@@christopherjones2467 Let's throw Vince Gill into the mix, how awesome? Would you be THE Chris Jones, who I jammed with at Parkfield about 20 years ago?
This is a great song. Performed by two of the greatest Country singers of today. George Strait and the wonderful Allan Jackson. Need I say more. This is REAL country music. Let's hope that it's NOT dead and gone........
As long as singers like these two keep singing, country music will live forever HOPEFULLY. Randy Travis is another great country singer. REAL COUNTRY.!!!!!!!!!
Not Alan though, since he destroyed country music and covered Akon's "Don't Matter" and Wiz Khalifa's "We Dem Boyz" in concert. George is great, though.
I am sorry no I am not either this stuff today is not real country.there are just a few that even know how to sing the real country.alan Jackson and George strait and a few more are all that is lefy
Me and my friends are only 13 and we talk how Country music is gone from the way John Denver, Johnny Cash, Hank, And Merle wanted it to be... I hope to one day tell the world that Country rap is not a genre
Lately, when people ask if I like country music, I've had to say no. It tears out my heart. Country music like this is my childhood and today's 'stars' have completely slaughtered the genre. There are absolutely no modern artists with this sound. I love this sound; it means the world to me. So following the quick no, I always add that: "I love what country used to be." And unless things change, I'll always have to.
I have to say this; I love the old country and I always will. I grew up listening to Hank and Kitty wells. Country music will never be like that again. I am 76 years old. Thanks to youtube I can find what I'm looking for.
Hello 👋 2023 we're here en loving the old country renditions. Those voices en still guitars of then was just wow. Nowadays it's more rock-like than country, this pains indeed 😭😭😭💔
@@joeyseclipse3117 If it was even like rock, it still wouldn't be half bad. At least it would be rock, even though it wouldn't be country. But it's not even rock. It's just horrible, and it's so horrible it doesn't even have it's own name, so it had to try to steal the name of OUR music. I call it "really bad pop in a cowboy hat". But that is more a description than a name. And it is an insult to really good pop, like existed in the 60s and 70s. At least the rap guys had the decency to come up with their own name for the crap they put out. They didn't try to steal the name of "Rhythm and Blues", by calling their noise "Today's Hot New R&B". And furthermore, since rhyming is important to rappers, they even rhymed "rap" with "crap", which is what it is. So I can call it "that rap crap", and it rolls right off the tongue so easily. I can REALLY respect that. Even if I don't like "that rap crap". But I can't respect ANYTHING about these wretched "bad pop in a cowboy hat" singers who call themselves "country music singers today, and for the past ~35 years or so. Ironically, Alan Jackson was among the first murderers on music row. Although he has a few actual country songs, and a few of them are actually good. Not many, to my knowledge. But this one song, and a few others by Alan Jackson are great. Even though he is singing about himself and doesn't know it.
"For the steel guitars no longer cry and the fiddles barely play/But drums and rock 'n roll guitars are mixed up in your face/Ol' Hank wouldn't have a chance on today's radio/Since they committed murder down on Music Row."
This is the way country is suppose to be, I remember my mama listening to hank and wonder just who will I listen to in 10 more years. Bring back the country!.
+Douglas Manning I was 16yo when I finally realized that country music was becoming awful (I first started noticing individual songs that "just didn't sound right" when I was probably 12yo, but did not realize it was a trend)... That day, on the school bus, at age 16 is when I realized that it was a trend...and not one I was going to be cool with. That was Fall 1982 or very early in Winter 1983. I'm 49 now. The "murder on music row" began in the late 70s, and at first, it actually sounded pretty...different...not REALLY "country", but not bad. That's how you cook a lobster...start them out in cool water...then slowly bring on the heat, so slowly they don't notice it...till it's way too late. And that's what happened to the country music fans. I was a teenager and I noticed it happening around me. But I thought other people...the adults, would surely notice it and fix it. But they didn't! Nobody did. And that's how we got to the sorry state our music is in now. Perhaps your generation can rediscover the "real country music" from the past on TH-cam...and bring it back?? My generation has the money to buy it...if you guys figure out and bottle this kind of magic again. Hint! The "magic" came out of the musical and traditional cultural experiences of even earlier musical forms that the Country Legends were raised around. Traditional southern Gospel, bluegrass, rockabilly, western swing, jazz, the Blues, R&B, big band, Cajon music and many older white and black peoples music. Much of it is right here on TH-cam for free. They mixed and matched it up into new styles that sounded good, and actually "said something" about the human condition. Or told a story of some interesting kind...whether serious or funny or heartbreaking, or a bit of each. They were storytellers and observers of life. And they did not care about demographics. They just made, or tried their best to make, great music. If anyone reads this and wants to make a go of it. Good luck!
