• @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      162 years 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.

      • @MagikarpeDiem@lemmy.world
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        32 years 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.

      • @Pilkins@lemmy.world
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        32 years 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

        • You’ll see I also mentioned Charley Crockett! I surely know there is some good out there, I mentioned a few others myself. Forgot Billy Strings though thanks. Also I’m both unfortunately and fortunately unfamilliar with Tuttle, Price, and Jarosz, fortunate because now I get to go check out some new (to me) shit I’ll probably like, so thanks!

      • @Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
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        12 years ago

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

      • 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

    • @ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
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      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.

      • 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.

    • @postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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      Jason Isbell?

      Sturgill Simpson?

      Blackberry Smoke?

      Billy MF Strings?

      Or do you like music about American flags, cheating pickup trucks, dead dogs, and terminally ill wives?

  • @nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works
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    42 years 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
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      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.

    • RickRussell_CA
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      42 years ago

      It was country music, back when it came out.

      Now it would probably be called “Americana” or something.