>all the best country albums came out 60 years ago and all by the same guyIs there literally anyone other than Cash that made good country music?
>>127556882merle haggard was basically his protege. but yeah go check out the infographics in the country general. i skimmed them and they're actually pretty decent
>>127556882All of his music sounds the exact same
Why is there a whole subgenre of rockists that can only get into Johnny Cash and completley disregard country otherwise? He's great but there's a lot of artists of similar quality.
>>127557245optics, what optics i don't know but cash is heavily influenced by gospel and i'm sure they'd have an aneurysm if you told them
>>127556882Johnny was really a rocker. He was kicked out of Nashville and basically created country western as we know it today
>>127557478So was Dylan for that matter and he was condemned by folkies as a sellout.
>>127557588>>127557478they were friends btw and covered each other's songs
>>127556882Hank Williams
By the same token Willie was also really a jazz singer not a "country" singer and he also abandoned Nashville in the 70s.
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>>127557245It's probably Rick Rubin's fault
>>127556882Trannies are always right, see pic
>>127556882unironically, this boy band was best country band of the 60's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjJd8rZPcAQ
>>127556882>>127560962also, stones really were good at country. 'far away eyes' might be most famous, but it obviously was done more as a parody. this one was done more straight and it kicks ass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Ci47X96H0&list=RDD8Ci47X96H0&start_radio=1
tell me you haven't listened to country music without telling me you've never listened to country music
>>127556882Off-topic: I really hope they not do a biography movie for him 'cause I see they casting Pedro Pascal as Hollywood is spamming this nigga in every fucking shit now and they just can't ruin MY GOAT
Another retards pretending to know something about country thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoNaYSzKrNISweet merciful God no.
>>127561292Cash got paid for this so I doubt he minded.
>>127558037Based. Also Jerry Jeff Walker, Steve Earle, Justin Townes Earle, Kristofferson, Hank Williams, Blaze Foley, Robert Earl Keen, John Prine, Tom Russell, Guy Clarke, the list goes on and fucking on actually.
>>127561220they already did one like 20 years ago. he was played by the joker.
>>127557245Two factors I think:1. Cash being part of the Sun sound with early rockabilly like Elvis. 2. Cash not singing like most other country singers (higher pitched, more nasal, "twangy").Of course, if you actually listen to country you find other deep-voiced singers with tons of personality like Cash. Ernest Tubb for ex., probably the prototypical low country singer.
>>127561884Cash didn't have fiddles or a lot of other of the usual country cliches. His guitars were always more like rock guitar and not like country guitar.
>>127561927Right, listen to his "Hey Good Lookin" it's almost pure rockabilly.
"Altman does for Nashville what he was trying to do for Houston in Brewster McCloud, but he wasn’t ready to fly then, and the script didn’t have enough layers — he needs ideas that mutate, and characters who turn corners. Joan Tewkesbury has provided him with a great subject. Could there be a city with wilder metaphoric overtones than Nashville, the Hollywood of the C. & W. recording industry, the center of fundamentalist music and pop success? The country sound is a twang with longing in it; the ballads are about poor people with no hope. It’s the simplistic music of the conquered South; the songs tell you that although you’ve failed and you’ve lived a terrible, degrading life, there’s a place to come home to, and that’s where you belong. Even the saddest song is meant to be reassuring to its audience: the insights never go beyond common poverty, job troubles, and heartaches, and the music never rises to a level that would require the audience to reinterpret its experience. Country stars are symbolic ordinary figures. In this, they’re more like political demagogues than artists. The singer bears the burden of what he has become, and he keeps saying, “I may be driving an expensive car, but that doesn’t mean I’m happier than you are.” Neither he nor the politician dares to come right out and confess to the audience that what he’s got is what he set out for from the beginning. Instead, he says, “It’s only an accident that puts me here and you there — don’t we talk the same language?” Listening to him, people can easily feel that he owes them, and everybody who can sing a little or who has written a tune tries to move in close to the performers as a way of getting up there into the fame business."-Pauline Kael on Nashville (1975)Was she right?
Rockabilly Blues [Columbia, 1980]Merely by copping to the magic concept "rockabilly," Cash can kick up comeback talk. And comparison with his rockabilly rockabilly for Sun (where he was always the countriest) establishes that by the standards of an ordinary mortal he's a better singer now--more flexible physically, more expressive emotionally. But the technique is a cover for what's lost, probably forever--stolid depth as immovable presence. Same goes for the arrangements--defiantly understated for Nashville, they're customized rock-country up against the austerities of the Tennessee Two. In other words, an honorable country album with some pretty good songs on it. B-
>>127564946say what?
>>127565078That at that point he's a mature industry pro who lacks the sincerity or unpolished quality he had 22 years earlier. In short, it's slick product in a way the Sun era singles were not.
>>127557047there's hundreds of big names you could say the same about
>>127565241generally it's better to be a one sound singer who knows exactly what you are unlike someone like Connie Francis who did a little bit of everything but never quite had a sound of her own
>>127565134I gotta be impressed at how the guy always sounded 50 even on the Sun recordings when he was like 26-28.
>>127565134especially considering the spartan-sounding Sun recordings vis a vis the frosted cake and swirls goop of mainstream 50s pop. like a good cup of black coffee versus some grotesque diabetes-inducing Frappucio concotion at Starbucks, Cash being the black coffee and all Coral releases being the grotesque Frappucino drink.
>>127566304Food analogies are lame. Don't ever do them again.
>>127566304https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YocsxFL5IYMThis doesn't beat the McGuire Sisters at all but this song didn't really fit him that well anyway while it was practically made for them.
>>127557245It's probably the Nine Inch Nails thing, to be honest
>>127565969Nothing wrong with having some range
