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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Who is your faveret country singer? I've grown up with country music and it makes me laugh when people say they don't like country music but then they have it as there first dance at there wedding ( lonestar amazed) westlife have sang afew country songs aswell so have takethat Ronan Keating just to name afew my faveret at the minuet is brad paisley who is yours?  |
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over a year ago
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Garth brooks 
Dolly..... Love it but rarely meet anyone who does ))))
Even loved Conway twitty on family guy x
Kris kristopherson
Gotta go and find it all now.....  |
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I love it all. Country girl
Saw Dolly 2 yrs ago. A fantastic evening, old songs, new songs and stories too. Magic.
Would give my arm to go to a Garth Brooks show
I like Brooks n Dunne, Dixie Chicks. Love the old stuff, George, Tammy and good olde Kenny Rogers... He did a great set at glastonbury this year x |
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"I love it all. Country girl
Saw Dolly 2 yrs ago. A fantastic evening, old songs, new songs and stories too. Magic.
Would give my arm to go to a Garth Brooks show
I like Brooks n Dunne, Dixie Chicks. Love the old stuff, George, Tammy and good olde Kenny Rogers... He did a great set at glastonbury this year x"
Garth brooks is ment to be doing a uk ture next year x  |
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"Oooh, The late, great Jim Reeves"
Always reminds me off my dad. I was in a cab recently and he was playing We Thank Thee...whipped me back 40 years, I do love Jim Reeves!
I like Kenny Rogers, Tim Mcgraw, Taylor Swift, Faith Hill, Johnny Cash. |
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"Oooh, The late, great Jim Reeves
Always reminds me off my dad. I was in a cab recently and he was playing We Thank Thee...whipped me back 40 years, I do love Jim Reeves!
I like Kenny Rogers, Tim Mcgraw, Taylor Swift, Faith Hill, Johnny Cash. "
It is mad how you can hear one song and it brings back so many good memories xxx |
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"Oooh, The late, great Jim Reeves
Always reminds me off my dad. I was in a cab recently and he was playing We Thank Thee...whipped me back 40 years, I do love Jim Reeves!
I like Kenny Rogers, Tim Mcgraw, Taylor Swift, Faith Hill, Johnny Cash.
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They played 'distant drums' at a close relatives funeral. I can't bear to hear that song anymore. It's a pity because my late Father used to sing it me to get me to sleep so before that I had fond memories of it. |
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"I love it all. Country girl
Saw Dolly 2 yrs ago. A fantastic evening, old songs, new songs and stories too. Magic.
Would give my arm to go to a Garth Brooks show
I like Brooks n Dunne, Dixie Chicks. Love the old stuff, George, Tammy and good olde Kenny Rogers... He did a great set at glastonbury this year x
Garth brooks is ment to be doing a uk ture next year x "
Yes I heard that rumour. Hope it happens, it would be amazing. His shows are great |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Has to be Johnny Cash .... My Dad would sing loads of his songs so as a kid I have grown up hearing them . A thing called love ...... love that song but I love loads of his songs. |
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Not really a fan of straight up country, too sentimental for me. I have to make an exception for Johnny Cash though, the man was a genius.
I quite like some 'alt' country though; The Handsome Family have done some good stuff, and David Eugene Edwards (16 Horsepower / Wovenhand) is a brilliant musician, albeit he seems like a total wanker in person... |
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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago
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Personally, I hate the very corporpate, commercial, often right wing and patriotic mainstream country that Nashville pumps out. I'm afraid I'd include Garth Brooks in that - but that's only my opinion.
The best country had/has real heart and soul though. The guy who changed my mind about country was Gram Parsons - beautiful singer and writer. Don't listen to the faster stuff much, but by god the ballads are great. Check out A Song for You, She and $1000 Dollar Wedding - beautiful, soulful stuff.
The person who's around now who's utterly fabulous is Gillian Welch. Such a great songwriter and her guitar playing partner Dave Rawlings is a brilliant guitar player. All her albums are great, but particularly love Time (The Revelator) and the Harrow and the Harvest.
The other guy I love is Townes Van Zandt. Maybe not "pure country", but lovely songs. Watch the YouTube clip of him singing Waiting to Die from Heartworn Highways.
Again not pure country, but the other singer I like is Bobby Gentry. Came from the south and her songs are soaked with the spirit of that place.
Speaking of which, if you want to see a great, quixotic film about the south, check Jim White (who is also a great songwriter)'s Searching for a Wrong Eyed Jesus. Kinda a road movie of him mooching around the region and meeting lots of great, strange musicians (not all country) and characters. |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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Toby Keith is my uber favourite but my ipod has...
Eric Church
Eli Young Band
Zac Brown Band
Randy Travis
Cassadee Pope
Lee Brice
Craig Morgan
Justin Moore
The Band Perry
Little Big Town
Hayseed Dixie
Alan Jackson
Dierks Bentley
Ronnie Dunn (solo stuff)
Sammy Kershaw
Scott McCreery
Tim McGraw
Oh and Brad Paisley.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Toby Keith,
Trisha Yearwood and the legend that is Willie Nelson.Willie is a good old boy, since Trisha and Garth Brooks have been loved up she hasn't done a fat lot."
