Anybody who discards country music is an Idiot Agreed?

>>68235870
agreed

most serious Alt-Country is pretty good anyway

also you have Lee Hazlewood and Gram Parsons

and I know he's a bit of a meme but Johnny Cash isn't too awful

Shut the fuck up you idiot.

>>68235905
>Johnny Cash is a bit of a meme
What a fucking autist cunt you are.

>>68235935
lol he's fucking joy division tier

if there wasn't some guy at your college who wore the "middle finger" shirt then you're lying

>>68235968
rec me some patrician country

>>68235968
Johnny Cash isn't even the best of the highwaymen.

>>68235968
Oh I see, because he has a t-shirt that makes him a meme.

I guess every other fucking thing in the world is a meme.

A U T I S M

I agree there are some geniuses out there, like John Fahey, Townes Van Zandt and Cash, but 95% of country is bullshit.

>>68235968
So what you're really telling me is that you let other people dictate what your tastes in music are.

>>68235982
Lost Dogs
Tom T Hall
anything by Jason Molina
Gram Parsons
Rank and File if you don't mind cowpunk
Blue Rodeo

some of those might be construed as alt-country or folk but it's all good

>>68235997
>John Fahey
Just more proof /mu/ has no idea what it's talking about when it comes to country.

>>68235990
>the highwaymen
nobody EVER cared about this project
>>68235993
being a meme doesn't necessarily mean it's bad
kind of just indicating that mentioning Johnny Cash might not be necessary
>>68236010
never said this, I love most popular music

>>68236026
>>68236026
thank you!

>>68236041
this

it's like saying Robbie Basho is country

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>>68235870
agreed.

>>68235982
hankiii
corb lund
casey donahew
stoney larue
turnpike troubadours
robert earle kean
ray wilie hubbard

Here are all the country artists I've given a 3.5 or above on rym. I'd say a lot of this is obvious but maybe they're not given that we have people calling Fahey country on here.

Roy Acuff
Ryan Adams
John Anderson
Eddy Arnold
Chet Atkins
Gene Autry
Bobby Bare
The Blue Sky Boys
Billy 'Prince' Billy
Jenks "Tex" Carman
The Carter Family
Johnny Cash
Guy Clark
David Allan Coe
Miley Cyrus (she's got a god-tier Dylan cover)
Jimmie Davis
The Denver Gentlemen
Johnny Down
Bob Dylan (Nashville Skyline is pure country to my ears)
Steve Earle
The Flying Burrito Bros
Blaze Foley
Lefty Frizzell
Jack Guthrie
Merle Haggard
Emmylou Harris
Roscoe Holcomb
Waylon Jennings
George Jones
Kris Kristofferson
The Louvin Brothers
Uncle Dave Macon
Arthur Miles
Bill Monroe
John Moreland
Willie Nelson
The Nitty Gritty Band
Eddie Noack
Norma Jean
Buck Owens
Gram Parsons
John Prine
Jerry Reed
Tex Ritter
Marty Robbins
Jimmie Rodgers
Shel Silverstein
Sturgill Simpson
Slackeye Slim
Sammi Smith
Hank Snow
James Talley
Hank Thompson
Merle Travis
Ernest Tubb
Townes Van Zandt
Dale Watson
Doc Watson
Gillian Welch
William Elliott Whitmore
Hank Williams
Lucinda Williams
The Woodbox Gang
Tammy Wynette

>>68236259
thx lad :)

What about Jay Munly?

>>68235870
>cheesy arrangements
>lol the flute lol the violin
>imissmyladies.jpg lyrics
>predictable chord changes
>the pinnacle of country

nah, i'll pass. thanks

>>68238515
Not talking about modern country, think back before country sold out harder than any other genre on earth

>>68238515
You are right about the arrangements, but if you are just dismissing Van Zandt's lyrics and delivery, then you're just a retard.

>>68236259
>no stapleton
pleb detected

>>68238648
Stapleton is flavor of the year country-it's-okay-to-like. He's good but he's not the second coming people are talking about.

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One of my personal favorite album

>>68239572
*albums

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>>68235870
>Anyone who hates what i like is an Idiot
>Ok?

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I don't know who I hate more, the "country sucks" children or the "modern country sucks but classic country is good" snobs

>>68239910
Modern Country does suck though. All the worthwhile artists dropped the country label and just made folk music instead.

>>68235997
>>68235870
There is "good" country, but Townes isn't one of them. He actually more resembles the cultural decline that lead to garbage like modern pop country. Hes ridiculously melodramatic and its hard to take him and all "country" like him seriously when he can make a an entire album about the pains of life and still take himself seriously.

>>68239910
Give me some good modern country then. Right now, a list.

>>68240058
Jason Aldean
Jason Aldean
Jason Aldean
Taylor Swift
Jason Aldean

>>68240031
Go fuck youself.

>>68240031
Post an example of good country then.

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>>68240016
>>68240058
It's easy to compare a few years of "modern" country with nearly a century of "classic" country and decide classic country is "better". But that's a really dumb comparison to make. Add a big dose of nostalgic fetishism (and simple classism) and that's really the only place you're coming from.

It took me a long time to appreciate modern country, and that was really about setting aside my expectations and biases about the genre. And there's still a ton of garbage out there, but it's always been that way. I'm not going to post stuff I like because I don't expect some kind of instant conversion. Keep giving it a chance and reevaluate your prejudices.

>>68240749
When people say modern country is trash they're mostly referring to country pop rather than someone like Vince Gill. Not to take away from your overall point.

>>68236245
I can't recommend Corb Lund enough.
>>68236259
Also pretty good.

>>68240905
Definitely. But there's also plenty of people who don't even make that distinction and write off any mainstream country music made after the 70s.