Modern "Country"

[funkster62]

Re: dumb lyrics.
If you’re a young dude, living BFE your life is Beer, Trucks, Girls & Fishin’. You hit a bar on Saturday night do you really need to hear poetry, or do you want to sing dance and clap your hands in praise of Beer, Trucks, Girls & Fishin’.

A bar owner once told me that the best things in life were fishin', f**kin' and drinkin.' Sounds like good song material to me!

 

[pklima]

Yup. One of my favorite old-school country songs has a hook which goes "faster horses, younger women, older whisky, more money".

 

[Robroy]

One branch of country is heavy in harmony vocals, like Lady Antebellum, The Band Perry, etc... That's where my band is focusing, as I've got great male and female leads, with two more males than can do lead too.

I enjoy it, because it is not as tired as 80s pop/rock, the lyrics are not all about drugs and sex, and there are just a lot of fun songs.

Not for everyone for sure, but I get a kick out of it. Nothing like girls doing their Daisy Duke impression on the dance floor...

It is also what the bar bands pay for around here, although classic rock is still kicking too. Not much call for old country, unless it is mixed in.

Local band was trying to start up last winter on "nothing as new as Garth Brooks". They are still trying to form and find gigs.

I'm in central KY. Same thing here. Most bands here are "country and classic/southern rock".

 

[Robroy]

Yup. One of my favorite old-school country songs has a hook which goes "faster horses, younger women, older whisky, more money".

I never paid much attention to lyrics in music until around 2005 or so. At that point I became a huge fan of country music. Some of the lyrics are amazing.

 

[Marial]

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That pretty much sums up my opinion of modern country music.

 

[BassCliff]

Hi,

I just wanted to share this. Last night I happened to catch the re-run of the ABC show "Nashville", the episode where the cast put on a live concert in the Ryman with the "fan favorite" songs, and they featured spots about the songwriters. It was a really good show, just music and no drama. I liked all the music and a couple of the performances were really stand-outs. "If I Didn't Know Better" and "Black Roses" were very impressive and moving to me. Overall, I loved the emotions of the songs and the stories they told.

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I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

. Last night I happened to catch the re-run of the ABC show "Nashville"...

Interestingly enough, only this morning I had a conversation about this show, indeed the very episode. He's a Nashville-based session/road guy who, like many of us did, lives out of a vehicle that's occasionally parked in town. Anyway, he was telling me that show is actually having a measurable effect on the music scene there. I guess clamoring for the gig and what-not...

 

[Lownote38]

Interestingly enough, only this morning I had a conversation about this show, indeed the very episode. He's a Nashville-based session/road guy who, like many of us did, lives out of a vehicle that's occasionally parked in town. Anyway, he was telling me that show is actually having a measurable effect on the music scene there. I guess clamoring for the gig and what-not...

It's definitely changing Nashville. L.A. is moving here slowly but surely. They even have their own section of town. I will say that the music business doesn't have the same type of drama that the TV show does, but it certainly has as much or more drama in general. Also, Jack White lives here. I mean there's a lot more than country going on in this city (where if you wear a cowboy hat, you're obviously a tourist, or country artist, but probably not a resident).

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

I'm in central KY. Same thing here. Most bands here are "country and classic/southern rock".

I'm actually looking for something like that here in Southwest Virginia... if for nothing more than a good jam night.

 

[Lazylion]

Yup. One of my favorite old-school country songs has a hook which goes "faster horses, younger women, older whisky, more money".

The great Tom T. Hall!

 

[Freddels]

The great Tom T. Hall!

I grew up listening to Tom T. Hall. He was my father's favorite. My mother played Johnny Cash stuff.

 

[The Sloth]

The lyrics to 99% of these modern songs are insulting. If your free time consists of beer, trucks and girls, fine. But what's the point of listening to a dozen songs with roughly the same words, reporting the same thing over and over? If your life is that repetitive, why would you ever wish for your entertainment to be?

These songs are just so superficial and pointless in the end. It's a shame they waste so many hooks on such disposable lyrical content.

 

[lowfreq33]

Interestingly enough, only this morning I had a conversation about this show, indeed the very episode. He's a Nashville-based session/road guy who, like many of us did, lives out of a vehicle that's occasionally parked in town. Anyway, he was telling me that show is actually having a measurable effect on the music scene there. I guess clamoring for the gig and what-not...

It does seem to be helping tourism a bit, which is good for those of us who play downtown. I've been making great money so far this year. I'm not always crazy about the songs people request, but if someone has a $20 bill we'll play whatever they want. I just wish there was more variety in the chord progressions. Seems like everything these days is either 1 5 6 4 (cruise/wagon wheel) or 4 1 6 5 (drunk on you). There's a new one by some guy named Sam Hunt, the verse is cruise, the chorus is drunk on you. It's awful.

 

[Holdsg]

There are some acts that actually try to write interesting songs, about more than just trucks and girls and getting drunk (on a plane or elsewhere).
But yeah, there's a lot of schlock that you gotta wade through to get to those. No different than hair bands or grunge in the 80s and 90s, respectively.

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

It does seem to be helping tourism a bit, which is good for those of us who play downtown. I've been making great money so far this year. I'm not always crazy about the songs people request, but if someone has a $20 bill we'll play whatever they want.

It was during my time there (in the late 1990's) that I began to understand how I didn't need to love a particular song to play it. Put another way - the tipjars of Broadway and Printer's Alley had a way of clarifying the relationship between me and the tourists...

I had a great roomate with a decent Opry gig who taught me those grocery money ropes.

 

[hover]

I just got back into the 'modern country' game (in fact, had the audition this Wed!) after having left a few years away from it... you can say whatever you want about it, and it's not my first choice to listen to, but I can play that style well, and it's an incredibly freaking fun gig and I've made a s**t-ton of cash playing it, and peepin the beauties in the audience sweetens the pot.

Do you wanna 'keep it real' or do you wanna gig?

I already have 2 originals projects that are my passion,
...so... this gig is my fun.

 

[bump]

The Pistol Annies ? Kacey Musgraves ?
I don't know, man. Sounds like all the other Country pablum out there to me.
Just my opinion.
And just to add fuel to the fire:
I can't stand playing the few "new country" tunes we do.........

 

[RoadRanger]

So 2014 LOL

 

[Ronzo]

Lol........"Duh….Whaddaya mean MAJOR pentatonic…………theres only one Pentatonic……"

Name the band “Three Frets Back”.

 

[Ronzo]

Its happening in pop too. Why? It's easier to sell records when you have breasts.

Or “legs for days”, like Kasey Musgraves.