What exactly, is traditional country music? I've heard a lot of Ray Price with an orchestra and strings. A lot of the faster Buck Owens tunes sound rock n roll to me. Johnny Cash? Patsy Cline? Bill Monroe? Hank Williams...

(there's no such thing as traditional country music)

1) Good Music
2) Marilyn Manson

[This message was edited by Glenn Austin on 08 January 2002 at 09:35 AM.]

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John Paul Jones

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"If you have a dog with four legs and a tail, and you decide to call the tail a leg, how many legs does the dog have?"

Roy Acuff

E.Tubb

Buck Owens

Hank Snow

Faron Young

Wilburn Brothers

Webb Pierce

George Jones

George Morgan

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn

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That should read "it doesn't have a steel player in its band".

[This message was edited by Glenn Austin on 08 January 2002 at 01:01 PM.]

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I didn't like Ray Price with orchestra and strings (apparently no one else did either).

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Glad to see there's someone else who loves the ole Roadhog. I thought so much of him that I kinda named a Cocker Spaniel I had after him. For the AKC regigistration, I named him LESTER the ROADDOG MORON (that's right, moron). Best dog I ever owned. He wore a spiked leather collar and had a mohawk haircut. Boy I miss him .

Edited to correct spelling errors this darn computer makes. Guess it had one too many brewskies.

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Richard Sinkler

[This message was edited by Richard Sinkler on 08 January 2002 at 04:08 PM.]

I played in the Marching Band: Pedal Steel Guitar and don't forget out 1985 Homecoming Game half-time show opener....'A Johhny Crash Medley'

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how much better it would have been sounded (to me and many others who have expressed similar comments) if it had been recorded with less orchestration and with a more traditional Price arrangement

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ChipsAhoy

Bob

[This message was edited by Bob Hoffnar on 09 January 2002 at 06:17 AM.]

She's a Barmaid in the Honky Tonky Downstairs by POCO.

Big Big World..by Johnny Burnette

Honky Tonk Nightime Man by Lynyrd Skynrd

There are a bunch of others but I agree with b0b when he said "I know it when I hear it". That's the best description yet. Some people say it has fiddle and steel but that's not true as in the old ET records of the 40's with Billy Byrd's guitar as the primary lead or the Cash stuff with Luther P.

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Have a good 'un! JH U-12

[This message was edited by Jerry Hayes on 11 January 2002 at 04:38 AM.]

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...human males tend to identify and fixate on whatever music was popular before they got married (the first time).

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The Asylum Street Spankers from Austin have an answer to this topic on their first album; the lyrics of the song "Startin' To Hate Country (But I Still Love Cowboy Songs)" is a pretty good definition

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How can you DO that to us without posting the lyrics?

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The Unofficial Photographer of The Wilkinsons

Bob Mainwaring. Z.Bs. and other weird things.

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kd...and the beat goes on...

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One good defining aspect of most true "Country" music is the way the bass bounces between the root note and fifth tone in succeeding progression.

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...sort of like an Oom-Pah Band or a Schubert or a Strauss Waltz? I guess we didn't say which country...

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Back to the topic--Traditional COUNTRY music is music played to a COUNTRY beat with COUNTRY instrumentation

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...like the music that hippie long-hair drunken drug-addict Gram Parsons played...

[This message was edited by Pat Burns on 09 January 2002 at 07:52 PM.]