Lots of country artists get played on AC radio. Martina McBride, Trisha Yearwood, and Kenny Rogers all had songs get played on both. AC radio is not genre exclusive. You can hear music from other genres on AC. Willie Nelson's On The Road Again was Top 10 AC (because it was in a movie). So was Always On My Mind. Is Willie traditional country? Good Hearted Woman with Waylon peaked at #16 AC. Is that song traditional country?
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CMT Music Awards To CBS-TV
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Lots of country artists get played on AC radio. Martina McBride, Trisha Yearwood, and Kenny Rogers all had songs get played on both. AC radio is not genre exclusive. You can hear music from other genres on AC. Willie Nelson's On The Road Again was Top 10 AC (because it was in a movie). So was Always On My Mind. Is Willie traditional country? Good Hearted Woman with Waylon peaked at #16 AC. Is that song traditional country?
Of course they are.
I don't know where to draw the line but Garth was always a problem for me.
That's your personal taste. But people try to extrapolate their personal taste into generalizations about certain artists or country music, and they don't hold up. For every example you can give me about Garth Brooks, I can give you one about Johnny Cash. And of those two artists, Cash is the one who's in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Cash also had more pop hits than Garth.
"Tomorrow" may "know" but in the song it just "comes".
Correct...apologies to John Lennon.
Joe Diffie, Mark Chesnutt, Tracy Lawrence ... the whole "New Traditionalist" trend that had started in the late '80s with Randy Travis, Keith Whitley, Ricky Skaggs, and the like continued into the '90s. It wasn't Garth who started the pendulum swinging the way of rock/pop; it was Billy Ray Cyrus and Shania Twain.
And now country music is starting on another path -- a hybrid of traditional, rock, pop, singer/songwriter and just about everything but countrypolitan. The hottest act right now is Luke Combs, whose singing and songwriting are as down-home country as you can get.
in other words it evolved in what i call "southern pop".
I don't know how Joe Diffie got categorized with traditionalists. Maybe his music sounds better to me now, but he seemed like one of the more rock-sounding performers. I was surprised to hear "Third Rock from the Sun" on a classic country station.
I'm not sure how Billy Ray Cyrus got categorized as pop-sounding because "Achy Breaky Heart" sounds like "Tulsa Time", I heard somewhere. Musically, I like it. If anyone wants to criticize the lyrics, it can be compared to "Red Solo Cup" by Toby Keith which seems traditional. Shania, on the other hand, can sound as traditional as the others and also sound as pop as anything from the 70s. And she does both in "Honey I'm Home".
I know what it is about most of Garth's music. While I have no objection to John Denver, he was classified as a folk singer and people thought it strange when he won country awards, though "Take Me Home, Country Roads" and "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" sounded country to me. Garth sounds more like a folk singer than a country singer to me, except when doing songs like those I singled out.
And there are all different kinds of folk. Some I like and others I don't. I've heard The Brothers Four several times on WERT. They are considered folk, but what I like about them is that type of harmony done by The Lettermen, The Four Lads and The Vogues.
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I like what they used to call countrypolitan. But what we have now that sounds crossover is (to me) as bad as anything country has ever done. I'm still convinced "Unwell" by matchbox twenty is an example of that style of music.
How would you classify "Home" "If The Devil Danced in Empty Pockets" "Ships That Don't Come In" "Pickup Man" "Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox." They're all very traditional country, basic 2/4 walking bass line, with fiddle and steel. These are songs that could not get played anywhere other than country radio. You're picking one song you don't like and throwing out the whole discography.
"Pickup Man" is traditional.
You're listing a bunch of songs I didn't know about when I first formed my opinion of Joe Diffie.
The date of the 2022 CMT Music Awards on CBS-TV will take place on April 3.
This will continue the CBS pattern of running a country awards show in between the semi-finals and finals of the NCAA Basketball tournament.
The ACM Awards were previously announced to take place on April 24. They are still negotiating for a TV network.
This will continue the CBS pattern of running a country awards show in between the semi-finals and finals of the NCAA Basketball tournament.
The ACM Awards were previously announced to take place on April 24. They are still negotiating for a TV network.
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