She's done a bit of eating, I love her early stuff and she is very very pretty. |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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"Toby Keith,
Trisha Yearwood and the legend that is Willie Nelson.Willie is a good old boy, since Trisha and Garth Brooks have been loved up she hasn't done a fat lot.
She's done a bit of eating, I love her early stuff and she is very very pretty."
She now concentrates on her cooking,has her own cookery programme over in the states, and yes she is lovely looking.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Everybody knows one country song that they secretly like, so stop lying...
...you'll break my heart...
...my achey breaky heart...  Fancy a two step? "
What's one of them? Sounds dangerous! |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
dirtybigbadsgirlville |
"Everybody knows one country song that they secretly like, so stop lying...
...you'll break my heart...
...my achey breaky heart... Fancy a two step?
What's one of them? Sounds dangerous! "
Its not dangerous if you do it right. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Everybody knows one country song that they secretly like, so stop lying...
...you'll break my heart...
...my achey breaky heart... Fancy a two step?
What's one of them? Sounds dangerous! Its not dangerous if you do it right. "
Ohhhh I dunno, I've stepped on a few toes me |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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"Everybody knows one country song that they secretly like, so stop lying...
...you'll break my heart...
...my achey breaky heart... Fancy a two step?
What's one of them? Sounds dangerous! Its not dangerous if you do it right.
Ohhhh I dunno, I've stepped on a few toes me "
Literally or figuratively ?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Everybody knows one country song that they secretly like, so stop lying...
...you'll break my heart...
...my achey breaky heart... Fancy a two step?
What's one of them? Sounds dangerous! Its not dangerous if you do it right.
Ohhhh I dunno, I've stepped on a few toes me Literally or figuratively ? "
Now I'm confused, this is NOT the shrunken willy juggling post right? |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
dirtybigbadsgirlville |
"Everybody knows one country song that they secretly like, so stop lying...
...you'll break my heart...
...my achey breaky heart... Fancy a two step?
What's one of them? Sounds dangerous! Its not dangerous if you do it right.
Ohhhh I dunno, I've stepped on a few toes me Literally or figuratively ?
Now I'm confused, this is NOT the shrunken willy juggling post right? "
No the worm post is further down.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The other half likes a bit of Toby Keith, The Coal Porters and Old Man Markley but the last 2 are more progressive bluegrass than pure country. We also seem to be diverting into a bit of Gangstagrass which I don’t object to. |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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"The other half likes a bit of Toby Keith, The Coal Porters and Old Man Markley but the last 2 are more progressive bluegrass than pure country. We also seem to be diverting into a bit of Gangstagrass which I don’t object to."
I wouldn't mind a bit of Toby Keith myself,I hope you share. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The other half likes a bit of Toby Keith, The Coal Porters and Old Man Markley but the last 2 are more progressive bluegrass than pure country. We also seem to be diverting into a bit of Gangstagrass which I don’t object to.I wouldn't mind a bit of Toby Keith myself,I hope you share. "
He is a ginger though and I wouldn't have had you down as a fan. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The other half likes a bit of Toby Keith, The Coal Porters and Old Man Markley but the last 2 are more progressive bluegrass than pure country. We also seem to be diverting into a bit of Gangstagrass which I don’t object to.I wouldn't mind a bit of Toby Keith myself,I hope you share.
He is a ginger though and I wouldn't have had you down as a fan. Its not his hair I am interested in although he wears his bandana due to hair loss....no problem, I will take all of him.... "
Naked he would look like a giraffe with a lions mane round the base of its neck and up top like William Hague with a bandanna on and a tory goatee. |
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"johnny cash ,dolly parton great singers
+Willie Nelson.
Nelson and Parton were also prolific songwriters,
of some fantastic songs.
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Yes, a lot of people forget that Dolly wrote some great songs. I suppose there are a couple of reasons for that
Although I find a lot of country as "pass the sickbag" music, there have been some great musicians, singers, and songwriters from the genre.
Dolly (of course) Johnny Cash, Kristofferson, I just loved Sunday Morning Coming Down, Willie Nelson, and Glen Campbell, are all greats, and Garth Brooks has written some good songs as well. |
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"Everybody knows one country song that they secretly like, so stop lying...
...you'll break my heart...
...my achey breaky heart... "
I have a Karaoke version of that one with some alternative lyrics.
Don't play that song
That achy breaky song
I think it's drivin me insane
Oh please don't play that song
That achy breaky song
I'd rather have a pitchfork in my brain. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I love it all.
Went to see Johnny Cash at wembley when I was about 12 with my parents and he has remained a firm favourite ever since.
John Fogertys attempts at country are very good.
Uncle Kracker knocks out a good tune.
Kid Rock did a country album a couple of years ago and that was excellent.
