• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      282·
      10 months ago

      Today’s “country” is pop with a southern accent. Long live Lefty Frizzell, Marty Robbins, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Jeannie C. Reily, Hank Sr, Charlie Pride, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Porter Wagoner…

      The list of amazing old country music is long as fuck if given a chance. The list of today’s good country artists? Charley Crockett, Sturgil Simpson, Hank III, John Moreland, American Aquarium. That’s about it, few more I’m forgetting I’m sure.

      • Pilkins@lemmy.world
        5·
        10 months ago

        Today’s POPULAR country is that way. There are still great country artists, they just don’t get as big. Molly Tuttle, Billy Strings, Charlie Crockett, Margo Price, Sarah Jarosz

      • MagikarpeDiem@lemmy.world
        4·
        10 months ago

        Honestly, even some of the more pop stuff pre-2000s was good. I do love me some Dwight Yoakam. But I can’t handle any of the stuff they play on country stations these days. All the songs sound the same and are almost all about the same exact things. I wouldn’t be surprised if they just have AI coming up these songs at this point.

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          10 months ago

          For sure, not one of the artists I mentioned from today ever gets radio play (…I think).

          Tbf a lot of Lefty Frizzell’s songs are about wantin’ yer lady back and bein’ sorry you done her wrong, as are many other country artists, there’s for sure common themes throuought the various ages, but still, I don’t really mind that when they’re all good as fuck! There’s no twang today, and no soul, no feeling behind the words or chords, that’s my main issue.

          • MagikarpeDiem@lemmy.world
            3·
            10 months ago

            For most of my life I haven’t been interested in country music because the contemporary popular stuff tend to be terrible. I’m currently discovering some of the old(er) good stuff for the first time (also watching that Ken Burns documentary a few years ago really ignited my appreciation). Currently (as in this minute as I type this), listening to some old Steven Earle songs for the first time and wondering why I didn’t know about this.

            • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              1·
              10 months ago

              Steve Earle fucking rules. Everyone knows Copperhead Road but tbh like everything else he wrote is even better.

              I kinda grew up with Steve Earle, Johnny Cash, and some of the other southern rock-y stuff like The Marshall Tucker band, then I found American Aquarium in like '06, but I really only got into country/western around the time Fallout New Vegas came out, I just couldn’t get enough of it.

      • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Can’t talk about great, old country without mentioning John Prine and of course Johnny Cash. There really is a lot of it.

      • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        Absolutely. Og country has more in common with punk than modern Ford truck month country.

        Happy you mentioned modern ones. It ain’t my jam, but people often lament how it’s all shit now when there are almost always artists keeping it alive. Just have to look a little harder.

    • Steeve@lemmy.caEnglish
      121·
      10 months ago

      Most old country is dogshit too, we just carry the good songs through decades!

      • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        10 months ago

        You mean the home of the battle of Blair Mountain, union history making, miner rights fighting for, West Virginia!? You probably need to listen to more country music. Or read

  • nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    10 months ago

    If you haven’t seen it, I implore you to watch the Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart. This song features heavily. It’s my favorite Ghibli film, heck it’s possibly my favorite film period.

    • nul@programming.dev
      4·
      10 months ago

      Just saw it for the first time a couple days ago. Beautiful film. Been keeping a running list of what age I should show Ghibli movies to my niece. I put this one at 13. She turns 4 soon, which I think is a good age to start her with Ponyo.

  • PissinSelfNdriveway@sh.itjust.works
    131·
    10 months ago

    Had Mr sunshine on his goddamn shoulders ever visited wv he would have changed the lyrics… Ain’t nobody Wana go the the shithole that is wv

    • ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      10 months ago

      I’ll say this, it’s one of the most beautiful states as far as nature goes. Going white-water rafting in the fall when the leaves are changing in the New River Gorge was spectacular. But everything else about the state… yeah. I traveled quite extensively there when I financially audited a coal company. It’s honestly just hopeless how poor and uneducated the people are, and how they vote against their own interests every single time, only making their situation more desperate.

      • PissinSelfNdriveway@sh.itjust.works
        31·
        10 months ago

        100% this. I live like 4 miles from wv and have spent My whole life traveling through and doing industrial contractor work through every part of that state. The only parts that aren’t absolutely trash are the places people can’t live. We should just exterminate it and turn it into a national park…mother fuckers from there can’t even drive once they cross the line, they are always the ones that are going 10mph under the speed limit because they are confused by roads that aren’t shit.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    10 months ago

    Hell, even Germans love 'em some Country Roads.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDFXyIrCmr0

    EDIT: Forgot to add, when I met my Filipina fiancé I wasn’t sure what sorts of American culture she had been exposed to. LOL, put on Country Roads and she started belting it out. 9 to 5 also!

    • HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      10 months ago

      I was in a pretty remote village in the north of north Luzon Philippines several years ago and I heard a stereo play country road. I was confused if I was actually hearing it but yep there it was and someone was singing to it

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Nice! My gf is from Manilla, total city girl. It’s a continuing joy learning what she does and doesn’t know about our pop culture.

        Hopefully we’ll get her back home in the next year or two and I can put myself in her place.

        How you like it? I have vague plans of us retiring there.

        • HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          10 months ago

          Ah man u got it made. Have to have a citizen buy property and u have ur wife for that. I spent a cumulative 4 months all over the Philippines scuba diving, trekking, and general sight seeing when I worked in China, Hong Kong and Thailand and lived in Vietnam. Absolutely incredibly beautiful nature. The cities tho aren’t nice, very poor country, terribly slow internet due to the 7100 islands. But best and happiest people on the planet IMO. I hope to retire there or somewhere outside the US that’s cheaper as well but that’s far off.

          • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Yeah, we’re both 52, and I have jack saved for retirement, but I’ll own this house very soon, so I got that to rent out for funds.

            Can’t get over how many old white guys are married to far younger women, it’s kinda hilarious. Her ex, a real POS, was 72 and that same guy just married her niece! I sincerely hope she’s gold digging on that man.

            At every gathering it’s a bunch a white dudes, even older than me, and their women, slightly younger that mine. LOL, my girl was legitimately upset to find she’s 6-months older than me! I talk shit in front of her friends about my “old woman”.

    • lud@lemm.ee
      1·
      10 months ago

      I didn’t know the NFL played games outside the USA. Odd that two American teams are playing in Germany. I wonder what the audience demographics are. Do Americans travel to Germany to watch the games or are there mostly Germans there?

      • ZetaLightning94@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        John Denver confirmed it was written about Clopper rd in Gaithersburg, MD when he would frequent it on his way home to WV.

        • Forester@yiffit.net
          1·
          10 months ago

          “So I thought about it and I said well the guys going home to West Virginia He’s going through Virginia and he’s passing the Blue ridge mountains in the Shenandoah River”. Bill Danoff -cowriter

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    81·
    10 months ago

    I exclusively associate that song with RTGame on YouTube obliterating his cities in Cities Skylines.

    As an aside, IRL I like to call the state “Left Virginia” for ironic shits and giggles.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      10 months ago

      That works on two levels, whether you’re bad at maps or want to reference it’s origin of leaving Virginia to stay with the Union during the civil war.