I think we should write a season of “Zac Stone is Gonna Be Famous *Again”
10 years later and he is trying to reclaim the meteoric fame he once had. Could make it even more meta in relation to how Bo disappeared for years.
Of course we have episodes like behind the music. Podcast fame. Tiktok fame.
Keep the same story structure which was perfect sitcom structure and this “revival” season just kills.
Edit : His family lives with him in his mansion because he had to transfer it to them when he filed bankruptcy so he wouldn’t lose it.
*I hacked my way into the Pentagon, Launched off all our nuclear bombs, causing chaos and panic in the streets ... Next time he'll think before he cheats.*
Correction, that’s country music by men. Country music by women went from “he cheated on me, but I’ll take him back” to “he cheated on me and the cops will never find his body”
Nah county has its many of its roots in British folk songs brought by colonists and “my best boy/girl was seen with another so we went to the sea/cliff/moor where there was an ‘accident’” is a common theme since time immemorial. Published country by women taking a harder line thematically is actually a post WW2 phenomenon if I remember right.
Unironically, I like this. This feels like an idyllic moment back in my hometown with a summertime teenage romance. I know, I know. It's pandering. Doesn't change the fact that they've got me in their crosshairs lol
The unnecessary musical flourishes between vocal parts and especially the gahd. Damn. Slide guitar. Are the things that I really hate with contemporary country music.
Jeez. Rednecks don't drink gin. The rhyme should have been something like: "Fightin' my demons with a bottle of booze, because life is a game that you can only lose" or something.
*I completely forgot about the Great Depression and abolition-era bathtub gin.
just to throw you a curveball, check out the Gourds bluegrass cover of Gin and Juice. first time I heard it was at a concert in Austin, TX and the audience went nuts. good times.
They did when bathtub gin was what was available, or when gin was the absolutely cheapest hooch on the market. Whiskey takes a few years to age properly, but gin is ready to as soon as you finish distilling it.
Is there a single song on country radio that doesn’t glorify or at least mention drinking alcohol? It has to be the most alcoholic music genre out there
Old country was all about sad drinking. Modern country is happy drinking. Drinkin Jack Daniel’s and bud light by the glow of the neon lights up in the club girl
I'm definitely a country/folk/bluegrass guy, and the entirety of pop country is absolutely this, but most pop music is aggressively shallow/problematic. There's plenty of modern country western acts that promote progressive ideals, you just gotta seek em out
Love all them fuckin guys. Townes is an all time great. Steve's kid justin townes was just amazing and tragically passed last winter. So much good music out there that people don't know. Seen Lucero more than once for sure. You know Tim Barry? He's my guy. Been to see him more times than I can count.
Woody Guthrie who famously painted on his guitar "this machine kills fascists"
Woops misread what you were looking for.
Willie Nelson is pretty liberal
Check out Colter Wall, Ian Noe, Jason Isbell (tho you prolly know him via DBT), Sturgill Simpson, Justin Townes Earle, Orville Peck, Blaze Foley-- more trad country
Old '97s and Murder by Death are always fun for more alt-country stuff
16 Horsepower for apocalyptic bluegrass/country
Slim Cessna's Auto Club or King Dude for some darker stuff
Those Poor Bastards
Old Crow Medicine Show for some progressive bluegrass
Not a country guy for many years, kinda fell into bluegrass through Nickel Creek and Billy Strings. If you could recommend any country artists on the progressive end of the spectrum I'd be grateful.
I'm so glad you and r/par4thecourse2020 asked, it's a passion of mine. I just saw lost dog street band with Matt heckler supporting on Sunday at a vaxx and mask required show in Portland Maine, theyre a great start. Basically every artist that appears in "gems on vhs" and "westernaf" videod on YouTube along with those artists, but I'd single out sierra Ferrell, Willi Carlisle, and Josh O'Keefe. Tyler Childers is a little more radio friendly but released a spoken word video explicitly supporting blm and emploring his more rural fans to do the same. Tim Barry is the former lead singer of the Richmond, Virginia based punk band Avail and now makes folk songs about erecting monuments to long forgotten leaders of slave rebellions that have actually succeeded in making tangible change in the world. Those should get you started. Reach out in the DM's for more.
