In 1999 George Jones released a new Album. He was supposed to preform Choices on the CMA Award show. They canceled George Jones performance. Alan Jackson was scheduled to preform his new single. Jackson started on his song. He abruptly stopped and started sing Choices. He got a standing ovation as he walked of the stage. George Jones was at home. His wife called him to the TV. This thrilled George!
At the 50th anniversary show for the CMA's, when the Dixie Chicks were singing with Cardi B (I think), Alan Jackson got up & walked out. The CMA staff had assured the artists that the show would be a celebration of traditional country music & they lied.
great moment. I remember when it happened. the "people" who took over the Nashville music scene made a lot of enemies out of the old guard. They started integrating southern rock elements into it. then pop elements. you had huge theatrical productions like Big & Rich with their own cadre of talent. I saw it starting as early as the rise of the band Alabama. Huge cross-over following. they played well on rock and country stations. Bands like Marshall Tucker too. It was inevitable this fusion of genres. All in all I think it's been good for the country music industry. Traditionalists are just butthurt they're not the end all and be all of the genre.
The guy that wrote this song is from Hazard Kentucky if I remember correctly . And that's just about an hour or so from where I live in Harlan county Kentucky . Absolutely one of the greatest country music songs ever written . And 2 Legends singing it .
The year was 2000. It is so true. The Nashville Machine tried to kill many artists career. You can't hear George or Alan on the radio. Thank you Nicole for the request. Great reaction Harri!
Even better, the song explicitly says that the guilty party should hang for their crimes. And you know George and Alan meant every word they sang that night.
Always really loved this song. Hey, George and Alan, thanks for singing the truth and singing it so well! Yay!! (but Boo-oo-oo for the commericialization of country!)
These guys are legends .George is the king and still around.The sing the truth.Its how most of us feel.If the fans could pick what's played on the radio it wouldn't be what is playing today
this song is so true. Alan Jackson always said that traditional country music was gone, and was backed by George Jones. George was also an advocate for the traditional country music. you just don't hear that much anymore. also when George mentions Hank, I am sure you know he is referring to Hank Williams Sr. and the "Hag" is Merle Haggard. And the "Possum" is George Jones.
To answer your question artists at the time had no leg to stand on this song started the Nashville country vs everything else George is and always will be the king
Hi Harri, I just want to thank you for all the great entertainment you bring to me and many others. I hope you are having a wonderful birthday and you will have many many more. By the way Chuck Berry was born on Oct. 18 1925. A great talent that entertained many over the years.
I'm sorry....I just listened to this again. And it struck me when I heard them sing about Hank and the Hag not being played on 'today's' radio. Twenty years later....does anybody hear George Strait or Alan Jackson on "today's radio"? 😪
I agree with the song. I was just talking to my sister about this yesterday. I'm a little bit rock and roll and she's a little bit country. Where we live on a rural area, we only have 4 radio stations that play music, one of them country. They don't play any of the older classics, only what is currently popular. It almost all sounds like country rock or country hip hop. I do love Southern rock but miss the old country favorites. Where is the banjo and fiddle? I'm very picky about what country I like these days. They sing about religion in one breath and beer, whiskey, women and trucks in the next. They all sound the same with a few exceptions like Chris Stapleton and The Zac Brown Band. It's really sad. Kudos to George and Alan!
This is a song of rock country taking over the original country classic sound. The oldies but the goodies. Many additional new instruments and changes to the style, and with obvious productions improvements, the oldies are disappearing. The classic 🎻 fiddles which always seemed to start a old country hit are disappearing.Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Nicole. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Thay started to put more pop in country music. It's TRUE It's not like it was in the past. I love all kinds of country music. I remember when is was about 6 or 7 Playing in the dirt makeing mud pies. I sang hay good looking, what's you got cooking. A Hank Williams song. I dont know why I remember this. So country was in my blood
My Dad, who was born 80 yrs ago & grew up on Hank Sr. & had a deep appreciation of even older country, enjoyed Alan Jackson & George Strait. I remember in the 70's, when country started going pop & disco, he felt the way this song is. He felt George Strait brought traditional country back in the 80's. Alan Jackson did again in the 90's. Stay blessed, Sir.
