Country Music Fans...

[THEthief]

Ok, I might be alone on this forum, as far as country music fans go...:p...but, if you're out there, who are your favorite country artists? Who else do you like (outside of country, I mean:-))?

BTW, anyone who likes one or two country artists, but doesn't really consider themselves a country music fan, be sure to post, too!! :)

My favorite country musicians are Bryan White (of course:D), Steve Wariner, Faith Hill, Martina McBride, and Nickel Creek (well, they're actually bluegrass...:-)) I like about 5 of Reba McEntire's songs, a few of the Rascal Flatts, etc., but they're not favorites of mine (since I like so few of their songs:)).

Country Musicians I can't stand are:
George Straight - my sister and father like his music, so I'm (unfortuanetely) subjected to it sometimes. :(

I like other singers, too - the Beatles, the Corrs (a friend really got me into those - he worships them (the girls, anyways:p)), Backstreet Boys, and a few others. :)

[PtTe2]

Bill Monroe, Alison Kraus, George Jones, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. I also think Garth Brooks is a wonderful artist as well as a good man. His brother presided over the Christening of my daughter. (Deacon Brooks)
Just can't take the billy-bop, half-long haired, ankle twisting pretty boys that call themselves Country artists. (That's really weird ... I do have respect for Brittany Spears, why not those dudes?)
Anyhow ...


edit: presised to presided.

[LARAMANIAC]

I was brought up around country music - my Mum and Dad loved country!!!! I'm not too into the golden oldies but I love Shania Twain, Garth Brooks and Reba McIntyre!!!!
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[THEthief]

How is Reba McEntire's name spelled? Windows Media Player recognizes it as McEntire; but this is definately NOT the first time I've seen it McIntyre. Sooo...I'm confused...:confused: (Note the smiley, that illustrates my confusion:p).

[LARAMANIAC]

I've just spelt it how we would spell it in Scotland (as I am Scottish)!!! Not sure how she spells it though!!!!http://pages.prodigy.net/rogerlori1/emoticons/wiggle.gif

[THEthief]

I noticed that on a competitor's fair booth, this year, at *duh* the local fair. :D A competitor club, who, I might add, beat our club's fair booth. :o (Oh well - their booth was a trillion times better than ours, with or without the spelling mistake (if it is, in fact, a mistake:p)!)

[willow]

I loathe country music with all my being.

[THEthief]

They say honesty is a virtue. Hah! ;)

[Zaphod]

The only country I listen to is from others. Growing up I remember driving with my Dad in our 76 Camero listening to Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton on his 8-track. I still have a soft spot for Kenny in my heart, and his Greatest Hits disc is mixed in with all my showtunes and eruidite rap and po-po-po-mo shoegazing music and so forth. People looking at my collection like to make fun of Kenny. Then I play "Coward of the County" for them. They love it. I win.

I also had to listen to a lot of "alterna-country" (or whatever) like Allison Krauss, T-Bone Burnett, Wilco, Sun Volt, and Uncle Tupelo, along with a STAGGERING amount of George Jones, when I was bartending in college. I lived in what's probably the nexus of alterna-country in the Northeast (Northampton, MA) and all my bartenders were musicians in bands like The Scud Mountain Boys and Angry Johnny and the Killbillies. I like the nuevo-country guys - especially Sun Volt. And George... man, George - he's REAL country - none of this sissy-pants electric guitars and headset boom mikes and achy-breaky for George. George is true.

{Edit} Oh, and I have "Take This Job And Shove It" by Johnny Paycheck on MP3 at my office, but only because it's the best song ever. Plus, it'll be great when I get laid off again (this company laid me off already, then took me back when they could afford it), I can crank my speakers and blare some Paycheck at them. Intersting side note: ever since the movie Office Space, The Geto Boys' "Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta" has really become my generation's version of "Take This Job." Being played during dot.com layoffs left and right, apparently. {/Edit}

[Arlene]

Hi Theif, I am a country music fan! I don't know if I can name a favorite, I like a lot. Alan Jackson comes to mind, Toby Keith, Clint Black, Travis Tritt, Dixie Chicks, JoDee Messina, Johnny Cash, Meryl Haggard, Hank Willliams (Sr and Jr), Tracy Byrd, Buck Owens, Kenny Rodgers, Roy Clark and lots more that I can't think of right now.
I don't just listen to country music either, I like classical music, rock, jazz, all sorts.