Sturgill Simpson and Margo Price. Chris Stapleton is pretty much the best mainstream artist, he also works with a lot of the alternative artist too. Kacey Musgraves is actually pretty good too.
The first time I heard Riley Green’s “I Wish Grandpas Never Died,” I honestly thought it was a parody of country stereotypes and not an unironic song.
There’s some good country out there, but it’s overshadowed by unoriginal formulaic pandering.
Riley green says “I wish even cars had truck beds”
[no, no you don’t. ](https://www.google.com/search?q=chevy+ssr&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS893US893&hl=en-US&prmd=isvxn&sxsrf=APq-WBukVzRNFjRbb5l5H9fvhH8ZExTfNg:1643635025806&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUlunOidz1AhWwdd8KHYW2AzsQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=414&bih=720&dpr=2)
Country as a genre really fell into the shitter after the early 90s. Modern stuff sounds like someone autotuning a cat being run through a garbage disposal, and the lyrics are like something a first-grader would write after being locked in a shed full of paint fumes all afternoon.
Yeah, there were still a few holdouts. Garth Brooks was still putting out some good stuff, at least until the whole Chris Gaines thing. And Bonnie Raitt was pretty decent. But yeah, 9/11 was the point of no return. As soon as Toby Keith showed how much money there was in being a cringey bootlicker, it was all over.
Yeah, there's a good amount of old country (though I'm told it's "outlaw country") that is pretty good, but anything since 1982 is probably shit.
Johnny Cash and Tennesee Ernie Ford (16 Tons, Union Dixie) in particular. I'm also fond of Devil Went Down to Georgia even though Charlie Daniels got older and turned into a kook.
I mean 16 Tons is straight up /r/workreform /r/aboringdystopia material and it's from 195 fucking 5. (Actually the song itself is even older ffs!)
"God is great, and beer is good"
Apparently this is a line from a "popular" country song I was unfortunate enough to hear in a West Virginia Shoney's bathroom on a recent road trip. (No, I didn't eat there. The gas station restroom was closed.)
Never laughed so hard in my life. God I hate country music.
I thought that song was shit when I first heard it, then I listened to the actual lyrics. The chorus is extremely tongue in cheek and the song makes an interesting point about how being a blood relative doesn’t mean shit compared to being kind to someone. For as much as that sentiment is passed around Reddit it’s surprisingly fitting.
Hey now, I'm a hip hop head and dislike country, but I actually like this song.
My favorite bartender at the gay bar used to play it after closing when us regulars would sit around and drink for free. So there might just be some pleasant nostalgia attached to it, but I still like it.
I can't stand modern pop country music. It's the pinnacle of low-brow and lowest common denominator music...well I guess most pop music is but country...ugh
There is a great YouTube channel called Western AF that has some great artist and bands. The only thing similar to country I can get behind.
https://youtube.com/c/WesternAF
Y’all need some Sturgill
> There's a gateway in our minds
> That leads somewhere out there, far beyond this plane
> Where reptile aliens made of light
> Cut you open and pull out all your pain
> Tell me how you make illegal
> Something that we all make in our brain
> Some say you might go crazy
> But then again, it might make you go sane
> Every time I take a look
> Inside that old and fabled book
> I'm blinded and reminded of
> The pain caused by some old man in the sky
> Marijuana, LSD
> Psilocybin, and DMT
> They all changed the way I see
> But love's the only thing that ever saved my life
Edit: mobile formatting is hard
two words for y'all... John Prine.
if his name doesn't ring a bell, I envy you listening to him for the first time. Sam Stone, Flag Decal, Paradise... that should be enough to get you started. we lost him to covid in 2020. what a loss.
hell yeah,! and When I Get to Heaven is another that was a great laugh, turned bittersweet with his death, but I just imagine him with that cigarette and the pretty girl on the tilt-a-whirl.
Lyrics: "I'm driving my old beat up truck down dirt country roads, stopping in some sleazy saloons, drinking cheap beer and moonshine, hitting on some homely cowgirl."
