It's a mix of recency bias and pop country being highly commercialized. There was plenty of garbage nashville trash back in the day but it is overshadowed by the outlaw movement which was underground and broke into the mainstream mostly organically. There are tons of good country bands putting out stuff right now, you just don't see them breaking top 40 or being featured at the CMA awards.
Tyler Childers
Colter Wall
Sturgill Simpson
Chris Stapleton
Margo Price
Sierra Ferrell
Trampled by Turtles
Turnpike Troubadours
Robert Earl Keen
Gary Clark Jr.
Hayes Carl
Todd Snider
Jason Isbell
Charley Crockett
Shovels and Rope
Dave Rawlings Machine
Justin Townes Earle (rip)
Those are just off the top of my head and none of them are super underground. Margo, Tyler, Chris and Sturgill are well known with most country fans and everyone who went to school in the south in the past decade knows a few Turnpike songs by heart.
Survivorship bias leads us to think that what we know as oldies but goodies and classics represented all music rather than just the most popular and “best” from a given period had to offer.
If anybody's looking for even more, here's some of my faves: Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, John Moreland, Garrett T Capps, Yola, Croy and the Boys, Karen and the Sorrows, Kelsey Waldon, Lasers Lasers Birmingham, Honey Harper, Dougie Poole, Jess Williamson, Secret Emchy Society, Gus Clark and the Least of his Problems
It's a mix of recency bias and pop country being highly commercialized. There was plenty of garbage nashville trash back in the day but it is overshadowed by the outlaw movement which was underground and broke into the mainstream mostly organically. There are tons of good country bands putting out stuff right now, you just don't see them breaking top 40 or being featured at the CMA awards.
Tyler Childers
Colter Wall
Sturgill Simpson
Chris Stapleton
Margo Price
Sierra Ferrell
Trampled by Turtles
Turnpike Troubadours
Robert Earl Keen
Gary Clark Jr.
Hayes Carl
Todd Snider
Jason Isbell
Charley Crockett
Shovels and Rope
Dave Rawlings Machine
Justin Townes Earle (rip)
Those are just off the top of my head and none of them are super underground. Margo, Tyler, Chris and Sturgill are well known with most country fans and everyone who went to school in the south in the past decade knows a few Turnpike songs by heart.
Thank you for the list! I love how old country sounds and the new hick-pop shit is so tradh
Survivorship bias leads us to think that what we know as oldies but goodies and classics represented all music rather than just the most popular and “best” from a given period had to offer.
If anybody's looking for even more, here's some of my faves: Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, John Moreland, Garrett T Capps, Yola, Croy and the Boys, Karen and the Sorrows, Kelsey Waldon, Lasers Lasers Birmingham, Honey Harper, Dougie Poole, Jess Williamson, Secret Emchy Society, Gus Clark and the Least of his Problems
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