, it's nearly impossible to find, and in my tight little valley you'll never pick it up on any Am FM Radio Station. The only place I can find it is on
www.pandora.com or my itunes library.
The Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelsen was what moved me to country music in the 1970's. It's also the longest song I ever heard, must be why I never hear it on the radio.
Now if your into throw backs and outside the established "cleaned up country" that you hear on AM FM today you might want to check out this gentleman. He happens to be the son of a first cousin but if you can over look the family connection with me you might find his stuff entertaining. He's the real deal in Canada but still doing the bars, honky tonks, and county fairs down here in the U.S. I think he's got a gig at Billy Bob?s in Fort Worth on Dec. 12, 2013 then he'll be at Indio, CA for the Stagecoach: California?s Country Music Fest on April 26, 2014.
If your interested in some edgy country check out
http://corblund.com
DC