I love this song. So true. I had heard they played this after being asked not to. As far as I'm concerned, if it doesn't have fiddles and a steel guitar it ain't country
What they said is absolutely true. Today's so called country music is nothing but autotuned and noise. The difference is the talent level then and now. There are a few country singers now. But not near the talent of the older real country artists. And the radio stations seldom play Alan Jackson or George Strait. If you want to do another reaction that is similar to this i would suggest doing George Jones "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes". Nice reaction and i agree with your thoughs.
This song was written by Larry Cordle and Larry Shell in 1999. It was first recorded by Larry Cordle's (primarily bluegrass band) Lonesome Standard Time. I agree with the sentiment entirely. The country music industry has been taken over by suits from L.A. N.Y. and other big cities who for years now have been telling talented writers and performers both young and old that their music is too country for country radio. WTH???
So true! What the music industry has done to country music is a crying shame. I don't listen to the garbage they're putting out today. Much respect for men like George and Alan!
George and Alan released it in 99 or 2000; same year the Dixie Chicks released Goodbye Earl, but it was originally done years before that by David Frizzel, brother of Lefty Frizzel.
Written by Bluegrass artists Larry Cordle and Larry Shell, Bluegrass group Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time debuted it as the title track of a 1999 album, "Murder On Music Row". This live CMA performance by George and Alan of the song got the CMS "Vocal Event Of The Year" award and "Song Of The Year", but as if to prove the song's point, only reached #38 on the Top 40 chart.
More and more ‘classic’ country radio stations are popping up. Also, more Americana. There are new artists doing some amazing stuff! Charley Crockett, Nathaniel Rateliff, Brandi Carlile, Tyler Childers, Lillie Mae, Shinyribs, and many more.
Fun fact: in the 50s Nashville turned Buddy Holly away. Waylon and outlaw Country came about because Nashville producers wanted to tell artists how and what to perform. (Waylon learned from Buddy, be true to yourself).
Thanks Nicole for requesting this! It’s great to see two of the best pieces of country music eye candy on the same stage😂. But seriously, this is great. Harri made some good points. Great video all the way around. Fun song. 🌺✌️
I think the ironic thing is that those artists that Nashville tried to “ cancel” to use today’s words, have become country music’s biggest stars. So big that Nashville can’t really ignore them. What I never understood was that there is room for all kinds of music in the world. Why try to limit it?
If someone had the idea of mixing Mozart's Magic Flute with pop or rock music, the audience would tear down the opera house. But for some reason some people think that they can do this to country music. It's a shame !
Thing is if someone like George Strait sings a song about the industry ruining country music, the only response to someone of that stature is, “yes sir”.
I agree with what they are saying there is no country music today I haven't purchased any in year's because there is no traditional country music anymore, yeah the truth hurts but these performer's today has too live with it, there's a few who can sing that type of music but they don't
In 1989 23 year old Kevin Hughes was shot and killed on 16th Avenue in Nashville. Kevin worked for Cashbox Magazine. For years Chuck Dixon (record promoter) and Richard D'Antonio had been involved in manipulating their charts for pay for placing aspiring artists in a favorable ranking in Cashbox. Money was also being paid to DJs to play these artists music. Kevin was about to blow the whistle on these practices when he was shot and killed by, at the time, an unknown assailant. It wasn't until after 2001, when Dixon died, that people finally started coming forward and talking. D'Antonio was arrested and convicted in 2003 of the murder and died in prison in 2014. Is this song figurative or literal? Was Cordle and Shell (writers) alluding to this unsolved (hush, hush) murder when the song was written? I say both.
This song is so true. Most of the country performers now are just the ones that can't make it on the pop scene. They all want to be another Taylor Swift, she started as country and went pop.
Not everything gets better,, George and Alan are two of the best in country. Alan got disgusted and walked out during a song being played once. With autotune alot of supposed singers don't sing they lip sink because they are never going to be as good as their recordings. It's like that across music, few people can really perform.
