Do i need help?

Saturday is houseworkday at home. So i clean the floor, the kitchen and so on.
The last weekends i listen to New Country Music during the work.
And i like it.
Now in my car there is even a CD with New Country.
(Brooks & Dunn, Mark Chesnut, Keith Urban, Alan Jackson, etc)

is it ok or is this a sign i become old?



Country-Brett

Buy a CD by Dale Watson and everything will be allright!
He's too country to be country!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2qNyehqjlg

so far it is oke but don't go line dancing!!

Hehehe...

ok, no line dance.

Brett wrote:

Hehehe...

ok, no line dance.

we're both 44 so I think the song subject matter on many newer country
songs resonate in the heart. Be sure to balance it though with plenty
of Junior Brown just so you dont end up getting your hair tinted and singin
Rascal Flats songs all the time.

tvthewiredturtle wrote:

Brett wrote:

Hehehe...

ok, no line dance.

we're both 44 so I think the song subject matter on many newer country
songs resonate in the heart. Be sure to balance it though with plenty
of Junior Brown just so you dont end up getting your hair tinted and singin
Rascal Flats songs all the time.

i`ll try my best and let you know if problems

Oh man, Junior Brown kicks ass!
But I've really gotten to like Dale Watsons Music in the past few weeks since I found out he played in my favourite honky tonk saloon here in munich and I missed it.
He does classic country with a bit of modern influence, but distances himself from those mullet country rednecks you can hear on modern country radio!

Guitarmaniac wrote:

Oh man, Junior Brown kicks ass!
But I've really gotten to like Dale Watsons Music in the past few weeks since I found out he played in my favourite honky tonk saloon here in munich and I missed it.
He does classic country with a bit of modern influence, but distances himself from those mullet country rednecks you can hear on modern country radio!

you dont like Toby Keith or Trace Atkins?? mullet boys, mwahahha... those are truly knuckleheads
singin about badunkadunk,beer,church,and patriotism in one song. Talk about
marketing generic country music..
thanks for sharin the video..gonna have to listen to some more of this guy.

ps. I still like Paisley though, he's a gear junky with skills.. that doesnt exist on MTV much

I lived in Texas for a couple months in 2005 and watched a lot of CMT while there - it got to me, I admit it. There are a spate of awful modern country songs that I can't help but love. Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy from Big N Rich. Play Somethin' Country by Brooks and Dunn. And especially - especially - Pickin' Wildflowers by Keith Anderson. Definitely one of my guiltiest pleasures.

There is one cool song from that little time in Texas that I'm not embarrassed to say I like- "She Don't Like To Play My Kind of Music" by Ray Scott. The lyrics are awesome.

While I do understand guilty pleasures like Sugarland (stay)..there are limits
you said brooks n dunn....noooooo... help me help me...aagh it burns its burns it
b-u-u-u-r-ns

okay I got to bring it back to Bakersfield if we are talkin country, if this doesnt make
you crave a plate of tamales and a cup of coffee y'allz just dead inside.
hehyaaaawww!

tvthewiredturtle wrote:

okay I got to bring it back to Bakersfield if we are talkin country, if this doesnt make
you crave a plate of tamales and a cup of coffee y'allz just dead inside.
hehyaaaawww!

I SO agree! I managed to have this guy on the car stereo for most of the summer vacation..



He never got the recognition he deserved, IMO...

I think it was Louis Armstrong who said "There's only two kinds of music - good music and bad music."

As a teen, I would have expressed deep loathing of country music - all of it. Think of all the babies that get thrown out with that bath water! Johnny Cash, George Jones, TV's guy Faron Young, Ray Price, Jimmy Dean, Willie, Waylon, Junior Brown, Merle Haggard, and too many to mention.

So by my list, I'm revealing my bias - old-school.

Andi, I did like the lyrics, but that guy sounds like pretty much anybody I hear as I'm scanning (quickly) past country radio stations. Toby Keith, Alan Jackson, Big & Rich, all look/sound the same to me.

