I also figured it was time I acted like I was a New Jersey resident or they'd kick me out!
*snerk* That he's from New Jersey/strongly identified with the state is pretty much the only thing I know about Springsteen.
I think we're basically in agreement on country. FWIW, I tend to put Alabama in the same category as Brooks & Dunn and the others I mentioned as exemplifying the style I hate in my first comment. I think my dichotomy might fall apart when we get to people who were around before the late 1980s, because I just don't know much about various country musics before then. (Like, I would probably have to agree that Willie Nelson and Hank Willians, Jr., are not in that category of pop-with-country-veneer, but I still can't stand them either.)
Oooh, okay, for once in my life the Country Music Hall of Fame has been useful: on their list of country styles, I tend to find "Country Rock," "Alternative Country," and "Singer/Songwriter" worthwhile, and dislike everything else, with an especial hate for "New Country." That was basically what I was trying to explain earlier, I think. :)
Red Dirt Girl is my favorite Emmylou Harris song, of those I've heard (and it's not a long list; I should check out more of her stuff, though man, she's produced a thousand songs). She's not someone I'd want on a desert island or anything, but I like what I've heard.
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Date: 2010-09-24 02:22 am (UTC)*snerk* That he's from New Jersey/strongly identified with the state is pretty much the only thing I know about Springsteen.
I think we're basically in agreement on country. FWIW, I tend to put Alabama in the same category as Brooks & Dunn and the others I mentioned as exemplifying the style I hate in my first comment. I think my dichotomy might fall apart when we get to people who were around before the late 1980s, because I just don't know much about various country musics before then. (Like, I would probably have to agree that Willie Nelson and Hank Willians, Jr., are not in that category of pop-with-country-veneer, but I still can't stand them either.)
Oooh, okay, for once in my life the Country Music Hall of Fame has been useful: on their list of country styles, I tend to find "Country Rock," "Alternative Country," and "Singer/Songwriter" worthwhile, and dislike everything else, with an especial hate for "New Country." That was basically what I was trying to explain earlier, I think. :)
Red Dirt Girl is my favorite Emmylou Harris song, of those I've heard (and it's not a long list; I should check out more of her stuff, though man, she's produced a thousand songs). She's not someone I'd want on a desert island or anything, but I like what I've heard.