Seems to me that a lot of good music artists weren't as popular at the time as we would assume and there's a ton of shitty forgettable artists who were more popular than you remember in every genre. Country I think is the worst with that.
Even country artists I respect relied a ton on covers and filler and songs they didn't write and that genre always seemed to maintain the it's all about the singles mindset of the 50s that came back 10 years ago.
Toby was pretty good for that time when Kenny Chesney and a bunch of shitty female artists were dominant and Courtesy of the Red White and Blue to me kicks ass musically aside from just being a great song for the time. It shouldn't be controversial even now retroactively to aggressively express you want to blow up people who murdered thousands of innocent Americans and would have killed every single one of us if they could.
Yes, there was smooth Nashville sound in the 60s (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_sound#Countrypolitan
) but I don't think you could say that the 2 biggest country starts of the 60s- i.e., Merle and Johnny Cash were adherents of it. And in the 70s Outlaw era - when Waylon and Willie became superstars - they were clearly the biggest names in the bidness. I guess my point is that the biggest stars in modern country seem formulaic , where as the giants of the 60s and 70s weren't following a formula even though one certainly existed at the time.
Would be nice to see you name out your 3-5 biggest stars by era/decade in Country … it would be interesting to see if you would classify those stars as formulaic and also whether you'd view those by being part of the Nashville machine or outside of it.
Taking Toby as an example, he never really felt Nashville to me and is far more closer to what you'd see with the Red Dirt Country scene that you get in Texas and his native Oklahoma
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Seems to me that a lot of good music artists weren't as popular at the time as we would assume and there's a ton of shitty forgettable artists who were more popular than you remember in every genre. Country I think is the worst with that.
Even country artists I respect relied a ton on covers and filler and songs they didn't write and that genre always seemed to maintain the it's all about the singles mindset of the 50s that came back 10 years ago.
Toby was pretty good for that time when Kenny Chesney and a bunch of shitty female artists were dominant and Courtesy of the Red White and Blue to me kicks ass musically aside from just being a great song for the time. It shouldn't be controversial even now retroactively to aggressively express you want to blow up people who murdered thousands of innocent Americans and would have killed every single one of us if they could.
Also The Taliban Song is underrated.
Yes, there was smooth Nashville sound in the 60s ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_sound#Countrypolitan ) but I don't think you could say that the 2 biggest country starts of the 60s- i.e., Merle and Johnny Cash were adherents of it. And in the 70s Outlaw era - when Waylon and Willie became superstars - they were clearly the biggest names in the bidness. I guess my point is that the biggest stars in modern country seem formulaic , where as the giants of the 60s and 70s weren't following a formula even though one certainly existed at the time.
Yella,
Would be nice to see you name out your 3-5 biggest stars by era/decade in Country … it would be interesting to see if you would classify those stars as formulaic and also whether you'd view those by being part of the Nashville machine or outside of it.
Taking Toby as an example, he never really felt Nashville to me and is far more closer to what you'd see with the Red Dirt Country scene that you get in Texas and his native Oklahoma
if you hate on Toby, you have to hate on Garth and Tim too
Courtesy of the Red White and Blue is awesome if it wasn’t based on a Deep State lie.
TITTT
I don’t like Garth nor Tim. The 90s is when cuntry turned to shit.
Your going to hate my response in the pole then
The boot in your ass song was too cheesy to ever take seriously, but nearly everything else Toby touched was fucking gold.
The only cuntry signer who could really pull off patriotic music without sound like a cheeseball was Merle.
"We don't smoke marihuana in Muskogee" is one of the greatest opens lyrics of a song in any genre. Even if there was a bit of satire going on here.
Colbert's about as popular as Deboer around these parts, but I thought this was a touching tribute to his friend Toby
This is a safe space @GreenRiverGatorz
Great monologue