My all time favourite country song though is In Spite Of Ourselves by John Prine and Iris Dement. |
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Steve Earle, because he always attempts something a little different, rather than the mawkish, AOR, right wing, flag waving, tub thumping shite that masquerades as mainstream country music these days.
The Zac Brown Band are fantastic live (their Kashmir/Devil Went Down to Georgia medley was possibly the best thing I saw live this year) but their records are dreadful and I would rather eat my own liver than ever have to listen to another Shania Twain song in my life!
Phantom Limb (a country/southern soul band from Bristol) are also brilliant but they've just split up.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Personally, I hate the very corporpate, commercial, often right wing and patriotic mainstream country that Nashville pumps out. I'm afraid I'd include Garth Brooks in that - but that's only my opinion.
The best country had/has real heart and soul though. The guy who changed my mind about country was Gram Parsons - beautiful singer and writer. Don't listen to the faster stuff much, but by god the ballads are great. Check out A Song for You, She and $1000 Dollar Wedding - beautiful, soulful stuff.
The person who's around now who's utterly fabulous is Gillian Welch. Such a great songwriter and her guitar playing partner Dave Rawlings is a brilliant guitar player. All her albums are great, but particularly love Time (The Revelator) and the Harrow and the Harvest.
The other guy I love is Townes Van Zandt. Maybe not "pure country", but lovely songs. Watch the YouTube clip of him singing Waiting to Die from Heartworn Highways.
Again not pure country, but the other singer I like is Bobby Gentry. Came from the south and her songs are soaked with the spirit of that place.
Speaking of which, if you want to see a great, quixotic film about the south, check Jim White (who is also a great songwriter)'s Searching for a Wrong Eyed Jesus. Kinda a road movie of him mooching around the region and meeting lots of great, strange musicians (not all country) and characters. "
I hear you with the overly patriotic stuff, I love Billy Ray Cyrus' stuff, new stuff; he brought an album out a year ago that was sickeningly 'let's round em up stick em in a field and bomb the bastards'. Good tunes though.
My all time fav two bands are a band from Missouri called the Bottle Rockets and one from Georgia called Drive by Truckers. Great 'new' country with a bit of rock n roll in there too. Some would call it alternative country. |
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"Personally, I hate the very corporpate, commercial, often right wing and patriotic mainstream country that Nashville pumps out. I'm afraid I'd include Garth Brooks in that - but that's only my opinion.
The best country had/has real heart and soul though. The guy who changed my mind about country was Gram Parsons - beautiful singer and writer. Don't listen to the faster stuff much, but by god the ballads are great. Check out A Song for You, She and $1000 Dollar Wedding - beautiful, soulful stuff.
The person who's around now who's utterly fabulous is Gillian Welch. Such a great songwriter and her guitar playing partner Dave Rawlings is a brilliant guitar player. All her albums are great, but particularly love Time (The Revelator) and the Harrow and the Harvest.
The other guy I love is Townes Van Zandt. Maybe not "pure country", but lovely songs. Watch the YouTube clip of him singing Waiting to Die from Heartworn Highways.
Again not pure country, but the other singer I like is Bobby Gentry. Came from the south and her songs are soaked with the spirit of that place.
Speaking of which, if you want to see a great, quixotic film about the south, check Jim White (who is also a great songwriter)'s Searching for a Wrong Eyed Jesus. Kinda a road movie of him mooching around the region and meeting lots of great, strange musicians (not all country) and characters.
I hear you with the overly patriotic stuff, I love Billy Ray Cyrus' stuff, new stuff; he brought an album out a year ago that was sickeningly 'let's round em up stick em in a field and bomb the bastards'. Good tunes though.
My all time fav two bands are a band from Missouri called the Bottle Rockets and one from Georgia called Drive by Truckers. Great 'new' country with a bit of rock n roll in there too. Some would call it alternative country. "
Drive-By Truckers are just a straight up Southern Rock band, they're brilliant! Southern Rock Opera is one of my favourite albums ever. Fantastic live band too! |
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"Hollywood Town Hall by the Jayhawks is a cracking alt country album"
Probably the second or third alt country record I ever bought. Uncle tupelo anodyne was first then bottle rockets first record.
Concur with DBTs live. Incredible. Should get the documentary on them off iTunes, that's well worth the few quid. |
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"Hollywood Town Hall by the Jayhawks is a cracking alt country album
Probably the second or third alt country record I ever bought. Uncle tupelo anodyne was first then bottle rockets first record.
Concur with DBTs live. Incredible. Should get the documentary on them off iTunes, that's well worth the few quid."
I'll check it out
You'll probably like this...
http://youtu.be/vs8VZJtXfIU
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By (user no longer on site)
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http://youtu.be/vs8VZJtXfIU
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That's really nice, good gospel feel to it. Actually reminded me of a slowed down version of the opener on DBTs 'big to to'. |
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"Confederate Railroad - a band, I know, but I do like them.
I do have a lot of nice things to say about Dolly Parton, too "
I lot of nice things - or just a couple of major points? |
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