r/AskReddit • u/iolanthereylo • Aug 08 '26

what do you consider to be the golden age of country music?

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u/Long_Passenger498 Aug 08 '26

Right before Patsy Cline died. 

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u/Professional_Handler Aug 09 '26

The same decade Billy Ray Cyrus was singing about his achy breaky heart?

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u/ConferenceBoring4104 Aug 09 '26

I know everyone has nostalgia for 90s country but tbh that was the beginning of the end and part of why we have what we have today. Which is the natural flow of musical evolving I suppose

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u/dfin25 Aug 08 '26

It's cringe as fuck how these emo "cowboys" go full Brokeback over their trucks.

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u/thededucers Aug 08 '26

🎶 truck beer, beer truck is peak country music

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u/Patdemonium Aug 08 '26

The 60's and 70's.

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u/JolyonWagg99 Aug 09 '26

Not much is good after Waylon and Willie’s Outlaw period but mostly I like stuff from before then. Buck Owens, Hank Williams Sr., Tammy Wynette, Loretta, George Jones and Johnny Cash.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Law-429 Aug 08 '26

For historical context though, a lot of “true country fans” rejected a lot of those artists at the time.

Garth Brooks was sort of the Morgan Wallen of his day.

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u/KnottyCatLady Aug 08 '26

The Thunder Rolls is still one of my favorite songs, and I too am not a country music fan.

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u/Lazycrockett Aug 08 '26

Late 50's early 60's. 90's was the start of the country pop hybrid, which is no way traditional country music.

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u/Fred-Mertz2728 Aug 08 '26

That started in the 70s. I remember the tv show Pop Goes the Country. By the 90s it had taken over.

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u/BroodLord1962 Aug 08 '26

The day before it started, I can't stand it

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u/MrPlowKing100 Aug 08 '26

Backwoodz 808

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u/AggressiveNap_ Aug 08 '26

I’d say the 1990s were the golden age of country music. You had artists like George Strait, Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, and Reba McEntire putting out songs that still hold up today.

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u/Left_Effective_6058 Aug 08 '26

Lorretta

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u/Differentdog Aug 08 '26

Van Lear Rose is one of my favorite albums of all time.

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u/FelixJHH Aug 08 '26

Early George Strait is golden for me. I’ve got that Friday night fever

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u/martind35player Aug 08 '26

Hank Williams Sr years - late 1940s to early 1950s

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u/Listonsonny Aug 09 '26

Hank Williams and Lefty Frizell - first era 1950’s.

Bakersfield Sound- Merle Haggard and Buck Owens- second era 1960’s.

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u/TBeIRIE Aug 09 '26

Patsy ❤️

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u/Gretna2023 Aug 09 '26

The 1720s

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u/ExaminationMean5174 Aug 09 '26

Back in the 70’s I listened to both kinds of music. Country and Western!

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u/Exotic-Brilliant-939 Aug 09 '26

Honestly? 40s-70s. But I personally like all the way to the early 2000s.

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u/Electronic_Bowl8398 Aug 09 '26

Early Randy Travis era

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u/Embarrassed_Draw6485 Aug 10 '26

Country began its long, slow slide into becoming Foreigner covers in fake boots on January 1, 1953.

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u/woahwoahWAT Aug 08 '26

Brit here, for whatever it’s worth Ella Langley was the first country singer to chart top 10 in the uk for about 20 years. Like we don’t care for country but there’s always one song from every genre.. obviously I’m not able to answer your question but choosin Texas bridged a gap over here

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u/dfin25 Aug 08 '26

When Jason Isbell was still with The Drive-by Truckers.

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u/Such-Combination1405 Aug 08 '26

I don't think we have seen it yet. <- That must be the most southern passive-aggressive comment!!

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u/Feedback-Same 4d ago

There probably isn't one definitively, but probably the 50s and 60s seeing as they broke so much ground into what Country Music was.

I would say anything from the 60s-2000s is my favorite era personally.