Johnny Cash was his own genre.
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user_name@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Actual, classic country is really good. It’s the modern stuff that’s all about loving Bush’s wars, drinking shitting beer, and hating gay people that’s the problem.
Doc Watson, Johnny Cash, and Marty Robbins are all worth checking out, to name a few.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I hate country, but I love Johnny Cash. His old man’s voice on his last album was just perfect.
IronBird@lemmy.world 5 days ago
that’s just americana
cm0002@literature.cafe 5 days ago
I find actual classic country to just be boring, but not boring with a beat enough for work music like Classical music.
The modern country stuff I loathe for just like you said, being Republicunt siren songs lol
zout@fedia.io 5 days ago
drinking shitting beer
Please keep this in, it's hilarious!
user_name@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Ahaha, I won’t correct 🫡
kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Some modern country is also great! Tyler Childers has multiple songs about fucking around and being a cokehead in Kentucky (he’s thankfully clean now). Then there’s his Country Squire album that’s very fun to watch videos from while stoned. It’s like some southern Yellow Submarine.
Zach Bryan released an anti ICE song that I can’t currently remember the title of for the life of me.
If you want more folk, Haunted Windchimes, The Ghost of Paul Revere, and Poor Man’s Poison are all excellent, with Poor Man’s Poison just straight up having multiple leftist as fuck songs. More mainstream you’d find Noah Kahan, who’s done some excellent music. It’s more pop folk than normal folk, but I’m still a fan personally.
Basically, just avoid artists like that whiny little bitch boy Morgan Wallen or basically any of the mainstream musicians from the 80s to the 2000s and you can find some actually good shit.
Also, both are mainstream, but Travis Tritt’s Trouble and John Michael Montgomery’s Sold are both absolute bangers.
user_name@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Thanks! I’ll check them out; I know I was speaking in a broad generalization. For contemporary country, I’m a fan of Aida Victoria, to name one. It’s just, as OP said, those songs and musicians who produce “Republicunt siren songs.”