Are there any progressive Country Music fans on this forum?

[Enraged_Ape]

Or am I the only one?

By Country Music, I mean the REAL deal: Cash, Cline, Acuff, Hank Williams, Tammy Wynette, George Jones, Charlie Pride--hell, even Ferlin Husky. I mean the people that sang the real music of this nation.

We have a new country music station in my town and they play a lot of this stuff, and I just can't get enough. You know what the really weird thing is about country music is? The crappier the sound system you listen to it on, the more beautiful it sounds. A couple of months ago I went to a local auto race where they were playing country songs on their shitty, circa 1975 P.A., and it sounded absolutely GORGEOUS. It actually made me cry.

My wife thought that I had lost my mind. Maybe I have.

[JCMach1]

1. progressive... I call it classic

don't feel bad... it's the real folk music of America

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I was thrown by that subject line too, until

I figured out from the message text that he must mean "progressives who are country fans."

Oh, yeah. I like a lot of the old stuff. Also Waylon & Willie. I also just discovered a noncommercial side of John Denver, a bunch of real antiwar and social justice songs.

My truck radio buttons are on WPR talk, WPR Classical, Minn. pub radio, & country stations.

[ashling]

2. you are not alone.

love it.

[Mrs. Overall]

3. I love Patsy Cline--

Have all of her music and collect her memorabilia. I recently acquired her autograph, which is very hard to find!

I do like classical country music and bluegrass, but definitely do not like the modern stuff (post-1970).

I understand what you are saying about poor sound systems, but I have some digitally remastered CDs of older music and do enjoy the quality and depth of sound of these recordings.

[corporatewhore]

4. Add Steve Earl to your list

[TheWizardOfMudd]

5. Love the classic country music (except Acuff)

I always thought that gospel stuff he did was, well, stupid, but it has been a long time since I have heard him.

But my FAVE is the progressive country that came mostly out of Southern California in the late sixties and seventies,i.e., Poco, Flying Burrito Brothers, some early Eagles, some Buffalo Springfield, bla bla bla.

[stevedeshazer]

7. You're not the only one

I love that stuff, even had a band that played all that. Real stuff.

Where do they play this stuff on the radio?

[yardwork]

8. Count me in!

[LoZoccolo]

9. I saw the Bottle Rockets last night.

They wrote a song that has the lyrics:

Angry fat man on the radio
Wants to keep his taxes way down low
Says there oughta be a law
Angriest man you ever saw.

You may also like Jemerson Moseley:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/0/jemersonmosleymusic.htm

[villager]

10. pass that Merle Haggard record over here...

...will ya?