kiba inuzuka I'm 16 and 100% with you all I listen to is real country like George Strait, Alan Jackson, Merle Haggard, and others like them plus a little bit of Texas/red dirt country
Not Applicable Boy, thats the best thing I think Ive heard in a long time! You are very right sir! Stories and tales of love and life were told back when country was real. Now weve resulted to singing about "getting the girl in your 4wd" and partying and life being hunkey dory all the time. Nobody wants to accept the truth, and nobody wants to tell about it. But country has died, and we need some real heros to bring it back. Hats off to you sir, you breathe the truth 👌
I'm a lot younger than you, and I would argue from what little experience I have that this "murder on music row" was not a one-time event, but a recurring event perpetrated on each generation of music by the (crummier) one after it. Some of my earliest music memories are from my dad and the contemporary country station he listened to with me sometimes. This was very early to early-mid 2000s, deep Bush era (last time we in America could genuinely fool ourselves into thinking things were fine), and there were actually some songs on there I liked. He died, I ended up with little music in my life except for my mother's contemporary Christian music and the flute (laugh all you want) I was trying to learn to play at the time. Years passed and brought with them a driver's license and a rust bucket of my own, and I started to listen to other kinds of music again. One of my presets, more for the sake of nostalgia than anything else, was that same contemporary country station my dad had introduced me to easily 10 years (more than that now) before. But every time I listened, I just... couldn't stand it. Other stations, if you wait long enough, an awesome song will come on. But on that one, it never did. All the awesomeness I'd known as a kid was gone, replaced by a few cookie-cutter songs. One of them was effectively dual-genreing with contemporary Christian, which is not a bad thing, but that was an extremely slow song and the rest were all awful in some way. They were marked by faux-profound down-hominess, cheap, generic "redneck" subject matter, slow tempo, and a tendency to drag on and on and on and on and on, exacerbated by some very non-traditional instruments played in some very grating ways. It was a horror show, and I slowly started to avoid that preset button when station surfing to avoid commercials/a raunchy song. More time passes, and I see a car in a parking lot with a bumper sticker advertising another country station. Realizing that I've already given up on my childhood station ever playing anything I want to listen to, I decide to check it out and, while I still have to channel-flip away frequently due to songs that are raunchy or that I just don't like, it's a lot better than the one I had in its place before. They play songs from decades ago all the way through the early 2000s - I actually recognize a song or two from my own childhood, when Dad's contemporary country station didn't leave me eternally hanging, waiting forever for a cool song that wasn't coming. Other songs I remember liking haven't showed up yet; perhaps they don't like those songs themselves or perhaps there's licensing issues, and one of them might have been from the Dixie Chicks which would explain why it's disappeared off the face of the earth now. Still, here's hoping they'll be discerning enough 10 years from now to realize that the mainstream "country" popular right now is trash and not add a sixth decade to their playlist.
LOVE this song! I hate the country music out today. When I hear country I think of the best... Johnny, Hank, Patty, George, there are so many! I wish they made country music like that still!
Nothing like good ol’ twang, whiskey, beer drinking music, my two cents the old classic country is the best. Jones, Wynette, dolly, hank, Conway, mandrel, strait, Alan. Etc.
You know, as a kid I have listened to pop country, loving it, only to grow up and realize what shit a lot of it was. Even at 16, I have turned away from this sort of music, only returning for those like George Strait or Alan Jackson, who know how to give it the soul I love. Country music is forever anchored in the past as it gets butchered now until someone is able to improve it.
This classic 1999 song was written by Larry Cordle and Larry Shell, and originally recorded by the American bluegrass group Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time, who also performed it live in clubs and halls around Nashville. IIRC it was a year or two later when this fabulous version hit the charts. Initially shunned by the "suits" in power, the song broke through that B.S. on its own merits, not to mention that these two stellar performers who recorded it, sincerely meant what it is that they sang about. Update: "Old Alan and George wouldn't stand a chance, on today's radio-o-o"
I absolutely agree with this song and I love the two singers who did it. Yes, today's "country" music sucks, but at least we know and appreciate the real country music.
There still a lot of very good young traditional singers out there like Teea Goans, Mo Pitney and more. I hate FGL with a passion what crap they put out and call it country. I looked at a jason aldean song and got sick when he started to rap. George and Alan thank you for "Keeping it pure country"
In my humble opinion, this is the definitive song about the state of country music today, and I don't see how it can ever return to great singers and excellent back up bands......... Music in general has been on a downhill slide for some years, simply because the people playing the music on the radio have no taste.....From the time as a kid, born in 1944, I heard all types of music that was always on an uphill climb, and being improved, without losing the roots music that came before........It's not even because there aren't any great singers out there, but that they sadly don't get played on mainstream radio.
