Okay can we talk about this though. I'm so mad. Like I spent the past week making a playlist full of folksy union songs from pre 1950 and I'm so mad about what country music is now opposed to Pete seeger was putting out. Idk if it counts as like. True country. But I'm still angy. 😾
There's a good :citations-needed: episode about this very subject. Some time in the 1960s conservative politicians deliberately started courting country musicians. "Country" doesn't even refer to a specific style of music anymore but rather anything with an accent and a weepy cloying patriotism. Like listen to any country station today and it's just pop. It'll even have trap beats sometimes.
Okay can we talk about this though. I'm so mad. Like I spent the past week making a playlist full of folksy union songs from pre 1950 and I'm so mad about what country music is now opposed to Pete seeger was putting out. Idk if it counts as like. True country. But I'm still angy. 😾
There's a good :citations-needed: episode about this very subject. Some time in the 1960s conservative politicians deliberately started courting country musicians. "Country" doesn't even refer to a specific style of music anymore but rather anything with an accent and a weepy cloying patriotism. Like listen to any country station today and it's just pop. It'll even have trap beats sometimes.
There are some counterexamples
One of the best performances I've ever seen. My favorite part is 3:42 when the drummer sends his cymbal flying.
https://youtu.be/pIC68oaKIb0 Another deep cut from his Sunday Valley days that's probably the reason he's blacklisted by the CMAs