There is not much to country, at least not the kind you find today
Much closer to Rock N Roll in the way it plays.
You won't find it at the Opry or in the country music hall of fame;
They say it comes form Nashville, yet it doesn't play the same.
Wheres all the cheating songs, the songs about the broken hearts? The songs about the good time, and
the ones that rip out your heart?
Where are the songs about cowboys and the woman left alone, the songs that you can relate to when you put
them on?
Todays country music is not the same at all as the Wildwood Flower or the Wabash Cannonball,
There is no Bass, no Fiddle, no Five Sting Banjo or Steel Guitar that makes you cry;
Todays country has lost its soul, its identity.
What happed to the soul of country music, when was it aloud to die? Will we see it again in the By and By?
Theres some thing in the soul of country music, some thing so deep its out of my control
some thing that takes hold of me and over floods my soul.
Theres not much to true country music except four part harmony and story's about life
and all its realities.
All of life is within those songs, those songs form times gone by, the feelings that in all
of us resides and the way things should be.
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I have listened to country music all my life and am unable to listen to what is presented as country music nowadays, which to be true sounds more like rock then country now any way I like mine form the era 1927 (Jimmy Rodgers and the Carter Family [Original Carter Family Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter his then wife Sara Dougherty Carter and his Sister-In-Law Maybelle Addington {Latter Maybelle Carter, better know as Mother Maybelle}) to around 1963 after this point you started getting the pop element mixed in which I my self am not to keen.
In the post war (World War II) era and into the Fifty's (This is know as the Golden Age of Country) the world and thus the music of the era was different; the world was moving from a radio only world into the age of Television also the world of the time was far more conservative then it is to day with stricter standards of conduct that where expected and the music of the time reflected this.
If one listens to country singers of this time Goldie Hill been an example and away form country Connie Francis been another, sound like the style of singing found on swing and jazz recordings of the war years and even back as far as the early swing recordings of the late Twenties, a product of both sing style popular with both male and female recording artists of the time and microphone technology of the era.
Rock'n'Roll and Rockabilly which started to emerge in the Fifty's where an attempt by young people of the era to break free of the many social restrictions in place at that time by way of contrast.
Regards to you.
Cyber-Angel