Country music's revival

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Interesting video. TLDR country sucked for the last 10 years and Zach Bryan is our Savior to fix all the crap bro country of the last decade. Im not sure if Zach Bryan is the savior but I'm sure happy to hear less snap track crap.

 
Did someone say Zac Brown?????

@DCGallim
 
NKD said:
I'm just thankful for this band. The best country band that ever lived:

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Your Kimberless banner needs to be rainbow colored
 
That guy's misinformed.

Hair Band fans liked party music, so Nirvana's downer caterwalling didn't kill the Hair Band era. Garth Brooks gets credit for that. No, I'm not a Garth Brooks fan, but "Friends in Low Places" was the turning point not "Smells Like Teen Spirit". People shifted genres in droves, but Pop Culture media regurgitates memes and they wanted the Cobain meme.


...And it's not "Bro Country", the correct term is Hick Hop.
 
Good country music is still being made today. You just have to look for it.

I've said it before, Garth Brooks single handedly killed country music.
 
I like Zach Bryan, saw him live in Greenville right before he blew up. He’s good, his writing is getting better, but savior might be a bit much.

There’s so much good country music out there you’ll never hear on the radio. You have to go and find it.
 
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You just have to look for it.
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That's the problem finding it has been a real issue until recently. It's not on the radio so unless a buddy knows a newer artist looking on YouTube or Spotify only brings up older stuff. I can only listen to Waylon Jennings so much before I crave something else

I found radiowv about 6 months ago looking up Nolan Taylor. Now that channel has absolutely blown up because of Oliver Anthony. I'm probably music illiterate but finding new artists has always been difficult for me.
 
The spoon feeding of garbage music by Corporate Radio is worse than it's ever been.
There's always been 'preferred' music that got favored, especially in the days of blatant graft in the form of monetary payouts. But now all the powers have conspired to play the same crap that they think will sell the gay F150 and earn them points with the freak show.
It's terrible. And now they want to can AM radio. These people need to be drowned.
Radio used to be fun. Now it's just a constant sales pitch favoring fringe elements that no-one really likes.
 
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That's the problem finding it has been a real issue until recently. It's not on the radio so unless a buddy knows a newer artist looking on YouTube or Spotify only brings up older stuff. I can only listen to Waylon Jennings so much before I crave something else

I found radiowv about 6 months ago looking up Nolan Taylor. Now that channel has absolutely blown up because of Oliver Anthony. I'm probably music illiterate but finding new artists has always been difficult for me.
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If you have Amazon Music at the bottom of an artist page it’ll suggest similar stuff.

There’s an instagram page “thinkillstayhereandmeme” he highlights a lot of stuff.

Old Soul Radio Show is a good source.
 
I got faith in some of these new Y'alternative bands.

There's plenty of good music out there besides the greatness of florida georgia line. Truly the Nickelback of "country" music. Legendary.
 
I loaded up giovannie and the hired guns based on you guys's's recommendation. opened a pandora channel and there is some good stuff that gets played on that station. It even had that anthony o fella everybody's so interested in.
 
I'm not really a fan of country music, mostly because the vast majority of it is cringe and cliché. Rinse and repeat melody, trucks, girls and beer, with occasional guitar solo, how exciting. I think the only good country music, are the guys(and gals) who try something diffrent, we see that in the OGs of country and the ones who put out a good piece of work in modern times.. There is a serious lack of worthwhile diffrences in modern country songs, I can almost go insane when someone has country music radio playing in the background all day...I really lose my mind when it's been on so long, I hear the same song or radio station playlist play the same some AGAIN.

I grew up around punk rock and heavy metal, you know, the real edgy stuff for real edgy teens/young adults🫣. Honestly i can listen to it and most sub-genres all day.

But, I find this guy to have really found a gap in the market. He does lots of crossover covers, from metal gone country, county gone punk, to punk gone country. For someone who doesn't even like country, this has become quite a guilty pleasure.

Anways, this and much of his other work is really worthy of listen, so enjoy.
 
Squanchy said:
That's the problem finding it has been a real issue until recently. It's not on the radio so unless a buddy knows a newer artist looking on YouTube or Spotify only brings up older stuff. I can only listen to Waylon Jennings so much before I crave something else

I found radiowv about 6 months ago looking up Nolan Taylor. Now that channel has absolutely blown up because of Oliver Anthony. I'm probably music illiterate but finding new artists has always been difficult for me.
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Pick an artist. Go to Spotify. Find that artists "radio station". Under the shuffle icon you can click and tell it to recommend songs. That will give you a bunch of songs similar to the artist you like. I have STurgill Simpson, southern gothic, modern outlaw country, and David Allen Coe stations. Plus other non country stuff.
 
FWIW, Zach might save radio country. But the real good stuff will probably never make it to the radio.

Sturgill Simpson
Tyler Childers
Turnpike Troubadors
Charlie Crocket
Corb Lund
Colter Wall
Ian Noe
Chris Knight
Vincent Neil Emerson
49 Winchester
Brent Cobb
Whiskey Myers
Robert Ellis
 
I don't go looking for off the radio stuff just cause. But I remember stumbling across Grainger Smith on YouTube. His stuff was different and good. Then he hits it big on the radio and bam, same shit, just a different name. They ruined his music.

Same for the others.
 
I haven't listened to "modern" country music in years. At home it's 98.1. Mostly older stuff 60s - early 80s. On the road, I'll stream Pandora because I'm too cheap to pay for XM. Mostly the likes of Jamey Johnson, Cody Jinks, Chris Stapleton, Aaron Lewis, Frank Foster, etc
 
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