Finally, a song that shows how I feel about current country, along with the George Jones's "Who's gonna fill their shoes?" Though I slightly disagree about the Rock-n-roll guitar part, I mean some of my most favorite JC songs have Luther Perkins shreddin' on that Esquire of his. Of course that "ol' Hank wouldn't have made it on today's radio" really speaks to me. And that part about no one's buyin' them drinkin' and cheatin' songs? first thing I did when I was fixin' up a record player, was buy a Hank Sr. LP...
I would even say almost no greater truth in this world other than Jesus. Country music at this rate is never going to come back no matter who makes songs. Thanks Nashville
They need to play this song every CMA award show! As a Waylon Jennings parody meme said about Luke Bryan, Luke Bryan says he isn't "Outlaw Country".......Waylon's caption says "Hoss, you ain't even Country!"
I was in Newnan yesterday. Had all kinda thoughts and feelings about Alan and his family. I live just about an hour away and have wished I could have had the honor of shaking his hand just once and hugging his wife and girls. Love and respect Alan so much!😢
Just because everything is going modern, country music gets involved. It's sad how beautiful music is being changed into what people nowadays still call "music", even if some ain't even acceptable. Some aren't bad, yes, but most of the songs are just nah.
I like a few of the new country songs but they can't even get close to REAL COUNTRY like George Jones/George Strait/Conway Twitty/Mel Tillis/Bob Wills/Alan Jackson/Hank jr and many others...
I wish they would get together and bring it back!!! Let’s get a radio station/opry like show/ something. There are millions of us out here. Please bring back the real music!!
I could listen to these two old boys sing all day. Murder was commited a long time ago, our new generation has truly gone to pot. Im 16, I'll take Hank Sr and old guitar over Luke Bryan in a pair of queer britches any day!
GabeChristan You are very right my friend! After about the 90's, pop country became a big thing and I really wish Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton and all them other boys would pack their bags and move to Mexico so we aint gotta hear them sing about girls they dont have in trucks they have no desire to own 😂😂
That song just give the child's every time I play that song I hope that country music never leave I do know I miss the older country singers I never want nothing too happen too George Strait or Alan Jackson then there we'll be no country music at all
Alan made this song for George he felt George was no longer being recognized for his Great Gift of true Country and George will never change he is and always will be the Kink of Country
This is real country music, I can not get enough of this twang, as Immigrant this is also help me learn and better my speaking American not just speaking English
King George wouldn't have a chance if he was starting out today and neither would Alan. As long as I live I will do my best to help keep the traditional sound alive and well. I turned on a so-called country station here in the DFW area, 96.3 KSCS and I thought, either they have changed to hip-hop or 106.1 KISS has moved. It was pure hip-hop. I turned it and reprogrammed the button to 106.9 The Ranch.
+Cliff M. I feel the same way here on the Streets of Bakersfield! Buck Owen's station KUZZ, plays the new stuff....just not to me, I listen to their sister station, Real Country!
After 1996 , Country music has gone to hell. The legendary men & woman that paved the way for these so called country artists of today are rolling over in their graves . Hank Sr , Merle Haggard , George Jones , Tammy Wynette , Patsy Cline . These are just some of the artist that made country great . We get to play music at work and I got a few people that say play something from 2000 and newer ( Which I do to be fair ) but the happiest people are is when I play stuff like Battle of New Orleans ( Johnny Horton )or Orange Blossom special ( Johnny Cash ) or Patsy Cline . That's great country music .
actually, in my opinion, after 1993, country went to hell from there. anything from 1950-1992 i'm good with. There's been an awful murder, down on music row.
Grew up listening to this real country music!! Can’t get into this new stuff. My granddaddy would sing George and Conway! Sometimes he’d be drunk and crying but that was a release for him. I never got to ask him about who he was thinking about when he listened to these songs but damn they sure have the heart and soul that our new generations lack
Ive been listening to Country music since I was born.I grew up listening to George Strait,Johnny Cash,Merle Haggard,Waylon Jennings,Conway Twitty,George Jones,Hank Williams Jr and Senior.I want to hear them not the Taylor Swift whining mess.Long Live ole Country!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn right!!! I agree with every word in this song.And it's no wonder radio would never play it,even though it was requested over and over and over again
I'm still stuck listening to Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb, etc. At least I'm not alone even Keith Richards loves country music from the 19r40's-1980..
WONDERFUL MUSIC.... ALAN JACKSON, HOJE EU AINDA NÃO TE FALEI SOBRE O GRANSE AMOR QUE TENHO POR VOCÊ ESSE AMOR É TÃO GRANDE, QUE PODEREI ATÉ PARAR DE RESPIRAR DE TANTA EMOÇÃO
Today’s country music can’t hold up to the old stuff they used to play. It’s sad at what they call country music today. Today’s artists have no idea what is considered talent. They have very little.
