Country music has been accused of moving too far away from its foundation in the modern era. With the commercialism of the music industry in general and the rush to digitize music and get it on the internet, it is difficult to know how far away country music has gotten from its roots.
To truly be able to tell you have to look at the beginning of country music and where it came from. Growing out of an era where instruments were not electronic, country was originally blues in nature conveying melancholy messages to make you think about what had gone wrong. In the 1930s country like most music was guitar and some drums. In the 1950s and 1960s the music and the message began to change although still stayed true with guitar, drums, and a little piano. Banjos and fingerpicking were what one thought of when you thought country.
Today’s country music is big sound, lots of bass, synthesizers, and is played on popular stations that feature multiple genres. It can be difficult to tell is a song is country or mainstream pop rock when you turn on the radio.
Fortunately, not all country music has gotten away from the fundamentals that made country great. Songs about how my truck won’t run, my dog ran away, and my girl left me and ain’t coming back are what country is all about. Songs that tear at your guts and make you feel the pain the singer relays across the radiowaves. Country was music that mattered, real issues, real messages.
To stay the same is to lose your edge they say. Perhaps that is why country music has changed so much. Classic country stations are now listened to by people in their late 30s and 40s. The true classic country close to its roots is found on the mold oldy stations and is listened to by music lovers in their golden year. Old, classic country isn’t found in bars or on the f.m. radio. It used to be you would get out your record player, some coke or pop shop pop in a bottle, and listen to the same songs you would see on Hee Haw.
Country music has now gone extreme. Everything must be extreme for the X and Y generation to even have a slight interest in listening to it. This desire for the extreme has drive modern country music to be either about nothing but entertaining like an episode of “Seinfeld” or way over the top dramatic like an episode of “ER”. There is no middle ground anymore, no mainstream country, country has all gone mainstream. The performers are beautiful, digitally and physically enhanced, and not true to the roots that made this genre of music classic.
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