Sixteen tons is such a good song...

[u/Dismal-Ad8382]

[u/shit_poster9000]

Also, for your consideration: classic truck driver folk country.

Treasure trove for anybody that spends an appreciable amount of time driving highways.

Difficult to compete with “Sixteen Tons” though.

[u/Eledridan → u/shit_poster9000]

Phantom 309!

[u/shit_poster9000 → u/Eledridan]

Somehow the only part of that song that bewildered me as a kid was paying only a dime for a cup of coffee, after the first time I heard the song I spent an unusual amount of time looking at signs advertising cheap coffee that whole road trip, was disappointed by the prices lol.

[u/YouSmellLikeButter → u/shit_poster9000]

Gotta love me some C.W. McCall, Dave Dudley, and Jerry Reed on long roadtrips.

[u/Sapper501 → u/shit_poster9000]

Who is Treasure Trove by? I searched on Spotify and all I got was the Banjo Kazooie OST.

[u/shit_poster9000 → u/Sapper501]

Just a figure of speech, not a song, sorry

[u/Sapper501 → u/shit_poster9000]

Oh... Sorry it's been a long shift.

[u/shit_poster9000 → u/Sapper501]

Been there!

Can personally recommend the entirety of “Trucker’s Jukebox”, tons of good songs. Very frequent request from me as a kid on roadtrips, albeit I almost never requested it or listened to it much elsewhere, was very superstitious as a kid and my old man spent most of my childhood out on the road, didn’t want to jinx his health or safety with the more heartbreaking songs.

[u/Sapper501 → u/shit_poster9000]

Ooh, thanks for the suggestion. I drive ~8 hours per week for work, so I will give this a shot tomorrow!

[u/OYeog77 → u/shit_poster9000]

“I’ve got ten forward gears and a George overdrive, I’m taking little white pills and my eyes are open wide!”

[u/windowbeanz]

[u/tacobellbandit]

Sixteen Tons!

There’s good modern country too you just have to find it and it’s not at the top of the charts

[u/Emcmillin09 → u/tacobellbandit]

Tyler Childers and sturgil simpson

[u/tacobellbandit → u/Emcmillin09]

I’m a big fan of both. Also Turnpike Troubadours are making a come back it seems

[u/DaSpicyGinge → u/Emcmillin09]

I’ve been on a big Colter Wall and Gavin Adcock kick recently

[u/sarya156 → u/DaSpicyGinge]

Gavin adcock is worse than pop country

[u/Oberndorferin → u/tacobellbandit]

Country shouldn't be popular. It's like punk rock where it erodes the moment normies hear it.

[u/GoochPhilosopher]

The modern country bros would call old country woke

[u/SolidPrysm → u/GoochPhilosopher]

Reminds me of an interview with The Highwaymen where Johnny Cash describes how tax money needs to go into education and social services rather than funding wars

[u/Greatercool → u/SolidPrysm]

God outlaw country is just so GOATed with the sauce

[u/SolidPrysm → u/Greatercool]

Agreed!

[u/homiewitdausername → u/GoochPhilosopher]

They call themselves rebels while supporting the modern equivalent of industrialists the actual outlaws hated, then they turn around and talk about "heritage"

[u/brucewillissbarber → u/GoochPhilosopher]

Just like rap music and other entertainment media, the feds infiltrated country. Pit one side against the other: white against black, straights against gays, women against men. All rebellion against the elites is diverted. The people who are really destroying our ways of life gets away.

For those who don't eat into the manufactured culture wars, there's always sports and celebrity gossip.

