Did you grow up with country music? Or just fall into it?

Question

I never knew country growing up til i was 11 and my mom started listening. (with the exception of my dear grandpa playing classic country on his guitar, but then i was to young to know). But growing up i mainly heard classic rock........

Were you raised on country? Do you have a certian song that brings you back to being brought up on it?

If you fell into it, How old were you when you started liking it? . Was there a song that won you over?

Answer 1

I grew up on rock & roll and one day was scanning the radio... the only station that didn't have commercials was the country one. Where I grew up, country was about as cool as the calculus club, and (like most ignorant fools who never give it a chance) I always thought I hated it. But the song was "Amarillo By Morning" and it so intrigued me that I launched an all-out assault to track down the guy who sang it (George Strait) and acquire the album (Strait From the Heart).



Within six months all I listened to was country. George is still my favorite... "Everything's Changed" by LoneStar, "Should've Been A Cowboy" by Toby Keith and "Amarillo By Morning" by Mr. Strait were the first three country songs I ever liked. And to think that without George, I might never have given country a chance...

Answer 2

I actually just recently started liking country music. Growing up in central New Jersey/Jersey Shore, I really never heard it that much (there are no country stations in the New York/New Jersey area anymore!). The first country song I liked was Amazed by Lonestar...so I was probably about 11 or 12 at the time, but I still didn't really like country even though by the time I was in high school I had a couple of Lonestar CDs, but that was the extent of the country music I would listen to. Then, when I went to college my freshman year, I got really into the Rascal Flatts (it was right around the time What Hurts the Most was popular), and then halfway through my sophomore year, I started listening to Taylor Swift because all her songs are very meaningful to me. And then throughout the spring semester, I just started listening to more and more country music, and I got a new car which has free XM radio for a few months, so now I'm always listening to country...lol...and yes, living in New Jersey and liking country music gets me made fun of a lot.

Answer 3

I fell into it --i heard this song on the radio and it turns out it was Shania Twain's single "If your Not In it for Love (I'm Outta Here). That's how i got into country music. I think country music is awsome because country music tells a story. Also, there are so many categories to country music, theres songs about summer, cheating songs, love, or even good party songs. The artist do amazing singing the songs that we like to listen to over and over.

Answer 4

Growing up, I listened to classic rock, such as Badfinger and the Beatles, and Christian rock, such as Petra. Then, later on down the road, I started listening to heavier rock, such as Cinderella, Tesla, etc. and, eventually, I started listening to classic and modern country music. Now, I'll even listen to some bluegrass.



Of course, I wasn't raised on anything really other than classic rock. I mean, my grandparents on my mother's side only listened to country and nothing else. Then, back in 2004, my grandfather (on my mom's side) died and about a year after that, I first started listening to country. I really started when I heard Keith Urban play guitar. That guy can play some great guitar. Then, a while later, I heard Brad Paisley play guitar and he's 20 times better at guitar than Urban is. I later started listening to some older artists including Johnny Cash, Ricky Skaggs and Jerry Reed. I really love Jerry Reed's and Chet Atkins' guitar playing. They're both two amazing old-time country guitarists.



Then, just a few weeks ago, I was on YouTube searching for mandolin, since I just started playing mandolin after playing guitar for about six years, and came across a video of a bluegrass trio performing in Texas somewhere. On mandolin, was a 17-year-old girl named Sarah Jarosz (go to http://www.myspace.com/sarahjarosz if you want to hear how great of a musician she is). That's really when I started listening to some bluegrass because that young girl can play mandolin, clawhammer banjo and guitar really well. Her fiddler is also an amazing musician and he's only about 17 as well. All three of them are amazing musicians.



Anyway, I've gone on long enough. Basically, the fact that I play guitar and that the four best-selling genres (rock, blues, jazz, country--first came blues, then country/bluegrass, then jazz and then rock...of course, Celtic music also influenced country and bluegrass a bit and jazz may have been around a bit before country and bluegrass, but I'm not 100% sure) are all connected led me to starting to listen to a bit of everything.





And, seriously--most people from Connecticut won't grow up on country music. Also, my CD collection ranges from stuff by Badfinger and George Harrison (classic rock) to stuff by Buddy Guy and Jim Byrnes (blues) to Scorpions, Tesla, Cinderella, Ratt and White Lion (80's metal) to Wes Montgomery (jazz--and I only have an actual vinyl record by Montgomery...not a CD) to Jerry Reed, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Brad Paisley, Keith Urban, Keith Anderson, Dierks Bentley, Ricky Skaggs, Blake Shelton, Brooks & Dunn, Big & Rich, Sara Evans, Martina McBride, Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, George Strait, Jake Owen, Travis Tritt, Tracy Byrd and a whole lot more country artists--classic and modern.

