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Last Post Nov 9, 2009 9:02 AM by: 4zack
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Re: George Jones says Taylor Swift is NOT Country

Nov 3, 2009 9:42 AM
I love George's music. He's the best country artist of all time, bar none IMO........................................ With the possible exception of the late, great Patsy Cline. If George doesn't like it, then neither do I, darn it!
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Re: George Jones says Taylor Swift is NOT Country

Nov 3, 2009 9:47 AM

Sure. My same ol' thought I always have with musical stick-in-the muds!

I agree with you.

Was George Jones "country" in the 1870's? Is Harry Connick jazz as in 1920? George's "old skool" way of thinking is really rather new, he's just too old to see it. Bill Haley is rock'n'roll, and so is Van Halen? Sure.

We're in an unexplore new era where music is recorded and shred, not just passed down, it's a new territory in historical time-lines. I actually have no idea what Taylor sounds like, never heard her, just know the name . I also walked right passed Carrie in the park by my house last summer, I saw someone singing on-stage, had no idea it was her! I'm assuming they're of the Faith Hill breed.

Newsflash: Taylor Swift says George Jones is NOT sober!

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Re: George Jones says Taylor Swift is NOT Country

Nov 3, 2009 9:49 AM
Umm, music is shared, not "shred", although some fogies will probably jump on that typo to no end! ;)

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Re: George Jones says Taylor Swift is NOT Country

Nov 3, 2009 9:50 AM
I wonder if he still drives to the bar on his mower.

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Re: George Jones says Taylor Swift is NOT Country

Nov 3, 2009 9:52 AM
I, personally, have never paid one bit of attention as to what the music i was listening too was labled...(ie country, rock, jazz...what not)

I labled it with two very simple labels...one was I like it...the other was I dont like it....

very simple :)

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Re: George Jones says Taylor Swift is NOT Country

Nov 3, 2009 9:57 AM
hey, simple enough...

hubby wouldnt like carrie or taylor...they arent country for him...maybe it has to do with the times one grew up in...the music we may consider to be one thing, may not be so with others...

times change...

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Re: George Jones says Taylor Swift is NOT Country

Nov 3, 2009 9:57 AM
Many folks have differing opinions of what country is. There is true country or roots country which the Possum is and Swift sure is not. She is part of the pop country that many like and many don't. I know station here who advertise Chesney Free Radio and it is mostly red dirt country with some roots country.
I do not like pop country and liked few of the Hat Acts when they were out. It is just country has morphed into at least 3 catagories and sometimes an artist can get stuck between the cracks.

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Re: George Jones says Taylor Swift is NOT Country

Nov 3, 2009 9:59 AM
I think junkman explained it better than I did,lol :^O

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Re: George Jones says Taylor Swift is NOT Country

Nov 3, 2009 10:08 AM
Country music has changed tremendously since I started to like it in the early 70's; I hated the "twang" when I was forced to listen to it, but it finally grew on me. Among my favorites today is Sugarland, now there is some twang! The days of George Jones, Waylan & Willie, David Allen Coe, & such may be gone, but their music will never die, much the same as the songs from the 50's & 60's are still so popular today. Change is not always bad, even though we can think it is in the beginning. Country changed gradually, & there was time to adjust to the new sounds, & I am sure it will continue to change as so many country artists are "country-rock"today, & it is good music.

Thanks!
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Re: George Jones says Taylor Swift is NOT Country

Nov 3, 2009 10:16 AM
Maybe she's not "classic" country....today's artists are more pop...but then, "pop" has changed, too. Me, I like Patsy Cline and Roy Clark. :)

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Re: George Jones says Taylor Swift is NOT Country

Nov 3, 2009 10:22 AM
George Jones isn't big on change. Have you looked at his hairpiece lately?

My theory has always been that country is the back door way in to the pop music world. Faith Hill's music sure wasn't traditional country, but she's too generic-sounding to have made it in pop coming straight at it. So, why not take one of her so-called country songs, do a little re-mix, and voila! a pop song was born. Same trick worked for Shania Twain, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, etc.

Interestingly, I don't find that the guys can switch over to pop the same way. Maybe they just don't want to, but it seems to be an almost exclusively female trick.
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Re: George Jones says Taylor Swift is NOT Country

Nov 3, 2009 10:36 AM

Hey, I'm still a big Juice Newton fan here! I still have here autograph from a concert I went to years ago, and let me tell you, that night her & her band were closer to rock n roll than pop-country! She was very nice too, and I recently got a coupla different GH cds of hers.

Juice still rocks!

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Re: George Jones says Taylor Swift is NOT Country

Nov 3, 2009 10:38 AM
Try Radio Free Texas or Radio Free Americana. Some newer red dirt and roots country.
PSSST request a cut off my CD while you're there.
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Re: George Jones says Taylor Swift is NOT Country

Nov 3, 2009 11:04 AM
George Jones sounds like an old coot.
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