So I don't listen to country, aside from some certain Johnny Cash songs. I think I have an Antebellum(?) song as well...

Anyway, Turnpike Troubadors.....they're country??

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Originally posted by AllenInWV:
So I don't listen to country, aside from some certain Johnny Cash songs. I think I have an Antebellum(?) song as well...

Anyway, Turnpike Troubadors.....they're country??

Turnpike is (or was) more Southern Rock/Red Dirt (an Oklahoma based genre) than Country. However in much of the country these genres overlap. Texas Country/Red Dirt/Southern Rock/Folk/Bluegrass, all can be heard on the radio stations across Texas.

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Originally posted by cas:
“Lonesome,” Hankshaw Hawkins

You must have been reminded by the anniversary of the plane crash.

While I agree with the general sentiment.....there's still plenty of really good country music being made. For those of ya'll who are jaded, try searching under the "Red Dirt" genre. You'll find things like Cody Jinks, Whiskey Meyers, and the greatest of the bunch (IMHO), Turnpike Troubadours, who are excellent.

Well, Randy Travis' Digging Up Bones does it for me. No beer or tears mentioned, but just good old fashioned Country

Check out Dale Watson. Cannot post with this device.

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Originally posted by clipper1:
Well, Randy Travis' Digging Up Bones does it for me. No beer or tears mentioned, but just good old fashioned Country

One of the greatest country songs IMO!

Give it away G. Strait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akU0srKozdQ

Saw Tyler Childers in concert last night. If he ain't country, I don't know what is.

Try listening to Dale Watson.

Surprised bendable was the first to post George Strait.

How 'bout some Pure Country.



Probably my favorite by George:



The concert as a playlist.

Listened to this song this morning, and felt compelled to get it out there. I don’t imagine this thread is just about posting favorite songs, but it seemed like a good place to put it.

There are pretty ones, then there’s Vince Gill and Allison Krause singing together. The song is elevated by the distinctive dobro work of Jerry Douglas.

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Originally posted by oddball:

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
YOU WILL NOT FIND GREAT MUSIC ON THE RADIO.

Depends where you live

One of my favorite stations is KHYI 95.3 "The Range". Here is their mission statement.

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KHYI is a beacon of hope in the murky ocean of cheesy, generic, pseudo, so-called “Country” music. One of the last remaining major-market “mom & pop” radio stations left in the country, no one from New York or L.A. (Or Atlanta, in the case of Cumulus) has the power to make us play Jason Aldean, or Kenny Chesney, or Rascal Flattulence. We’re mavericks…and we believe the world deserves to hear Robert Earl Keen, Ray Wylie Hubbard, the Turnpike Troubadours, and the Dirty River Boys. We also think its impossible to be a country radio station and not play Waylon and Willie, and Hank (Sr.), and J.R. Cash, and Merle, and the Possum…but we digress.
We love our listeners and we keep it real. We close the bars on Saturday nights, but never miss church on Sundays.
We’re happy you found us. Keep it here for a while.

http://khyi.com

Amen,and good post.Agree totally, wish I could get that station. We have one here in SE Az. KHIL, Rex Allen and my hometown, also Tanya Tucker before Delta Dawn. BTW,check out Tanya's new stuff. Don't Bring Me Flowers.

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Originally posted by DoubleAdobe:
Agree totally, wish I could get that station.

You can listen here:

https://onlineradiobox.com/us/khyi/?cs=us.khyi

Or here:

https://tunein.com/radio/The-Range-953-s33058/

Or here:

https://streema.com/radios/The_Range_KHYI

Or even here:

http://khyi.com/listen-now/

Waylon and Willie and the boys (Bocephus, Merle, Charlie Daniels, Cash, etc) are my all-time favorites. To me *that's* Country. At least dude-country...

But I also like and grew up with Dolly, Patsy, Loretta, Tanya, etc, and they're certainly real county, too.

Plus, Roy, Conway, Marty Robbins, Kenny, George, Hank Sr., etc, all great, and very legit.

That's all country, real country, to me. Hee Haw, Nashville Now, and Duke's of Hazard style.

Nowadays I like a lot of Bluegrass, Americana, Alt Country, Red Dirt, Southern Rock, etc. But I come back to Hank Sr, Jr, Waylon, Willie, and Charlie pretty often, plus I'm on a Billie Joe Shaver kick since seeing him perform on Norm Macdonald's netflix show a while back.

Drive by Truckers now classic double-album Southern Rock Opera is a modern work of art on multiple levels, in that world. Part history lesson, part autobiographical for the band, part fiction, woven into one, beautifully executed, as far as I'm concerned. As good as any Skynyrd beyond the three big hits.

And I love Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, and that whole scene, since day one of all that.

Alison Krauss is great, too. A national treasure, maybe.

I especially like intersections of Folk, Bluegrass, and Country, from Wilco to Krauss.

Plus I love covers and juxtapositions like those by Iron Horse.

classic favorites:

And one for the Tennessee Plowboy
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Just one more, Gentleman Jim Reeves.

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