You misread the song. This was actually a huge hit on the radio and George Strait is one of the best country music artists of all time. Alan Jackson of course is also a huge country music legend. Both of them have stayed true to country music and it's style and it's instruments and the country music artists from 50 or 70 years ago would absolutely recognize that they've stayed true to the basics of true country music. What we call today traditional country music. George doesn't perform anymore he is 70 years old and basically retired a few years back.
Actually George is still recording and still plays shows around Texas. He slowed down but never truly quit. He just doesn't tour like he used to. Alan doesn't get played on today's country stations but you can still hear him on the oldies channels down here.
still wonder what the Music industry said about this song and I found out that the song was partially based on an actual murder that took place in that area
I understand there has to be change in music, and they follow what is popular. Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings.... the list goes on and on, but they were “rebels” of their time and people loved it. And still do! That’s why it’s hard to like the direction country music has gone lately. It gets mixed with every genre out there I think.
Love these guys, hope Alan is doing OK, he announced about 6 months ago he has a muscular disease and has to give up touring . Today's music is awful. The artist sound alike, most can't sing live.
But they did do that after they come out with this new style of music and took the steel guitars in the film away from the music they quit playing George Strait and Alan Jackson and the people like that and that’s why they come out with this song you can’t blame them
Harri, I agree that music...as with everything has to evolve. But, today, the blues is still the blues. Classical music is still classical music. Opera is still opera. They all seem to continue with that same sound. Country music today is what I call country "crap rap". And every artist sounds the same. As a long time country fan, I cannot distinguish one voice from another. I apologize for offending anybody. But, I've heard many reactors agree that today's music...whether country, pop, rock, etc. does not compare to the music of the past.
Murder it was and murder most foul! It was a slow and lingering death by whiny musicians and dancers posing as singers. The Coup De Grace was the sound engineers use of Autotune. If the person singing cannot hit the correct note then they are not an Artist ... they are merely prostitutes. There have been several new country artists in the last two decades. Just to mention two: Chris Stapleton (Tennessee Whiskey) and Darius Rucker (Don't Think I Don't Think About It, It Won't Be Like This For Long, I Hope They Get to Me in Time, Drinkin' and Dialin') Speaking of Music Row, here is a personal favorite. Lacy J. Dalton (God Bless the Boys that Make the Noise on) "Sixteenth Avenue" (1982)
It wasn't long after this I shut off country music. Taylor Swift was the last straw. You couldn't turn on the radio without hearing her whining like a teenager and not shutting up.
Country music is dead. The only rock bands touring are the bands from the 70's and 80's. There are a few great new bands out there like Blackberry Smoke and Whiskey Myres.
I get music evolving, but that's not what I believe country music did. The country music industry sterilized the country, and started taking on some of the identity from other popular genre's to rake in a larger audience. Thus losing their own identity of being country. Then instead of finding talented country music artists, they just pick up some poor desperate sap artists, male them sign a contract, and make them produce whatever kind of music they want. Producing cookie cutter artists. Charlie Daniel's made the "cookie cutter" analogy of today's country music when giving an eulogy at George Jones' memorial service. That whole place erupted in a cheer that made him have to pause.. That was about 9 years ago. Seems like yesterday.. Dang time flies. I'm 31, but thinking about that makes me feel old.
Here's the thing. Music is a business. Sure to the performers it's art. It's their craft. But the industry itself is out to do one thing. Make money. Now we can argue all day about the ethical and moral obligations of corporations but as it is they're only obligated to their investors. And if the public buys "new country" more than traditional then it's not the fault of the corporation. It's the fault of either the public or those traditionalists , not the company. If the traditional stuff sold more they'd promote them more.
In 1999 George Jones released a new Album. He was supposed to preform Choices on the CMA Award show. They canceled George Jones performance. Alan Jackson was scheduled to preform his new single. Jackson started on his song. He abruptly stopped and started sing Choices. He got a standing ovation as he walked of the stage. George Jones was at home. His wife called him to the TV. This thrilled George!
I remember it there's a video on TH-cam of that performance.
