Countrypolitan.... Guilty Pleasure or Blight on the Cosmos?

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.

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.)

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.

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