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Country music is only awful after 9/11
I'm not really surprised that the Dixie Chicks' careers were destroyed after 9/11. They didn't just criticize Most Holy President, they also sang about things like domestic violence.
Where were you when they built the ladder to heaven?
There's some great stuff nowadays that isn't just bro country! It's going to be mostly smaller and all my favorites lean heavily into their bluegrass and folk roots, but there's some great stuff!
I'd check out Tyler Childers or Zach Bryan for something more mainstream. I might get flamed for calling them country, but Poor Man's Poison is fantastic as well!
If you don't love Chris Stapleton after one listen of Tennessee Whiskey, then idk what to tell you
If you don't love Chris Stapleton after one listen of Tennessee Whiskey, then idk what to tell you
I don't know if remaking a song from 81' counts as modern.
Yes
Tyler Childers
Hayes Carll
Charley Crockett
Jason Isbell (southern rock)
Maren Morris
Sturgill Simpson
Joshua Ray Walker
There is so much good country music coming out now, and probably always has been, it just doesn't get played on the radio.
Surprised to see Yes on that list, but I guess I've only really listened to their 70s albums
Ha! I apologize profusely for the confusion, not Yes the band, Yes there is still good country music being made by modern artists.
I want to take a moment here to mention Dan Tyminski. I know it's not his most recent, but specifically the song Southern Gothic really gave me that "this is what country is supposed to be" feeling I hadn't felt in years.
That and Taylor Swift was the nail in the coffin. Her transition to top 40 pop and sky rocketing popularity showed nothing but dollar signs to country music producers...
She's a slightly different case I think.
She was basically groomed by the industry to be a pretty young white country girl and made into a sex symbol when she was 14.
When she grew up she changed genres, fired her old label when the contract expired, and then re-recorded her old stuff to keep the old labels from making royalties off new sales.
Everything about her change is a big middle-finger to to her old management.
Absolutely, but my point was country producers/management, saw the money she was raking in and immediately started pushing the their own country singers to make more "mainstream/pop/top 40" influenced music to capture the larger audience.
Is this american channel?