Why is it that it seems like about 70% of the people in the country music sectio!
Question: I enjoy both new and classic country, but I can't figure out why there are so many traditionalists here.
Answers: I enjoy both new and classic country, but I can't figure out why there are so many traditionalists here.
I don't know if it's necessarily 70%, but the traditional country music isn't as accessible as the current country music. What I mean is it is harder to go online and find info on the traditional artists and music, whereas if you put Kenny, Keith, Tim, Faith, etc. into a search engine you get a zillion hits. So it's easier to come on here where you will easily find what you're looking for because people have such a vast knowledge of things that they are interested in anyway.
I WISH !! (more like 5% are true country fans)
Maybe it's because they're younger and their parents threw away the good stuff?
Hey Cowboy..where have you been???
Maybe because this is TRUE..
"THE OLDER THE VIOLIN, THE SWEETER THE MUSIC"!
THIS NEW STUFF IS JUST THAT..STUFF..NO OFFENSE, BUT YUCK!
CLASSIC COUNTRY IS A "STURDY SHIP" THAT'LL NEVER SINK!
you tell em okie.
Because we were raised on & remember 'the good stuff', country music has gone wimpy & sounds like rock or worse, easy listening. I love rock music also, but not the new dance music, rap & death metal which seems to be all that's played anymore.
I just answered one question by Tex about what are you listening to now and the majority of the answers came from people who wouldn't know real country music if they fell into a record bin full of good country music.
On Edit: Yeah what Okie said and Country Bumpkin echoed.
I'm 24 and people are always asking me why I listen to the music I do (being classic country)....I grew up on it and never gave it up....don't get me wrong there are a few "new" artist that I like (although very limited)...I just love the old stuff!!! Give me Johnny Cash, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Sr. over ANY of the new stuff!!!!
there is only two kinds of music=
TRADITIONAL COUNTRY and CLASSIC COUNTRY.
My tastes vary, while I enjoy a lot of classic artists, I don't know what my personal preference overall would be classified as. I love Toby Keith, Willy Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Brooks and DUnn, Mac Davis, Roy Clark, Travis Tritt, Alan Jackson, Dwight Yoakam, Buck Owens, Charlie Rich, Charley Pride, George Strait and oh so many more. I am confused (which is not unusual) as to whether you mean traditional or classic (as I had to have the distiction defined for me some time back)
THere is a tremendous amount of classic country participation on the site because the people that are putting it out there love it and have a good sized following that enjoy sharing it with eachother verses the majority of the newer country listeners are here to just get an answer to a question or sadly, to find out who they think is the cutest (most likely an age related thing) but as far as routine participation, you will find that the majority is classic music lovers when it comes to regular posting.
Actually , I should retract that because all in all, I would say that the classic country participants may be a smaller majority percentage wise but participation wise, they are the major contibutors
I started listening to Country music after Buddy Holly died.I still listen to country and the best is from the 50's,60's,70's.
Nothing against the singers today but most of them are "Glamor Shots" that have a song written and produced for them and is shot to the top and dropped as fast.
The classic country still lives today as it set the standards that todays singers are looking for.
Might be because we are older and know what true country music is. I,m sorry to say but this stuff you listen to now on the radio is not country, at least not what we grew up listening to. No one in today's country can compare to George Jones, Merle Haggard and the rest of them. Sure these new combers take their music and try their best to sound like the originals but it's just not the same. I guess when you've had the best all your life...you just don't settle for anything less.
I like some of new country, even though I don't really consider it country--in my opinion, it's sounds too much like rock. Now, I like rock music, but there, too, I prefer the "oldies".
Once someone hears REAL country music, they don't want that pop-rock-fluff garbage. Or, as the great Bill Anderson wrote and the equally great Jean Shepard sang, "If you've never had filet mignon, peanut butter tastes just fine."
I'm the oddball here. I love both the classic and the new country, and rock, and some R&B. My background is as a broadcaster and karaoke host.
Let me tell you something. When I think of classic country, I think of it as the real American music. It is the purest musical form of explaining life. The urban stuff and the fluffy gospel wannabees trying to do new country pop today make me ill how fake they are.
Give me Ed Bruce over Josh Turner.
Actually a lot of people on here like both, but the Traditionalists are trying to keep the music/genre ALIVE so they ask more questions.
Oh and would you people stop insulting Rock music. The new stuff coming out doesn't sound like Rock(other then ones like Van Zant and Montgomery Gentry doing SOUTHERN ROCK) it sounds like POP.
As someone said, most of the Top Contributors prefer the Classic country. We know more about it.Classic Country Lovers are not in the majority in this section. We just seem like it because, like someone said, we ask a Whole lot more questions and we're trying to keep the Classics alive.
Classic Country Music lovers have become a "Family". We may not have met each other in person or even talked on the phone, but we recognized each other's love for the music and can appreciate it for what it is.---- a great love for good music. In about 20-30 yrs. the stuff that's out now will be considered classic. But it still won't be what The Classics are now. Yeah sure we fuss about this new stuff. But that's because it's not country, its pop-rock. We hate that it's considered country. It aint.---it's pop-rock. People are forgetting the roots of the music and most of those who listen to this newer mess haven't even heard the older stuff.
We want to keep the Classics alive and don't have any problems with anyone who wants to help. We don't try to step on toes, or steel others' ideas. We take off them and make them better. and it's greatly appreciated. We also give credit to those who deserve it and accept them even if they don't just listen to the classics...
We are Family and want to keep the Classics Alive!!!!!.
Because I was raised on the good stuff. Classic country actually has meaning in the songs, where as the new stuff is just a bunch of head bobbin nonsense.