Just wondering if some of you nice people can help me out. A friend of mine has been bugging me to take up line dancing with them. While I am not sure if I will do that (not sure I actually have the time at the moment ;) ) it did get me thinking that I have no country music in my music collection. I was wondering if people could recommend some to me, since I have never really listened to it before, and want to give it a fair hearing. I don't want to be put off the genre by listening to some bad examples at first :)

hugs to you all

lilnymph

I suggest thses guys:

http://www.slimcessnasautoclub.com/news/index.asp

Hank Williams
Hank Williams III
Merle Haggard
Willie Nelson
Patsy Cline
Junior Brown
Drag the River
and of course, Johnny Cash

I personally suggest you stay away from modern pop country. There's still good country music being made, but it's not the crap they're playing on country radio.

I detest modern country music. Amazingly, I've been enjoy the old stuff. Johnny Cash, etc
The fake country accent.. singing through your nose... whiny music is crap. IMHO.

line dancing is the worse thing in the world!

Hank Williams
Hank Williams III
Merle Haggard
Willie Nelson
Patsy Cline
Junior Brown
Drag the River
and of course, Johnny Cash

I personally suggest you stay away from modern pop country. There's still good country music being made, but it's not the crap they're playing on country radio.

add Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams, Uncle Tupelo, Neko Case, and Kasey Chambers to the list.

Thanks guys :)

line dancing is the worse thing in the world!


Its never really cought my imagination ;) But I suppose if I learn it I could steal some of the moves to use elsewhere :)

hugs

lilnymph

Waylon Jennings.





You should also check out the genre of Western Swing, the undisputed King of which was Bob Wills (and his Texas Playboys). First coming into renown in the 1930s, Wills drew upon jazz, blues, folk and cowboy music to pioneer a style that remains the best country music to dance to, epitomized by standards such as Take Me Back To Tulsa, Big Balls In Cowtown, Stay A Little Longer, Faded Love, and his signature song, San Antonio Rose.

Hank Williams
Hank Williams III
Merle Haggard


Glad to see you conspicuously omitted Hank Williams Jr.

Had you included him I would've been forced to dole out a hearty :slap:

Good list, btw.

Although I am prejudiced against it, I find line dancing fascinating. It is such an oddity to me.
I would never partake of it myself... oh well, never say never I guess... but I find it entertaining to watch because it is so... wierd.

M.

I can go from crip-walk to slap-leather in .5 seconds

Well, it does have some good moves I could steal to use in routines, but never really pulled in my attention, and I don't have the time at the moment to learn.

Hugs

lilnymph

Line dancing in England? :scratch: :p

I'm not into country music, at all, so can't help you there. I have been to a country music nightclub, (because I had a roommate who was into country) a few years ago... The Saddlerack, in San Jose. :D I think they had a mechanical bull there, line dancing and everything. My roommate liked Brooks and Dunn, (I remember the song Boot scoot boogie), you might like them, I don't know.


I can go from crip-walk to slap-leather in .5 seconds

lol :nice:

Glad to see you conspicuously omitted Hank Williams Jr.
Friends and I were discussing recently when exactly country music went to ****. We're pretty sure Hank Jr. did it.

I like: Toby Keith, Travis Tritt, and Delbert McClinton

It's got to rock a bit, or I can't handle Country.

I wish I could help, but I really despise Country music. All of it.

I go along with the artists igofast and dreamscapist recomended.

And I do like Hank Jr.,he has a blues-rock style that I like.

Also [their music is not for dancing ] you should go to the roots like Jimmie Rogers and The Carter Family.

There was some great progressive country in the latre 80's like Lyle Lovett,Roseanne Cash [Johnny's daughter] ,early k.d.lang and Steve Earle.

And there's rockabilly [which is both rock and country] like early Elvis Presely ,Carl Perkins ,Jerry Lee Lewis,Wanda Jackson,Billy Lee Riley and so many more.

I was just listening to Wanda Jackson the other day...rockabilly takes on an added dimension when sung by a woman.

Tex-Mex hybrids make for fine dance music, too, especially the Texas Tornados: Freddy Fender, Flaco Jimenez, Augie Meyer and the late Doug Sahm, who along with Meyer fronted the seminal 1960s Texas garage rock band, Sir Douglas Quintet (She's About A Mover).

