Hillbilly Music !

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Before the term 'Country' caught hold there was Hillbilly Music, old fashioned fighin', lovin', cheatin' and cryin' in your beer music.
What comes out of Nashville now can't be called Country in any stretch of the imagination, when you have to rely on strobe lites and smoke pots on the stage, or a pretty face that can hold a note, it ain't country. Period.
If anyone is intersested in hearing the Old stuff, true 'Hillbilly Music' check out;

WDVX - Welcome

Tonite from 1900 to 2200 hrs they play nothin' but the real thing. It is not for everyone, but if you grew up with this, or your tastes run to the old classics, it's for you!!
RD
 
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Love the Hilltoppers, i believe they play them on WDVX, the best station in the world, they started broadcasting on 89.9 out of Clinton TN in 1998, i've been listening since they fired up the transmitter.
Bluegrass Forever.
RD
 
Yep they surely do have some good stuff. I can swing all the way from the old time/mountain music to bluegrass and big bands all the way to the classical like Mozart Dvorak Tchaikovsky Chopin Enescu Strauss Etc. also love older scottish and celtic styles polkas and much more. NEarly anything except this modern crap. Even like Cajun.
 
[QUOTEwhen you have to rely on strobe lites and smoke pots on the stage, or a pretty face that cannot hold a note, it ain't country. /QUOTE]

How True. There is a saying in the industry, "If you cannot sing and cannot dance...Make a PRODUCTION our of it."

ET---is Ernest Tubb, the Texas Troubador, NOT some alien on a bike.
 
Hillbilly Music

I grew up listening to country music as performed by Jimmy Rodgers, Hank Williams,
Kitty Wells, Tex Ritter, Flatt & Scruggs, Ernest Tubb, Bill Monroe, Little Jimmy Dickens,
Jimmy Martin, Grandpa Jones, String Bean, Hank Snow, Porter Wagoner, The Stanley Bros. and many others on WSM & the Grand Ol' Opry. What they call "country music" today is no more country than a hog is beef. It's an very much overproduced, homogenized verison of soft rock and pop which, in my opinion, is not worth the time to listen to it. Being from East Kentucky, I also lament the lack of good "Bluegrass" music to be found on the air today
 
Actually this is Honky Tonk music at it's best, THE classic Cheatin' song, Mel Streets'
Borrowed Angel:

YouTube - MEL STREET "BORROWED ANGEL" VIDEO

Capitalizing on this hit, Mel followed it up with a song that got him banned from airplay for a long time, this song was forbidden to be played on WSM or any of it's affiliates, it dealt with a Taboo subject, then and now, an affair with an underaged girl, implied, but enough to have the rug yanked out under him. Another great song:
Forbidden Angel:

YouTube - Mel Street - Forbidden Angel

Mel lived the life, and it caught up with him, he ended up capping himself after a career full of living.

Bluegrass and Honky Tonk, or Hillbilly are really two different genre's, here's another great example, Web Peirces' "There Stands the Glass".

YouTube - Webb Pierce - There Stands the Glass

Guady costumes aside some great songs, sad when you really listen to the lyrics, Web was a troubled man who couldn't shake the bottle, he used to pay a man to carry his liquor for him in a briefcase, as he didn't want to have it on him.

And finally, here is a song that is a true 'Honky Tonkin Hillbilly Classic' the next time your out late, way late and know your in trouble, remember this one for the Misses:
'Don't pay the ransom, I've escaped'

YouTube - Don't Pay The Ransom Pete Hammond

As I said, this type of music is not for everyone, to some it is like fingernails on chalkboards, but to me, it's wonderful, the music I grew up with, hope y'all enjoyed.
RD
 
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There Stands The Glass" Was considered the first real crossover song to the honky tonk music of the outlaws....Most of them always commented about that song. The introduction of drums to country music changed it from hill billy to the Willie, Waylon, Tom Paul and the Glazer brothers, etc type that probably saved country music as a big money game, Not to mention the king of new country Hank Williams. All music progresses some good some not so good. In the 50s WCKY in Cincinnati a very powerful station by those standards could be heard all over, i was told they could even pick it up in Yellow Knife, NW territories.
 
special44 said:
I grew up listening to country music as performed by Jimmy Rodgers, Hank Williams,
Kitty Wells, Tex Ritter, Flatt & Scruggs, Ernest Tubb, Bill Monroe, Little Jimmy Dickens,
Jimmy Martin, Grandpa Jones, String Bean, Hank Snow, Porter Wagoner, The Stanley Bros. and many others on WSM & the Grand Ol' Opry. What they call "country music" today is no more country than a hog is beef. It's an very much overproduced, homogenized verison of soft rock and pop which, in my opinion, is not worth the time to listen to it. Being from East Kentucky, I also lament the lack of good "Bluegrass" music to be found on the air today
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Sirius/XM has a Bluegrass channel!
 
Or you could combine bluegrass with rock, like these guys did. ;)

YouTube - Hayseed Dixie - Holiday

But seriously, I grew up on REAL country and Bluegrass. My neice and nephew have released their 2nd album. They aren't "famous" yet, but they're trying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7dgyhOMyM0

The other two "old fellas" are my brother, Robbie and Jerry Dilday, a family friend and the bands bassist.
 
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"Being from East Kentucky, I also lament the lack of good "Bluegrass" music to be found on the air today."

Check out WBRF, 98.1, out of Galax, Virginia. Galax is the "World's Capital of Old Time Music" and has the oldest fiddler's convention in the country every August. WBRF is on the 'Net and has bluegrass and old time on every evening at 6 PM. Most every Friday night at 8 PM, they broadcast live from the Rex Theater in downtown Galax. The shows are bluegrass, old time and/or gospel. They also broadcast the Fiddler's Convention competition in August.
 
Smithhound my wife's people are from Lee Co. VA, I bet you know where Jonesville is. Hillbilly music is something I love to listen to when I'm "down home". I just don't say "hillbilly" when I'm there!

Good music, good food and great views are always to be had in "your neck of the woods".

GF
 
"Smithhound my wife's people are from Lee Co. VA, I bet you know where Jonesville is. Hillbilly music is something I love to listen to when I'm "down home". I just don't say "hillbilly" when I'm there!"

I have a buddy that lives in Jonesville and works in Wise, Virginia.

It's OK to say "us hillbillies", but if you say "you hillbillies", you're likely to hear "It's a Yankee. Git a rope!" :D

My county seat, Independence, Virginia, hosts the Commonwealth's official privy races:

Mountain Foliage Festival & Grand Privy Races - Virginia Is For Lovers

Racing potties is town's specialty - Roanoke.com
 
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