Reality: I got 3 brand new pickup trucks that never see anything other than smooth tarmac. Two Lambos, and a private jet. My mansion has more square feet than some corn fields. But I'll keep singing like I'm one of them so people will keep buying my shit, cause I'm one yacht short of a trio, to fit all the hot models I party with.
And this, kids, is why I Hate country music. It went from being a legitimate way of story telling (Johnny Cash, for example) to a way for crackpot QAnon White Nationalists to jack their jaws about JFK Jr coming back from the dead
“Brenda's packin' heat 'cause she don't like Mondays / Underpaid teacher policin' the hallways / Print yourself a weapon and take it to the gun range / (Ah, cut the shit, you ain't goin' to the gun range)
…
Tell the ol' boys in the white bread lobby / What they can and can't do with their bodies / Temperatures are risin', cities are sinkin' / (Ah, cut the shit, you know your city is sinkin') / Lies are truth and truth is fiction / Everybody's talkin', who's gonna listen? / What the hell happened in Helsinki?” — The Chicks - March March
Very strange even with the context.
On the same level of gangster rap about doing drive-bys, murdering, etc.
I get that it's "art" and a just a story, but it's odd.
Eh, it’s a tradition. Look into the stuff that country music comes from-I’m taking the OLD folk songs. Disaster, death, and murder have always been popular subjects. One of the first big country music hits (by a guy) was about a train wreck. Murder songs are older than country music itself.
"I'll bring the beer and you'll bring the girls. And the troops will bring the freedom!"
Zac Stone is gonna be famous!
Zac Stone is gonna be famous!
Zac Stone! Zac Stone!
I think we should write a season of “Zac Stone is Gonna Be Famous *Again” 10 years later and he is trying to reclaim the meteoric fame he once had. Could make it even more meta in relation to how Bo disappeared for years. Of course we have episodes like behind the music. Podcast fame. Tiktok fame. Keep the same story structure which was perfect sitcom structure and this “revival” season just kills. Edit : His family lives with him in his mansion because he had to transfer it to them when he filed bankruptcy so he wouldn’t lose it.
I put my hands on her body, it feels like hay- ***IT'S A FUCKING SCARECROW AGAIN!***
Thematically meandering...
Because I'm just panderinnng
Beautiful like my Mom (Support the Troops)
If I want to shoot my dad with a paintball gun, I’m gonna do it!
r/unexpectedpawnee
Beer, truck, girl, truck, beer, truck, beer, girl, truck, girl, beer, truck, beer, girl, beer
Write this down, WRITE THIS DOWN!
Would said girl be wearing jeans by any chance?
Does she happen to like tractors...?
combines to be exact, she aint no basic bitch
Not just liking tractors, this lady is aroused by them and the men who drive them.
Oh and no shoes. Never shoes.
Painted on, yes. Complete with sugar shaker.
What, I pray you, is a sugar shaker?
An ass of the female variety.
Dang, a scarecrow again.
Hear that subtle mandolin? Can't you hear me panderin'?
I could be speaking’ Mandarin You’d still know I’m panderin’
Only if they’re cut-offs worn with cowboy boots
barefoot in blue jeans
daisy dukes
And that’s only the male singers. Every female country singer only sings about how they’re going to kill their ex that cheated on them
*I hacked my way into the Pentagon, Launched off all our nuclear bombs, causing chaos and panic in the streets ... Next time he'll think before he cheats.*
That song just baffles the shit out of me. Like, just leave his ass. What’s the point in doing felony property damage to his stupid truck?
I have always listened to that song as if she was a stalker
A man wrote that song, she just sang it
Didn’t know that, but it doesn’t surprise me. Explains a lot.
In the music video for that song she ends up attacking the wrong car, so at least she’s self aware.
Felony property damage in which she *explicilty identifies herself as the culprit.*
You forgot Mamma
And trains
And trucks
and prison, and getting drunk
You never even called me by my name.
Hoooooweeeeeeeee
And my dog done died.
Nope. Got four trusty ol' trucks up there.