At the 50th anniversary show for the CMA's, when the Dixie Chicks were singing with Cardi B (I think), Alan Jackson got up & walked out. The CMA staff had assured the artists that the show would be a celebration of traditional country music & they lied.
@@rowdy7480 Pretty sure it was Beyonce but either way he did the right thing.
@@lbfuller5013 Appreciate the name of the correct artist
great moment. I remember when it happened. the "people" who took over the Nashville music scene made a lot of enemies out of the old guard. They started integrating southern rock elements into it. then pop elements. you had huge theatrical productions like Big & Rich with their own cadre of talent. I saw it starting as early as the rise of the band Alabama. Huge cross-over following. they played well on rock and country stations. Bands like Marshall Tucker too. It was inevitable this fusion of genres. All in all I think it's been good for the country music industry. Traditionalists are just butthurt they're not the end all and be all of the genre.
Agree 100% with this song, can have today's so called country
You're the only reactor I've seen get the MEANING of this song. Great Job.
The guy that wrote this song is from Hazard Kentucky if I remember correctly . And that's just about an hour or so from where I live in Harlan county Kentucky . Absolutely one of the greatest country music songs ever written . And 2 Legends singing it .
This is the acm awards. It’s a slap at cmt and country radio
The year was 2000. It is so true. The Nashville Machine tried to kill many artists career. You can't hear George or Alan on the radio. Thank you Nicole for the request. Great reaction Harri!
My pleasure, thankfully I have a station where I live that plays just the classics like George and Alan.
Sounds like you have great love for classic music
@@Nicole_Jewell that nice to hear
@@Nicole_Jewell Same here in SW Mo we have a station that plays nothing but country classics
This was recorded in 1999 and released in 2000. I've always thought this song was true. Great song. I loved your reaction to it.
Very nice Nicole. ✌️
@@Cynthia... Thank you
I thought the same. Proud fellas. Kudos.
I want my old country music
This is soooo good!! Was then and still is!! Yes, George they did. So right, Alan! These are true COUNTRY artists!! ❤🎶
Best part of this clip is they are singing it at The CMA awards with the guilty executives in the audience
Even better, the song explicitly says that the guilty party should hang for their crimes. And you know George and Alan meant every word they sang that night.
Not just anybody could have gotten away with this song at the CMA, but George Strait is the King.
True statement
Always really loved this song. Hey, George and Alan, thanks for singing the truth and singing it so well! Yay!! (but Boo-oo-oo for the commericialization of country!)
These guys are legends .George is the king and still around.The sing the truth.Its how most of us feel.If the fans could pick what's played on the radio it wouldn't be what is playing today
this song is so true. Alan Jackson always said that traditional country music was gone, and was backed by George Jones. George was also an advocate for the traditional country music. you just don't hear that much anymore. also when George mentions Hank, I am sure you know he is referring to Hank Williams Sr. and the "Hag" is Merle Haggard. And the "Possum" is George Jones.
To answer your question artists at the time had no leg to stand on this song started the Nashville country vs everything else George is and always will be the king
A lot of people agreed with them!! They won an award for this song. These Boys can do no wrong.
Hi Harri, I just want to thank you for all the great entertainment you bring to me and many others.
I hope you are having a wonderful birthday and you will have many many more.
By the way Chuck Berry was born on Oct. 18 1925. A great talent that entertained many over the years.
Happy birthday Harri!
I agree
truer words have never been sung before!
Great job
That was George Strait a d Alan Jackson!!! Soooooo good.
Man.. you shoukd check out George Straits song "Kicked Out of Country". He released it in 2016. A fitting follow up
the possum is george jones
I'm sorry....I just listened to this again. And it struck me when I heard them sing about Hank and the Hag not being played on 'today's' radio. Twenty years later....does anybody hear George Strait or Alan Jackson on "today's radio"? 😪
This is true! Today's country music sounds like pop music!!
