The Music Of Pain...

[deird_lj]

Commiserate with me, for I have become a country & western fan.

It's all Fred Burkle's fault, in a way. She put a poster of The Dixie Chicks up in her lab, and I thought "Well, if Fred likes them, they can't be that bad."
Which, yes, is completely stupid, because
1) Fred is a fictional character
and
2) even as a fictional character, I have no idea whether she has good taste in music
but apparently my brain thought this was a good enough reason to buy a Dixie Chicks cd when I saw it on sale.

And it was really good.

And because no-one buys country & western music - ever - the cds keep on being on sale...
And I keep liking them...

This can't end well.

Comments

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

I will stand with you in your right to listen to the Music of Pain. I like the stuff. If you like it fairly twangy (George Jones, Merle Haggard), I can fix you up with a nice starter pack of my favorites on a mix cd or two.

Srsly.

[deird1]

Ooh! Srsly?
That'd be awesome.

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

What's hitting you so far that you especially like? Do you like the floaty harmonies or the twang of Dobro and steel guitar? Drinking and cheating? The latest modern stuff I do not have, but I adore George and Merle and a host of others, Dwight Yoakam, Marty Stuart, a buncha others. I can set you up.

Be twangy and proud!

[deird1]

Very into the twangyness. It's a lot of fun!

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

::rubs hands::

I will put some things together....

[mauvedragon.livejournal.com]

I enjoy the Dixie Chicks. "Not Ready to Make Nice" is particularly good. The sensitive new age cowpersons are a wonderful mix of spoof and country and western. I don't listen to much country and western music generally.

[immer-am-lesen.livejournal.com]

Garth Brooks rocks! :-D

[shapinglight]

Try Johnny Cash if you haven't already.

[fireflyfaery.livejournal.com]

When you're listening to 'Old Crow Medicine Show', *then* you can talk Country & Western.

(I used to be lulled to sleep by the banjo from my next-door-roommate. Wangaratta was awesome.)

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[rowanda380.livejournal.com]

I don't like much country, but I love the Dixie Chicks...you can't deny how catchy their music is and how talented they are at their instruments.

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Eh. The Dixie Chicks are absolutely the only country band I'll very easily admit to liking. I grew up with my parents listening to the stuff all the time, so there was an immediate not-wanting-to-like-it factor, plus just that whole thing of...I dunno, it's country.

But, okay, I will admit to knowing some of the words to and liking some songs by, say, Sara Evans, Sugarland, Brad Paisley...things like that. I resolutely refuse to buy their music, but I will admit that while most country music drives me batty, there is some tolerable stuff in the genre.

Most of which is the Dixie Chicks.

[washa-way.livejournal.com]

If you like the Chicks, I would strongly suggest trying some Alison Krauss next; she's a great singer, and a mean fiddle player to boot.

Also, her backing band, Union Station, includes Dan Tyminski, the guy who George Clooney was lip-synching to on "I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow" in O, Brother Where Art Thou?