From: Tim V ()
Date: May 5, 2008
Subject:
RE: (amb) What other music do you listen to?
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It is interesting that you bring this up
not too long after the ambient country/western thread&
I do like country music, as I said before
not the New Nashville pop country, but there was a time that I
was in the group that said anything but country . I think then I
had certain stereotypes in my head of what country music was. I grew up with
the 70s urban cowboy craze and I remember my parents watching Hee-Haw and listening
to terrible country music like the Gatlin Brothers, Kenny Rogers, The Oakridge
Boys& along with some good stuff like Willie and Waylon. And later on I
came to know the are you ready for some football Bocephus country
music- also cringe inducing. But later on, as the MUSIC became more important I
found more good stuff like Cash and Kristofferson, Jerry Reed, Merle
Haggard (oh, dont forget Daniel Lanois and Emmylou!) and I developed a
strong liking for pedal steel guitar and flat picking.
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From: Mark Preston [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 8:20 PM
To: AMBIENT
Subject: Re: (amb) What other
music do you listen to?
Why is there such a strong
aversion towards country music? Personally, I've grown to love the
genre. I resonate with many of the values expressed in country
music. No, not the beer drinking cowboy chasing hell of a time, but the
humble gratefulness expressed by those simple,
hardworking, average men and women. Here in the city, it is
something I miss. Maybe it is my nostalgia for upstate New York, central
Pennsylvania...and a simpler way of life.
So really, I'm looking for
answers, why the aversion to country music?