What are you listening to?

[HoosierDaddy]

Blasphemy!



Somewhere around the time Garth Brooks entered the scene, things started to change for the worse in Country Music. I like Garth Brooks, but something about his style brought too much 'pop' into it. Now, you have these yahoo N'Sync rejects throwing on a flannel shirt and a cowboy hat, buyin' a pickup truck and callin' themselves country.

Where I come from, Country Singers were well-dressed, even if it were eccentric (nudie suits) and were real characters, driving around in fancy Cadillacs, perhaps adorned with cattle horns across the grille. They didn't drive around in the same beat up old pickup that I drive!

They also had real talent and voices all their own. You could turn on the radio and know before the announcer came on that you were listening to George Jones, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Dottie West, etc, etc. Now, they all sound the same and you don't know who's singing what until you hear them say 'This was Josh Wannaben'syncrejectguy singing "I drive a pickup truck and grew up on a farm, so listen to my song". No talent.

Sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now!

I sure agree with you,Tom. I always though Brooks was a phoney...trying to be something he's not(altho successful at it) and his style of voice always seemed like a put on to me. Now...George Jones is the country singer to aspire to..IMO. An original.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I agree with you and HD. It's a shame that everything in the world is going that way, just becoming mainstream and bland. No character. Goes so well with all those boring bland cars and appliances they're buying!

It's not just country it's all of them. Although Country music held on as long as it could to the old ways, eventually it became as main stream as anything else.

All of this made me think of this song. 1971 and they were complaining on a similar note of the decline, 40 years ago!

[video=youtube;RgAeL9Qouhk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgAeL9Qouhk[/video]

 

[HoosierDaddy]

[video=youtube;GKeDcF1v_Y4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKeDcF1v_Y4[/video]

 

[Travis Lee Johnston]

So you boys wanna hear some true country, huh?

[video=youtube_share;kGcq0KteWhE]http://youtu.be/kGcq0KteWhE[/video]

 

[lolly_loisides]

Happy Diwali everyone
[video=youtube;jt3K_H4Qf4k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt3K_H4Qf4k&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLF69E397DD3B08239[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Slim Dusty -- About This Hat

[video=youtube;fudPud6OG9g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fudPud6OG9g&feature=related[/video]

A lot of people ask me
'Where did you get this hat?'
Did I win it in a raffle?
Or somewhere smart like that
And how long did I soak it?
To make the front go down?
Or could it be that possibly
It's on the wrong way round?

If I were you
I'd take another look before you laugh
Or swap the old gray felt
For a curled up panama
There's nothing fits so easy
As a hat that's not brand new
You jump on it and ya belt it round
Till finally it's you

I wear this hat umbrella style
When the rain comes down
It keeps the water off my neck
Till shelter can be found
And when the dust and blazing sun
Is enough to make you swear
I pull the front down further, mate
And carry on from there

I even wear this hat indoors
I wear my hat with pride
And often it gets softened up
With my head still inside
If you wanna mend my manners
You can have a go at that
I'll take a lot of rubbish, and friend,
But lay off my old hat

Now if my hat gets lost
As good friends sometimes do
I'll mourn it with respect
Just like I'd do for you
A new one feels like cardboard
When I'm working in the yard
So just to get things started
I mistreat it pretty hard

Oh you never feel real happy
With a hat that's too darn new
It looks no good
Until the sweat and grease is showing through
How proudly then you'll wear it
For all the world to see
It really feels a part of you
And that's how a hat should be

A lot of people ask me
'Where did you get that hat?'
Did I win it in a raffle?
Or somewhere smart like that
And how long did I soak it?
To make the front go down?
But please let me assure you, friend
It's on the right way round.

 

[TidiousTed]

Eric Burdon! What a stunning voice that man had!

He still got it, although he's turned even grayer than me He's in his late 60s on these to videos.
He's been one of my absolute favourites ever since I bought "The Best Of The Animals" as a kid of 13 back in 1966

[video=youtube;g32A8tBLO6c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g32A8tBLO6c[/video]

[video=youtube;pwKQ6HZreVo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwKQ6HZreVo&feature=related[/video]

[video=youtube;ONTVgVt8g14]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONTVgVt8g14&feature=related[/video]

 

[TidiousTed]

About music turning mainstream, you may not like this kind of music, but here's two that never has turned mainstream and propably never will

[video=youtube;zbLqGlxJsIw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbLqGlxJsIw&feature=related[/video]

 

[TidiousTed]

This video is so well made that it would have been well worth viewing without the music

[video=youtube;37GrbCUvZEM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37GrbCUvZEM[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

Basil Rathbone (1939)
[video=youtube;sbrEdpwYSPY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbrEdpwYSPY&feature=related[/video]

Blackpool Tower Wurlitzer Organ
[video=youtube;H_mU0zPHPQc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_mU0zPHPQc&feature=related[/video]

 

[HoosierDaddy]

[video=youtube;YYOD_RbzYqc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYOD_RbzYqc[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

[video=youtube;u_ubnPmcM-c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_ubnPmcM-c[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

[video=youtube;YYOD_RbzYqc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYOD_RbzYqc[/video]

The definitive version in my opinion
Jan Garber and his Orchestra -- Under The Moon (1927)

[video=youtube;lDuXqDVSFaY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDuXqDVSFaY[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Lucille Hegamin and her Blue Flame Syncopaters -- Mama Whip! Mama Spank! (If Her Daddy Don't Come Home) (1921)
Arto 9058

 

[Black Dahlia]

Alex Jones is on the radio...I'm too tired to switch it off!
X
BD

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

[video=youtube;GbCZJSNfiRc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbCZJSNfiRc&feature=channel_video_title[/video]

 

[rue]

Lucille Hegamin and her Blue Flame Syncopaters -- Mama Whip! Mama Spank! (If Her Daddy Don't Come Home) (1921)
Arto 9058

Sounds like it would be pretty racy

I can never listen to those links you and Fletch put up [huh]

 

[rue]

Cute song:

Lee Morse - Tain't No Sin To Dance Around In Your Bones (1929)

[video=youtube_share;Nlg46kIGm_Q]http://youtu.be/Nlg46kIGm_Q[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Sophie Tucker -- When A Lady Meets A Gentleman Down South

[video=youtube;9rowW0VqvFw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rowW0VqvFw[/video]

 

[TidiousTed]

No movie unfortunately but a rather great text full of hidden indecencies

[video=youtube;B-DAoUbfaso]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-DAoUbfaso[/video]