This is so true ......I was driving through music city on way to Georgia to deliver in an eighteen wheeler and couldnt even pick up a classic country station
All music hits us and touches us some way but nothing like the emotion and memories that good ol country songs bring out in you and you can't beat the steel guitar and fiddles and banjos instruments like those touch ur soul stronger and harder than rock or rap will not dogging any genre I love music but it's always been something about a country song tht will connect u to ur life the best way and make u feel like that ur not the only feeling this way whatever way it is sad happy lonely there's a country song out there about ur exact situation and country music shows us that and that why we fall in love with it the most I think
I love these REAL COUNTRY SONGS that stick it to those who play that pop country I'd play this loud on a radio station just to make people pissd I'll show em what country music is
They’re telling the truth here. Country music today is not country music. This is 2 of the greats! The country singers today really committed murder on music row!
Don't get me wrong I like most of the stuff on country radio today, but I think it sucks that George Strait has a hard time getting airplay these days. Country radio gave no chance to I Believe and reluctantly gave time to I Got a Car from his latest album smh. Instead we got to hear Jake Owen attempt to rap about the beach
Fuck Jake Owen! It would take a whole stage of modern day pickers to Even make Hank or George to even turn their amps up. As soft as country music is musically written, Them two good ole boys would run that whole stage of beach bums off.
I grew up in Rock and metal but when my mom re-married in the late 90s cmt was always on my step dad's TV, like that's all that was on. Cmt was burnt into the corner of the screen. Alan and George became two of my favorites, so much so I bought tickets and drove 2 hrs to Columbus Ohio to watch George at nationwide arena in 02. I still listen to my metal but after seeing the Chattahoochee video on cmt I found a love for the country music of that generation. The new stuff is garbage,I won't turn on any country station but I'll dust off "the road less traveled" from time to time and like as much now as I did 20 years ago.
The fact is it wasent just modern country singers who killed country.....it was the people who supported it....everyday folks is what killed good country music
Both the best country singers in the world singing together = steel hard fact.
Oooo yes
Yessir Thats so true all we gotta do now is throw in some Hank Jr and we got it
The Steel Facts are Hard.
Inspired by The Possum
@@christopherjones2467 Let's throw Vince Gill into the mix, how awesome?
Would you be THE Chris Jones, who I jammed with at Parkfield about 20 years ago?
This is a great song. Performed by two of the greatest Country singers of today. George Strait and the wonderful Allan Jackson. Need I say more. This is REAL country music. Let's hope that it's NOT dead and gone........
As long as singers like these two keep singing, country music will live forever HOPEFULLY. Randy Travis is another great country singer. REAL COUNTRY.!!!!!!!!!
Not Alan though, since he destroyed country music and covered Akon's "Don't Matter" and Wiz Khalifa's "We Dem Boyz" in concert. George is great, though.
I am sorry no I am not either this stuff today is not real country.there are just a few that even know how to sing the real country.alan Jackson and George strait and a few more are all that is lefy
Me and my friends are only 13 and we talk how Country music is gone from the way John Denver, Johnny Cash, Hank, And Merle wanted it to be... I hope to one day tell the world that Country rap is not a genre
George very nice man I did a show with his drummer on music row.
WOW !!!! This Song Tells The Cold, Hard Truth!!!!!!
You are right
DAMN RIGHT IT DOES
good i have wanted that back forever
Lately, when people ask if I like country music, I've had to say no. It tears out my heart. Country music like this is my childhood and today's 'stars' have completely slaughtered the genre. There are absolutely no modern artists with this sound. I love this sound; it means the world to me. So following the quick no, I always add that: "I love what country used to be." And unless things change, I'll always have to.
How about now? Is it still the same?
I have to say this; I love the old country and I always will. I grew up listening to Hank and Kitty wells. Country music will never be like that again. I am 76 years old. Thanks to youtube I can find what I'm looking for.
Hello 👋 2023 we're here en loving the old country renditions. Those voices en still guitars of then was just wow. Nowadays it's more rock-like than country, this pains indeed 😭😭😭💔
I always tell them I like the old country
@@joeyseclipse3117 If it was even like rock, it still wouldn't be half bad. At least it would be rock, even though it wouldn't be country. But it's not even rock. It's just horrible, and it's so horrible it doesn't even have it's own name, so it had to try to steal the name of OUR music.
I call it "really bad pop in a cowboy hat". But that is more a description than a name. And it is an insult to really good pop, like existed in the 60s and 70s.
At least the rap guys had the decency to come up with their own name for the crap they put out. They didn't try to steal the name of "Rhythm and Blues", by calling their noise "Today's Hot New R&B". And furthermore, since rhyming is important to rappers, they even rhymed "rap" with "crap", which is what it is. So I can call it "that rap crap", and it rolls right off the tongue so easily. I can REALLY respect that. Even if I don't like "that rap crap". But I can't respect ANYTHING about these wretched "bad pop in a cowboy hat" singers who call themselves "country music singers today, and for the past ~35 years or so.
