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Pretty sure Mike is giving that list as examples of *good* country music. ( at least they'd be on my list ) >>>
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>>>"Good" country music is a contradiction in terms. :)
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>>Only to those who don't know it and insist on having strong opinions on any given subject.
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>I'm with Kevin on this one. I would rather listen to static than listen to country music. I grew up with county. It was all my parents listened to.
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>I will grant you that country artists (Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton) have the occasional cross-over hit. I once owned a Juice Newton cd. But those are pop songs by country artists. I have a hard time listening to some Greatful Dead. Just a little too much pedal steel guitar.
There is a genre that is sort of country-ish but is basically just amazing acoustic, which is a real favorite of mine. Its roots are in bluegrass and gypsy music so it is kind of like Django Reinhardt in Nashville.
David Grisman - the God of this stuff - calls it Dawg music.
The first David Grisman quintet album is on my list of best anykindofalbum of all time.
Tony Rice, Daryll Anger, Mike Marshall, Mark O'Connor, Rob Wasserman, Bela Fleck who has carved out a whole genre of his own with The Flecktones. ( when the are going to play in NYC they sell out in 20 minutes - mostly to Julliard students ) and of course the incomperable Stephane Grappelli who played with at the Hot Jazz club in the 30s with Django Reinhardt. A lot of this stuff gets dismissed before being heard as "country" .
Trust me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x05z27blg80http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyCPwqRujd4&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UfDb47H8J4&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUjfWW9CMfM&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX7pHu88hm8&feature=fvwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyw5jRn8V4Y&feature=related
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