I love the BossHoss Cover
It’s a fucking great song. I don’t consider it country so much as country-adjacent. This is a hauntingly good remix.
Miley Cyrus also did a great cover.
I think it’s only ‘country-adjacent’ in that ‘mainstream country’ has moved away from this type of song to the now stereotypical “guns/trucks/girls/flag-waving”.
Most older country is the same honestly.
🎵 Country Roads… 🎵
West Jamaicaaaa
Island Mama…
I love the version from Me First And The Gimme Gimmes: YouTube
I’ve been fortunate enough to see them twice. So so so much fun.
Out of curiosity- do they have any original songs?
No. They will repeatedly state during their shows that they’re a cover band.
Miley Cyrus has a killer cover of it. https://youtu.be/wOwblaKmyVw?si=tDbbVbTgLhbYF_Nk
That one really is a banger. But watching that video again, I can’t get over how terrible the vocals would actually sound if she was up on the mic like that.
Yeah, I actually like this version better than the original. I think the slightly slower pace helps, but those instruments just do it for me
As long as Johnny Cash is considered Country Music, it’s not possible to “hate country music” anyway.
I’d put Marty Robbins above Johnny Cash, though I guess he’s more western than country.
It’s okay, we play both kinds of music here.
YOU AIN’T THE GOOD OL’ BOYS!!
We owe our appreciation of Johnny Cash to Rick Rubin who rescued him from literal dinner theater hell.
I’m the opposite side of the same coin: if I like it, I don’t consider it country music.
Lots of stuff without twang I’d just call folk music (add other terms if needed, American, western etc).
Also I’m glad the same thing didn’t do the same thing to rock. Like there is a certain mostly-post-grunge vocal style popular in the 2000s that’d be really annoying if it was part of most rock music.
Folk, blue grass, fast grass. All amazing and technically country…but not to me
Country music doesn’t have to be bad. Which means that the recent stuff is a deliberate stylistic choice. Do with that as you will.
Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny cash, Dolly Parton…I don’t like “country music” but can enjoy all of these artists. Country music has been bastardized by clearchannel, along with almost all other types of music. Fuck clearchannel (now rebranded as “I heart radio” which is…such a stupid fucking name)
There’s so much great music everywhere, and I truly enjoy nearly all music. But if you listen to FM radio it’s a damn shame that almost all of it is just the stale, overplayed, corporate safe stuff. THAT is the country most people dislike
Newer bands I can think of with an old school country feel are First Aid Kit, Gregory Alan Isakov, Secret Sisters etc. And the new Hunger Games movie soundtrack is a great sampler of slow and fast folk/bluegrass vibes
Local radio station plays Isakov, I wouldn’t have labeled him country, but I like him a lot.
That’s fair the acoustic indie/folk/country categories blur together in my head
“i heart corporate daddy for telling me what music to listen to”
The recent corporate stuff. There is still indie country and some of it is pretty good. Not something I actively listen to or anything, but I’ve heard good things before.
Townes Van Zandt is the peak of country music for me
Country is like Rock, it’s a side genre with mini genres. Johnny Cash and Kane Brown aren’t the same
I’ve never gotten the appeal of Johnny Cash. I guess I’m just not one for Texican yeehaw mumblecore.
The fact that you pinned Johnny Cash down to some made-up and obviously very narrow genre shows you really don’t know anything about Johnny Cash.
You don’t sing duets with everyone from Bob Dylan to Tom Petty if you stick to a very narrow music genre.
I’ve heard enough Johnny Cash to know I don’t want to hear anymore, or take any recommendations from his fans.
Have you? Because you described him in a way that sounds like you’ve only heard one or two songs he sang.
Probably closer to eight or ten. And that is absolutely enough.
I have my doubts considering how you describe his music. Would you call his cover of Nirvana’s Hurt “Texican yeehaw mumblecore?”
I couldn’t give the first two half-flaccid thrusts of a reluctant pity fuck.
Video song: Big enough
The white stripes:
‘Hold our guitar and drum sticks…’
🎵He finally drank his pain away, a little at a time…🎵
I used to think I didn’t like country music, but I realized that I’d been approaching it the same as people who “don’t like rap”; there’s so much rap and hip hop out there that it’s almost impossible to not eventually find something you like. And there’s… so much country music in the world.
Been jamming out to Mama’s Broken Heart recently.
Yeah. I like certain Country songs, but the average one I hear I don’t particularly care about.
Dolly Parton is a sweetheart and a saint. And a good performer.
Also Tyler Childers
Jolene slowed down to 33rpm made me really appreciate the song anew
How can a digital song be slowed down to 33rpms? Was it originally a 7" 45rpm vinyl single that was played at 33rpm? Then upload to YouTube?
It just doesn’t make sense to have digital audio “slowed down” to 33rpm, that’s like watching the Simpsons, sped up to 50rpms
You can get a lot of music on vinyl still, hell sometimes its easier to get than CDs. Even more niche artists like Hulkoff have music on vinyl.
Not just easier, they are now outselling CDs.
You know, it takes a very special blend of technical savvy and social ineptitude to generate a comment like this.
My granddad, who still asks “what’s on TV” because he just can’t wrap his failing dementia addled mind around “Everything. Everything is always on because on-demand video streaming.” wouldn’t think to make this comment because he never learned how digital audio works and has probably forgotten how record players work.
Neither would my niece, who I think hasn’t actually seen a phonograph in person but messes around with audio and video filters on the Tickagram all the time.
Neither would any of my acquaintances who are in audio/video production, because they have meaningful opinions on things like this software with this plugin or that software with that plugin to achieve that effect, possibly choosing methods depending on the source and destination of said audio.
Neither would my actual friends who know everything we’re talking about, but are socially capable enough to be friends with people.
You, fellow Lemmian, have that special blend.
You’re always with the pedantics.
Bo Burnham said it brilliantly:
I think some of the greatest song writers of all time are country artists: Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, you know? And if you’re writing honestly, that is art! And I would never bash that! Um, the problem is, with a lot of modern country music, wha- what is called “Stadium Country Music” Sort of Keith Urban Brand of Country music is that it is not honest, it is the exact opposite of honest
And then he launched into one of the best comedy songs of all time illustrating it perfectly 💪❤️
I call that ‘Nazi Country’. It’s completely unironic and not self reflective. The exact opposite of good country.
Also, good country compares favorably to rock by not being overloaded with testosterone.
Also, good country compares favorably to rock by not being overloaded with testosterone.
Unfortunately, it does not compare favorably to rock in that it’s not overloaded with nearly as much homoeroticism.