Ironically, Alan Jackson was among the first murderers on music row. Although he has a few actual country songs, and a few of them are actually good. Not many, to my knowledge. But this one song, and a few others by Alan Jackson are great. Even though he is singing about himself and doesn't know it.
"For the steel guitars no longer cry and the fiddles barely play/But drums and rock 'n roll guitars are mixed up in your face/Ol' Hank wouldn't have a chance on today's radio/Since they committed murder down on Music Row."
AMEN brother
Love this song. Country music today just isn't country music anymore.
This is the way country is suppose to be, I remember my mama listening to hank and wonder just who will I listen to in 10 more years. Bring back the country!.
man this is real country music right here I'm only 17 and I'd rather listen to these 2 legends than the trash Luke Bryan and the others have out now
Im 16, Im so with you man!
+Douglas Manning I was 16yo when I finally realized that country music was becoming awful (I first started noticing individual songs that "just didn't sound right" when I was probably 12yo, but did not realize it was a trend)... That day, on the school bus, at age 16 is when I realized that it was a trend...and not one I was going to be cool with. That was Fall 1982 or very early in Winter 1983. I'm 49 now.
The "murder on music row" began in the late 70s, and at first, it actually sounded pretty...different...not REALLY "country", but not bad. That's how you cook a lobster...start them out in cool water...then slowly bring on the heat, so slowly they don't notice it...till it's way too late. And that's what happened to the country music fans.
I was a teenager and I noticed it happening around me. But I thought other people...the adults, would surely notice it and fix it. But they didn't! Nobody did. And that's how we got to the sorry state our music is in now.
Perhaps your generation can rediscover the "real country music" from the past on TH-cam...and bring it back??
My generation has the money to buy it...if you guys figure out and bottle this kind of magic again.
Hint! The "magic" came out of the musical and traditional cultural experiences of even earlier musical forms that the Country Legends were raised around. Traditional southern Gospel, bluegrass, rockabilly, western swing, jazz, the Blues, R&B, big band, Cajon music and many older white and black peoples music. Much of it is right here on TH-cam for free.
They mixed and matched it up into new styles that sounded good, and actually "said something" about the human condition. Or told a story of some interesting kind...whether serious or funny or heartbreaking, or a bit of each. They were storytellers and observers of life. And they did not care about demographics. They just made, or tried their best to make, great music.
If anyone reads this and wants to make a go of it. Good luck!
kiba inuzuka I'm 16 and 100% with you all I listen to is real country like George Strait, Alan Jackson, Merle Haggard, and others like them plus a little bit of Texas/red dirt country
Not Applicable Boy, thats the best thing I think Ive heard in a long time! You are very right sir! Stories and tales of love and life were told back when country was real. Now weve resulted to singing about "getting the girl in your 4wd" and partying and life being hunkey dory all the time. Nobody wants to accept the truth, and nobody wants to tell about it. But country has died, and we need some real heros to bring it back. Hats off to you sir, you breathe the truth 👌
I'm a lot younger than you, and I would argue from what little experience I have that this "murder on music row" was not a one-time event, but a recurring event perpetrated on each generation of music by the (crummier) one after it. Some of my earliest music memories are from my dad and the contemporary country station he listened to with me sometimes. This was very early to early-mid 2000s, deep Bush era (last time we in America could genuinely fool ourselves into thinking things were fine), and there were actually some songs on there I liked.
He died, I ended up with little music in my life except for my mother's contemporary Christian music and the flute (laugh all you want) I was trying to learn to play at the time. Years passed and brought with them a driver's license and a rust bucket of my own, and I started to listen to other kinds of music again. One of my presets, more for the sake of nostalgia than anything else, was that same contemporary country station my dad had introduced me to easily 10 years (more than that now) before. But every time I listened, I just... couldn't stand it. Other stations, if you wait long enough, an awesome song will come on. But on that one, it never did. All the awesomeness I'd known as a kid was gone, replaced by a few cookie-cutter songs. One of them was effectively dual-genreing with contemporary Christian, which is not a bad thing, but that was an extremely slow song and the rest were all awful in some way. They were marked by faux-profound down-hominess, cheap, generic "redneck" subject matter, slow tempo, and a tendency to drag on and on and on and on and on, exacerbated by some very non-traditional instruments played in some very grating ways. It was a horror show, and I slowly started to avoid that preset button when station surfing to avoid commercials/a raunchy song.
More time passes, and I see a car in a parking lot with a bumper sticker advertising another country station. Realizing that I've already given up on my childhood station ever playing anything I want to listen to, I decide to check it out and, while I still have to channel-flip away frequently due to songs that are raunchy or that I just don't like, it's a lot better than the one I had in its place before. They play songs from decades ago all the way through the early 2000s - I actually recognize a song or two from my own childhood, when Dad's contemporary country station didn't leave me eternally hanging, waiting forever for a cool song that wasn't coming. Other songs I remember liking haven't showed up yet; perhaps they don't like those songs themselves or perhaps there's licensing issues, and one of them might have been from the Dixie Chicks which would explain why it's disappeared off the face of the earth now. Still, here's hoping they'll be discerning enough 10 years from now to realize that the mainstream "country" popular right now is trash and not add a sixth decade to their playlist.
