Who would you consider the true country music artists of the day. I mean modern day. But not the pop country stuff that is going on.

8/19/2007 6:16:38 PM

They are almost an extinct breed...

8/19/2007 7:41:51 PM

AVETT BROTHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8/19/2007 8:18:13 PM

alan jackson

8/19/2007 9:41:24 PM

I think Alan Jackson would be lumped into the "pop country stuff" that phatbat is talking about

8/19/2007 10:31:06 PM

Tift Merritt
Neko Case
Lucinda Williams
Ryan Adams
Two Dollar Pistols
Willie Nelson
Loretta Lynn
Lambchop
Hank Williams III
The Jayhawks
Steve Earle

etc.

8/20/2007 3:58:53 AM

richard buckner
ryan adams (jacksonville city nights, in particular)
the waybacks

8/20/2007 4:07:30 AM

there's noway that alan jackson is grouped into "pop country"

i'd put rascal flatts in that category, though.

8/20/2007 6:44:28 AM

8/20/2007 7:10:48 AM

There is good stuff that is popular, its just that most popular stuff isn't good. I'd consider Brad Paisley and Alan Jackson both quality "popular" musicians.

Anyway, he's not as prolific as he used to be, but I'd put Guy Clark in the real country category, along with Robert Earl Keen, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Jason Boland and most other Texas / Red Dirt Country acts.

Guy Clark:


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8/20/2007 7:30:18 AM

i have a hard time putting H.W. III and Ryan Adams into this category. Yes they have produced true country songs but their catalog isn't true country.

george strait and willie fit perfectly.

Josh Turner is a new face that fits the category too.

8/20/2007 7:45:41 AM

Rascal Flatts

8/20/2007 8:26:17 AM

Quote :

"AVETT BROTHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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definitely not country

8/20/2007 8:47:56 AM

Steve Earle without a doubt

also french people dont know country

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8/20/2007 9:02:23 AM

old 97's "hitchhike to rhome"

8/20/2007 9:14:30 AM

Quote :

"neko case"

8/20/2007 9:14:40 AM

there is this band down here in SC that i hear about all the time called "The Bitterman". I need to check 'em out.

8/20/2007 9:23:37 AM

there is no way that Cross Canadian Ragweed is country. They will tell you they arent country if you go see a show.

8/20/2007 10:05:53 AM

to me, they fall in that gray area that some bands out there fall into . . . but, understandably, some bands refuse to self-label themselves and I support that. It doesn't change the fact that a lot of people will percieve them as "country". Ronnie Van Zant was big on moving Skynyrd away from the "Southern Rock" appelation but they were killed before he could really get that ball rolling.

Still, CCR > Rascall Flatts

8/20/2007 10:13:04 AM

Reverend Horton Heat, Hank III/Assjacks, and Nashville Pussy at the Lincoln in November.

Should be a riotous good time.

8/20/2007 11:50:50 AM

^ thats a great show




Willie is the man, my favorite musical artist of all time, I really have no idea how many times I have seen him live, 30-40 times probably

8/20/2007 12:59:23 PM