Back to line dancing, the very best song for it (a musical standard) is The Cotton-Eyed Joe. The worst was The Electric Slide, which was an embarrassment to behold, particularly when the line included beer-bellied men in hats, still clutching their longnecks.

real men don't line dance. :|

as for music:
merle haggard
hank sr
george jones
willie nelson
keith whitley
johnny cash
david allen coe

cross canadian ragweed
robert earl keen
roger craeger
pat green

that should get you started

ps i almost forgot the statler brothers.

david allen coe
forgot that one, good call

real men don't line dance. :|


I'm not a real man ;)

hugs

lilnymph

Shania Twain
Johnny Cash
Dixie Chicks
Alan Jackson
Brad Paisley
Randy Travis
Gordon Lightfoot
Sheryl Crow (sort of)
Lonestar
Kenny Chesney

:eek!:

SivVulk's picks caused me to break out in hives. j/k

i have a question about country music. I know Hank Williams (I) and people like Faith Hill are both considered "country." But musically, those two seem so far apart.

does anybody else think that country music seems to have the largest gap between it's pop/mainstream stars (like Faith Hill) and it's originators (like Hank Williams)?

No, modern pop R&B is absolutely unrecognizable compared to the origins of R&B. But yes, modern pop country is pretty different than it's origins. It's also much, much, much less listenable.

Some clubs should offer some dance-lessons. One bar I used to frequent offered in-house lessons on 'ladies night' earlier in the evening. Once the ladies were half-liquored & on the dance floor, the men came bounding in like hungry wolves.

good times :nice:

that's a good point about modern r&b versus original r&b. Because Mariah Carey in 2005 sure sounds NOTHING like Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, etc....I guess my argument could really be applied to all genres of music, though....ifu think about it....

There's also country-rock which is certain albums by The Byrds and Bob Dylan plus The Flying Burrito Brothers ,Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons solo.

real men don't line dance. :|

as for music:
merle haggard
hank sr
george jones
willie nelson
keith whitley
johnny cash
david allen coe

cross canadian ragweed
robert earl keen
roger craeger
pat green

that should get you started

ps i almost forgot the statler brothers.
good starting point nice to see another robert earl keen fan
Dixie chicks despite their politics
Allison Krauss and Union Station
Alan Jackson
George Strait
Ricky Skaggs
Asleep At the Wheel
Charlie Daniels Band they have southern rock feel to them

Hank Williams
Hank Williams III
Merle Haggard
Willie Nelson
Patsy Cline
Junior Brown
Drag the River
and of course, Johnny Cash
You forgot Wanda Jackson, ***hole. She's better than Patsy.

For a classic example look up the song "boot scoot boogie" - if you go line dancing you will have the misfortune of having to dance to this many, many times.

For a classic example look up the song "boot scoot boogie" - if you go line dancing you will have the misfortune of having to dance to this many, many times.classic example of what? :eek7:

classic example of what? :eek7:

Of the junk you'll probably hear when going to a line dance :P

You forgot Wanda Jackson, ***hole. She's better than Patsy.
I've met Wanda,she's a very nice lady as well as a great singer.

Gordon Lightfoot


People line-dance to Gordon Lightfoot? :confused: :confused:

"The wreck of the edmunnnnd fitzzzzgerallllddddddddddddd"" :eek3:

I think I'd pay money to see that. :p

Allison Krauss and Union Station


Asleep At the Wheel


About time!

How is it that George Jones hasn't got a mention yet?

About time!

How is it that George Jones hasn't got a mention yet?
we should not have to state the obvious

don't forget:

charlie pride
ray price
ronnie milsap

as for line dancin gotta have brooks & dunn

Of all the unexpected places The Netherlands is BIG on line dancing. There are a shitload of line dance clubs over here.
One peculiarity (as if Dutch people dressing as cowboys wasn't enough) is that the guys invariably wear a stetson with a coon tail attached at the back (no, I've no idea where they got that from)

Line dancing? Like The Harlem Shuffle? LOL.

Uhm, I learned how to two step a couple of weekends ago. It was fun. I've probably forgotten how it was done already tho... :p

add Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams, Uncle Tupelo, Neko Case, and Kasey Chambers to the list.

OMG, : orgasms :

I'm going to see Neko Case 2/17 and 2/18. :banana:

Allison Moorer, Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Robbie Fulks, Trigger Gospel, Aaron Watson

Lyle Lovett too.