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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by eharris:
To me this is such a moot subject and here I am contributing to more wasted space on a wasted subject but here goes.....

Country will never....ever....ever....ever be what it was 20, 30 or 40 years ago. Reminisce about it. Listen to your old 45's and tilt a can of suds in salute but quit letting everyone know just how much you can't stand todays sub-genres of country music


What your too embarassed to have anyone listen to is probably what's playin' on the radio.

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Wasted space?
Wasted subject?

I don't think any discussion of current interest is a waste.

In case you didn't notice, two of the biggest hits in country last year...
Alan Jackson w/Buffet-"Five O'clock Somewhere", and Toby's-"I Love This Bar".

About as traditional country sounding as you can get. According to all my sources in the biz, there's a swing in motion back to that traditional sound.

As far as 40 years ago, I hope it doesn't get back to that. Country went through some growing pangs up untill the 70's and it found it's nitch. With Waylon, Willie, and a host of others that followed over the next 20 years.

It wasn't till the 90's, with a change in the corporate record companys staffing, and their desire to create a more lucrative market by attracting the teenage audience, that pop (or modern) country evolved.

As far as the stuff I've listened to.

Poor arrangements, terrible recordings, bad vocals. If you get past all that and listen to the lyrics, most of them lack too.

I guess they just want to put it out there, I would be embarrassed.