Country singers

funkey_monkey

What is the deal with them - there are so many of them now?

I'm not talking about the old duffers, but young ones in cringeworthy videos singing pure guff.

Was down home and the folks were watching the Irish music channel and jesus the videos would heat a small Parish on the embarrassment of watching them.

And do they have to pay royalties to sing these songs - sometimes they nick the melody and put their own lyrics on top.

Awful stuff.

blindside88

I believe line dancing has taken off in a big way with the young crowd and they’re getting into the whole country scene

Jordan 199

Lurleen Lumpkin is a great country singer.

Arghus

I like country if it's done right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CByeY0yeQeU

F5500

Jiving is huge in certain parts of the country, mostly around the border counties it seems. For the most part, Irish country music is catering to that market.

Quality isn't overly important, cheap and cheerful auld stuff and isn't it grand?

Normal One

I blame rural broadband. There was none of this when they were kept off the grid.

Westernyelp

Country music is good. Irish 'Country and western' is horrific

Kylta

Bless the souls of the infirmed and all those that can't escape the torture of C 'n' W music
I will pray that the next world will introduce you to some real music

Oscar Bravo

Not a big fan but I always liked this one from Dave Edmunds and Carlene Carter back in the day

Black Swan

Swannie is not into much country. Taylor Swift country-pop is so-so.

touts

Country and Western is where people who want to be singers go when they can't sing.

Country music if done properly is great. I'd recommend checking out Luke Combs but our version of country music is an abomination

KaneToad

Proper country music is brilliant. Hank Williams, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, The Carter Family, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard.

Irish country music is in the ha'penny place compared to the above.

Bobblehats

Transpires in 2020 what was once considered bland is now actually an edgy counter-culture in its own right. A defiant stetson tipped “so-long” to what’s now taken for hip

Three chords and the truth

Girl from Whitesnake Video

Don't care for modern country music unless I hear something good but country music can be very good. The American heritage stuff with a little bit of English and Irish thrown in somewhere makes a great sound and focus on the story/ballad..

freshpopcorn

i think it just has a following and a social occasion. I know people my age(30ish) who've gotten into it and the one thing I find about all of them is they are all cool and easy going people. There's no real bullying, pettiness, etc among the people I know who are into. it
I can't stand the music to be honest.

freshpopcorn

freshpopcorn wrote: »

i think it just has a following and a social occasion. I know people my age(30ish) who've gotten into it and the one thing I find about all of them is they are all cool and easy going people. There's no real bullying, pettiness, etc among the people I know who are into. it
I can't stand the music to be honest.

Yeah, I dunno.. Good country music is great music.. I'd imagine people get into now it because it's good craic..I'd kind of consider it more authentic too than the uber-hipster-lads-dressing-like-it's-the1920's kind of thing that's prevalent now too..the likes of lankum and stuff.. It's just people from the country having a laugh..I dunno..

Strumms

Country n Irish is a fûcking abomination of a genre... there is music I don’t like, that I think is shît, but that stuff makes my ears bleed.... how or why the fûck people think... they think it’s a good idea to recreate and try and attempt to label authenticity to a genre that has been routed in a completely different life, experience, continent, about 8 hours away and 4,500 miles from this country is baffling. It sounds like shît but it’s an industry here... people falling all over some yokel from Ballygobackwards... in a cowboy hat that only has a not in his head as opposed to a note... odd..

But it's just the country folk rocking out..

Girl from Whitesnake Video

Can someone give an example of modern Irish country music please because I don't know any of it?

Is it Cotton Eye Joe stuff gone wrong (which tbf could be good :pac:) or is it like boyzone pretending to be rockers?

shaveAbullock

Girl from Whitesnake Video wrote: »

Can someone give an example of modern Irish country music please because I don't know any of it?

Is it Cotton Eye Joe stuff gone wrong (which tbf could be good :pac:) or is it like boyzone pretending to be rockers?

Lots of views, very popular

Girl from Whitesnake Video

^^ when I first saw that I thought maybe dixie chicks bad but it's worse than I thought

shaveAbullock

Girl from Whitesnake Video wrote: »

^^ when I first saw that I thought maybe dixie chicks bad but it's worse than I thought

Female Vocalist of the Year 2019 - Keltic Country TV Irish Entertainment Awards
Her website is full of people asking where they can buy a CD, non of this Mp3 or streaming nonsense.

Well travelled too, she's always off to somewhere exotic.

Girl from Whitesnake Video

shaveAbullock wrote: »

Female Vocalist of the Year 2019 - Keltic Country TV Irish Entertainment Awards
Her website is full of people asking where they can buy a CD, non of this Mp3 or streaming nonsense.

Do you reckon that aul wan dancing in the navy dress that looks like everyones aunt is Kit or Mary?

shaveAbullock wrote: »

Well travelled too, she's always off to somewhere exotic.

Did you not listen to the lyrics shave? She's dying to get the **** away from Mick and Pat, Kit and Mary and would you blame her?

