More music you don’t hear much any more, unless you go out and find it.
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More music you don’t hear much any more, unless you go out and find it.
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I’ve told you that a good friend of mine is Webb Pierce’s nephew, right?
Guy grew up listening to Marty Robbins, Webb Pierce, Hank Williams and the like swap lies and drink coffee at his grandmother’s kitchen table.
How cool is that?
That is incredibly cool.
Maybe there’s a reason you don’t hear this music much anymore.
There is, it’s because it’s not fancy enough for Nashville to produce. It all predates what’s now called the Nashville Sound or even what’s called the Bakersfield sound. The late 50s signalled a major change in the way Country Music was produced and promoted. In the early ’60s one school of country music, based in Nashville got away from steel guitars and twin fiddles and more towards larger more orchestral instumental back up. The other school, out of Bakersfield, CA used a simpler background. The Nashville Sound predominated and does to this day.
Then there are the Outlaw Country singers, most notably Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Jerry Jeff Walker. I’ll bore you with that at a later date.
Maybe there’s a reason you don’t hear this music much anymore.
Yep. “Country music” (at least the mainstream variety) isn’t really country anymore. It’s more or less “country music for people who don’t like country music.”