Do you like Country music?

I like some of it but not as a steady diet. I like almost all kinds of music except for opera, hip-hop (or whatever they call it) and heavy-metal rock. My favorite music, in order, is the Big Band music from the thirties and forties; old-time rock and roll from the fifties, sixties and seventies; jazz; rhythm & blues from the fifties and sixties; and C&W from the fifties, sixties and seventies.

One of the funniest things I ever saw was during my visits to Japan and China while in the Navy during the Fifties. Practically every port we visited had a nightclub with Japanese or Chinese guys dressed up in Western garb and playing country and western music. I must admit though that many of them were pretty talented.

I have a mixed choice of musical tastes but on the country front it would proberably be George Hamilton IV, Glen Campbell, Tanya Tucker, and Johnny Cash.

I like all sorts of music really, including some Country,
more particularly, Western and Bluegrass

I am a fan of C&W. But only the more traditional sounds. I cannot stand this new type of pop country where half the time you cannot tell if you are listening to top 40 pop rock or country western music. Guys like Travis Tritt, Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, George Strait, and that type are who I like. I also like the 80's hair bands and some newer heavy rock. Cannot stand rap or hip hop, that is just plain pathetic music if you ask me.

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One of the funniest things I ever saw was during my visits to Japan and China while in the Navy during the Fifties. Practically every port we visited had a nightclub with Japanese or Chinese guys dressed up in Western garb and playing country and western music. I must admit though that many of them were pretty talented.

When I was in the Navy, I saw Hank Thompson and his Brazos Valley Boys at the EM (Enlisted Men's) Club in Okinawa while our ship was visiting there. Then we steamed up to Yokuska just in time to catch him at the EM Club there. Then we went back down to Sasebo, our home port, and who should we see at the EM Club but Hank Thompson and his Brazos Valley Boys. How's that for Country & Western in the Orient?! We just about had all his songs memorized by the third concert! Several of his ditties included The Squaws Along the Yukon are Good Enough for Me; Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette; The Footprints of a Fool; and Humpty Dumpty Heart, just to name a few.

So, to answer the question, yes, I do like country and western, the older style like Todd mentioned.

Chester

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I am a fan of C&W. But only the more traditional sounds. I cannot stand this new type of pop country where half the time you cannot tell if you are listening to top 40 pop rock or country western music. Guys like Travis Tritt, Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, George Strait, and that type are who I like. I also like the 80's hair bands and some newer heavy rock. Cannot stand rap or hip hop, that is just plain pathetic music if you ask me.

Like Todd, I like these singers as well.

Also like Todd, I cannot stand hip-hop & cRAP either. I absolutely like some big band stuff, some ragtime, traditional German music and lots of Jazz especially that 1950's Russian underground Jazz, rock and roll from the 50-mid 80s and few later exceptions, country & western from the 30's to the mid 80's with some exceptions. I like music played on Xylophones (SP?) as well as guitar music, piano music, and Jazz with lots of bass drum in it.

I can add that I do not like the garbage that seems to have made brittany spears a rich girl, and all the ones like her.

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I can add that I do not like the garbage that seems to have made brittany spears a rich girl, and all the ones like her.

Sometimes I wonder if Satan himself isn't working within the music community to suck the unwary into his lair

Chester

Just imagine us souls who are lucky enough to have
young kids, heaven above!! and I thought my Mom and Dad
were square, in those days!!.
Now I know what they went through!!!

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I thought my Mom and Dad were square, in those days!!.
Now I know what they went through!!!

A lesson that most folks learn sooner or later.

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People like Gene Autry, Roy Rogers . . .

I'd give a thousand dollars or more if I could play the guitar and had all the songs memorized that these gentlemen knew how to sing. Two of our children have learned to play the guitar, but they are into other styles of music besides C&W. I would love to see my 10 year old son learn the guitar also, and sing some of those old Roy Rogers songs . . . . Hey, I can dream, can't I??

Chester

Best music in the world Country is

I'm more into the old stuff. Like Johnny Cash(greatest Musician ever), Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings.
The newer stuff's also good though, eg Garth Brooks, Trace Adkins & Lee Kernaghan(Aussie Country singer)

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I'd give a thousand dollars or more if I could play the guitar and had all the songs memorized that these gentlemen knew how to sing. Two of our children have learned to play the guitar, but they are into other styles of music besides C&W. I would love to see my 10 year old son learn the guitar also, and sing some of those old Roy Rogers songs . . . . Hey, I can dream, can't I??

Chester

The guitar has been kind good to me too,
It's made me a living for nearly 46 years!!

Sadly, don't know if one could make much of a living singing old cowboy songs nowadays, but who knows, there may come a revival. For me it would be just the pleasure knowing them.

Chester

Jim,

I hope Chistopher continues with his guitar,
he'll find it all so very fulfilling when he's older,
and will gain great satisfaction from it all!!
I'm glad I continued,as it's given me a fantastic life!

I love the Roy Rogers, Sons of The Pioneers,
Gene Autry songs, many of which I still incude, as repertoire!

One day Jim, he'll suprise you, and start singing them!!

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One day Jim, he'll suprise you, and start singing them!!

I'm back in the saddle again,
Back where a friend is a friend..............

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Jim,

I hope Chistopher continues with his guitar,
he'll find it all so very fulfilling when he's older,
and will gain great satisfaction from it all!!
I'm glad I continued,as it's given me a fantastic life!

I love the Roy Rogers, Sons of The Pioneers,
Gene Autry songs, many of which I still incude, as repertoire!

One day Jim, he'll suprise you, and start singing them!!

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Thanks, Keith, for those encouraging words!

Traditional C&W tells a story that relates to the heritage of the people.

Like other great music traditions, it will last. I predict you'll hear Tumbling Tumbleweeds long after the last bit of rap crap has been forgotten.