There. How's that for some inflammatory rhetoric for our friendly little board?

(I'm on a roll - just gonna go with it) I honestly don't remember if I had ever heard of Wanda Jackson before about 3 years ago. Had I heard her 30 years ago, I don't think I would have liked her. But she's out of this world! And you can't disagree with me - I can dish it out but I can't take it. Brenda Lee's another one - didn't used to like her, but I found an old album at Goodwill, and now I'm digging her.

Both of these ladies have what I have recently dubbed "pencil-sharpener mode". I know that probably sounds like an insult, but it's not intended that way. They pretty much seem to reserve it for rock'n'roll - their country songs are a bit more sedate. Miss Wanda pretty much stay in it for the duration of "Let's Have a Party." Miss Brenda sprinkles it throughout "That's All You Gotta Do." It's when they're really goin' for it, singing with their guts. It's a rasp - awesome. And it's exactly the kind of thing I used to hate. I can remember not liking it - isn't that weird?

PS: to gretschoholic - that Wynn Stewart sure was a snappy dresser! Never heard of him before, but I like him.

gretschoholic wrote:

He never got the recognition he deserved, IMO...

YAHHH!! I've got his Box set thanks to a nice pal on the forum.. I also dig Lefty Frizzell
and Faron Young.. All dudes that never got the props like say Buck Owens.

James Intveld covers that song ! If you like the moodier side with pedal steel, James
rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiAZItBCcps

tvthewiredturtle wrote:

James Intveld covers that song ! If you like the moodier side with pedal steel, James rules

I know. I have the album... He played Oslo a couple of years back, and I missed it. (I've also missed him as a bass player for Rosie Flores and as the Blasters' guitarist at the legendary - at least if you were there - Cruise Cafe in Oslo. Oh well... )

Oh man, James Intveld. I've never seen that video before Tavo, thank you. When it comes to the powerful combination of looks and talent I think he is tragically underrated. To me he has the ability to create wonderful country music without, somehow, sounding country. (Maybe it's the lack of overbearing twang in his voice. ) It sounds very sincere and straightforward, not overwrought.

He wrote Rosie Flores' hit "Cryin' Over You," though personally I think James' version is miles ahead. "Stringin' Me On" sounds like it should've been written for Shania Twain or somebody - absolutely love it. "Somewhere Down The Road" and "All The Way From Memphis" (among many others) are incredibly well written. Both vividly mark a particular time in my life - it's wonderful when songs have the ability to cleave themselves to your memories. (The only video I can find on YT of "Somewhere Down The Road" is from Art Fein's Poker Party in 1985. I'm shocked to learn it's that old. The song has matured so much musically since then that it's hardly worth watching the vid - unless you're a chick and just wanna enjoy the view.

I don't have Intveld's newest record, "Have Faith" yet - thank you for the reminder, I gotta get it soon! Wonder if I can make it to the Burbank gig on Oct 10 - it is a Saturday after all... be cool to buy the CD in person...

he looks like Johnny Depps older brother
btw.. the new album is very uplifting. I was stayin in
dark little room in nashville for a week last summer
and this album carried me through the nights

Have you made an apoinment with your psycho-analyst??

Slim Jon Phantom wrote:

Have you made an apoinment with your psycho-analyst??

for listen to good country music late at night between recording sessions
5000 miles away from home? No psycho analyst needed for that..just
good music and a tumbler full of gentleman jack on ice. Tennessee's best
bourbon.

Andi wrote:

Oh man, James Intveld. I've never seen that video before Tavo, thank you. When it comes to the powerful combination of looks and talent I think he is tragically underrated. To me he has the ability to create wonderful country music without, somehow, sounding country. (Maybe it's the lack of overbearing twang in his voice. ) It sounds very sincere and straightforward, not overwrought.

i just read he was the singing voice of Johnny Depp in "Cry baby"

Anyway, seems to be interesting, i`ll check it out...

Thx