There's plenty of great and current country music out there. Just need to open your eyes and ears.

For instance:







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There's plenty of great and current country music out there. Just need to open your ears and ears.

For instance:

yeah pretty good stuff, reminds me a bit of Jay Farrar and Son Volt





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One of my favorites although their sound is a gumbo of influences.





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What some of you are calling country songs by the Stones aren't country songs!

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With regards to country, I always thought Micks approach was a bit tongue in cheek, an homage but also making fun of it in a way.

Well, his words exactly:

Mick Jagger, 1995: "I love Country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek. The harmonic thing is very different from the blues. It doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak."

wow...I sort of 'nailed it'.

Do you think I really care?

another great example of tongue in cheek.

I need a yellow cab to help me get outta this pain in the cheek.

just take the umbrella outta your *ss!

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Don't judge contemporary country music by what y'all hear on the radio.

Ditto rock music, or any other kind of music, come to that. There's still lots of great stuff out there!

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With regards to country, I always thought Micks approach was a bit tongue in cheek, an homage but also making fun of it in a way.

Well, his words exactly:

Mick Jagger, 1995: "I love Country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek. The harmonic thing is very different from the blues. It doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak."

wow...I sort of 'nailed it'.

Do you think I really care?

another great example of tongue in cheek.

I need a yellow cab to help me get outta this pain in the cheek.

just take the umbrella outta your *ss!

I hope you fall off the D train!

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I'd love to see the Stones put out an album of country covers. Jagger's older voice is suited for singing country. Maybe the Stones can turn America on to its country music heritage the same way it turned America on to its Blues heritage.

I dig that idea (at least theoretically). Since Dylan is busy with Sinatra these days, I guess the Stones could be up to to it...

But I am sure Jagger hates the idea. His voice suits damn well, and he has an odd natural ability to do that kind of stuff, but apparantly that would be about the last thing he would ever do... Just to get him sing the blues would be a task enough...

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With regards to country, I always thought Micks approach was a bit tongue in cheek, an homage but also making fun of it in a way.

I think he'd be surprised to learn that many people would kill for a Stones Country album as he really doesn't take the genre very seriously, at least from the perspective of their own material/performances.

There was this one interview 'recently' - was it three, five or ten years ago or even more I can't say, this all passes so quickly these days - in which Mick said something to the effect that he could do a country album and people would surely love it, but it is something he doesn't want to do. It doesn't motivate him or something like that.

It could be that this was after the commercial flop of GODDESS and Mick was sort of defending his musical taste or style. He wants to do music that people can dance to I recall him saying.

Does anybody remember the interview I am talking about?

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There was this one interview 'recently' - was it three, five or ten or even more I can't say, this all passes so quickly these days - in which Mick said something to the effect that he could do a country album and people would surely love it, but it is something he doesn't want to do. It doesn't motivate him or something like that.

sure your not getting mixed up with a Keith interview from last year where he says a very similar thing when asked about recording a blues album



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There was this one interview 'recently' - was it three, five or ten or even more I can't say, this all passes so quickly these days - in which Mick said something to the effect that he could do a country album and people would surely love it, but it is something he doesn't want to do. It doesn't motivate him or something like that.

sure your not getting mixed up with a Keith interview from last year where he says a very similar thing when asked about recording a blues album

No, surely not, Rockie. I am good at making confusions, but this time I am sure that it is Jagger talking there, and along the lines I describe here. I've tried to google it, but no success yet...

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The Rolling Stones played a few nice country rock songs in the past but it would require some country style session musicians to save country music.



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If you want to hear some awesome Country music that is currently being produced, you have to check out Marty Stuart & his Fabulous Superlatives ---

he and his band are without the a doubt the best there is out there right now--

"No Anchovies, Please"

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Reminds me of a famous Carlene Carter quote - I put the cu nt in country music.
Country music certainly needs to be saved by somebody.

The savior will be the descendant of the great Hank Williams - Hank III:

Theme song for this thread

If you come see me play live, I will play this one for ya! Funny and spot on!

"No Anchovies, Please"

It's ROCK music that needs to be saved. Or is that a lost cause?

Put on a record and you saved it

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It's ROCK music that needs to be saved. Or is that a lost cause?

Rock music is fine. It's country music that needs saving.

I'm still counting on Hank Williams to save country music.

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I thought they already did save it by writing Faraway Eyes???..........

Does Salt of The Earth from 1968, classify as country genre?
Covered by Joan Baez and Judy Collins I believe.

Rod Stewart has threatened in the past to do a Country album, also a Blues one.
Neither surfaced, as yet.

I'm still counting on Hank Williams to save country music.

mmmmmmmmmmaybe best you check the death notices for New Years Day 1953 ....



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I'm still counting on Hank Williams to save country music.

mmmmmmmmmmaybe best you check the death notices for New Years Day 1953 ....

isn't there a junior version he could be referring to?

junior version he could be referring to?

.....nope III ain't gonna save it ....



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junior version he could be referring to?

.....nope III ain't gonna save it ....

Don't count the kid out yet, I have a feeling his best work is still to come. Maybe if he teams up with his Dad some sparks will fly, heads will turn and ears will open.

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Okay you can do all the counting but make sure you get the manager
of the retirement village to notify us if anything ever does happen.... piece of peace



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Country music is dead. It's called Country Music on the radio but it's pop music with a twang for a really dumbed down audience. Kind of like the white version of a rap audience.

you hit it right on the head . could not agree more !!!!!!!!

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If you want to hear some awesome Country music that is currently being produced, you have to check out Marty Stuart & his Fabulous Superlatives ---

he and his band are without the a doubt the best there is out there right now--

absolutely true-

don't miss 'Saturday Night Sunday Morning"

what a band, I just saw them a few days ago. Kenny Vaughan guitar, Paul Martin bass, Harry Stinson, drums. And Marty Stuart- as fluid and precise a guitarist as there ever was. plus he's playing Clarence, the modified Telecaster, with the original B-bender, that Clarence White owned and played, and co-invented, with Gene Parsons.

Great to see and hear this band, Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives.
First rate all the way, great harmony singing..coolest outfits..

but the musicianship was second to none

and check out Kenny Vaughan's solo record "V". its the same band. Kenny Vaughan is amazing.