Nothin' like coming home from the stock car races on Saturday night and Dad would have WSN Grand Old Opry on the radio. Sure do miss it.
James Southerland agreed
LOVE this song! I hate the country music out today. When I hear country I think of the best... Johnny, Hank, Patty, George, there are so many! I wish they made country music like that still!
Perfect duo for this song
boy-that's for sure
Yep. The two best neo-traditionalists out there
Country music is long DEAD on the radio but is alive and well in the minds and hearts of us old timers!!
This is the TRUE country music!!
This song is one of the best!! I have so many "old time" country vinyl.. Hank would be proud..
Love this. It's so true. This is the real country music and you don't hear it on the radio anymore.
This is the real truth THANK YOU GEOGE and ALLAN
Truer words never spoken, I stick with utube these days, where I can pick the artist.
Nothing like good ol’ twang, whiskey, beer drinking music, my two cents the old classic country is the best. Jones, Wynette, dolly, hank, Conway, mandrel, strait, Alan. Etc.
You know, as a kid I have listened to pop country, loving it, only to grow up and realize what shit a lot of it was. Even at 16, I have turned away from this sort of music, only returning for those like George Strait or Alan Jackson, who know how to give it the soul I love. Country music is forever anchored in the past as it gets butchered now until someone is able to improve it.
I absolutely love this song. It is very true.
ty lee chaffin i love it
so do i tell that to devon i am not bi polar chris trylle is
omg I had to listen to this twice to understand the "murder" was the death of good country music
+Brittany B Where is it? Please don't tell me you think Luke Bryan or Sam hunt is country?
no smiley bates is country
really?
better than any jason aldean or puke bryan song
I've never heard either of them and I'm glad.
Jason Aldean used to make country music then he sold out 2 Rock
They seen this coming 30 yrs ago
I agree with luke bryan but not jason aldean hes country
Hey leave jason Aldean out of it 🤡
This classic 1999 song was written by Larry Cordle and Larry Shell, and originally recorded by the American bluegrass group Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time, who also performed it live in clubs and halls around Nashville. IIRC it was a year or two later when this fabulous version hit the charts.
Initially shunned by the "suits" in power, the song broke through that B.S. on its own merits, not to mention that these two stellar performers who recorded it, sincerely meant what it is that they sang about.
Update: "Old Alan and George wouldn't stand a chance, on today's radio-o-o"
I absolutely agree with this song and I love the two singers who did it. Yes, today's "country" music sucks, but at least we know and appreciate the real country music.
My soul longs to hear the Good ole country with the steel guitars. Thank you!
There still a lot of very good young traditional singers out there like Teea Goans, Mo Pitney and more. I hate FGL with a passion what crap they put out and call it country. I looked at a jason aldean song and got sick when he started to rap. George and Alan thank you for "Keeping it pure country"
In my humble opinion, this is the definitive song about the state of country music today, and I don't see how it can ever return to great singers and excellent back up bands......... Music in general has been on a downhill slide for some years, simply because the people playing the music on the radio have no taste.....From the time as a kid, born in 1944, I heard all types of music that was always on an uphill climb, and being improved, without losing the roots music that came before........It's not even because there aren't any great singers out there, but that they sadly don't get played on mainstream radio.
yes, I'm glad George and Alan feel the same way I do about todays "country"
Finally, a song that shows how I feel about current country, along with the George Jones's "Who's gonna fill their shoes?" Though I slightly disagree about the Rock-n-roll guitar part, I mean some of my most favorite JC songs have Luther Perkins shreddin' on that Esquire of his. Of course that "ol' Hank wouldn't have made it on today's radio" really speaks to me.
And that part about no one's buyin' them drinkin' and cheatin' songs? first thing I did when I was fixin' up a record player, was buy a Hank Sr. LP...
I would even say almost no greater truth in this world other than Jesus. Country music at this rate is never going to come back no matter who makes songs. Thanks Nashville
They need to play this song every CMA award show!
As a Waylon Jennings parody meme said about Luke Bryan,
Luke Bryan says he isn't "Outlaw Country".......Waylon's caption says "Hoss, you ain't even Country!"
It was played during the 1999 CMA awards
More than once, Black rappers and gays, who have almost no connection to country, have been part of the CMA
So glad we can still listen to them on the Internet.
Wow,the words of this awesome song rings so true in 2019..So sad..Thank God I was born in the 70's..When music was good!!