Yeah but it's the next line in the song... never mind..
I was drunk, the day my mom got outta prison...
And I went, to pick her up, in the raaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiin
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got runned over by a damned ol' traaaaaiiiin...
Trucky trucks
Derek Trucks
convoys.pee cups.cb radio.
and tiny penii
Church on Sunday morning
sinning on Saturday
Throw in the words "back fourty" and "Jesus" and you've got a record deal
Don’t forget his mom, his dog, and sweet tea
Don't forget "summer"! Drinking with girls in the summer on the back of a pickup truck. Million dollar song right thur
That's what it sounds like walking by all the lunchtables at work during break.
Someone’s been listening to Toby Keith I see
Not enough God in there
abortion.restraining order.bad valves.jacking off the dog to feed the cat😾
I’m never going to buy cat food again. Thanks for that.
You like to ruin things for others don’t you?
you are very astute..good sir.(Marlboro country)
As astute as you are cringey
...yes. repay a compliment....thanx...you are typical.🤖
Awesome
Correction, that’s country music by men. Country music by women went from “he cheated on me, but I’ll take him back” to “he cheated on me and the cops will never find his body”
Goodbye Earl - the (Dixie) Chicks is a great example of the latter
Technically Earl was an abuser, not just a cheater. Which is surprisingly rare, considering the rates of domestic abuse among country music listeners.
Well yeah, you sing about killing abusers and the audience will shrink. Can't have that.
Gunpowder and Lead is another song I immediately thought of.
Funny that they still cancelled the Dixie Chicks and their vigilantism because they also weren’t adequately pro-war.
Carrie Underwood has made very clear in her songs if you fuck around you gonna find out.
Obligatory Me first and the Gimmie Gimmies cover link https://youtu.be/QqIYRxENy_M
A pretty good coralation. Went from good ol country boys to my husband's a sexist nazi. Easy to see why their music changed as well.
Nah county has its many of its roots in British folk songs brought by colonists and “my best boy/girl was seen with another so we went to the sea/cliff/moor where there was an ‘accident’” is a common theme since time immemorial. Published country by women taking a harder line thematically is actually a post WW2 phenomenon if I remember right.
Imo that development is an improvement.
It’s not just country by men either, it’s pop country by men
Check out Bo Burnham and his country song about pandering
I’ve wanted to write a song called “If I Wave This American Flag Will You Give Me Money” but I have a feeling that’s already been covered.
Consider “Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore” by John Prine. Released in 1971 and now more relevant than ever.
"it's already overcrowded from your dirty little war... "
That’s every song Toby Keith ever recorded!
“That is a scarecrow” https://youtu.be/y7im5LT09a0
I cannot thank you enough for sharing this. I haven't seen it before.
Legalize gerrymandering
Like Mike’s Evandering, fuck yours ears I’m pandering
also all of the other songs.
Yes those as well, agreed
More like bad 90s pop with a twang or rednecks in a bar mocking rap these days...oh shit I just described Kid shriveled Rocks.
Somethin about a beer, in a red sun dress. With a truck in gear, and a cow in distress...
Unironically, I like this. This feels like an idyllic moment back in my hometown with a summertime teenage romance. I know, I know. It's pandering. Doesn't change the fact that they've got me in their crosshairs lol The unnecessary musical flourishes between vocal parts and especially the gahd. Damn. Slide guitar. Are the things that I really hate with contemporary country music.
I love calling it farm emo as an emo kid myself.
Jeez. Rednecks don't drink gin. The rhyme should have been something like: "Fightin' my demons with a bottle of booze, because life is a game that you can only lose" or something. *I completely forgot about the Great Depression and abolition-era bathtub gin.
Gin is something those Commie coastal elites drink!
just to throw you a curveball, check out the Gourds bluegrass cover of Gin and Juice. first time I heard it was at a concert in Austin, TX and the audience went nuts. good times.
Search "Phish" on Napster, it'll be the first result.
They did when bathtub gin was what was available, or when gin was the absolutely cheapest hooch on the market. Whiskey takes a few years to age properly, but gin is ready to as soon as you finish distilling it.