[Aquarius]

I used to be a big country fan, but I've fazed out of listening to it.
I still like Garth Brooks, Reba, Shania, Dixie Chicks, SHeDaisy, LeeAnn Wolmack, JoDee Messina, and a few Alan Jackson songs. (Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning.....this is a truly great song)

But now I listen to Bon Jovi :D, Linkin Park (I actually only like 3 songs on the cd......), sometimes Enya, and then whatever is on the radio at the time. Oh! Almost forgot!!! AEROSMITH!!!!!!!!! :p

[windcloud]

i find country music irritating... -_-

[The Amazing Rando]

I'm not much of a country fan anymore. I used to listen to it when I was younger, but then it went pop. Now everyone sounds just like everyone else, and they claim they are pop stars, then they are country again, and then pop. And all the songs sound like everything else. Now I don't listen to very much of anything new, but I do listen to some of the older rock and new rock too. No pop. blah. I still enjoy Kenny Rogers, as he is me and my dad's favorite country artist. I also like some older Garth Brooks, Brooks & Dunn, and Alan Jackson. There are a few newer country songs that I don't mind. In any case, for those of you who are fans, I've gotten to meet Faith Hill and Tim McGraw (I also like his older work) before. I also got to meet the person opening for Tim (it was at concert), I don't know her name, but she's like 17 or something and has that song that goes something like "I am Rose's granddaughter,spitting image of my father" or something. I'd never heard of her or her songs before.

[Salvage]

Some country I like, some I don't. I don't have any favorite artists for any type of music.

That is all.

[Racinlady]

Depends on what mood I am in as to what music I listen too, as for country I love most of the old stuff ie Marty Robbins, Frankie Lane, Cash... for the newer right now I am into Tobie Keith (Courtsey of the red white and blue) Alan Jackson:D

[Deekman]

For those of you who ain't country music fans I recommends:
Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen
The Kentucky Headhunters

y'all carry on now...

[Capn. Greenbeard]

First off, let me get on my soapbox.

I can't stand "bubblegum country". They usually devote radio stations to it and call it "Young Country". Soul-lessly commercial.

I'm pretty old school. Willie, Waylon, The Man in Black. Favorite all time country album? David Allen Coe's Greatest Hits.

[LARAMANIAC]

Thethief - have just received a Toby Keith Cd for my birthday from a very dear and old friend of mine who lives in Texas!!!! WOW fantastic - Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue just blows me away absolutely brilliant!!!!

Over here in England we are not exposed to a great deal of Country and so I rely on my friend in Texas!!!!!!http://pages.prodigy.net/rogerlori1/emoticons/Sing.gif

[THEthief]

LOL, I suppose Wisconsin isn't the best place to find country music, either. :p
I've never heard Toby Keith, but I've heard he's very good. :D

[Kat]

I love country actually, especially since so many of the rock bands I listened to in high school all said they got their start listening to Southern Rock bands, which I constitute as somewhat country like Skynard, Waylon, and such.

Anyways...........I love Brian White, and yes, I am being 100% truthful. I saw him in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1995 when he came with Leann Rimes and he was very good in concert. She sucked, but hey, you can't win them all. Then since I was an EMT working the concert, I got to go backstage and meet his band and no one thought that he was going to be around, but he stopped to sign autographs for a group of little girls who won backstage tickets because their Brownie troop sold alot of Girl Scout cookies. It was very sweet and he has such a baby face :D

Next, I would to say I love Lori White and Reba of course, just because she is a fiery red head like me :D Plus she has some good songs and hell of a lot of talent!

I also love Toby Keith, Lonestar, Faith Hill, but my all time fave is Tim McGraw. Faith better consider herself damn lucky, that's all I have to say!