What I learned about music on the Vision Quest...

UW_Doog_Bot said:

Swaye said:

YellowSnow said:

There is a lot of great country being recorded and performed live these days, but you have a do your homework and know where to look. It won't be the folks topping the Billboard county charts...this is the province of feegs like country legend, Clay Helton. And that's the difference between now and country's 1970s outlaw glory days when Waylon and Willie song tuff songs and ruled the airwaves.

That cat, Tyler, looks and sounds how I like my country to be performed.

Always loved me some Steve Earl. I grew up in Texas and one of my Dads constantly had real country on. The sound of my youth at deer leases, in the truck and whatnot was Johnny Paycheck, Merle Haggard, the Man in Black, Waylon and Willie, George Jones, Bob Wills, Hank and Freddie Fender. Bled into David Allan Coe and George Straight. That's real country. Sung by non pretty boys about real shit. Hard life. Blues and country should not be sung by bubble gum pop faggots. The whole point to the music is that it is inspired by a hard life. New country is for total faggots. Country stars should look like this:


Those motherfuckers look tough as horsehide baking in the sun.

That's pretty much the barometer for me for any music. Authenticity. It's why I can love punk, country, rap, metal, etc.

Inevitably the genre becomes popular on the back of authentic artists and then the marketing departments start trying to sell a knock off product that has all of the aesthetics but will never have any of the underlying artistic authenticity. That's part of why I hate Glam metal, late 80's "rock", pop country, lots of 2000's punk, etc.

Swaye said:

UW_Doog_Bot said:

YellowSnow said:

UW_Doog_Bot said:

Swaye said:

YellowSnow said:

There is a lot of great country being recorded and performed live these days, but you have a do your homework and know where to look. It won't be the folks topping the Billboard county charts...this is the province of feegs like country legend, Clay Helton. And that's the difference between now and country's 1970s outlaw glory days when Waylon and Willie song tuff songs and ruled the airwaves.

That cat, Tyler, looks and sounds how I like my country to be performed.

Always loved me some Steve Earl. I grew up in Texas and one of my Dads constantly had real country on. The sound of my youth at deer leases, in the truck and whatnot was Johnny Paycheck, Merle Haggard, the Man in Black, Waylon and Willie, George Jones, Bob Wills, Hank and Freddie Fender. Bled into David Allan Coe and George Straight. That's real country. Sung by non pretty boys about real shit. Hard life. Blues and country should not be sung by bubble gum pop faggots. The whole point to the music is that it is inspired by a hard life. New country is for total faggots. Country stars should look like this:


Those motherfuckers look tough as horsehide baking in the sun.

That's pretty much the barometer for me for any music. Authenticity. It's why I can love punk, country, rap, metal, etc.

Inevitably the genre becomes popular on the back of authentic artists and then the marketing departments start trying to sell a knock off product that has all of the aesthetics but will never have any of the underlying artistic authenticity. That's part of why I hate Glam metal, late 80's "rock", pop country, lots of 2000's punk, etc.

Funny thing about country music in the 60's is that even when Nashville was trying to push a "smooth" countrypolitian sound, the artists involved were all still authentic so it didn't matter. Patsy Cline was going to sound great no matter what.

That's when some really good music can happen when you have an authentic artist who then gets access to all the musical resources a big budget can bring.

Exactly. George Jones was a helluva lot smoother and more well produced than Waylon Jennings. But George Jones grew up the poor kid of an abusive alcoholic shipyard worker in Texas, so even though he was smoothed out in Nashville, that fucker is still legit. All those 1970s are before country singers grew up poor working class, or worse. Legit. These glam fags now are disgusting. I'd like to see the ghost of Waylon kick their fake assess all across the stage - and those old fuckers could do it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pE1QYlATnGo