I agree with the song. I was just talking to my sister about this yesterday. I'm a little bit rock and roll and she's a little bit country. Where we live on a rural area, we only have 4 radio stations that play music, one of them country. They don't play any of the older classics, only what is currently popular. It almost all sounds like country rock or country hip hop. I do love Southern rock but miss the old country favorites. Where is the banjo and fiddle? I'm very picky about what country I like these days. They sing about religion in one breath and beer, whiskey, women and trucks in the next. They all sound the same with a few exceptions like Chris Stapleton and The Zac Brown Band. It's really sad. Kudos to George and Alan!
the song was released March 7th 2000 thank you Harry for all you do we have so much fun watching you hugs Tom and Donna
This is a song of rock country taking over the original country classic sound. The oldies but the goodies.
Many additional new instruments and changes to the style, and with obvious productions improvements, the oldies
are disappearing. The classic 🎻 fiddles
which always seemed to start a old country hit are disappearing.Great reaction Harri.
Thanks Harri and Nicole. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
My pleasure
Thay started to put more pop in country music. It's TRUE It's not like it was in the past.
I love all kinds of country music.
I remember when is was about 6 or 7
Playing in the dirt makeing mud pies. I sang hay good looking, what's you got cooking. A Hank Williams song.
I dont know why I remember this.
So country was in my blood
My Dad, who was born 80 yrs ago & grew up on Hank Sr. & had a deep appreciation of even older country, enjoyed Alan Jackson & George Strait. I remember in the 70's, when country started going pop & disco, he felt the way this song is. He felt George Strait brought traditional country back in the 80's. Alan Jackson did again in the 90's. Stay blessed, Sir.
I love this song. So true. I had heard they played this after being asked not to. As far as I'm concerned, if it doesn't have fiddles and a steel guitar it ain't country
@@ANNEAVES Exactly, Ma'am!
As always, love you Harri.
Please react to My Farewell Party by Gene Watson please..Beautiful Country Song.
The king George
George. The real deal. Both of them. Ha.
100% agreed
Great reaction, Harri.
What they said is absolutely true. Today's so called country music is nothing but autotuned and noise. The difference is the talent level then and now. There are a few country singers now. But not near the talent of the older real country artists. And the radio stations seldom play Alan Jackson or George Strait. If you want to do another reaction that is similar to this i would suggest doing George Jones "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes". Nice reaction and i agree with your thoughs.
This song was written by Larry Cordle and Larry Shell in 1999. It was first recorded by Larry Cordle's (primarily bluegrass band) Lonesome Standard Time. I agree with the sentiment entirely. The country music industry has been taken over by suits from L.A. N.Y. and other big cities who for years now have been telling talented writers and performers both young and old that their music is too country for country radio. WTH???
Mr. Larry Shell told Mr. Cordle that this song will be "what they remember you and me for." I think he was right.
The title song on Alan Jackson’s album Where Have You Gone? expresses how we feel about country music
Love both artists and this song
My son agrees with this song. To tell the truth so do I.
So true! What the music industry has done to country music is a crying shame. I don't listen to the garbage they're putting out today. Much respect for men like George and Alan!
No one had the nerve to criticize those two giants. And strangely enough, it did get better for a while.
Yes, they absolutely stood on stage and sang this to a crowd full of people holding the murder weapon. And were cheered for it by the very killers.
George and Alan released it in 99 or 2000; same year the Dixie Chicks released Goodbye Earl, but it was originally done years before that by David Frizzel, brother of Lefty Frizzel.
Written by Bluegrass artists Larry Cordle and Larry Shell, Bluegrass group Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time debuted it as the title track of a 1999 album, "Murder On Music Row". This live CMA performance by George and Alan of the song got the CMS "Vocal Event Of The Year" award and "Song Of The Year", but as if to prove the song's point, only reached #38 on the Top 40 chart.
The year 2000
I always thought this was a reaction to Garth Brooks big in your faces concerts and the non playing of music by George Jones and Merle Haggard.
I don’t have a problem with evolving music. My issue is adding electronic drums.
More and more ‘classic’ country radio stations are popping up. Also, more Americana. There are new artists doing some amazing stuff! Charley Crockett, Nathaniel Rateliff, Brandi Carlile, Tyler Childers, Lillie Mae, Shinyribs, and many more.