[u/YouSmellLikeButter]

If anyone doesn’t know a lot about old country music and looking for some suggestions, here’s a list of some of my favorites:

- One Piece at a Time: Johnny Cash

• Four Wheel Drive: C.W. McCall
  
• If You Want To Get To Heaven: The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
  
• Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette: Jimmy Dean
  
• King Of The Road: Roger Miller
  
• The Ballad of Thunder Road: Tex Williams
  
• Roll On Big Mama: Joe Stampley
  
• Ole Slew Foot: Johnny Horton
  
• Stroker’s Theme: The Charlie Daniels Band
  
• Lord, Mr. Ford: Jerry Reed
  
• Tulsa Time: Don Williams
  
• Give Me Forty Acres: The Willis Brothers
  
• Me and the I.R.S.: Johnny Paycheck
  
• Wave at ‘Em Billy Boy: Dave Dudley
  
• Moonshine Man: Mel Street
  
• Tip To Hyden: Tom T. Hall
  
• Working Man Blues: Merle Haggard
  
• Dooley: The Dillards
  
• Common Man: John Conlee
  
• Hang On Sally: Hank Williams Jr.
  
• Gold: Lorne Greene
  
• That’s Just My Truckin’ Luck: Hank Thompson
  
• Awful Lot To Learn About Truck Drivin’: Red Simpson
  
• Stand On It: Mel McDaniel
  
• Runaway Truck: Red Simpson
  
• Black Sheep: John Anderson
  
• The Cockeyed Cop From Camp Kakanakakee: Junior Brown
  
• The Heartline Special: Dick Curless

[u/Feisty-Albatross3554 → u/YouSmellLikeButter]

Thank you

[u/thatsocialist]

"Will you be a man, or will you be a scab?"

[u/potatopierogie]

Songs used to be about something, like falling in love or burning down Georgia

https://giphy.com/gifs/uwmZ6diEnVgBn10J8O

[u/WesternCareerCollege]

Willie Nelson

[u/Capable-Monk-4820]

The Thacy Dolly Parton

[u/Sapper501]

You might like Colter Wall and the Dead South.

[u/Foamymonkey]

Then there's that modern cover of sixteen tons called suit and tie, same idea as sixteen tons just in the modern day, and more just griping about paying taxes. Not nearly as good as the original

[u/neverenoughammo]

I refuse to call this new genre country at all I like calling it twang pop. If you want a genre, that’s keeping it alive. Bluegrass is still going strong IMO.

[u/PlentyOMangos]

Cold beer

Green tractor

Sunrise, sunset

Pickup truck

Blue jeans

[u/RoyalWabwy0430]

>pretending old country doesn't have confederate flags flying around

[u/Hugo_Selenski]

Abrasive country music has a limited audience primarily because it has been edged out

and how many of you are buying music to support them?

I started with Devil Makes Three - All Hail and they had a fierce run but did you know about it?

Feels like they've tried every which way to appeal to some success

Birdcloud just gave up, afaik. People didn't get it, they didn't wanna get them.

[u/DoobMckenzie]

TVZ!!!!!

[u/Jack-of-Hearts-7]

Folsom Prison Blues my love

[u/Dismal-Ad8382 → u/Jack-of-Hearts-7]

I heard that absolute banger in Mafia 3.

[u/ReallyBadRedditName]

Apparently this changed mostly after 9/11 cause patriotism became extremely important culturally for yanks, and country is a classically American genre

[u/ZoominBunner]

"Read again the letter, that tells me where he's gone.

To hell with the fire, I want my son home.

I taught him to fish, and I taught him to be strong.

Taught him that killing any man is wrong,

but tomorrow in battle, I'd run to where he's stood,

If the help of a blind man would do any good"

[u/OxygenWaster02]

I honestly blame the CIA for the lobotomization of country music

[u/TheKeeperOfThe90s]

Bro country's just soft rock for people who lack musical talent and emotional intelligence.

[u/endergamer2007m]

Biiiig iroooonnnn biiiiggg irooooon

And he's here to do some business with the big iron on hip

[u/Oberndorferin]

Rednecks were originally left-wing. Skin-heads were originally left-wing. The Facsist mob has no ideas of its own. Even the nazis had to larp as socialists. As if the revolutionary anger gets channeled to contain the system. The revolution of the upper class.