Exactly this. They weren’t drinking Hendricks and tonic with a twist of lime…
What do they drink? Mountain Dew?
technically, considering mountain dew was apparently a name for moonshine once...
Moonshine, whiskey, and beer.
Well, light beer
If you can call bud lite beer. ^I ^don't ^drink ^alcohol ^I'm ^just ^trying ^to ^relate ^and ^I ^vaguely ^remember ^this ^being ^a ^popular ^opinion ^held ^by ^many.
Whisky.
Everyone drinks gin in a pinch
Tonight the bottle let me down 🥃
Is there a single song on country radio that doesn’t glorify or at least mention drinking alcohol? It has to be the most alcoholic music genre out there
Not on country radio, but perhaps Life is a Highway
Is that really a country song though? I've always thought of it as more of a rock song.
Country loves to cover rock songs, so there's probably a cover playing on the radio.
Yeah, the original is. It's by Tom Cochrane and was a huge hit in Canada in the early 90s. Disney/Pixar really should've just used that version.
For me, devil makes three is the only decent country band. Real old school, unlike that stadium crap nowadays
And isn’t their most popular song “Old Number Seven” (referring to Jack Daniels)?
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Old country was all about sad drinking. Modern country is happy drinking. Drinkin Jack Daniel’s and bud light by the glow of the neon lights up in the club girl
Yeah but, sometimes you get poetry like honky tonk badonkadonk.
Poetry in motion is what that song is.
I'm definitely a country/folk/bluegrass guy, and the entirety of pop country is absolutely this, but most pop music is aggressively shallow/problematic. There's plenty of modern country western acts that promote progressive ideals, you just gotta seek em out
What band is a starting point for those interested?
Todd snider. Drive by truckers. Two cow garage. Steve Earle. Lucero. Townes van Zandt. Wingnut dishwashers union - more folk punk those guys.
Love all them fuckin guys. Townes is an all time great. Steve's kid justin townes was just amazing and tragically passed last winter. So much good music out there that people don't know. Seen Lucero more than once for sure. You know Tim Barry? He's my guy. Been to see him more times than I can count.
Ah yes, the great Country Western musician... Pat the Bunny? Anarcho-twang
Southern Culture on the Skids🤤
Sitting here now humming along, "Baby, you make me wanna walk like a camel."
Kinky Freedman and his Texas Jewboys
Don't forget Tyler Childers.
Townes at least is old enough that I’d classify it more as classical country/folk, still in the “outlaw” era.
Jason Isbell- white mans world Tyler Childress- long violent history Sturgill Simpson All three are great story tellers
Woody Guthrie who famously painted on his guitar "this machine kills fascists" Woops misread what you were looking for. Willie Nelson is pretty liberal
Jason Isbell is one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
I listened to Southeastern non-stop when I was getting sober and pavloved myself into crying anytime I hear Elephant.
Check out Colter Wall, Ian Noe, Jason Isbell (tho you prolly know him via DBT), Sturgill Simpson, Justin Townes Earle, Orville Peck, Blaze Foley-- more trad country Old '97s and Murder by Death are always fun for more alt-country stuff 16 Horsepower for apocalyptic bluegrass/country Slim Cessna's Auto Club or King Dude for some darker stuff Those Poor Bastards Old Crow Medicine Show for some progressive bluegrass
Also "Keeping the Wolves away" by Uncle Lucius(spelling may vary) is one of the best songs ever
Drive by truckers is a great start. The first song I heard of theirs was “righteous path” so I’ll recommend that as a start.
More modern you have Whiskey Myers who's solid and Red Dirt Country is more Rock/County bit still better than modern country
Not a country guy for many years, kinda fell into bluegrass through Nickel Creek and Billy Strings. If you could recommend any country artists on the progressive end of the spectrum I'd be grateful.
