New Country Classics ????????????

Eddie Malray · Post by **Eddie Malray** » 17 Oct 2004 10:26 am

Greetings all: I was wondering if anyone can name a song that has been recorded and had a lot of air time within the last 5 years or so that will become a "Country Classic" and be played and sung by the next generations? I can't think of one myself. There have been a lot of great songs but I con't think they will stand the test of time as did songs like Your Cheating Heart, Crazy, Today I Started Loving You Again, and many others that most older musicians still add to their set list. Just Wondering-----Eddie

Donna Dodd · Post by **Donna Dodd** » 17 Oct 2004 11:08 am

. . . still thinking . . .

Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 17 Oct 2004 11:09 am

Eddie,

Thanks for your statement! I have been wondering myself often, my answer is: There are no songs that fall into that category!

I cannot think of one song that will live through the ages, like the Han Williams classics, or the classics written by Haggard, Owens, Tillis, Nelson or the professional writers of the past like Harlan Howard, Cindy Walker, Dallas Frazier etc.

Ask yourself a simple question: How many of today's songs can you hum and repeat after one listen? A lot of today's songs are constructed, overfilled with chords and melodies that simply won't stay in your ear.

Lloyd Green made an interesting comment a little while ago that these new songs don't fit to be played as instrumentals because nothing is left of the song once the words are taken away...

Kind Regards, Walter

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JB Arnold · Post by **JB Arnold** » 17 Oct 2004 4:25 pm

Surely Alan Jackson would be responsible for at least a couple....

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Ron Whitworth · Post by **Ron Whitworth** » 17 Oct 2004 4:34 pm

Maybe 2 possibles????????
Don't Rock the Jukebox
Just Call Me Lonesome

And both shuffles too!!!!!! Ron

OOPS!!! Just realized both of these songs are out of your 5 year timeline..Ron<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Ron Whitworth on 17 October 2004 at 05:37 PM.]</p></FONT>

Pat Carlson · Post by **Pat Carlson** » 17 Oct 2004 6:29 pm

How about I'm Gonna Miss Her,the fishing song by Brad Paisley.

Don Joslin · Post by **Don Joslin** » 18 Oct 2004 4:40 am

Not really sure because I've only started listening to the 'new country' within the last year. But, I would think that Brad Paisley, Alan Jackson, and maybe George Strait might have a couple.

Don

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Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 18 Oct 2004 7:25 am

Aw, you mean "Save A Horse, Ride..." ain't gonna be in one of them big thick "classic country" guitar/song books on the shelf next to the "Van Halen" songbooks in 20 years?.

Ron ! · Post by **Ron !** » 18 Oct 2004 8:01 am

Instead of 5 years i would say 10 years.

"Look At Us" would have a chance.

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Ben Slaughter · Post by **Ben Slaughter** » 18 Oct 2004 1:20 pm

"Hey Good Looking" Jimmy Buffet, oh wait, ummm... You'd be amazed at how many people my age (mid 20's) have no idea that song is is an old Hank Sr. tune.

Speaking of amazed, "Amazed," by Lonestar may survive (probably more than 5 years old). I sure hope more than a few of Paisley's make it, they should. Unfortunately, some of Toby Keith's cheesy stuff will too.

Eddie Malray · Post by **Eddie Malray** » 18 Oct 2004 1:45 pm

Ron: I agree. I think "Look At Us" has a good chance. Ben: I don't think Toby Keith will last another five years. Just my thinking.

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 18 Oct 2004 7:32 pm

I really don't think we can even speculate about what will become future classics, tho we do.

Our classics were made when we were young and full of fire and I'm sure we never thought of them being classics at the time.

Yet now, being older and (wiser?) we look back at the days of our youth and with hindsight can pick out the classics.

I think in 20 or 30 years todays country youth will pick their own classic songs to add to ours. Their pick may suprise us.

Similar to the automobile ad: This is not your fathers country music.

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 19 Oct 2004 3:53 am

People tend to fixate on the music from their adolescence and early twenties, and see before and everything after as dreck. Frank Sinatra -> Elvis -> Mick Jagger -> Marilyn Manson, who's really the hottest? I still get chills from the "dee-doo-doo-dee-dee-dee" section of "Freebird", though my new medication is helping with that....