Originally Posted by GomerPyle

Ok....I'll be that guy...

Most "old country" ain't really any better than current country. In fact, there's really only 2 differences in "old country" and modern country:

1) The clothes (most new country singers look they bought their clothes off the "country-chic" rack at American Eagle or something)

2) "old country" was at least [mostly] recorded by real musicians, on tape, instead of just being a pretty face using ProTools to mask the fact that they aren't very good singers.


I'm with you to an extent. I think 90s country is better than anything (Garth, Alan Jackson, George Strait, Clint Black, Joe Diffie, John Anderson, etc). Now I like Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, George Jones, Hank Jr, some Waylon, but most of that early 70s stuff is hot garbage. This new stuff is more pop country. In fact, the lyrics of old country is much more elementary than today's artists. 90% of what came on the radio was about some man crying over a woman.