Originally Posted by Bill Robinson
I don't know how old you guys are but I am 63 years old.
I grew up listening to Porter Wagoner, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, ETC.

Why do you think it is whining or complaining when I say I wish they were still doing that kind of traditional Country music.
I don't have a right to like that kind of music and want to hear it on the radio?

I don't have a problem with today's "Country" music. I listen to it all the time. I just wish the old traditional country music was still being done. Does that make me old fashioned,? Well if it does then I am OK with that.

I would like to see it being cut and called COUNTRY music and they could call today's Country whatever they want.

Yes Alan Jackson is close. But it is billed as Neo Traditional..NEO=NEW. Alan Jackson is one of my favorites.

Taylor Swift is very talented, no one is trying to take that away from her. She is probably the face of things to come.
But listen to a Loretta Lynn Album then listen to a Taylor Swift Album and tell me how they compare. The music is different. Not better or worse, Different.

You guys make it sound like anyone who wants to hear traditional country music is committing a sin.

I was in a club in Nashville last week and was listening to people talk about the music.
It wasn't pretty. And these people were a lot younger than me. The gist of the talk was pretty much "Country music is done" this is what we will get from now on and the people were NOT happy about it.

I think Charlie Rich said it best in 1975 when he burned John Denver's envelope containing his CMA Entertainer of the Year Award rather than present it to him during the ceremony.


You think JOHN DENVER is too un-Country? OMG! You are REALLY old fashioned, but like you said, there is nothing wrong with that and you are certainly entitled to your taste in music. Do you feel the same way about Dolly and Kenny? They both crossed over into top 40 pop often.

All of those people you mentioned are the main reason why I hated country music for so long (the exception was Johnny Cash, who I liked). The sound of those steel pedal guitars make me nuts. Then only reason I ever gave country music a second look is because of innovators like Kenny Rogers, John Denver, and Ronnie Milsap. All that traditional country was way too depressing for me to listen to. Seems like the songs were all about "my woman done left me, so I thinks I'll get to drinking some moonshine and then eat my gun".

Radio stations play what people want to hear so they can maximize their advertising rates. If more people listed to New Country, that is what they will play. I can't believe that there are no radio stations in Nashville you can turn on who will play George Jones, Tammy Wynette, and Loretta Lynn for you. And if you don't live in NAshville, then maybe that is where you should move.

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