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Countrypolitan station recommendations?

CTListener said:
Even in its heyday, the "countrypolitan" sound was only one element of most country formats, especially after the mid-'70s, when artists like Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris started to make twangier, more organic country music acceptable even in "sophisticated" Northern markets. Of course, stations in the South and Midwest were playing those Ray Price and Jim Reeves hits along with the more rural songs.
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And then after the Urban Cowboy era, Randy Travis, Ricky Skaggs, The Judds and George Strait made "real" country acceptable again. Then Clint Black and Alan Jackson, even after Garth and friends sent country down the wrong road again.
 
vchimpanzee said:
And then after the Urban Cowboy era, Randy Travis, Ricky Skaggs, The Judds and George Strait made "real" country acceptable again. Then Clint Black and Alan Jackson, even after Garth and friends sent country down the wrong road again.
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What's wrong with Garth? I thought his music marked Country's return to a more traditional sound, after a spate of "Country" music from the mid to late '80s that replaced the steel guitar with a Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer, and aside from some "twang" in the vocals, sounded indistinguishable from pop music.
 
kevtronics said:
What's wrong with Garth? I thought his music marked Country's return to a more traditional sound, after a spate of "Country" music from the mid to late '80s that replaced the steel guitar with a Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer, and aside from some "twang" in the vocals, sounded indistinguishable from pop music.
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Nothing is wrong with "Friends in Low Places", "Longneck Bottle" or "Two of a Kind", but Garth to me started the trend away from "real" country music that characterized the 90s. I couldn't understand why the writer for The Charlotte Observer talking about changes in country music listed Brooks & Dunn as an example of the good kind. They were part of that trend too. Until something far worse came along.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Nothing is wrong with "Friends in Low Places", "Longneck Bottle" or "Two of a Kind", but Garth to me started the trend away from "real" country music that characterized the 90s. I couldn't understand why the writer for The Charlotte Observer talking about changes in country music listed Brooks & Dunn as an example of the good kind. They were part of that trend too. Until something far worse came along.
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The twin antichrists of country music, for me, were Billy Ray Cyrus and Shania Twain (and her opportunistic producer/"husband" Mutt Lange). Brooks and Dunn were OK, especially on their ballads that showcased Ronnie Dunn's incredible voice. But Cyrus and Twain ushered in the lowest-common-denominator country-pop that would usher in the bro-country era in the new millennium.
 
CTListener said:
The twin antichrists of country music, for me, were Billy Ray Cyrus and Shania Twain (and her opportunistic producer/"husband" Mutt Lange). Brooks and Dunn were OK, especially on their ballads that showcased Ronnie Dunn's incredible voice. But Cyrus and Twain ushered in the lowest-common-denominator country-pop that would usher in the bro-country era in the new millennium.
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Some of Shania's songs were good and some were too pop, in my opinion.

Musically, I had no problem with Billy Ray. I didn't think the lyrics were so bad. And his contribution to "Old Town Road" was good, in my opinion. Lil Nas X and his musicians took that one off the deep end, but I am told Billy Ray was added later to help attract the country audience.
 
Qnssekr said:
I finally found my Countrypolitain station. It’s a station on Radiobox called Country Music Radio - 60’s country
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Your link doesn't work, but if this station plays '60s country, only a slice of the music it plays could be called "countrypolitan." Your obsession with this subgenre is odd. Countrypolitan was country music for people who really didn't like country music. Most of it was just MOR sung by people with a soft Southern accent.
 
CTListener said:
Your link doesn't work, but if this station plays '60s country, only a slice of the music it plays could be called "countrypolitan." Your obsession with this subgenre is odd. Countrypolitan was country music for people who really didn't like country music. Most of it was just MOR sung by people with a soft Southern accent.
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Here’s another link Country 60s. I think you being judgy is even weirder and just bizarre. Find a new hobby and get some fresh air. Staring at the computer is not helping you much.
 


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