06-16-2024, 11:41 PM
There's a divide where I live between what is country music. The old folks condemn anything before 1985 or so.
Hank Williams is pretty much the god-center for the old folks. They also seem to like Johnny Cash and Elvis' country songs.
I, of course, tend toward the women: Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline, Tanya Tucker.
Bluegrass starts a lot of the older country performers out.
When I was a kid, I loved the Garth Brooks album: No Fences.
Clint Black and Dwight Yokam are some of the ones from the '80s and '90s that I thought were pretty good.
They play Linda Ronstadt on the classic country stations, though she is more than that.
Willie Nelson singing Whiskey River and George Jones songs are things I listen to at 3am, some nights.
You're from Texas. Listen around.
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Like blues, and most everything else, country songs have same chords with a little variety of tempo, and the singer's range is what makes something stand out.
You can listen to these people's songs instrumentally, and simply make up your own words. All about feeling the rhythm in the strings. Bluegrass never even used drums or other percussion.
Hank Williams is pretty much the god-center for the old folks. They also seem to like Johnny Cash and Elvis' country songs.
I, of course, tend toward the women: Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline, Tanya Tucker.
Bluegrass starts a lot of the older country performers out.
When I was a kid, I loved the Garth Brooks album: No Fences.
Clint Black and Dwight Yokam are some of the ones from the '80s and '90s that I thought were pretty good.
They play Linda Ronstadt on the classic country stations, though she is more than that.
Willie Nelson singing Whiskey River and George Jones songs are things I listen to at 3am, some nights.
You're from Texas. Listen around.
....
Like blues, and most everything else, country songs have same chords with a little variety of tempo, and the singer's range is what makes something stand out.
You can listen to these people's songs instrumentally, and simply make up your own words. All about feeling the rhythm in the strings. Bluegrass never even used drums or other percussion.