Another Question For Non-USA Peeps

[TomStrong]

Speaking of Canadian country, just read in the paper Gordon Lightfoot is coming to my town.

Yep, i'm going

Love me some Sundown! Can't stomach modern country.

[JRT!]

Well,living in Europe I have to say Spawn is a little bit wrong. Common mistake though,lol. I even like banjo music,but the group I like are from New Jersey,lol! Yep,Sleepy Man Banjo Boys. My fave being from a certain movie that they a version of,lol!

[Mongoose1983]

Huge hardcore country music fan here. But if not for having been to Nashville I know that would have not been possible. I know in Brazil, Country music is important. There's Country Music radios there airing American Country Music, and also local artists as well. They have a important Country culture there. It is the only Latinamerican country that I know where they have Rodeo the American way. We have rodeo here in Chile, but it is completely different!

[jreinhardt]

I saw Hank JR noted and was thinking you were listening to Hank III. He is the only country I care for unless it is the stuff that they stopped playing on the radio 40 years ago...

[Mikey]

I like Hank 3 too

[4NDR01D]

I love old time country. I play Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers for my 3 year old sometimes when I'm trying to get her to fall asleep. I could care less for anything newer than maybe 1950's at the latest. And what passes for country music nowadays sounds like Bon Jovi to me. Detest it with all my being.

[Mongoose1983]

And what passes for country music nowadays sounds like Bon Jovi to me. Detest it with all my being.

ME TOO!

Blame it on Garth Brooks. That clown who opened the door to all that sh*t. Anything can be Country nowadays, and if somebody actually sounds country, they say it's TOO COUNTRY!

[Mikey]

ME TOO!

Blame it on Garth Brooks. That clown who opened the door to all that sh*t. Anything can be Country nowadays, and if somebody actually sounds country, they say it's TOO COUNTRY!

You know that's true ... now that I think about it.

The last new country I enjoyed was the mid 80's Ronnie Milsap era.

After that is about when Brooks came in and all crap followed him

[Mongoose1983]

You know that's true ... now that I think about it.

The last new country I enjoyed was the mid 80's Ronnie Milsap era.

After that is about when Brooks came in and all crap followed him

Ronnie Milsap is fantastic. Not hardcore country, but a great crossover. I'd say looking back --and it is a bit sad- George Strait in the 80's kind of broaden Country Music. If you listen to his earliest records he was a bit of a Hag impersonator... then after he went from one Billboard #1 hit after another, everybody was trying to grab a hat! (Clint Black, and the same clown named Brooks in the 90's). I'd say the truest new Country singer of the 80's decade was Randy Travis. But of course that's just my opinion.

[Mikey]

Back when he first started I used to laugh at Randy Travis cause that voice did not go with his body

That voice sounded like it was coming out of a big Hoyt Axton looking guy back stage

[Mongoose1983]

Back when he first started I used to laugh at Randy Travis cause that voice did not go with his body

That voice sounded like it was coming out of a big Hoyt Axton looking guy back stage

Hahahaha! That's totally true!

Too bad the man lost it in the end. Still, in his hey day Randy Travis was the closest thing to a George Jones replacement in the history of recorded music!

[Boywonder0]

Canada has always had it's own country music scene, it is not a quintessential American concept. When my in laws have had a few, they break out 78s from the 20s.

*sigh* Shania Twain...*sigh*

[Mongoose1983]

Canada has always had it's own country music scene, it is not a quintessential American concept. When my in laws have had a few, they break out 78s from the 20s.

The GREAT Hank Snow I.E.!

[Captain Big Trousers]

US cowboys would be at home in outback Australia.

Yanks are a bit soft though.