Country Music
May. 28th, 2005 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowYou really couldn't call me a fan of country music. Most of my music collection lies somewhere in the spectrum from rock to pop; there's a sprinkling of jazz, blues, latin music, even a little calypso. But I do own (and listen to) a fair amount of country.
It's an eclectic collection, and there are a lot of big names - Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Reba, many others - who go unrepresented. Also, I know even less about the subgenres of country than I do about those of rock. I've heard, for instance, that some people class the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band as bluegrass, but what features place them there rather than elsewhere are a mystery to me. (A mystery which, for the moment, I'm not concerned with solving. That can wait.) What I'd like to ask any country fans out there is this: if I were to expand my collection further, who should I look for? Names are fine; specific albums are better.
The singers and groups I have that I'd class as straight-up country are: the Charlie Daniels Band; Crystal Gayle; Dolly Parton; Kenny Rogers; Leeann Womack; Mary Chapin Carpenter; the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; Patsy Cline; Roxanne Cash; Shania Twain; Skeeter Davis; Suzy Bogguss; and Tammy Wynette. Then there are singers and groups at least some of whose work is country-tinged, including: Blood, Sweat and Tears; Bruce Hornsby; Creedence; Dan Fogelberg, maybe; the Doobie Brothers; Dusty Springfield; the Eagles; mid-period Elvis; Gordon Lightfoot; Jim Croce; Linda Ronstadt; and The Band.
So. What am I missing? Anybody?
It's an eclectic collection, and there are a lot of big names - Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Reba, many others - who go unrepresented. Also, I know even less about the subgenres of country than I do about those of rock. I've heard, for instance, that some people class the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band as bluegrass, but what features place them there rather than elsewhere are a mystery to me. (A mystery which, for the moment, I'm not concerned with solving. That can wait.) What I'd like to ask any country fans out there is this: if I were to expand my collection further, who should I look for? Names are fine; specific albums are better.
The singers and groups I have that I'd class as straight-up country are: the Charlie Daniels Band; Crystal Gayle; Dolly Parton; Kenny Rogers; Leeann Womack; Mary Chapin Carpenter; the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; Patsy Cline; Roxanne Cash; Shania Twain; Skeeter Davis; Suzy Bogguss; and Tammy Wynette. Then there are singers and groups at least some of whose work is country-tinged, including: Blood, Sweat and Tears; Bruce Hornsby; Creedence; Dan Fogelberg, maybe; the Doobie Brothers; Dusty Springfield; the Eagles; mid-period Elvis; Gordon Lightfoot; Jim Croce; Linda Ronstadt; and The Band.
So. What am I missing? Anybody?
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Date: 2005-05-28 11:03 pm (UTC)Brad Paisley
Conway Twitty
Jo Dee Messina
Johnny Horton
Phil Vassar
Terri Clark
are names that browsing through my collection seemed to be good ones. My music is more individual songs than albumns, so I'm not entirely sure where exactly to go with recommendations.
My suggestion would be to look at the online music stores and give songs a try there, with their preview or whatever.
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Date: 2005-05-29 12:37 pm (UTC)