So true! There's some awesome new stuff out there rooted in old traditional country.
Fun fact: in the 50s Nashville turned Buddy Holly away.
Waylon and outlaw Country came about because Nashville producers wanted to tell artists how and what to perform.
(Waylon learned from Buddy, be true to yourself).
Nashville also turned away Dwight Yokum. He had to go to California to get a record deal.
Same thing with Jerry Lee Lewis, he was also turned away by the Nashville studios.
Thanks Nicole for requesting this! It’s great to see two of the best pieces of country music eye candy on the same stage😂. But seriously, this is great. Harri made some good points. Great video all the way around. Fun song. 🌺✌️
My pleasure
Try Walon Jennings Of Old Hank Could Only see Us Now
Listen to “ Who’s gonna fill their shoes”
Midnight in Montgomery by Alan Jackson is a great song Harri and would be awesome if you would react to it
I think the ironic thing is that those artists that Nashville tried to “ cancel” to use today’s words, have become country music’s biggest stars. So big that Nashville can’t really ignore them. What I never understood was that there is room for all kinds of music in the world. Why try to limit it?
Not many stations played this song when it was current.
You rarely hear George or Alan on radio these days
If I’m not mistaken this won an award for best song. It probably because of them this song was made.
If someone had the idea of mixing Mozart's Magic Flute with pop or rock music, the audience would tear down the opera house. But for some reason some people think that they can do this to country music. It's a shame !
Thing is if someone like George Strait sings a song about the industry ruining country music, the only response to someone of that stature is, “yes sir”.
I agree with what they are saying there is no country music today I haven't purchased any in year's because there is no traditional country music anymore, yeah the truth hurts but these performer's today has too live with it, there's a few who can sing that type of music but they don't
In 1989 23 year old Kevin Hughes was shot and killed on 16th Avenue in Nashville.
Kevin worked for Cashbox Magazine.
For years Chuck Dixon (record promoter) and Richard D'Antonio had been involved in manipulating their charts for pay for placing aspiring artists in a favorable ranking in Cashbox.
Money was also being paid to DJs to play these artists music.
Kevin was about to blow the whistle on these practices when he was shot and killed by, at the time, an unknown assailant.
It wasn't until after 2001, when Dixon died, that people finally started coming forward and talking.
D'Antonio was arrested and convicted in 2003 of the murder and died in prison in 2014.
Is this song figurative or literal? Was Cordle and Shell (writers) alluding to this unsolved (hush, hush) murder when the song was written?
I say both.
You turn on a rock station, you can hear artists from the 60s, and 70s, and 80s, and 90s, and 2000s. Country stations? Forget about it.
This song is so true. Most of the country performers now are just the ones that can't make it on the pop scene. They all want to be another Taylor Swift, she started as country and went pop.
Not everything gets better,, George and Alan are two of the best in country. Alan got disgusted and walked out during a song being played once. With autotune alot of supposed singers don't sing they lip sink because they are never going to be as good as their recordings. It's like that across music, few people can really perform.
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You misread the song. This was actually a huge hit on the radio and George Strait is one of the best country music artists of all time. Alan Jackson of course is also a huge country music legend.
Both of them have stayed true to country music and it's style and it's instruments and the country music artists from 50 or 70 years ago would absolutely recognize that they've stayed true to the basics of true country music. What we call today traditional country music.
George doesn't perform anymore he is 70 years old and basically retired a few years back.
Actually George is still recording and still plays shows around Texas. He slowed down but never truly quit. He just doesn't tour like he used to. Alan doesn't get played on today's country stations but you can still hear him on the oldies channels down here.
@@brianadams4630 thanks for the clarification
@@addison5938 he has a concert in ohio in june with stapleton tickets started at 80 bucks but are now 250
still wonder what the Music industry said about this song and I found out that the song was partially based on an actual murder that took place in that area
Most modern country music is just pop music recorded in Nashville
I understand there has to be change in music, and they follow what is popular. Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings.... the list goes on and on, but they were “rebels” of their time and people loved it. And still do! That’s why it’s hard to like the direction country music has gone lately. It gets mixed with every genre out there I think.
