I'm not a huge fan of country but I do agree with the OP. I think everyone will always find ONE song within each genre that they can't help but begrudgingly like. And if you can think of a genre where you don't like a single song, then I reckon you haven't found that song yet.
In terms of country, for me it's The Band Perry. 'Don't Let Me Be Lonely' and ' If I Die Young' are great songs.
There is some absolutely terrible country and western music - the 'crystal chandeliers' and 'blanket on the ground' stuff, but there are also some great country artists - a particular favourite of mine is Emmylou Harris - how can you not love that voice? and I speak as a heavy rock music fan. I suppose there's merit in all genres of music - I find it hard to find any in most dance music, rap, r and b etc, but now and then I hear a song that I quite like even in that.
There's plenty of country stuff i don't mind. Sugarland, The Band Perry, The Dixie Chicks and a few more. Wouldn't say I'm a country fan in that sense, but more, as everyone else has said, that I just find some stuff about the genre i like.
I'm not a huge fan of country but I do agree with the OP. I think everyone will always find ONE song within each genre that they can't help but begrudgingly like. And if you can think of a genre where you don't like a single song, then I reckon you haven't found that song yet.
In terms of country, for me it's The Band Perry. 'Don't Let Me Be Lonely' and ' If I Die Young' are great songs.
Yeah I think so too.
But some here claim to hate it all. I'll just have to take their word for it.
It's not good when people take it too far tbh. In the early 80s my parents knew a couple who lived nearby and ran some kind of record club. I thought they were just normal people until I spotted them going out one night dressed up in all that cowboy and cowgirl shiz. My old man explained that they did it regularly, and went to some kind of country and western club. And the guns he carried weren't real. I implored my parents to stop funding their madness through the record club and buy Quo albums elsewhere. Cowboys with Scottish accents can never be right.
It depends, I like Conor Oberst and Emmy Lou Harris, is this country music?
Emmylou really is country!
I adore county music.
Proper Bluegrass country.
Check out Alison Krauss and union station.
Don't really understand why it is so "hated" as a genre.
Great singers, songs that tell stories that can move you or make you laugh in under 3 minutes, and beautifully delicate instrumental
arrangements.
I despise country music. It's the one genre I can't listen to at all (I don't think pop-country artists like Shania Twain or Taylor Swift count as proper, hardcore country). I would rather claw my own ears off my face than listen to country music. I consider it a form of torture and there used to be a market stall where I live in the high street that used to play the most God-awful country dirge imaginable whenever they were there...it made me want to kill myself.
Your mate has some strange ideas if he thinks everyone likes it!
I love the crap that comes out of nashville, and austin and luckenbach and bakersfield. I love it, not americana or indie musicians that dabble, **** that shit. Everyone loves country, and in the case of my family, if they dont initially, they do eventually.
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In terms of country, for me it's The Band Perry. 'Don't Let Me Be Lonely' and ' If I Die Young' are great songs.
I think that should be Country and Southern and I like both.
It was a Blues Brothers reference.
Yeah I think so too.
But some here claim to hate it all. I'll just have to take their word for it.
It's not good when people take it too far tbh. In the early 80s my parents knew a couple who lived nearby and ran some kind of record club. I thought they were just normal people until I spotted them going out one night dressed up in all that cowboy and cowgirl shiz. My old man explained that they did it regularly, and went to some kind of country and western club. And the guns he carried weren't real. I implored my parents to stop funding their madness through the record club and buy Quo albums elsewhere. Cowboys with Scottish accents can never be right.
Emmylou really is country!
I adore county music.
Proper Bluegrass country.
Check out Alison Krauss and union station.
Don't really understand why it is so "hated" as a genre.
Great singers, songs that tell stories that can move you or make you laugh in under 3 minutes, and beautifully delicate instrumental
arrangements.
Yes I know but I'm on a mission too, to get the name changed to Country and Southern because that would reflect the geography of the music.
Your mate has some strange ideas if he thinks everyone likes it!
I can not stand drum and bass stuff, I am yet to hear a good dubstep song as well.
Dierks Bentley
God bless you and the awesome act always!!!
Holly (a day one fan of them)
Bollocks.
The lady doth protest too much.