Country Music fans step inside

[DaveTN]

This is a great video and the production is pretty amazing when you think about what was involved.

There are 30 Artists/Groups in this video. Test your country music skills by seeing if you name them as they appear.

Or if you think you are a country expert; see if you can name them as you hear them without looking at the video. 

 

 

 

[KahrMan]

That was a pretty cool video.

[Capbyrd]

I saw this on Facebook recently and my comment was something along the lines of over half of those people have never sung a country song. 

[Chucktshoes]

11 minutes ago, Capbyrd said:

I saw this on Facebook recently and my comment was something along the lines of over half of those people have never sung a country song. 

Fact. 

[gun sane]

I don't listen to much country music, but wasn't that last one Lady Gaga?

[Hozzie]

Call it country or not, the proof is in the pudding, e.g. $$$.  These artists sell what people want and old school country just isn't it anymore.  You can argue outlaw country still has some footing, but true old school country is in the past.  It isn't ever coming back, at least not in a mainstream way.  

Music changes generationally and the old country generation is getting well, old.  With it goes the demand for that type of country music.  

Edited October 11, 2016 by Hozzie

[Hozzie]

5 minutes ago, gun sane said:

I don't listen to much country music, but wasn't that last one Lady Gaga?

I have to admit, this comment was pure gold.

[Chucktshoes]

14 minutes ago, Hozzie said:

Call it country or not, the proof is in the pudding, e.g. $$$.  These artists sell what people want and old school country just isn't it anymore.  You can argue outlaw country still has some footing, but true old school country is in the past.  It isn't ever coming back, at least not in a mainstream way.  

Music changes generationally and the old country generation is getting well, old.  With it goes the demand for that type of country music.  

How about we all admit that it isn't country and start calling it something else. Don't care what ya call it, just quit calling something it's not. 

[bersaguy]

I have always believed that it was Country & Western music and over the years I have not listened to any where near what I did when I was 16. Country Music is like everything else. It got old. Not the music but the performers. I bet you can count all of the original Country performers of the old music on two hands that are still alive and I don't believe maybe one or two of them have performed in many years. The younger generation like this new type of Country just like us old geezers enjoyed the days of Roy Acuff, George Jones and Merle Haggard. I don't find anything wrong with that. It's like I said earler Our Country Music just got older but if you still have any of their music on tapes, records or DVD's. They are still very much alive in our hearts........jmho  

[Hozzie]

22 minutes ago, Chucktshoes said:

How about we all admit that it isn't country and start calling it something else. Don't care what ya call it, just quit calling something it's not. 

I would say that country is exactly what it is, for 'today'.   This is certainly not unique in the history of music.  Rock-n-Roll from the 40's and 50's is nothing like Rock-n-Roll from the 70's-80's.  Rap from the 80's is not the rap of today.  However they are all still called the same thing they were previously.

Edited October 11, 2016 by Hozzie

[Capbyrd]

6 minutes ago, Hozzie said:

I would say that country is exactly what it is, for 'today'.   This is certainly not unique in the history of music.  Rock-n-Roll from the 40's and 50's is nothing like Rock-n-Roll from the 70's-80's.  Rap from the 80's is not the rap of today.  However they are all still called the same thing they were previously.

And I have a problem with that too.  The problem is that every genre becomes profitable at some point.  And then the "machine" takes over and it becomes pop.  Some would say that the lines get blurred, but thats not the case.  Whatever genre we are talking about just gets closer and closer until its on the line and basically is pop.  Country has become that genre.  Its pop now.  There is still country out there, but you have to search for it.  You won't find it on the radio, or CMT or even on one of the fifteen country awards shows.  

 

[peejman]

34 minutes ago, bersaguy said:

I have always believed that it was Country & Western music and over the years I have not listened to any where near what I did when I was 16. Country Music is like everything else. It got old. Not the music but the performers. I bet you can count all of the original Country performers of the old music on two hands that are still alive and I don't believe maybe one or two of them have performed in many years. The younger generation like this new type of Country just like us old geezers enjoyed the days of Roy Acuff, George Jones and Merle Haggard. I don't find anything wrong with that. It's like I said earler Our Country Music just got older but if you still have any of their music on tapes, records or DVD's. They are still very much alive in our hearts........jmho  

[Murgatroy]

It wasn't a half bad video. There were a lot of artists that had an impact in modern country, and a lot missing. It was nice to see Brooks and Dunn together again.

 

I don't listen to this new 'Bro Country.' I like Brad Paisley and I don't hold him or Toby Keith accountable for what country music became, even if they did start it. But I don't listen to much that has come out in the last 15-20 years.