Answer 5

I pretty much go to an all hick school I love country music BUT I listen to just about anything though including classic rock heavy metal rap etc. But the whole country thing seems to be getting a little more bandwagon tbh.

Answer 6

I grew up on it as well...We listened to the radio back then... Check it out..NO TV........ My dad was a harmonica player and we always had music around somewhere.... Then...some cat named Elvis hit the scene.... oh yeah. and all that followed was simply amazing.. I am like a few others on this list that started playing an instrument early and followed all the trends and changes as it has progressed.. From Hank Sr in the early fifties to Hank cubed now days .... I've been a fan and participator...... But I like alot of other music as well, thats the musician in me.... If you ever saw my CD rack... you probably'd call the nut house to come get me... It's...shall we say... "ecclectic"... I got Atkins to Zevon...but my heart is true to classic country....Welcome aboard friend...

Answer 7

well, since i was born (in 1980) my mom has always listened to the current hits on the country radio station. but, when i was about 15 i heard my first george jones album (my favorite song at the time was "he stopped loving her today") and i absolutely loved it. from then on i did all i could to listen to the old classics. my mom goes with me to the old style concerts (because everyone else i know can't believe that i listen to that stuff) even though it's not her favorite. i just can't get enough of the stuff! :o)

Answer 8

I grew up on country music.



There's no particular song that necessarily "takes me back" because I still have most of the albums that were in our home when I was a kid (I knew what to grab when my parents divorced!), but there are two artists who remind me of my childhood. One is Roger Miller, who was extremely popular when I was little. And, like any 4-year-old, I found his novelty songs great. The other is Bob Wills. Again, being a child, I liked the "novelty" aspect, so Bob's calls of "ah-ha!" struck my fancy. I remember we had an album of his where he reunited with Tommy Duncan (shortly before Duncan's death), and I had EVERY "ah-ha" memorized on that album.

Answer 9

My dad had a little record player. When mom was pregnant with me he would play records by Hank Sr, Lefty, Bill Monroe, etc... and hold it by mama's stomach so I could listen. I was listening before I was born! The songs that take me back to childhood are "I Saw the Light" by Hank Sr., "T For Texas" by Jimmie Rodgers, and "Footprints In the Snow" by Bill Monroe. I always remember those three songs together.

Answer 10

I grew up with country music - we as a family were members of a country music association down south coast of NSW & we met once a month - every year went to Tamworth Country Music Festival - at the motel parents put us to bed and all adults sat around the pool with their musical instruments playing & singing - It was a fun time.

Answer 11

First music I ever heard! 4 brothers played guitars & sang it, a brother inlaw records it & I just love it.A certain song? Well any of Hank Snows, Wilf Carter,Hank Williams. All are so familiar, & of course our own Slim Dusty, Tex Morten, Gordon Parsons & Buddy Williams in Australia.

Answer 12

I grew up listening to country music. My brother introduced me to the greats like Mel Tillis, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette and all the rest.

Answer 13

I grew up on it, I was raised by my grandparents and besides Cajun music, it's all they listened to.

The one song that really brings back memories is BOP by Dan Seals. I remember singing that song while sitting in the front seat of my grandma's car...in the middle with no seatbelt!

Answer 14

I grew up on it, but as a teenager I went to rock and now I'm back. Anything by the group Alabama takes me back to my childhood.

Answer 15

i grew up with country music. most of my family only listens to country but i listen to everything.

Answer 16

grew up on it, started playing guitar at 6, and by 12, I was playing Bass for my Dad's band

At 17 started my own band, and have had one since

Answer 17

It was music that my parents and I could both agree upon listening to in the car.

Answer 18

Raised on it. Louisiana saturday night for sure brings me back.

Answer 19

i grew up with it very much so. my dad would be driving me to preschool and we'd listen to the same country tape and i loved it!! i'd play ith my barbies and have them dance and sing to it. i was always listening and singing to it!! and still am!

Answer 20

i was born and raised on it and its all i listen to i am pure country

Answer 21

just fell into it... me and my sister just both fell in love with it

Answer 22

i just fell into