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• Country music (totally off topic) by Chavster on 29 Sep, 2011 14:23
• I don't know a single thing about country music, apart from the fact I kinda like the sound of it
  
  I'd like to download some country music but can any of you give me any tips on popular contemporary singers? I'm not interested in people like Dolly Parton or Betty cline or whatever her name is
  
  Is Lady Antebellum considered 'country'? What about the bald guy with the Stetson? I can't remember his name or the girl who won American idol. Are any of them any good?
  
  I'm in a pub and I've had two pints of rather strong beer so apologies if I sound demented.
• #1 by Slynito on 29 Sep, 2011 14:49
• Can't hep ya...I listened to country many years ago before it went to the city   I know when ever I hear the words, Lady Antebellum, I say what the he!! does that mean and lmao.  
• #2 by -Doug- on 29 Sep, 2011 14:50
• I don't know much about country music either so I can't help you there. One question though.....how can something in Various Non-Bald Discussions\General Discussion be "(totally off topic)." This section by definition is for the off topic stuff  
• #3 by Razor X on 29 Sep, 2011 15:25
• Quote from: GSGUK on 29 Sep, 2011 14:23

  I don't know a single thing about country music, apart from the fact I kinda like the sound of it
  
  I'd like to download some country music but can any of you give me any tips on popular contemporary singers? I'm not interested in people like Dolly Parton or Betty cline or whatever her name is
  

  
  Patsy Cline.   
  
  

  Quote from: GSGUK on 29 Sep, 2011 14:23

  
  Is Lady Antebellum considered 'country'? What about the bald guy with the Stetson? I can't remember his name or the girl who won American idol. Are any of them any good?
  
  

  
  Yes, they're all considered country in the very loosest, most watered down sense of the word.  I'm assuming the bald guy in a Stetson you're referring to is Kenny Chesney?  There are a lot of Stetsons in country music that cover up bald heads. 
  
  As for whether any of them are any good, that's a matter of opinion but in all three cases  I'd have to say no.
• #4 by Mikekoz13 on 29 Sep, 2011 15:31
• Dude... taht crap isn't country music. It's what is paraded around as country music but it's really just modern day "Pop" music.
  
  Real country music died long ago for the most part..... Waylon, Willie, Merle Haggard, Johny Cash.... that was country music.
  
  Alan Jackson and George Strait (two REAL country music stars) explain it best in this great song:
  
  
  
  
• #5 by BillOnBass on 29 Sep, 2011 16:30
• Quote from: Mikekoz13 on 29 Sep, 2011 15:31

  Dude... taht crap isn't country music. It's what is paraded around as country music but it's really just modern day "Pop" music.
  
  Real country music died long ago for the most part..... Waylon, Willie, Merle Haggard, Johny Cash.... that was country music.
  
  Alan Jackson and George Strait (two REAL country music stars) explain it best in this great song:
  
  
  
  
  

  
  This.
• #6 by Razor X on 29 Sep, 2011 18:35
• <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/spjaA8rZEXM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/spjaA8rZEXM</a>
  
  
• #7 by D.A.L.U.I. on 29 Sep, 2011 18:48
• Here's a link to a really old song I remember from my childhood in Nevada--
  
  
• #8 by Razor X on 29 Sep, 2011 18:53
• <a href="http://youtube.com/v/_KrrsLZaY9s" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://youtube.com/v/_KrrsLZaY9s</a>
• #9 by Razor X on 29 Sep, 2011 18:58
• <a href="http://youtube.com/v/gZMCkufE0X0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://youtube.com/v/gZMCkufE0X0</a>
• #10 by Arnie on 29 Sep, 2011 20:35
• Statler Brothers, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, Roy Clark, Barbara Mandrell, Charlie Pride...?
• #11 by Mike on 29 Sep, 2011 20:50
• For the Sly guy with a stetson its more than likely either Kenny Chesney or Keith Anderson. Lady Antebellum, Taylor Swift, Rascall Flatts, those are all pop. Alot of the 'raw' country or 'country on the edge' is real. I still like the old country like Hank Sr. Even bluegrass is way better than alot of the 'country' these days
• #12 by TheSlyBear on 29 Sep, 2011 22:00
• Olivia-Newton John
  
  
  
  /runs-for-cover
  
  Just kidding! 
  
  
  For the yunguns: back in the 70's, before she became a rock slut, ONJ was pumping out some country-esque ballads under the guise of "country music" and hard-core country fans were up in arms, claiming she wasn't really country, and worse, was an Aussie!
• #13 by Chavster on 29 Sep, 2011 22:06
• Olivia-Newton John
  
  
  
  She was born in the UK, but she became Australianesque...so she's a British Australianesque ex-Countryesque rock slut
  
  And thanks guys, thats all very helpful. Actually I think the bald guy with the stetson I was referring to is Garth someone-or-other. Im not sure he's actually bald, but he looks like he should be. I'll google him in a minute. I've never heard of Kenny Chesney
  
  I dont want anything too heavy..."my woman dun left me, I live in a trailer, I had Jack Daniels for breakfast" doesnt do much for me. So maybe its the countryfied pop I'm looking for. Dunno, I need to research more
• #14 by Chavster on 30 Sep, 2011 00:22
• Oh hell no...he sounds like a country version of The Bee Gees. I like guys to sound like guys when they sing