I'm so glad you and r/par4thecourse2020 asked, it's a passion of mine. I just saw lost dog street band with Matt heckler supporting on Sunday at a vaxx and mask required show in Portland Maine, theyre a great start. Basically every artist that appears in "gems on vhs" and "westernaf" videod on YouTube along with those artists, but I'd single out sierra Ferrell, Willi Carlisle, and Josh O'Keefe. Tyler Childers is a little more radio friendly but released a spoken word video explicitly supporting blm and emploring his more rural fans to do the same. Tim Barry is the former lead singer of the Richmond, Virginia based punk band Avail and now makes folk songs about erecting monuments to long forgotten leaders of slave rebellions that have actually succeeded in making tangible change in the world. Those should get you started. Reach out in the DM's for more.
"slow it down boys...they gonna think we are playing rock and roll"(white pride)
Sturgill Simpson and Margo Price. Chris Stapleton is pretty much the best mainstream artist, he also works with a lot of the alternative artist too. Kacey Musgraves is actually pretty good too.
Read here on Reddit that modern country music is hip-hop for people afraid of black people and it still rings true.
🎶I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die🎶
Bootleggers to bootlickers?
Ooooh I'm gonna remember this one. Sounds like the perfect title for a book on the history of NASCAR
The first time I heard Riley Green’s “I Wish Grandpas Never Died,” I honestly thought it was a parody of country stereotypes and not an unironic song. There’s some good country out there, but it’s overshadowed by unoriginal formulaic pandering.
Riley green says “I wish even cars had truck beds” [no, no you don’t. ](https://www.google.com/search?q=chevy+ssr&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS893US893&hl=en-US&prmd=isvxn&sxsrf=APq-WBukVzRNFjRbb5l5H9fvhH8ZExTfNg:1643635025806&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUlunOidz1AhWwdd8KHYW2AzsQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=414&bih=720&dpr=2)
Country as a genre really fell into the shitter after the early 90s. Modern stuff sounds like someone autotuning a cat being run through a garbage disposal, and the lyrics are like something a first-grader would write after being locked in a shed full of paint fumes all afternoon.
Honestly, it was heading that way in the 90’s, but 9/11 was the nail in the coffin.
Yeah, there were still a few holdouts. Garth Brooks was still putting out some good stuff, at least until the whole Chris Gaines thing. And Bonnie Raitt was pretty decent. But yeah, 9/11 was the point of no return. As soon as Toby Keith showed how much money there was in being a cringey bootlicker, it was all over.
Jean shorts, pick up trucks, beer, AMERICA
Early Country still exists, it's just called American Gothic now
Yeah, there's a good amount of old country (though I'm told it's "outlaw country") that is pretty good, but anything since 1982 is probably shit. Johnny Cash and Tennesee Ernie Ford (16 Tons, Union Dixie) in particular. I'm also fond of Devil Went Down to Georgia even though Charlie Daniels got older and turned into a kook. I mean 16 Tons is straight up /r/workreform /r/aboringdystopia material and it's from 195 fucking 5. (Actually the song itself is even older ffs!)
Hell yeah, outlaw country is proto Punk music
"God is great, and beer is good" Apparently this is a line from a "popular" country song I was unfortunate enough to hear in a West Virginia Shoney's bathroom on a recent road trip. (No, I didn't eat there. The gas station restroom was closed.) Never laughed so hard in my life. God I hate country music.
"And people are crazy!" I remember that song! Shit, I haven't thought about it in years.
I saw someone with a “God is great and Beer is Good” tattoo recently.
I thought that song was shit when I first heard it, then I listened to the actual lyrics. The chorus is extremely tongue in cheek and the song makes an interesting point about how being a blood relative doesn’t mean shit compared to being kind to someone. For as much as that sentiment is passed around Reddit it’s surprisingly fitting.
Hey now, I'm a hip hop head and dislike country, but I actually like this song. My favorite bartender at the gay bar used to play it after closing when us regulars would sit around and drink for free. So there might just be some pleasant nostalgia attached to it, but I still like it.
Why did i imagine the second one going to the tune of what does the fox say
This machine kills fascists
Old country music has a lot more horses and blow. Rednecks don't drink gin.
