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Old-school "outlaw" country music is great. Like Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and the like.
Didn't Willie Nelson out smoke Snoop Dogg at one point?
But also, yes, old school country that tried to tell a story and wasn't just formulaic pandering to rural americans was great.
Probably. They even did a collaboration song together, "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die". Pretty funny hearing Snoop sing a country song.
I think a lot of pre-1980s country is pretty good. When it did things like tell stories and wasn't just formulaic crap about god and Jesus and America and your truck and your girlfriend in cutoff jeans.
There's good new country.
https://youtu.be/OoJaV-rqsiU?feature=shared
And plenty of good old and new Texas country.
Yeah, there is some good alt country stuff out there. I actually have an old friend from high school who's gone really far as an indie country star (which is kind of funny because he was totally a punk rocker back then)... I just can't get into the new stuff though. It just feels like it's trying to recapture something that's time has passed. Sort of like the period in the 90s when big band music was briefly back in fashion.
Country music, to me, represents an America that just doesn't exist anymore. Maybe it never did, but we're more realistic about things now.
We're just not in a "Harper Valley PTA" world.
We need a distinct name for what you link, because of al the rightwing wifebeaters hijacking the country music name.. NeoCountry? Vs Conservacountry??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_country
Thanks!
Also, check out:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americana_music
Stuff in that genre has elements of the old, good country.
Willie will forever be my GOAT.