Girl from Whitesnake Video

Girl from Whitesnake Video wrote: »

^^ when I first saw that I thought maybe dixie chicks bad but it's worse than I thought

Have you ever been in Tipperary?..
When you leave, you would feel like writing a song..

Girl from Whitesnake Video

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Have you ever been in Tipperary?..
When you leave, you would feel like writing a song..

No I've never been. It's a long way..

Girl from Whitesnake Video

Girl from Whitesnake Video wrote: »

No I've never been. It's a long way..

Another song written by someone trying to get as far away as possible from it..

Girl from Whitesnake Video

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Another song written by someone trying to get as far away as possible from it..

Give us the makings of an aul country song there from your experiences cqd..

ShaneU

Lots of great new country singers around, haven't heard any from Ireland though (those two posted above are dreadful)

This only came out a few months ago

shaveAbullock

ShaneU wrote: »

Lots of great new country singers around, haven't heard any from Ireland though (those two posted above are dreadful)

It's art, it's subjective.

Clearly Olivia Douglas has a large following, far more popular than what you posted.

Ipso

Deleted User wrote: »

Three chords and the truth

The same chords

whisky_galore

shaveAbullock wrote: »

It's art, it's subjective.

Clearly Olivia Douglas has a large following, far more popular than what you posted.

This isn't art, it's shyte. And people tend to love this shyte as it's inoffensive and easily digested. It's even displaced proper Irish traditional music and song so that rural Ireland is now one big Cuntry n Irish music monoculture. Nothing so ridiculous as the pretend cowboy and cowgirl acts out there.

McDonald's has a big following, doesn't mean the food is very good, just designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator. There's no accounting for taste.

whisky_galore

Girl from Whitesnake Video wrote: »

^^ when I first saw that I thought maybe dixie chicks bad but it's worse than I thought

They're called "The Chicks" these days.

suicide_circus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOoMREvsV9E

If this is wrong, I dont wanna be right.

Bob Harris

KaneToad wrote: »

Proper country music is brilliant. Hank Williams, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, The Carter Family, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard.

Irish country music is in the ha'penny place compared to the above.

Heard some Linda Ronstad recently - some great stuff too.

The US know how to do country music, they gave us The Carter Family, we're cursed here with Nathan Carter.

Sky King

Q: what happens when you play a country song backwards?

A: your wife comes back and your pickup truck gets fixed.

Surreptitious

RIP

Surreptitious

Another great song. Video is awful though

SEPT 23 1989

LimeFruitGum

I suppose you will always get people who will kind of like what their parents like... bacon & cabbage, Mike Denver, voting Fianna Fáil, and anything different means you’ve notions.
I grew up in a culchie and western family, where Declan Nerney, wee Daniel, Joe Dolan etc would be blaring all day, and my uncle would play & sing at the weekends. My sister ended up being mad into Garth Brooks and I got into Nirvana, Oasis, The Offspring, anything but this c&w ****e ��

Honestly, it doesn’t really matter who sings what as everyone makes a steady living doing covers anyway, and there’s a very loyal fan base.

Deja Boo

I can't embed this, but Alison Krauss has lovely vocals.

Surreptitious

This movie and soundtrack rocks. Great Country music evocative soulful

LuasSimon

Compared to rap music and other rubbish young people listen to these days give me country music any day . When I was younger it used be country and Irish music and I’d prefer the Irish part of it to be fair , my native town Drumlish , Donegal Shore etc

Surreptitious

LuasSimon wrote: »

Compared to rap music and other rubbish young people listen to these days give me country music any day . When I was younger it used be country and Irish music and I’d prefer the Irish part of it to be fair , my native town Drumlish , Donegal Shore etc

I got into it for a while. Spent a good lot of time in Donegal at the festivals, those were good times. Always friendly people and great craic to be had.

JohnnyFlash

Liking country music, even the ‘proper stuff’, is a sign you are getting old.

Quantum Erasure

Rock me momma like a wagon wheel

Mad_maxx

Westernyelp wrote: »

Country music is good. Irish 'Country and western' is horrific

The worst thing about " country N Irish " is how utterly fake and contrived it is

Country music in the states was created by the Scots Irish in appalachia, nothing to do with us at all , yet they try and portray it as being intrinsically Irish like traditional ceili music

Ultima Thule

Country music is great IMO. The songs are about real life and easily related to. The lyrics are actual English sentences and have meaning.

The Tetrarch

What do you get when you play a country song backwards?
You get your house back, your wife back, your dog back, your truck back...

castletownman

Of all the Americanisms that have evaded our culture, our 'Country and Western' is by far the cringiest.

I don't understand how it became a thing over here either. I would associate the 'scene' over in the States as encompassing large swathes of farm land (literally multiple times bigger than Ireland) and the divide between poorer country folk and the city dwellers. Cowboy lifestyle too.

Its chalk and cheese compared to the farmer-tanned, denim and checked shirt wearing, bacon and cabbage ateing, cider drinking young lads cutting silage in Offaly.