Some thoughts about Deans Country Music post

I really enjoyed reading all of the songs and lyrics from songs that are so much a part of my memories. Been to a lot of late night BBQ?s and corn roast over the years with my oldest brother, and entertained the folks playing guitar and singing many of these old country and Bluegrass tunes. All of these tunes speak to us at different times in our lives, and can bring back warm smiles, just by reading the words over. Why the heck don?t they play more of this music on the radio. Some times when I am in a store and some crappie modern rap, or hip hop crap is blaring through the store, I just want to leave. I am sure other shoppers must feel the same. We went to supper a week ago, near everybody in the restaurant had some, if not all grey hair. And the music in the place was awful. You would think the management would take a look at the clientele and play background music that would make them feel comfortable, and want to come back. But no, they seem to let the tattoo wearing face piercings control the canned music, and play the racket they need to hear.

Agree!!!

It's good to know that some folks enjoyed the thread.

I very much like country music from the 1950s - 1960s but lost interest sometime in the 1970s. What passes for country music today is of no interest to me.

When I want to hear music, I go to YouTube.

Dean

I have grey hairs, and feel the same way when I hear COUNTRY music......
Can't stand the modern "music" either, but hate the "drunk cats" whining around most country songs....
Point is, in any given group - regardless of age - there will be various likes and dislikes of ANY music selection....

All I ever listened to,even in high school,was country. I can tell you right when I lost interest in it. It was when I literally couldn't turn on the radio without hearing Kenny Rogers or The Oak Ridge Boys. That's when country music died for me. Now it has to be country oldies or bluegrass.

"Why the heck don?t they play more of this music on the radio."

For years they did on the AM side of the local AM/FM station. I'd listen to it all day in the tractor cab. For some reason,on January first,they went to playing the same thing on AM as they do on FM. I don't even know what to call it. I'm too OCD to even be able to listen to it. I need things to be organized and have some kind of continuity. I guess this stuff is 80s and 90s pop or something. It just makes my skin crawl after a real short time.

(quoted from post at 07:32:01 04/08/18) We went to supper a week ago, near everybody in the restaurant had some, if not all grey hair. And the music in the place was awful. You would think the management would take a look at the clientele and play background music that would make them feel comfortable, and want to come back. But no, they seem to let the tattoo wearing face piercings control the canned music, and play the racket they need to hear.

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Thats when you find the manager and tell him to either turn it off or switch to something different.

Numerous times I too have objected to the obnoxious noise that stores think patrons cain't wait to hear....or is it for the benefit for the employees? Restaurants are a problem too. When the music is too loud I just turn around and walk out. In either case talking to the manager is a waste of time and besides unlike the political arena today, it's their business. If they want to play the music fine. If I don't like it, I don't have to go there, not start whining and crying and attempting to force them to play just the music I like.

KMON 560 AM on your radio dial plays the older country music. Located in Great Falls Montana. Bud

Love country and bluegrass, my daughter says everyone I listen to is dead, sadly it?s true, can?t stand the ?new? stuff!

Thing is you can't please everyone. I'm 62. If I walked into an eatery that was playing 50s-60s country music I'd walk out. That simple. The wife and I eat out several times a month on a slow month. We do not go to the "family" owned cafés because IMO they generally are not that good. Nor do we go to fast food places. But in most of the places we go to we are part of the very few "older" people there. Mostly what we see are people with kids, with the parents in the late 20's to mid 40's age groups. When the customer base is mostly in that age group they seldom want 50-60s music of any type :shock: !

Guys, I gotta ask a couple of questions here.

1: Are we that old that what "good music" is has become a topic of conversation?

2: Some of you, no most of you must have lead sheltered lives! Where are the hearing aids? If you had lived right you couldn't hear the music yer complaining about!

3: And have we also become part of that crowd that we hated when we were young? That really old people who were intolerant of us but were not smart enough to understand that it was us who were going to pick their nursing homes?

Rick

So does WRVK1460 dot com out of Mt Vernon Ky. I hook it up as soon as I get up in the morning and leave it an all the time I'm in the house. I can't get it in the tractor or pickup though.

Bruce the fact is we are too OLD!!!!! LOL Most of the wizards of smarts tell everyone that the main money spenders are in the 30-45 years old age group. So the radio stations which have become mainly owned by corporations that own many stations. They switch to playing the top 100 song format of what ever type of music their station is playing. The songs most of us "like" will not be on those lists as we do not buy or down load hardly any music. So the advertising people are correct, at least as far as music is concerned.

What music people listen too changes over time. I grew up listening to OLD style country. Mainly because that is what my family listened too. Plus there would not have been many rural stations that played anything else. Then in my 20s to 40s I listened to rock the majority of the time. Then as I got older I kind of switched to a mix of more modern country and older pop songs.

Truthfully I rarely listen to music anymore. A radio playing in the back ground or canned background music drives me crazy. My hearing is not terrible but it is bad enough I have trouble hearing individual sounds if there is background noises. An a radio is just that to me, background noise.

Funny one on that. When we had the semi trucks I did the majority of the maintenance. The drivers would complain I never would fix their Am/FM radios. When I get into any vehicle the first thing I do after it is running is turn the radio OFF. So unless they would tell me it was broke I just assumed it was turned off. LOL

We could only imagine what our grandfathers thought of the music we enjoyed when we were younger. Most radio stations are now FM and they play what is being sold in the marketplace for the most part, that makes economic sense. Around here, AM radio is pretty much talk radio, very little music played on AM anymore. I never did get into FM radio, most of what I listen to in the the car and talk radio is where I hang my hat if I decide to listen.

Once in awhile I don't care for the music that a store or restaurant is playing... but it's very seldom an issue for me.

I guess I like so many genre's that I'm pretty much "good to go" with about anything: old time polka/waltz music, country (even a BIT of the ol' twangy stuff), newer country, oldies rock, classic rock, reggae, some pop, some bluegrass, some classical, some gospel (both old-style hymns AND new-style contempory rockin' gospel)... and I listen to online Current Radio too and have found A LOT of great newer groups playing what they call Indie music.

I have Sirius radio in my pickup, and listen to Willie?s Road house.

KORN 1490 Mitchell SD.. Became famous after highlighted on Laff In with Gary Owens.

I usually listen to 50s on 5 in the car.

I like early R & R music also but less so after the British invasion.

Sounds like a topic for another thread....

here in alberta i have listened to CFCW 790 it is now cfcw 840.all my life.we just had our favorite announcer icon Bev.Monroe pass away at 89 years old. he was doing live music shows right up till now . today they are playing a memorial with him announcing from his past, attribute to him. he was a tall man with a very distinct outstanding warm voice. there is some of his singing on u tube if you type in "bev monroe". a real down to earth nice man. RIP.

Stay tuned. I might post this next Saturday night.

I have already thought of some of my favorite 50s - early 60s R&R/Pop songs (50s on 5 helps).

Think ahead.

Dean

Dale Aiker is from a small town close and is, I call a disc jockey, on 540 AM out of Fort Dodge Iowa and plays a lot of the older songs plus he does shows at different places singing and playing quitar. Hell of a nice guy. I myself have ALEXA and can ask her to play what I prefer {old time country},cannt beat it.

A fella that was close to me wrote "Blackboard of My Heart" back in the early 1950s, sold it to a fella for 50$, Hank Thompson recorded that in 1955. Good Song.

Dish Sattelite TV, Willie's Road House is on in the living room.