I was in Newnan yesterday. Had all kinda thoughts and feelings about Alan and his family. I live just about an hour away and have wished I could have had the honor of shaking his hand just once and hugging his wife and girls. Love and respect Alan so much!😢
I'm with you young man. Country music today ain't country . Country legions still live on.
One of the best with George and Alan! you have good taste my friend!
Just because everything is going modern, country music gets involved. It's sad how beautiful music is being changed into what people nowadays still call "music", even if some ain't even acceptable. Some aren't bad, yes, but most of the songs are just nah.
I like a few of the new country songs but they can't even get close to REAL COUNTRY like George Jones/George Strait/Conway Twitty/Mel Tillis/Bob Wills/Alan Jackson/Hank jr and many others...
Yup. Friends in low places is an alright song but it would be a dishonor to compare it to one of ol waylon's songs
THIS is what country should sound like-- and is so true, FIVE stars!
This song is a big middle finger to people like Luke Bryan and FGL
luke and other pretenders have to sing about legend to sell that garbage they are selling.
+John Major Yup. This song describes about 95% of so-called 'country' music made since 1990...
+John Major They just dont make it like they used to
+John Major I've gone to like 3 different videos and seen a comment from you...
literally just thinking that
I wish they would get together and bring it back!!! Let’s get a radio station/opry like show/ something. There are millions of us out here. Please bring back the real music!!
I could listen to these two old boys sing all day. Murder was commited a long time ago, our new generation has truly gone to pot. Im 16, I'll take Hank Sr and old guitar over Luke Bryan in a pair of queer britches any day!
Douglas Manning Same! i hate this twangy pop they have the balls to pass off as "country" Hank Williams, Waylon, Johnny, are true country imo
GabeChristan You are very right my friend! After about the 90's, pop country became a big thing and I really wish Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton and all them other boys would pack their bags and move to Mexico so we aint gotta hear them sing about girls they dont have in trucks they have no desire to own 😂😂
Douglas Manning I'm 16 too man . the classics are the best. you'll never catch me listening to that new shit.
I have no idea what luke bryan sounds like, but I'm sure I agree. I hate that new stuff which is rock n roll, not country.
You saying britches is probably the gayest thing I have ever read
Looks at modern country "music". Damn straight they killed it.
You are so rlqht
Thanks for all of the memories in music George. Hope to see you back from time to time. Enjoy your retirement.
Best song ever, Very nostalgia and Mellifluous on the ears especially with the heartfelt tone. 💯🤗
Yes, quite mellifluous, euphonious, and pleasantly mellifluent.
these two guys could read the yellow pages and sound country
I'm a decent singer, though I've never thought of pursuing such a career. I want to go on "The Voice" and sing this song as my blind audition.
Go ahead! It will be the biggest slap for Blake Shelton
That song just give the child's every time I play that song
I hope that country music never leave I do know I miss the older country singers
I never want nothing too happen too George Strait or Alan Jackson then there we'll be no country music at all
Alan made this song for George he felt George was no longer being recognized for his Great Gift of true Country and George will never change he is and always will be the Kink of Country
This is real country music, I can not get enough of this twang, as Immigrant this is also help me learn and better my speaking American not just speaking English
We should all thank Jon Pardi, Luke Combs, Riley Green, and Chris Stapleton for keeping real, neo traditional country alive!!!!
King George wouldn't have a chance if he was starting out today and neither would Alan. As long as I live I will do my best to help keep the traditional sound alive and well. I turned on a so-called country station here in the DFW area, 96.3 KSCS and I thought, either they have changed to hip-hop or 106.1 KISS has moved. It was pure hip-hop. I turned it and reprogrammed the button to 106.9 The Ranch.
+Cliff M. I feel the same way here on the Streets of Bakersfield! Buck Owen's station KUZZ, plays the new stuff....just not to me, I listen to their sister station, Real Country!
Same in St.Louis, there's only one station out here that plays any real country and that's 1190 AM, KQQZ. They still play King George and Alan.
After 1996 , Country music has gone to hell.
The legendary men & woman that paved the way for these so called country artists of today are rolling over in their graves .
Hank Sr , Merle Haggard , George Jones , Tammy Wynette , Patsy Cline .
These are just some of the artist that made country great .
We get to play music at work and I got a few people that say play something from 2000 and newer ( Which I do to be fair ) but the happiest people are is when I play stuff like Battle of New Orleans ( Johnny Horton )or Orange Blossom special ( Johnny Cash ) or Patsy Cline .
That's great country music .
actually, in my opinion, after 1993, country went to hell from there. anything from 1950-1992 i'm good with. There's been an awful murder, down on music row.
Grew up listening to this real country music!! Can’t get into this new stuff. My granddaddy would sing George and Conway! Sometimes he’d be drunk and crying but that was a release for him. I never got to ask him about who he was thinking about when he listened to these songs but damn they sure have the heart and soul that our new generations lack
Ive been listening to Country music since I was born.I grew up listening to George Strait,Johnny Cash,Merle Haggard,Waylon Jennings,Conway Twitty,George Jones,Hank Williams Jr and Senior.I want to hear them not the Taylor Swift whining mess.Long Live ole Country!!!!!!!!!!!!
