[quote name='skankdelvar' post='406665' date='Feb 11 2009, 05:18 PM']Country music is, on the whole, very fine, IMO. Like the old stuff, like the new stuff, like country-rock, like alt-country.
15 years ago, I'd have killed myself for thinking that; but you grow up, and your tastes get broader rather than narrower. Same as I find something to enjoy in blues, metal, reggae, dance, classical ad inf.[/quote]Ain't that the truth. If I could show my 15 year old self some of the stuff in my current CD collection, I'd die of shock. In 1980 I'd sooner have poked in my eardrums with a soldering iron than listen to Mozart or Motorhead or Miles Davis.
[quote]Now, when it comes to hardcore British country music 'buffs', as they like to call themselves, that's a different story.
Detest anything after Slim Whitman, build shrines to Boxcar Willie and drive around in rusty old Yank Barges with Confederate flag stickers. Weasel-featured, long greasy hair, tattoos, scars, ratty little moustaches, prosthetic limbs.
And you should see their husbands.[/quote]
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