OT - RIP Merle Haggard
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Yeah. Pretty much all the new stuff sounds just like generic pop. And, thanks to auto-tune, they all sound alike. Auto-tune has been the death of real singers...
Get off my lawn already.
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A lot of the country music that comes out today would have been considered 'pop' music 20-30 yrs ago.
I'm 99% sure that DAC is a terrible person...but damn if doesn't make some fine country music. One of the greatest.
the could've had him any day,
they only let him slip away,
out of kindness i suppose.
(great old song with willie, called pancho and lefty)
i think that song is almost 45 yrs old man. unless you're the 1,000 yr old man, a 45 yr old song is, well, old.
Written and recorded by the late great Townes Van Zandt for his album "The Late Great Townes Van Zandt". Willie and Merle covered it in '83 and had a #1 country hit with it.
nonetheless. Poor guy.
He lived to be 79 and had a net worth of $40 million.
I'll take that deal.
Country music lost its soul when Johnny Cash died. Now it has lost its conscience. There isn't much left to the genre anymore. RIP to one of the all-time greats.
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Add Jason Isbell, Ryan Bingham, and obviously Chris Stapleton to that list. Country music still has soul, you just won't find much on the radio.
T's and P's...
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I can't think of another that had both the same birth and death dates. Anyone have any names?
His Mama tried to raise him better.
RIP
RIP Merle, fortunate to have seen him and Willie play together this past year
...it was back before Nixon lied to us all, on TV." <-- boy, those were the good old days!
from my fav Merle song: "Are The Good Times Really Over (for good)?"
Saw Merle & Willie at the Willie Nelson Picnic in Luckenbach, TX in 1980, the year after I graduated from UM.
Best country voice ever, IMO.
There are some great texas bands playing in Luckenbach today. Glad the military sent me to South Texas after UM, and I stayed after I got out. Lots of good music here.
I saw Merle when he toured with Bob Dylan in Chicago (2005 I think). He blew Bob Dylan out of the water. He was great and told some hilarious stories between songs. What a legend.
Sadly it's not hard to blow Dylan out of the water. I've seen him a few times in the last decade and his singing is inaudible. We seariously couldn't recognize some of his classics. Sadly, I never had a chance to see Merle. He was a regular on the record player at the cabin growing up and I would've liked to seen him live.
"You're walking on the fightin' side of me"...
Always like that one :)
If not, then I don't count him as a country music legend.
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Everyone has their music. I listen to just about anything other than screamo stuff and techno. But for me personally it was Johnny, Waylon, Willie, Merle, Kris, Ray Charles, Dylan, Lightfoot and a few others. Things my grandfather or dad would listen to. Johnny was always my personal favorite, but Merle had a few songs I particularly loved. Mama Tried, Are the good times really over for good and Poncho and Lefty & Okie from Muskogee were truly classics along with many others.
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