2020 and this song couldn't be more true!!
Damn right!!! I agree with every word in this song.And it's no wonder radio would never play it,even though it was requested over and over and over again
This is a great song. Sounds like Merles Holdin things together
I'm still stuck listening to Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb, etc. At least I'm not alone even Keith Richards loves country music from the 19r40's-1980..
country theses days aint country
What could be better?
Two of country's all time greatest traditional artists singing together?
Two of the worlds greatest kings of country get down in this beautiful song........
WONDERFUL MUSIC....
ALAN JACKSON, HOJE EU AINDA NÃO TE FALEI SOBRE O GRANSE AMOR QUE TENHO POR VOCÊ
ESSE AMOR É TÃO GRANDE, QUE PODEREI ATÉ PARAR DE RESPIRAR DE TANTA EMOÇÃO
This is Country music the real deal keep cou6 music pure
This is so true I prefer George strait and Alan Jackson over Luke Brian in tight jeans.
Today’s country music can’t hold up to the old stuff they used to play. It’s sad at what they call country music today. Today’s artists have no idea what is considered talent. They have very little.
Very true, it's all about following and not standing out. Sad! That's why I like the old "rebels" of country music.
Culture and music alike is dynamic in nature, respect change.
This is so true ......I was driving through music city on way to Georgia to deliver in an eighteen wheeler and couldnt even pick up a classic country station
Sad country music sure not what it used to be!!! This generation going kill off everything good!!!!!
This is country music that is good for shining belt buckles with
The artry in wording life these days are rare 😊
This is true of all types of music. All the feeling's outta music.
All music hits us and touches us some way but nothing like the emotion and memories that good ol country songs bring out in you and you can't beat the steel guitar and fiddles and banjos instruments like those touch ur soul stronger and harder than rock or rap will not dogging any genre I love music but it's always been something about a country song tht will connect u to ur life the best way and make u feel like that ur not the only feeling this way whatever way it is sad happy lonely there's a country song out there about ur exact situation and country music shows us that and that why we fall in love with it the most I think
I love these REAL COUNTRY SONGS that stick it to those who play that pop country I'd play this loud on a radio station just to make people pissd I'll show em what country music is
This song is so true these days.
Chris LeDoux, George Jones, Johnny Cash, Michael Martin Murphey....Real Country.
THE 2 OF THE Best STRAIT & JACKSON🎶🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸🎸🎸💯💯💯✌️✌️✌️
My two all-time favorites right here
They’re telling the truth here. Country music today is not country music. This is 2 of the greats! The country singers today really committed murder on music row!
Boy they told the truth straight up on this song!!!!! 💯💯💯
Two legends.
1.5 million views and counting. You done did good !
This song rings SO true.
First time hearing this and I love it. This sounds really similar to A Few Ole Country Boys
you got that right the oldies are the best
these young wooper snappers today did this to country music
I agree.
Don't get me wrong I like most of the stuff on country radio today, but I think it sucks that George Strait has a hard time getting airplay these days. Country radio gave no chance to I Believe and reluctantly gave time to I Got a Car from his latest album smh. Instead we got to hear Jake Owen attempt to rap about the beach
Fuck Jake Owen! It would take a whole stage of modern day pickers to Even make Hank or George to even turn their amps up. As soft as country music is musically written, Them two good ole boys would run that whole stage of beach bums off.
ineversaid jake owen
A style of country back before the world done got in a big ole hurry to push pure love and pure life and pure country old time ways out of the way
At least we had them and others. My radio in my truck stays on my Playlist.
😘.love this duo.. My two faves😍
I can't tell you how much this is true.
I love this country music me love it
Yes yes me to
I miss old school country like this. the new stuff ain't bad but nothing can top old school AJ and strait.
I love this song thank you for sharing ❤❤❤
I grew up in Rock and metal but when my mom re-married in the late 90s cmt was always on my step dad's TV, like that's all that was on. Cmt was burnt into the corner of the screen. Alan and George became two of my favorites, so much so I bought tickets and drove 2 hrs to Columbus Ohio to watch George at nationwide arena in 02. I still listen to my metal but after seeing the Chattahoochee video on cmt I found a love for the country music of that generation. The new stuff is garbage,I won't turn on any country station but I'll dust off "the road less traveled" from time to time and like as much now as I did 20 years ago.
I love this song so much 😭😭
This has happened in several music genres. But to country music, it hurt the most.
Love this song. Would've loved to hear George Jones on this.
I am stuck listening to jim reeves and patsy cline
The fact is it wasent just modern country singers who killed country.....it was the people who supported it....everyday folks is what killed good country music