― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.furious.com/perfect/garystewart.html
― mikey, Friday, 6 August 2004 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link
i'd love to hear a really sweet compilation of this stuff. anyone know if that exists?
jaXoN, i could see those examples lumped in with this category for sure... any slick overorchestrated country music is cool by me!
wikipedia includes elvis presley's "suspicion minds" as an example of countrypolitan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_sound#Examples_of_Countrypolitan
― akaky akakievich, Saturday, 26 September 2009 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I love "Heaven's Just a Sin Away" so much.
― clotpoll, Saturday, 26 September 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
search: Don Williams "Tulsa Time" "Good Ole Boys Like Me" Glen Campbell "Wichita Linemen" "By the Time I Get To Phoenix" "Rhinestone Cowboy"also, Charlie Pride has a good country voice
destroy: kenny rogers & ronnie millsap
all things considered I prefer willie, kris & waylon
― lukevalentine, Sunday, 14 March 2010 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess Willie has his crossover hits & pop production too, but I am thinking of the Red Headed Stranger period
― lukevalentine, Sunday, 14 March 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Classic - Most of these tunes listed are pretty great.
Dud - It probably led to the de-countrynization of country music, where a good portion of country music now sounds like Bryan Adams instead of George Jones.
― earlnash, Sunday, 14 March 2010 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Ronnie Milsap has some good stuff, actually.
Ronnie Milsap
And though I agree lots of country sounds more like commercial rock used to now, it's also worth saying that country's de-countinazation has probably been in process almost as long as country's existed. (George Jones didn't sound like Jimmie Rodgers, either.)
― xhuxk, Sunday, 14 March 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
George Jones definitely sounds country, if more to Hank Williams than Jimmie Rogers. You could have the Possum singing in Opeth and it would probably still sound like country with that voice.
It is what it is, probably Anne Murray was one of those singers that was hugely popular on country music radio in the 70s and 80s, that really didn't sound country, but it does make sense next to many of the female artists that have dominated country music over the past couple of decades.
― earlnash, Monday, 15 March 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
and charlie rich is not cheez-pop. he's one of the all-time great pop (and country, and r&b, and a few other thing) singers. and from the '50s through the mid-'70s, he as often as not had absolutely worthy material to go with that voice.
- fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, August 6, 2004 8:52 AM (5 years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzBt-2jQ3Iw
― that's not my post, Monday, 15 March 2010 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link