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I don't blame New Yorkers for not liking modern Country music or for not having a station there. If the only type of Country music I'd ever heard was the contemporary, Pop, corporate studio engineered, lyrical abortion Wal-Mart radio version, I'd hate it too. Most people that hate Country music haven't actually heard Country music. They've just heard Country Pop. Judging all of Country music for fakes like Toby Keith or Rascal Flatts would be like judging all of Rock for people like Nickelback. When you start hearing Hank Williams, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakam, John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, Blaze Foley, John Hartford (NYC native), Ralph Stanley, ect., you can appreciate truly good lyrics and traditional western and southern folk/bluegrass/blues music (which country music started out as before they turned it into a plastic, mass produced Frankenstein's monster of what it once was).
Hmmm, you may have a point here...I happen to like Patsy Cline and she doesn't sound like what I think to be "country music". As you say, she's quite "southern folk/bluegrass/blues" sounding.
. The closest thing we have culturally to southern American whites are the southern blacks -yes the blacks are the whitest people in new york- who share the same accent, food and religion as those that like country music..
1. It is complete nonsense to say that southern AAs sound like southern whites. Listen again. NY AAs also dont sound likle southern AAs, though there are still influences.
2. To say that AAs are more "European" than Irish immigrants is hilarious and indeed that is what you imply.
3. Southern blacks and whites have ben exchanging their Celtic/African/Anglo influences over the past 4 centuries. Maybe its more appropriate to say that southern whites are the "blackest" whites in the USA. Country music clearly has some commonalities with blues and is very different from Celtic msic out of Ireland and Scotland. Indeed its story telling narrative isnt out of place with many genres of Caribbean music, and it does have syncopation.
It might shock you to know that outside of the USA country muisc is most popular in the Caribbean and even Africa.
[quote=nightcrawler;17360466]ok, that I will give you.
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who wants to hear some young black man screaming curse words at me [quote]
Loads of white kids. Before whites got interested in hip hop is was party light hearted music. Compare Heavy D, Kid n Play, and others of that time with post 1990 rap.
R&B and rock/punk music all have roots to country music. I do not understand why people do not give the genre the respect that it deserves.
Dont know where you got that from. Country developed out of a merging of the Celtic folk muisc brought by the Scots Irish with blues developed by the AAs whgich in turn has country influences. Rock grew out of the blues.
I think mainstream country isn't popular here but the folk music genre is very popular. That's based off country big time. Hipsters love folk music and there are plenty of them
I have an ipod and I don't really like Pandora. I want to listen to it while I am driving. And I don't want to have to deal with controlling my Ipod and controlling the steering wheel at the same time.
get a smartphone then
internet radio, 4g... blah blah. stream it. welcome to the future.
It's actually pretty surprising that in a metro of over 20 million, there isn't at least one country station.
I know a lot of Nascar fans on Long Island and they might be into if exposed.
There are a ton of country stations upstate and in Pennsylvania
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