As a passionate traditional country music fan, I have felt like the past 10-15 years has been one of the alltime low eras for country radio and the Opry. To your point, some excellent artists have emerged such as Sturgill, Stapleton, Margo, Sierra, Turnpike Troubadours and other "Americana" acts who have been unfairly ignored by country radio and Music Row. Just think if they'd embraced these acts and promoted others with similar talent how great country would be. All of the bro country looks and sounds the same, like an auto tune production mill, with a complementary backwards baseball hat. All the ladies are Kelsei and Carrie clones as well. Music Row has only themselves to blame if they are being "coastalized". The fact that no one saw Sierra's talent in Nashville other than you/Rounder speaks volumes.
IIRC, the last metal concert I went to was Ministry, Sepultura, and Helmet at UIC Pavillion in Chicago in 1992. Me and my buds really liked Helmet and had seen them a few times at Metro. Anyhow, the crowd was overwhelmingly young, white, metal lovin' males. After Sepultura's set and waiting for Ministry, the house music was all ol' timey country music and that made the crowd extremely angry, to the point of people screaming and getting really pissed off. I thought to myself, this sucks, why is Jourgensen doing this? Then I realized he was pulling a psy-ops on the crowd; He wanted the crowd angry and uncomfortable. It was pretty interesting to watch it go down.
Btw, I now really love old country stuff and my record/CD collection reflects that. I'll have to check out Ella and Riley, thanks for the tip.
As a passionate traditional country music fan, I have felt like the past 10-15 years has been one of the alltime low eras for country radio and the Opry. To your point, some excellent artists have emerged such as Sturgill, Stapleton, Margo, Sierra, Turnpike Troubadours and other "Americana" acts who have been unfairly ignored by country radio and Music Row. Just think if they'd embraced these acts and promoted others with similar talent how great country would be. All of the bro country looks and sounds the same, like an auto tune production mill, with a complementary backwards baseball hat. All the ladies are Kelsei and Carrie clones as well. Music Row has only themselves to blame if they are being "coastalized". The fact that no one saw Sierra's talent in Nashville other than you/Rounder speaks volumes.
I just tracked down that Luke Bryan song. Fucking brutal
IIRC, the last metal concert I went to was Ministry, Sepultura, and Helmet at UIC Pavillion in Chicago in 1992. Me and my buds really liked Helmet and had seen them a few times at Metro. Anyhow, the crowd was overwhelmingly young, white, metal lovin' males. After Sepultura's set and waiting for Ministry, the house music was all ol' timey country music and that made the crowd extremely angry, to the point of people screaming and getting really pissed off. I thought to myself, this sucks, why is Jourgensen doing this? Then I realized he was pulling a psy-ops on the crowd; He wanted the crowd angry and uncomfortable. It was pretty interesting to watch it go down.
Btw, I now really love old country stuff and my record/CD collection reflects that. I'll have to check out Ella and Riley, thanks for the tip.