Does anyone like country

KHagen, I saw Jr when that record was new---love it. Your wanted by the police but my wife thinks your dead. So great.

Also totallyt love Iris Dement. Soo so so many great country artists.

The Eagles began as a country band.

BB King does W Nelson's Nightlife' and made a hit of it for himself.

Ray Charles made a hit out of Harlon Howards "busted".

And everybody made Dolly's retirement fund by recording, I'll always love you... a big Xover hit.

Hoyt Axton who clearly made his fame singing and writting Country songs also Xovered into POp/Rock with the tunes he wrote for 3 Dog Night... and his mom? mae Axton made Elvis' day when he recorded Heartbreak Hotel.

When there's more truth in the song than rhyme, and sizzle or sparkle, you usually find a good song writter behind it... American music or Country music now, used to get a lot of these sorts and the music world at large benefitted from them by rearranging their songs to suit another genre..

American/Alt.country is my most listened-to genre, although as has been said, genre lines get tricky. A few of my favorites, not yet mentioned on this thread:

Two Cow Garage
Be Good Tonyas
Hayes Carll
Crooked Still (better than average recordings for genre)
Shannon McNally
Julie Miller
Supersuckers
Vic Chesnutt

and of course,

Uncle Tupelo

John

Some country musics are good, it only reminds me when i was on texas. My parents are fans of country music.

I don't care for most "top 40" country, but I like what many now term "Americana", Folk, folk rock,, etc. and I like bluegrass, though not on a daily basis. There are some good "channels" that offer these genres at RadioIO, Rhaphsody, etc. To me, Americana and Folk are now the real country music. Top 40 country is packaged/commercial/video based music with little appeal to me these days. There are some great voices in country music, such as Martina McBride, but he music itself offers little substance.