Garth Brooks - If Tomorrow Never Comes (beautiful song)
Kenny Rogers - Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Coat of Many Colours (and others)
k d lang - Shadowland album (especially her version of Black Coffee)
Johnny Cash & June Carter-Cash - May The Circle Be Unbroken (and many others from both)
Bob Dylan - Country Pie
Billie Jo Spears - Blanket On The Ground
Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe
The Judds - Love Can Build a Bridge (y'all!)
Gram Parsons
And I love the voice of Carrie Underwood. She's popular but she's very good.
Plus Steve Earle is awesome, I agree.
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I actively detest country: all eras, all styles, all sub-genres (with the exception of some bluegrass).
I grew up in country-land amid people who's family trees don't fork. I will forever associate this mind-numblingly simple music with people who are dead from the neck up.
That said, there are a few exceptions.
I love Glen Campbell. His last album of all new, original music, Ghost on the Canvas (2011) is brilliant from end to end. And while he's deservedly famous as a vocalist, he could do things on a six string that rival the best of rock's greatest guitar wizards.
Speaking of wicked good country guitarists, Jerry Reed also fits that bill. And a fun-loving, good-hearted kick in the pants he is as well. I can stomach him pretty easy.
Although he was capable of so much more, Chet Atkins is usually listed as country, and he's a master picker who has influenced many great guitarists across virtually all possible genres.
Very few could keep up with the above, but one who could was the incomparable Roy Clark. When he set aside the hee-haw nonsense, dude could positively rip. A master indeed.
On the ladies' side, in spite of the twang, Patsy Cline was definitely something special. Other than that, not much of note other than country has some real lookers among its ladies.
I totally agree with everyone you just named. Jerry Reed Chet Atkins Roy Clark. I have albums by all of them and they are endlessly listenable and enjoyable. And this just proves my original point that it's been decades since country has produced anything that comes close to being more than mediocre.. there's a few more guitarists I would add to that group too. And a few more singers also. The New Traditionalist Movement failed to produce anything worthwhile. And Alt-Country sounds great in theory but in practice it's just awful. There's not even an equivalent to the pretty good Country-Rock of the seventies.
Oh...no you did not....
Well, I was exaggerating a little bit. There were a couple Alt-country bands I liked years ago. Like Son Volt and a few others. But the point is, if it's a Rock/Country hybrid you want, all the Southern Rock and Country-rock albums of the 70s are still in print, not to mention the Byrds. And those albums are 100 times more exciting as anything alt-country has produced.
Garth Brooks - If Tomorrow Never Comes (beautiful song)
Kenny Rogers - Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Coat of Many Colours (and others)
k d lang - Shadowland album (especially her version of Black Coffee)
Johnny Cash & June Carter-Cash - May The Circle Be Unbroken (and many others from both)
Bob Dylan - Country Pie
Billie Jo Spears - Blanket On The Ground
Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe
The Judds - Love Can Build a Bridge (y'all!)
Gram Parsons
And I love the voice of Carrie Underwood. She's popular but she's very good.
Plus Steve Earle is awesome, I agree.
Ding Ding Ding. We have a winner!!!!! . This is what I was talking about. Those classic country SONGS.. And I'm embarrassed and ashamed that I didn't remember Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town and Jolene. That's exactly the kind of stuff I'm talking about.
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