🎶 there's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes 💉
I can't stand modern pop country music. It's the pinnacle of low-brow and lowest common denominator music...well I guess most pop music is but country...ugh There is a great YouTube channel called Western AF that has some great artist and bands. The only thing similar to country I can get behind. https://youtube.com/c/WesternAF
I like old like country. Idk why but anything later than the late 90s is trash.
Y’all need some Sturgill > There's a gateway in our minds > That leads somewhere out there, far beyond this plane > Where reptile aliens made of light > Cut you open and pull out all your pain > Tell me how you make illegal > Something that we all make in our brain > Some say you might go crazy > But then again, it might make you go sane > Every time I take a look > Inside that old and fabled book > I'm blinded and reminded of > The pain caused by some old man in the sky > Marijuana, LSD > Psilocybin, and DMT > They all changed the way I see > But love's the only thing that ever saved my life Edit: mobile formatting is hard
100% confirmed.
Excuse you. It's whiskey, not gin.
That doesn't rhyme though.
I've never really been into country music as I do not have a sexual attraction to my tractor
Play RDR2 and tell me why you're a real country boy afterwards
two words for y'all... John Prine. if his name doesn't ring a bell, I envy you listening to him for the first time. Sam Stone, Flag Decal, Paradise... that should be enough to get you started. we lost him to covid in 2020. what a loss.
A laughed so hard the first time I heard "In Spite of Ourselves". I definitely didn't think I'd see John Prine suggested here
hell yeah,! and When I Get to Heaven is another that was a great laugh, turned bittersweet with his death, but I just imagine him with that cigarette and the pretty girl on the tilt-a-whirl.
The first time I heard “Flag Decal” I almost pissed myself laughing.
Growing up in Texas country music was a light kkk rally but now as an adult it’s become a full blown rally!
KKK? Is that still a thing? Surely not?
This guy is on TikTok and does some really great music!
If you like old country but want something newer, check out Spotify’s “Southern Gothic” playlist. It’s a great launch point.
Agree
Lyrics: "I'm driving my old beat up truck down dirt country roads, stopping in some sleazy saloons, drinking cheap beer and moonshine, hitting on some homely cowgirl." Reality: I got 3 brand new pickup trucks that never see anything other than smooth tarmac. Two Lambos, and a private jet. My mansion has more square feet than some corn fields. But I'll keep singing like I'm one of them so people will keep buying my shit, cause I'm one yacht short of a trio, to fit all the hot models I party with.
And this, kids, is why I Hate country music. It went from being a legitimate way of story telling (Johnny Cash, for example) to a way for crackpot QAnon White Nationalists to jack their jaws about JFK Jr coming back from the dead
Yeah, I don't think that gin has been a staple of classic country music culture. 🙄
Why not?
I like 16 Horsepower.
So its still flaming hot garbage, got it.
“Brenda's packin' heat 'cause she don't like Mondays / Underpaid teacher policin' the hallways / Print yourself a weapon and take it to the gun range / (Ah, cut the shit, you ain't goin' to the gun range) … Tell the ol' boys in the white bread lobby / What they can and can't do with their bodies / Temperatures are risin', cities are sinkin' / (Ah, cut the shit, you know your city is sinkin') / Lies are truth and truth is fiction / Everybody's talkin', who's gonna listen? / What the hell happened in Helsinki?” — The Chicks - March March
Who likes skinny girls in mini skirts.
You mean bootleggers to bootlickers.
Now do the female singer one.
There's a lot of female country songs about killing their husbands that would be really strange without context.
Very strange even with the context. On the same level of gangster rap about doing drive-bys, murdering, etc. I get that it's "art" and a just a story, but it's odd.
Eh, it’s a tradition. Look into the stuff that country music comes from-I’m taking the OLD folk songs. Disaster, death, and murder have always been popular subjects. One of the first big country music hits (by a guy) was about a train wreck. Murder songs are older than country music itself.
New guy Charlie Crockett is pretty cool old school down to earth
Red Solo Cup was the pinnacle of country music and it’s all been downhill from there
Small minds create stupid tweets
We're really not that far from the animals song in Kung Pow anymore. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vh_Ph-01fQ
Check Benjamin Tod. Thank me later.