The day the music died.

[MossRoad]

Pink is a talent. Watch her videos where she's doing acrobatics while singing. Dang. Don't care for the songs too much myself, but she's tops in her field for sure.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Willie's Road House on Sirius is my choice (but only when I drive Sharn Jean's car); otherwise it's NPR. I grew up in the 50's with real COUNTRY music; even played and sang a bit. I do (or did) some Johnny Cash and have always loved Faron Young...will even listen to Earnest Tubb, and still believe Patsy Cline was the finest female country singer ever. We still have a few of the old timers left, but not many. Have tickets to see Willie and Merle coming up in April. BTW, anyone familiar with Daryle Singletary? Not hugely popular, but Country in the classic sense of the word.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX0pQ0QdUg8

Please don't take this the wrong way but... They have NPR in Oklahoma? Lol! (BTW, NPR is the only national news broadcaster that it worth anything IMO)

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

:laughing::laughing: Well there is country music and "country music", some I like, some is like finger nails on a chalk board. I liked Marty Robbins, Johnny Horton, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings etc., but cannot handle the twangy, nasal sounding ones. Today's country music is often hard to categorize and separate from the other stuff and much easier to listen to than most rock music.

I'm pretty old, so I've long since accepted my tastes are way out of the mainstream.

Most of what you hear on a "country" station nowadays is just bad pop music with different clothes. IMO.

 

[TripleR]

Most of what you hear on a "country" station nowadays is just bad pop music with different clothes. IMO.

No argument there, like I said, I rarely listen to any kind of music. Before long, I'll be yelling at kids to get off my grass.

 

[flusher]

I was shocked when I heard PINK (an artist I would have never listened to) do a cover of Kris Kristofferson's/Fred Foster's Me and Bobby Magee...its was just awesome and all could think of was Janis Joplin's version of it. I have never heard Roger Miller do it.

Or that show CMT Cross Roads where they would match up more modern artists with some great talent from a prior generation
Martina Mcbride/Pat Benetar was one a good one and Alison Krauss/Robert Plant mix of Zepplin's Black Dog just excellent!

Halleluiah by Leonard Cohen has been covered by various artists like over 300 times. He is amazing 81 years old now and was still performing and producing music last I knew. My College Prof friend she still gets all dreamy still over his Suzanne that she first heard as teenager. Yup that's her name.

Ah, Leonard Cohen--one cool dude. My favorite is his "Tower of Song" ("Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in the places where I used to play."--don't we all).

 

[dmccarty]

... Before long, I'll be yelling at kids to get off my grass.

:laughing::laughing::laughing: We live in the woods with a single gated road leading to the house. This prevents the kids from even seeing the house much less getting on my danged grass! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[DFB]

Ah, Leonard Cohen--one cool dude. My favorite is his "Tower of Song" ("Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in the places where I used to play."--don't we all).

:thumbsup:

I have his 2009 release Live in London concert performance on DVD. Extremely well done video work.

I never get tired of viewing it.

My Gypsy Wife features some awesome instrumental work

So Long Marianne is another fav of mine.
Italiano subtitle translation...Ciao Marienne

So cool almost 40 years between performances.
So Long Marianne-1972 Concert


You can still find some of that 2009 concert on the tube but its fast disappearing with all that copyright stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHI9BTpGkp8&list=PL2N10AQ7sruavHrIzyrmMQtf9axcmMZCP

 

[Red Horse]

Enjoy the Eagles- Old guy here who has been a country fan since mid 80's-but new stuff in a word SUCKS! Country rappers! they don't sing, they "recite". Nothing like the 80's 90's performers IMO like Doug Stone, Steve Wariner, Lee Greenwood, Milsap, Desert Rose Band, Anita Cochran etc Some of the newer guys-Paisley, Chesney, Urban have talent but IMO they are the exception.

good issue going on in this neck of woods- Eastern Mass. Boston now has two country stations- and they both play same crap- you would think one of them would break away and go with "classics-oldies"-and I'm not talking about Minnie Pearl-but bring back the 80/90/00 era.
Thank god for Sirius radio and I Heart radio.

 

[AchingBack]

I was shocked when I heard PINK (an artist I would have never listened to) do a cover of Kris Kristofferson's/Fred Foster's Me and Bobby Magee...its was just awesome and all could think of was Janis Joplin's version of it. I have never heard Roger Miller do it.

Or that show CMT Cross Roads where they would match up more modern artists with some great talent from a prior generation
Martina Mcbride/Pat Benetar was one a good one and Alison Krauss/Robert Plant mix of Zepplin's Black Dog just excellent!

Halleluiah by Leonard Cohen has been covered by various artists like over 300 times. He is amazing 81 years old now and was still performing and producing music last I knew. My College Prof friend she still gets all dreamy still over his Suzanne that she first heard as teenager. Yup that's her name.

IMO, Cohen was a better writer than singer, too monotone for me. My favorite version of Suzanne is by Roberta Flack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kug8JMHXLas

 

[DFB]

IMO, Cohen was a better writer than singer, too monotone for me.]

Cohen always likes to relate this story in many of his interviews...

When Columbia Records mogul Walter Yetnikoff declined even to release his 1984's Various Positions (the one with Hallelujah), he reportedly explained:

"Look, Leonard, we know you're great, but we don't know if you're any good."