Originally Posted By: bvance554
Originally Posted By: 01rangerxl
Jacked up Chevy with a lift kit, watch the sunset drink some beers.
This is why I don't like today's country music. It all sounds like some cliche about hey look how country I am. I got beers, sittin on my tailgate, fire, its my kinda party. Heck yea great stuff.
And all the performers and their arrangements sound alike. Dierks Bentley I can recognize, but not many of the newer people. Whereas you could always tell Johnny Cash from Merle Haggard, both the voice and the choice of material. (Hard to imagine Merle doing "One Piece at a Time.")
I've been a fan of country since I worked as a country station DJ back in the mid-'70s. (Mel Tillis, Gene Watson, Waylon & Willie -- and some "new" country like Guy Clark. You get the idea.) I've said for years country was the last pop music type left where the artists generally were good-looking -- and some gorgeous, like Faith Hill -- and tried to look their best on stage. And where you could still understand every word they sang.
I guess those things are still true . . . but country has indeed lost something, the story songs among them. "Three Wooden Crosses" by Randy Travis and "Beaches of Cheyenne" by Garth Brooks? We're not hearing those kinds of almost complete short stories in song nowadays.