 

I much prefer some of the old outlaw country. Give me some DAC, Jerry Jeff, any of the Highwaymen (except Willie, I think he is a great writer, but I can't stand to hear him sing,) Billy Joe Shaver, I am a huge John Prine fan. I consider Alabama the Rolling Stones of country Music and I personally think it is the worlds biggest shame that Shooter Jennings isn't a household name. He has more talent in a finger than Jason Aldean has managed to hire.

I like some of the new wave of outlaw, Jamey Johnson is a great musician. I like some Eric Church and Zac Brown Band. But even then it is more southern rock than it is country. I grew up on Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers, so I can dig that.

 

Even if I do think Metallica is the greatest band to ever walk the earth, that if the Kinks had been on our shore first no one would remember the Beatles and that Cake is the most under appreciated band ever, I like me some country music.

 

As a matter of fact, the only music I can't find something to enjoy is Jazz. God, I hate jazz.

 

[10-Ring]

There is plenty of great country musicians today,  Music Row won't sign them because they refuse to wear bedazzled jeans and sing pop.   Sturgil Simpson has been black balled by the industry and  that guy has more talent in his little toe than Florida Georgia line has between the two of them.  The guy sells out every venue he plays.   Other examples are Cody Jinks and  Chris Stapleton.   The  labels aren't signing these guys because they don't want to conform.   Outlaw country is alive and well,  you just have to know where to look,  and it sure ain't on "country" radio. 

[bud]

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Edited January 14, 2017 by bud

[Steelharp]

Personally, I think that video was superb. What a masterful production. That took some serious collaboration. Excellent.

And yes, I knew them all, including Lady Gaga.

(I just had the honor of playing on her latest project, coming out later this month. Woohoo!)

[56FordGuy]

On October 11, 2016 at 7:05 PM, 10-Ring said:

Music Row won't sign them because they refuse to wear bedazzled jeans and sing pop. 

 

The Nashville country music industry doesn't want musicians, they just want a f***ot in a hat to prance around. Then again, they also fired Hank from the Opry and wouldn't sign Johnny Cash to a record deal, so maybe this is just more of the same from them? 

 

Real country is still out there, but like others have said you have to look for it. Dale Watson, Hank III, Wayne Hancock, Corb Lund, Jamey Johnson, Sturgill Simpson, etc. Go listen to "Jack's Truck Stop and Cafe" by Dale, or the albums High Top Mountain or Metamodern Sounds by Sturgill. Find Wayne Hancock on youtube doing Thunderstorms and Neon Signs, or Cold Lonesome Wind. Country still exists, but you won't find it on the radio. 

 

 

[MacGyver]

22 hours ago, bud said:

John Prine had Holly Williams ( grand-daughter of Hank) open for him at the Ryman a couple weeks ago. I think he signed her to his OH Boy label. Anyway, she put on a very good show and is a great songwriter. Sang a song about her grandparents that had the whole building in tears. Also, Sang a few other very well written songs. She's a real talent. 

 

Holly Williams is on his new For Better, or Worse album that dropped a couple of weeks ago.  His cover of George Jones' Color of the Blues with Susan Tedeschi on the same album may be one of my favorite songs of the year so far.

And, I've got to give a shout out - I heard it first on 89.5FM - the new Americana station running out of MTSU.  If you're in receiving distance, it's definitely worth a listen.

[Mark A]

Well, I liked that a whole lot. You can call it countrypop or lollipop, it was still a great song and I will bet the various artists got a kick out of the collaboration.

The thing I thought was really cool was the Randy Travis cameo.

Speaking of collaboration, that video led me to a pentatonix/ dolly rendition of Jolene. In like pentatonix a whole lot and Dolly can still belt it out

[mikegideon]

8 hours ago, Steelharp said:

Personally, I think that video was superb. What a masterful production. That took some serious collaboration. Excellent.

And yes, I knew them all, including Lady Gaga.

(I just had the honor of playing on her latest project, coming out later this month. Woohoo!)

I agree. It was very well done. Folks have been bitching about  the evolution of country music since it began. Fact is, it's about extracting money out of a market, a very tin eared market.

I despise a lot of the new stuff. But, I want the industry to survive in a world that is going to make Hillary the friggin president. 

[Capbyrd]

8 hours ago, mikegideon said:

But, I want the industry to survive in a world that is going to make Hillary the friggin president. 

Too late.  We are almost gone. 

[mikegideon]

2 hours ago, Capbyrd said:

Too late.  We are almost gone. 

Yep

[hipower]

20 hours ago, Steelharp said:

Personally, I think that video was superb. What a masterful production. That took some serious collaboration. Excellent.

And yes, I knew them all, including Lady Gaga.

(I just had the honor of playing on her latest project, coming out later this month. Woohoo!)

I agree with you an the video. I loved it. I didn't come up with names for each one immediately, and there were a few  of the new faces I don't know; but it was pretty good.

And once again...proof that a legend walks among us. You have had an impressive career. Maybe not always out front in the limelight, but always adding your talents to the mix. And making all things better.