New Ken Burns documentary on Country Music

No Sixteen Tons?

Still a better list than sirius xm did for its top 1000 country songs of all time, with the number 1 being Friends in Low Places, good bar anthem, not the top country song of all time.

 

Beat me to it.

 

Well, that and an entire generation of "country" artists who grew up listening to Skynyrd and Tom Petty and the Eagles. I love all three, but it still isn't country music. It's harder to parse someone like Chris Stapleton, whose version of "Tennessee Whisky" is country as hell, but who still is as much blues and bluegrass as he is country.

I don't care too much about trying to stuff people into niches, but I'm somewhat picky and snobbish about my country. I guess that started when Nashville started putting strings behind all kinds of so-called "country". When someone like Dwight Yoakam came along and consciously hit the reset button I was very happy.

Florida-Georgia Line gives me a rash.

 

Once you reach mid-90s country you also run into music abomination issues.

 

Well, good. Keep those goat ropers out of there.

 

The Possum’s “He Stopped Loving Her Today” is No. 1 until someone takes the title away, and Tammy Wynette is dead and Loretta Lynn is a pet project at this point.

 

I would have thought Garth would have been a logical ending point if you're not going to be "up to now." Garth charting no. 1 overall after record sales began being recorded by sound scan rather than record company reports ushered in a lot of interest outside of Nashville, record companies starting Nashville specific labels, tv specials, radio stations flipping to a country format.

 

There’s starting to be a reconvergence of country and pop music in the Billboard charts, although nobody alive today is spinning a true Top 40. Thomas Rhett, Blake Shelton and Luke Combs are all over the pop charts along with Old Town Road in its TENTH week at No. 1. Break out the mechanical bull again!

 

People can quibble all they want about Garth, but he is still the #1 selling solo artist of all time.

Of all genres. Second on the sales list only to The Beatles. Above Elvis, Michael Jackson, Elton John and Billy Joel.

https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=top_tallies&ttt=TAA#search_section

 

So, what happens when you play this Ken Burns’ documentary backwards?

 

I'm not griping about Garth Brooks at all. If I was going to pick his top song ever, The Dance would be it. But nothing tops the Possum. Best country song Ever.