Why does everyone hate Country music?

[Frutos]

Some of my fav modern country vids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCg3ye2bMMA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEPe4fZNf74

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLA06UmFg0s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y4NTXT96EM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqv-2emERFw

 

[NMH]

It's a feast for the ears really, for those who have ears hungry to dine;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJyXy4Eds3Y&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGuuOSZq-II&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rStaUN3OnA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BQqnfc1zmU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_XFmc7JjS4&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGMwIoucYyY&mode=related&search= (sadly not long enough, but a teaser for a DVD)(so here's more of T.VanZ)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGKzWDakK8&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDY34yrc0vo&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU97vLkxxtY&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA3RKUHhN5A (worth waiting through the intro)

 

[medicine man]

"Skip a Rope" by Henson Cargill is ACE. And "White Light" by Gene Clark is a quality lp, Another track This Mortal Coil covered, "With Tomorrow" with its "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" style intro (yes, I know which came first!), is just beautiful. But, would you class it a scountry rock, NMH?

 

[Norman Potting]

Like most musical pigeon holes Country has some cack and some quality. Two of the greatest gigs I have ever been to where Nanci Griffith at Crawley and a bluegrass band called 3rd Time Out at the Ryman Auditorium Nashville. Would love to see Steve Earle live - the guy touches many musical bases from bluegrass to almost heavy rock and is very much the antithesis of most country stereotypes - anti death penalty, anti Iraq war and almost left wing!

 

[Nemesis]

Worth waiting through the intro-John Prine and Iris Dement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5axlwCBXC8

Patty Loveless sings Lucinda Williams:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3tCv26uouA

More Patty-bit corny but I like it/her

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX-PBcu3JQs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8AUgKFr6W8

 

[Nemesis]

One of Wogan's favourites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssVR4ic6OyE

 

[andybaha]

Reason enough to like Country music.

 

[Gully]

Sorry, but all country and western music sounds the same to me...it is a drawl, my wife is dead and the dog has run away with my best mate, gee I miss him sort of stuff...I would rather give it a miss, especially when you look at the average US audience for it, red-neck brain deads.

 

[Icy Gull]

Ropey video quality but great harmonies from my favourite country rock band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3D9xLtDZ1A

 

[Nemesis]

Sorry, but all country and western music sounds the same to me...it is a drawl, my wife is dead and the dog has run away with my best mate, gee I miss him sort of stuff...I would rather give it a miss, especially when you look at the average US audience for it, red-neck brain deads.

Exactly what I used think about it....nothing like a good stereotype is there?

 

[Wienergull]

Gillian Welsh
Willard Grant Conspiracy
Rosie Thomas
Calexico
Handsome Family
Alison Krauss
Iron and Wine
Bonnie Prince Billy

etc etc etc

All good new country acts. And not a tassle between them.

Some great acts here, but I'm not sure whether I'd describe them all as country or even alt-country. Perhaps roots music would be a better description. Notwithstanding the accordians and twangy guitar, Calexico cover all the bases, including jazz, on the one album of theirs I've got: Feast of Wire. Great live band, probably even better than on CD - their cover of Love's Alone Again Or is sublime.

Someone else mentioned Steve Earle. The mainly acoustic Train-a-Comin' is a great album. Emmylou features on a couple of tracks, but I wouldn't pigeonhole it as a country album - just classic songwriting.