::gasp:: country bands ::choke::

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Here's a very modern day loot at country 'faith based' music.
Same song, first by the contemporary artist/writer, followed by the SMASH COUNTRY HIT.

Two words. Johnny Cash.

That is all.

I don't listen to a lot but I gotta admit, Brantley Gilbert is actually pretty good. His last album "Halfway to Heaven" has more of a rock/country (I think more rock than country) sound to it. It really isn't that bad.

ishmael81 wrote:

Two words. Johnny Cash.

That is all.

Beat me to it. I don't much like country, but BT's list was a good one (except for Patsy Clone). Johnny was all that was missing.

Not a fan of country music at all........I do have a lot of respect for some of the guitarists though.....Brad Paisley and Vince Gill come to mind, those boys can play!

I spent my early years traveling with my mom's gospel group, then later traveling with our own family group with my brothers and sisters......not doing that anymore, never singing another southern gospel song ever again if I can help it.

Johnny Cash.
Charlie Daniels. (especially his christian albums - steel witness is my favorite)
Randy Travis (gospel albums only)

beyond that.. here and there...

ALSO.. I think Don Francisco's (doing his own song) version of He's Alive is much better!

Go back in time to 1991 or so. I was working as a DJ at a top 40 station in Knoxville. One day the changed formats to country. I hated it. But since I was in the radio business and not the format business I decided to stay on. At the time I really liked Wade Hayes, Blackhawk, Doug Stone, Martina McBride, etc. I learned to like it. Someone else at the station said to me "country is kind of like a fungus. It slowly grows on you". LOL.

Also during that time I discovered an artist named Brett James. He was a Christian Country artist that did receive some play on secular country stations with a song called "Smoke & Mirrors". Good song.

Then in 1998 I left country and went to rock radio. I went back to hating country and since then I can't stand it anymore, even the stuff I used to like with the exception of Blackhawk. In 2001 I moved to Panama City and took a job at a rock station which also had a country station. I worked both. Never embraced country again which kind of surprised my current co-workers who knew me from hearing me on the air. I told them I was in the radio business, not the country music business and a job is a job no matter the format.

MikeInFla wrote:

.... Someone else at the station said to me "country is kind of like a fungus. It slowly grows on you". LOL.
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I can indentify with that, my wife listened to country for several years in the late 90's. As much as I complained about it I actually grew to like several of those songs.

For the most part, I don't follow country music (despite the fact that there are probably close to half a dozen country stations in this city), but I'm a huge fan of what's considered "classic" country - country music from the 40s through 70s or so. Buck Owens, Brenda Lee, Patsy Cline, Buck Owens, Johnny Horton etc. Of course, this is partly because I love Oldies music in general, and also because I grew up watching reruns of Hee Haw.

This has been a favorite of mine since I was a kid. This is the original version, but it's also been covered by Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and numerous others.



I do like some modern country songs as well. Carry Underwood's stuff is great, and I also liked Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now".

Only old country I like is Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Alabama, Emmylou Harris, and The Mavericks. Much of the older country is too twangy and horrible to listen to.