The possum is George Jones
My Daddy owned a bar and we called all of them the first time we heard them! Country is not country anymore!
Love these guys, hope Alan is doing OK, he announced about 6 months ago he has a muscular disease and has to give up touring . Today's music is awful. The artist sound alike, most can't sing live.
Not to sound like Ricky Bobby but with all due respect, who’s going to say something to or argue with those two legends??
Play Tex Ritter deck of cards
But they did do that after they come out with this new style of music and took the steel guitars in the film away from the music they quit playing George Strait and Alan Jackson and the people like that and that’s why they come out with this song you can’t blame them
Drums and Rock and Roll did not kill modern Country Music, over-production and garbage 'pop music aesthetics' did.
I think Hank Williams would have loved both these guys.
its more like country rock now which is a shame bring back real country music
Real country music has been gutted like I hog!!
This crap on the radio today has no heart!!!!
Harri, I agree that music...as with everything has to evolve. But, today, the blues is still the blues. Classical music is still classical music. Opera is still opera. They all seem to continue with that same sound. Country music today is what I call country "crap rap". And every artist sounds the same. As a long time country fan, I cannot distinguish one voice from another. I apologize for offending anybody. But, I've heard many reactors agree that today's music...whether country, pop, rock, etc. does not compare to the music of the past.
Murder it was and murder most foul! It was a slow and lingering death by whiny musicians and dancers posing as singers. The Coup De Grace was the sound engineers use of Autotune. If the person singing cannot hit the correct note then they are not an Artist ... they are merely prostitutes.
There have been several new country artists in the last two decades. Just to mention two: Chris Stapleton (Tennessee Whiskey) and Darius Rucker (Don't Think I Don't Think About It, It Won't Be Like This For Long, I Hope They Get to Me in Time, Drinkin' and Dialin')
Speaking of Music Row, here is a personal favorite. Lacy J. Dalton (God Bless the Boys that Make the Noise on) "Sixteenth Avenue" (1982)
It wasn't long after this I shut off country music. Taylor Swift was the last straw. You couldn't turn on the radio without hearing her whining like a teenager and not shutting up.
Nothing but the truth. Country plus rap makes CRAP. Tim and Brad need to listen up. Stay in your own genre and don't try to force it on everybody.
Country music is dead. The only rock bands touring are the bands from the 70's and 80's. There are a few great new bands out there like Blackberry Smoke and Whiskey Myres.
You can't sing a pop song with a southern twang and call it country music.
I get music evolving, but that's not what I believe country music did.
The country music industry sterilized the country, and started taking on some of the identity from other popular genre's to rake in a larger audience. Thus losing their own identity of being country. Then instead of finding talented country music artists, they just pick up some poor desperate sap artists, male them sign a contract, and make them produce whatever kind of music they want. Producing cookie cutter artists.
Charlie Daniel's made the "cookie cutter" analogy of today's country music when giving an eulogy at George Jones' memorial service. That whole place erupted in a cheer that made him have to pause.. That was about 9 years ago. Seems like yesterday.. Dang time flies. I'm 31, but thinking about that makes me feel old.
america is losing its soul.
The younger gen. has no clue what you're even talking about Harri. Zero clue at all.
Here's the thing. Music is a business. Sure to the performers it's art. It's their craft. But the industry itself is out to do one thing. Make money. Now we can argue all day about the ethical and moral obligations of corporations but as it is they're only obligated to their investors. And if the public buys "new country" more than traditional then it's not the fault of the corporation. It's the fault of either the public or those traditionalists , not the company. If the traditional stuff sold more they'd promote them more.
Nobody wants to be country statler brothers
Music as art is dead.
Country music got even worse. Can’t even listen to 5 minutes of current country.
I can't watch an award anymore cause when they call someone I'm like who or they're country?
Truth. Try to watch award shows without puking, and you'll see the garbage they try to pass off as country music
Agreed!
COULD YOU AIR THIS SONG 1999 WRITE THIS DOWN ! GEORGE STRAIT SIGNED THE ONE !
The Grand Ple Opry ain't Grand no more