How much country music do you listen to?

[Quiet and Shy]

A question that bothers me so....

The new album is again being marketed/distributed by RCA Nashville (as was LTC). Following the window of opportunity opened by "Five O'Clock Somewhere" and the success of LTC, "Take the Weather With You" has been introduced into the Country music category.

But if Buffett weren't hanging out in those environs, would you be spending much time listening to today's country music? So, when you're not specifically listening/looking for JB (e.g. "Bama Breeze"), do you spend a lot of your music time in the Country world (radio, CDs, videos, concerts, etc.)?

[RinglingRingling]

A question that bothers me so....

The new album is again being marketed/distributed by RCA Nashville (as was LTC). Following the window of opportunity opened by "Five O'Clock Somewhere" and the success of LTC, "Take the Weather With You" has been introduced into the Country music category.

But if Buffett weren't hanging out in those environs, would you be spending much time listening to today's country music? So, when you're not specifically listening/looking for JB (e.g. "Bama Breeze"), do you spend a lot of your music time in the Country world (radio, CDs, videos, concerts, etc.)?

you're the more than 50% one, aren't you Alison?

[mommar]

No, not really.......I spend a lot of time in my own world

[Cubbie Bear]

I'm at least 50% country music, but very little current stuff. Too many copy cat sound alike acts.....(ducking from Norma's frying pan) I listen to a lot of older country and a lot of 70's-80's rock, especially Southern Rock and people who today would be considered country all the way

[Pablo Escobar]

No country for me. Yuck.

[ccmatt]

Without going on a big spcheeeel, country music is the only format any new artist over the age of 28 has any chance of being promoted on, end of story.

[ccmatt]

And I listen to alot of country music.

[PJ]

I'm at least 50% country music, but very little current stuff. Too many copy cat sound alike acts.....(ducking from Norma's frying pan) I listen to a lot of older country and a lot of 70's-80's rock, especially Southern Rock and people who today would be considered country all the way

I agree with you there. My CD collection is well over 200, and the majority of them are country and classic rock/southern rock with some of the 80s hair bands left over from my youth (Hey, I'm 30, I think everyone my age is required to own at least one Poison, Cinderella or Bon Jovi album).

However, my country collection tends to be filled with artists who debuted prior to the mid 90s. The collection has Hank Sr and Jr., Bob Wills, Patsy, Waylon and Willie, Jones and Twitty, Strait and Alabama. The "new" artists would be Travis Tritt, Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Trisha Yearwood and the newest on to scene would be Montgomery Gentry.

[Skibo]

Jimmy led me to country a few years ago. I enjoy his early "country sounding" music most.

[Tiki Bar]

I'm across the board...

I'm mostly Jimmy, a little bit country, and a little bit rock and roll! (But no Osmonds! )

Pretty much the only 2 tv stations I ever turn on are VH1 Classic, and CMT, and an occasional Directv Freeview concert if I'm paying attention.

And I guess by virtue of 2 young daughters, I do listen to a lot of "Now 22" and "Kids Bop" type of stuff while driving about town nights and weekends.

[SuperTrooper]

JB is as "country" as I get by choice. The funny thing is both of my daughters LOVE country! This goes back to being picked up from school each day by my Dad, who plays it all day long. Now, when I'm driving and they sit up front they change the station! ARRRGH!!!

[johnson2113]

I listen to a lot of country music but like most have said here, just the classic stuff. I can't stand the new stuff. It's not country. When I can scan through the radio stations and here Keith Urban and Rascal Flatts on the light pop channels and country channels it makes me sick.

I love the old stuff by Hank Sr & Bob Wills, Johnny Cash & Patsy Cline, Waylon & Willie of course, and Geroge Strait & Chris LeDoux.

That should cover most of the decades when country was good.

[Cubbie Bear]

Jimmy started my interest in country as well, with the Patsey Cline reference in Miss You So Badly

I got a head of full of feelin' higher
And an ear full of Patsy Cline
There is just no one who can touch her
Hell I'll hang on every line

From there I started listening more and more back around 1978 or so. Didn't and still don't like the real "twangy" aka Porter Wagner style of rhinestone country.

It didn't hurt that the opening act for Marshall Tucker, the first time I saw them was some guy named Hank Jr.

[SchoolGirlHeart]

Mostly country. I like songs that tell stories. Country songs tell stories.

[parithedfred]

If I'm not listening to country music then I either have my Sirius radio on Radio Margaritaville, Blue Collar Comedy or the Blues channel; occassionally I'll depart and listen to a wide variety of other stuff with two exceptions, never rap/hip-hop and classical, ugh!

[Griz]

my musical tastes are fairly eclectic.. jazz!, but that's a huge category in itself, Rock of course, but even classical. When DISCO was around I went to the country bars. And there's a fine line twixt Southern Rock and country. Now a daze, that line is even more blurred by so called country folks playing what to me is pure unadulterated good ol' rock n roll,, just sung with a twang.. (Or even an AUSSIE accent.. ala Keith Urban.)
I'm really in it for the guitarists.. I love Chet Atkins and now Brad Paisley is filling his shoes admirably.

Rock on,,,, y'all!

[RinglingRingling]

my musical tastes are fairly eclectic.. jazz!, but that's a huge category in itself, Rock of course, but even classical. When DISCO was around I went to the country bars. And there's a fine line twixt Southern Rock and country. Now a daze, that line is even more blurred by so called country folks playing what to me is pure unadulterated good ol' rock n roll,, just sung with a twang.. (Or even an AUSSIE accent.. ala Keith Urban.)
I'm really in it for the guitarists.. I love Chet Atkins and now Brad Paisley is filling his shoes admirably.

Rock on,,,, y'all!

so country really isn't country..

[SchoolGirlHeart]

I love the old stuff by Hank Sr & Bob Wills, Johnny Cash & Patsy Cline, Waylon & Willie of course, and Geroge Strait & Chris LeDoux.

I never got to see Chris LeDoux play....

October 3 we get new George Strait tunes: IT JUST COMES NATURAL hits the shelves

[balcony girls]

. .not counting the three songs I watched waiting for the premier of Jimmy on CMT Countdown . . . .? ?

. .ummmm . .none. . .

[baby]

Listen to Sirus Tuned into Country when its not on Margaritaville!!!!