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Country music speaks to people where they live. The vast majority has a very simple Christian faith.......it is very ingrained in them and is impossible to separate from other aspects of their life. By and large most country music fans are also very patriotic and very supportive of our troops. for the most part, they like God, Guns, and Nascar.....not necessarily in that order.
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If I Was Jesus, I’d come back from the dead
And I’d walk on some water, just to mess with your head--Toby Keith
"Country" music is just short for "country and western" which doesn't make alot of sense to me. The origins of country and western music are not in the west, they're in the South, particularly in Tennessee where I live. Nashville is considered to be the capitol of country music and this is where alot of the stars live and record their music. I guess the word "country" refers to rural areas as opposed to cities because that's where alot of the folk music that turned into country music originated.
I think the "western" was added on so as to include such people as Bob Wills ("Western Swing") and Marty Robbins (cowboy ballads). Those styles hasn't stayed as popular as "country". I find them interesting.
effie: I liked that song "Country Man" OK. But I don't know what 'context' you were referring to. Oh, well, doesn't really matter. No use in making a federal case out of it!
I find it refreshing. Though I do agree that some of it has to do with attacks on Christianity, I also think it is good that there is a group of people out there putting out songs that are considered "politically incorrect" because the mention Christ or God or anything to do with be a Christian. George Strait put out a sond long ago about about God having the nerve to create the world, long before it was "cool" to have such a song out. Brooks and Dunn have done the same. And it is nice that they were willing to go against what some people consider imposing on their freedom of religion. It is my personal belief that they are voicing not only their freedom of religion, but also their freedom of speech. By telling them not to record such songs wouldn't their rights be violated?
I find it refreshing. Though I do agree that some of it has to do with attacks on Christianity, I also think it is good that there is a group of people out there putting out songs that are considered "politically incorrect" because the mention Christ or God or anything to do with be a Christian. George Strait put out a sond long ago about about God having the nerve to create the world, long before it was "cool" to have such a song out. Brooks and Dunn have done the same. And it is nice that they were willing to go against what some people consider imposing on their freedom of religion. It is my personal belief that they are voicing not only their freedom of religion, but also their freedom of speech. By telling them not to record such songs wouldn't their rights be violated?
It isn't surprising that a christian would find these to be a good thing. Nobody was saying they should not be allowed to sing about whatever they like. We were just discussing that there seemed to be an uptick in that genre. Several of us opined that this was one of several reasons we don't much like the genre. I vote with my dollars to not support it. That is my right.
The origins of country and western music are not in the west........
Tell that to Willie, Waylon, Garth, Toby, George Strait, Chris LeDoux, Michael Martin Murphy, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ray Wilie Hubbard, Red Steagal, Billy Joe Shaver, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Red Dirt Rangers, or David Allen Coe.............
Tell that to Willie, Waylon, Garth, Toby, George Strait, Chris LeDoux, Michael Martin Murphy, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ray Wilie Hubbard, Red Steagal, Billy Joe Shaver, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Red Dirt Rangers, or David Allen Coe.............
Some of us don't consider east of the Mississippi to be west. It is debatable if you can really call the plains west.
American Western music is cowboy music which is largely a glamorized version of the cowboy life created in the early parts of the 20th century for commercial sale. The Country music of today is a commercial product with its base in Nashville. It is really more of a southern commercial music product. It bears little resemblance to real folk music - that is the music that grew up in the US created by people for their own entertainment and not as a commercial endeavor.
I went to the Country Music Hall of Fame here in Nashville several months ago and in one of the exhibits it said that the roots of country music have a strong influence of English folk music from immigrants who moved to the South and that it gradually developed into the old fashioned country music that we've become familiar with. The people that Goodpasture mentioned I believe are mostly from modern times although I'm not familiar with all of the names. I was referring to it's origins which go way back to the 1920's in Tennessee. It did branch out to places like Texas and Oklahoma in the 1930's and 1940's and became widely popular after that.
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Nobody was saying they should not be allowed to sing about whatever they like. We were just discussing that there seemed to be an uptick in that genre. Several of us opined that this was one of several reasons we don't much like the genre. I vote with my dollars to not support it. That is my right.
