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Alabama ruined country music.

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In reply to Serious Lee • 12:51p, 12/12/19
Walt Luddiger said:
no heart and soul in it anymore. Remember when it was actual beer drinkin music and not just someone singing about drinkin beer.


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In reply to HtownAg92 • 1:19p, 12/12/19
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HtownAg92 said:
Have y'all lost your damn minds? Alabama's hits (other than the pandering 40 Hour Week) are iconic, southern gospel. How can you say that a band with a these top hits ruined country music?


If they ruined country music, then everything after them would be the suck, which it is not. They ushered in a generation that included Dwight, Travis Tritt, Clint Black, Alan Jackson, Vince Gill, Reba, the Juggs, and Garth.

I'd say the shift started with more contemporary guys and bands like Billy Ray Cyrus, Brooks & Dunn, Tim McGraw, Toby Keith.
I didn't know that we had to thank Alabama for "the Juggs." In that case, count me as a fan. P.s. don't google them at work.
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In reply to Benny the Jet Rodriguez • 1:24p, 12/12/19
Silly...juggs was a print magazine.
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In reply to Definitely Not A Cop • 1:25p, 12/12/19
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Don't see the connection. Is Ram Jam from Alabama the state?

And Black Betty might be my favorite music video of all time.
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1:32p, 12/12/19
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Something to be said for Nirvana/Pearl Jam killing country? By killing the hair metal of the 80s, they created a vaccum of good times, party hard music that is now being filled by the Luke Bryan's and other slap ducks of country music?
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In reply to ChipFTAC01 • 2:36p, 12/12/19
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ChipFTAC01 said:
Don't see the connection. Is Ram Jam from Alabama the state?

And Black Betty might be my favorite music video of all time.
just have to chime in here. i've been enjoying the thread. It's always a fun argument but when Black Betty is brought up in any conversation I always wonder if people know the origins of the song. I'll just do a quick copy from Wikipedia here as it is a very old song going back to pre-recorded music:

"Black Betty" (Roud 11668) is a 20th-century African-American work song often credited to Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter as the author, though the earliest recordings are not by him. Some sources claim it is one of Lead Belly's many adaptations of earlier folk material;[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Betty#cite_note-1][1][/url] in this case an 18th-century marching cadence about a flintlock musket.


the first time I heard was a recording by The Black Crows but then I searched out and found the 1939 recording by Leadbelly.
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2:58p, 12/12/19
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Nashville production in the '90s still focused heavily on fiddles, steel guitar and "chickin' pickin'" guitar solos, even in songs that were pop in nature. The instrumentation was country.

Today that's all gone. Like they did with countrypolitan, the record labels and radio stations flat-out avoid any hint of country production values. Today's country increasingly sounds like R&B or soft pop, in an attempt to get cross-over attention and dollars. Bro country is even dead; now it's "boyfriend country" featuring people like Dan + Shay who couldn't pick Conway or Merle out of a lineup. They grew up listening to Drake.

tl/dr The folks who flood to Nashville now aren't coming from rural America to sing at the Opry. They have visions of being the next pop diva who can score a Target commercial.
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3:25p, 12/12/19
AG
We still got some Texas country, Stapleton, some Simpson and bluegrass.
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In reply to TresPuertas • 4:07p, 12/12/19
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TresPuertas said:
WestAustinAg said:
TresPuertas said:
Country music died with the following two words:

"Hello Darlin"

Fight me


Conway was an all time hit maker. So no.


So are Rascall Flats and Luke Bryan.

Hits aren't the barometer here.
Conway Twitty literally has more #1 hits in country music than anyone else; 40, followed by Merle at 38.

It's just funny that you could define country in a way that says the number one recording artist isn't country.

I didnt' like his music that much either but it was country from stem to stern.
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5:46p, 12/12/19
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Tres listens to Hank Williams Sr, and that is IT.
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In reply to WestAustinAg • 7:17p, 12/12/19
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WestAustinAg said:
TresPuertas said:
WestAustinAg said:
TresPuertas said:
Country music died with the following two words:

"Hello Darlin"

Fight me


Conway was an all time hit maker. So no.


So are Rascall Flats and Luke Bryan.

Hits aren't the barometer here.
Conway Twitty literally has more #1 hits in country music than anyone else; 40, followed by Merle at 38.

It's just funny that you could define country in a way that says the number one recording artist isn't country.

I didnt' like his music that much either but it was country from stem to stern.
False. Conway did have more, but George eclipsed him.

And I don't know how to classify it, but I sure do enjoy most of Luke Combs' songs. Some of them are pandering but most of them are fun. Can't listen to the radio these days though.
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12:51a, 12/13/19
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I ran across this one again. I keep listening to it on Amazon.


Country has always swung back and forth. Traditional vs non-traditional.
Here is willies "countrypolitan" song that I also enjoy even though countrypolitan "ruined" country music in the 60's and 70's.



But George's Traditional really can't be beat.

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In reply to oldcrow91 • 12:08p, 12/13/19
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oldcrow91 said:
But George's Traditional really can't be beat.

It's better when Sonny sings it.
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