What Do You Think About Country Music?
I have always discovered genres to be baffling and dispiritedly out-of-date. As shortly as they are formed, there are several exclusions than bands that abide by the rule. The problem is that the most exciting bands frequently fit into the exception class. Country music is an excellent precedent. Many people have a really narrow aspect of what country and western music are. They hear the few break away song – the Garth Brooks or Toby Keith tunes that get played on the radio time and again. A few people enjoy this sort of country music, while others cannot stand it. Some of them realize that half of the rock ‘n roll, pop, and additional contemporary music they listen to be influenced by country. From southern rock to classic rock, from rockabilly to old blues, country musicians have played an eminent part in the growth of pretty much every form of music, there is in America nowadays.
Most people associate country music clothing with the songs itself. They assume that if you listen to the stuff, you wear ten-gallon hat, Western wear, leather boots, and possibly a plaid shirt on top of all of it. In point of fact, the former country musician dressed nothing like that. If you consider old bluegrass videos showing Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, and all those guys, a lot of them wore more formal clothing. Don’t get me wrong – occasionally you would see them in the big cowboy hats, but just as often you’d see them in serious, conservative shirts and nice slacks.
Personally, I like a lot of country music that is around today, but I like even more of the old stuff.
My favorite country musicians are from at the least a generation ago. Whenever somebody tells me that they do not like to listen to a country, I called for them if they like Johnny Cash. They almost invariably say yes. That is because everybody loves Johnny Cash. From punk rockers to Southern farm boys, Cash is king. Many others say that they do not like whatever sort of Western music while passing hours a day listen to bluegrass, and see no contradiction. Even old Southern blues is reckoned country music by a few people. Essentially, it all falls to this: if you think you do not like the music, you may like it without knowing it. If you think you like the music, you likely still don’t know all of it.
