Do you think if Country Music stars of the 50's and 60's could hear what is called Country now, they would be?

Question

Turning over in their graves? I think so! I know I can't listen to it, and I've been listening to Country music since the 60's!

Answer 1

Classic country is just that...classic. I guess this new stuff is what you call contemporary. I call it something else, but music is always evolving. It is the expression of the artist and the good part is that we can choose what we like. It's like "Hank just sang about my life". These new artists have new experiences and they sing about them.

Answer 2

Yes, there sure were many country/western artists during the 50's and 60's and a number of them were quite successful at selling albums and singles and getting people to come to concert.

Answer 3

Yes, except that with the exception of a very few Nashville artists, and the Bakersfield sound, I would exclude 60s country music. Nashville pop- when fiddles were replaced by "strings" (violins, cellos, etc.) was the beginning of what you hear today. When a great artist like Ray Price dropped the Cherokee Cowboys, abandoned the Ray Price shuffle, and recorded For The Good Times with a string arrangement, anybody paying attention could see the handwriting on the wall.

Answer 4

yes they certainly would, i hardly ever listen to the radio these days i love the old style country music never listen to the new stuff i certainly like a good fired up tune but not what they call country now

and yes to some answers i live in Australia and i have met Slim Dusty his whole family are great musos, along with his wife Joy Keenan his daughter Ann Kirpatrick

they are all country music stars in there own rite fabulous to watch them perform. And Slims wife Joy, her sister is married to the great Reg Linsday and also is a great entertainer

Answer 5

I remember reading an article about the late, great Slim Dusty (an absolute Australian Legend) and he was saying that he was pleased that country music could change to keep up with the times and it is a well known fact that he was a wonderful mentor to up and coming stars of Australian Country Music right up until his death in 2003.

Answer 6

all country is good im 23 and i listen to stuff from the 40's and 50's to all the current stuff and i love it all it is a shame that it is hard to find a country music radio station

Answer 7

I been listening since 1939 I would hope they would get their instruments out tune up and let the so called country music stars,know what country music is,I don;t believe Hank done it this way.

Answer 8

Turning over in their graves is really putting it mildly. If Jimmie,Hank,Lefty,Bob,Tommy, and the others could see it now it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't just sit down and cry and then write a real traditional country classic that tells about the travesty being done to classic country music. I can't,don't and sure as hell won't listen to it now or ever. Thanks for allowing my input on this very sensitive and serious issue.

Answer 9

Yes I think so just look what they did to Randy Travis .They held him back because he was too country or stone cold country.I fought with my sister long ago. Watch all the rock stars will come to country.Now that we have cross roads there no hope.Hell we even have Garth Brooks jumping around stage like hie a>> was on fire.Turn over no flipping maybe

Answer 10

If they were to time warp from the '50's and 60's to today they would go crazy trying to find the country station on their radio!!!!

Answer 11

They would think they were listening to music from another planet.

Answer 12

yes I think that they would be. Country music has changed so much!

Answer 13

OH YEA THAT IS PUTTIN IT MILD..I HONESTLY BELEIVE IF IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR THE GREAT TAMMY WYNETTE OR PATSY CLINE TO RUN INTO SHANIA (is this skirt short enough for ya) TWAIN IN A DARK ALLEY...I THINK WE ALL KNOW WHO WILL COME OUT IN ONE PEICE!!



AND COWBOY TOY???PALEEZE I'D LIKE TO FEED HIM TO CHARLEY PRIDE'S SONS!!! THE NERVE OF THIS CLOWN TO PULL THE RACE CARD IN TRYING TO LAND A COUNTRY MUSIC RECORD CONTRACT!

Answer 14

eddy arnold was a turncoat, he traded in a small band of musicians for a full orchestra....the tennesse plowboy wasn't quite the same after that.

Answer 15

YUP!!!!!!!!!

Said somethin' similar last week...

Only I'm only 33..

What a mess.....