Mind-Blowing SIX Song Country Mashup!

So.. popular music is very generic.. How is this news?

Blame the radio stations and other media outlets for this more than the musicians/producers IMO. Gotta play by the 'rules' if you want to get played..
 
yeah, big deal. its what people want to hear. i play country music for a living and it just is what it is.
 
Very well-done video, it really nails home the point it tries to make. Hilarious and sad at the same time.
 
jlynnb1 said:
yeah, big deal. its what people want to hear. i play country music for a living and it just is what it is.
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I recently got interested in playing country. I Like a large variety of genres. I really want to join a country band. In this town, it's more formal and "clean". I'm kind of over playing to a total of 3 people, 2000 zillion notes per second, and risking some drunk spilling booze on my gear.
 
well the next time you see true art topping the charts, let me know. it's supply and demand, it's what sells. there's no getting around it. i roll my eyes at half the songs i play but they are still fun to play.
 
jlynnb1 said:
well the next time you see true art topping the charts, let me know. it's supply and demand, it's what sells. there's no getting around it. i roll my eyes at half the songs i play but they are still fun to play.
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Oh, I know what you mean. I just recently quit my country band. It was a hard choice, because that was the band I was making the most money with, but it had to be done(for more reasons than just art). But hey, as far as chart topping art, check out Gotye. Had a number one song you might have heard called "Somebody That I Used to Know." His music is incredible. Back on the country side, the new Zach Brown stuff is pretty amazing. I don't know how it's doing in the charts, but it's damn good and very original.
 
I thought country music was about cheatin' spouses, dead dawgs, and unreliable pickup trucks.
 
luke said:
I thought country music was about cheatin' spouses, dead dawgs, and unreliable pickup trucks.
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Nah... that's called "alt-country" now... "country" means putting on a cowboy hat, adding a bit of twang to your voice, changing the key of a pop/rock song to D and maybe adding some steel guitar and/or fiddle these days..
 
luke said:
I thought country music was about cheatin' spouses, dead dawgs, and unreliable pickup trucks.
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You are behind the times, Luke! Now it's about driving down a dirt road in a jacked up Chevy with a girl in cutoffs while drinking "feel good juice"! Long live Alan Jackson and George Strait. The last of the great (real) country singers.
 
ALL MUSIC is largely derivative. Think of all the songs that are I IV V. I once for the band arranged a mashup of just a few of the songs based off of E A D (can't remember...think 'what I like about you', Neil Diamond something (cherry cherry?), and R.O.C.K in the USA)...the sound would have gone for 10 minutes if I included all the one's I thought up.

Point is there's a formula for everything...Rap (be as controversial as possible and it means $$$), hip hop (same formula, add 'dope' beat,) Rock (better to be pretty than good), Metal (look as mean as possible and deliver sonic attack,) Pop (oh, I don't need to go there...)

Country has it's share of damn'd good artists who are pushing the envelope. Some that I can think of:

Zac Brown Band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ujS1er1r0

More traditional Jamey Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOeULkzrkqc

Eric Church (left it very raw, which I love)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzK_03Eu6xk

Incomparable Lyle Lovett:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVJCOWZWraM&index=5&list=ALBTKoXRg38BAujsNSQE-MkO20AFZfQt1V

Check out this solo from Paisley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_NyQ5N0ntM

Plenty of others...but if you don't like the genre, it's easy to find the fluff out there (and it's generally not the stuff that sells records!)

R
 
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