Ken Burns has done it again!

[Archae]

This September Ken Burns has a new PBS mini-series, "Country Music."

Looks like it'll be great!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Think I'll skip that one. I usually love Burns' documentaries but

I hate country music. To me it's auditory teargas.

[Archae]

3. I don't hate all of it...

There are some tunes and singers I do enjoy, a lot.

I can't stand that "crying country," but I love groups like the Oak Ridge Boys, Alabama, Statler Brothers, Buck Owens and Roy Clark, Willie and Waylon, just so many.

[JoeOtterbein]

5. I did not see it all. Did they mention Parsons or Emmy Lou? nt

[Archae]

6. It was just a half-hour preview.

Coming this September, and I'm sure they will mention them.

[kairos12]

8. Auditory Teargas, I have to steal that one.

[Corgigal]

9. Yeah, I don't give one flip.

I don't like it either.

[MicaelS]

15. Would you say the same thing..

About the Dixie Chicks?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Yes. It's a musical style I don't like at all.

I am aware that the Dixie Chicks got in trouble for dissing Bush, and kudos to them, but that doesn't mean I have to like their music. I prefer classical music and I think country music is pretty awful.

[MicaelS]

22. Understood.

I love Classical music too. But I REALLY do not like most Jazz.

[we can do it]

21. Same here🤮

[stopbush]

2. Tired of his schtick of panning still photos, especially when there's plenty of video available.

Yawn inducing pretentious crap.

[JoeOtterbein]

4. I saw the preview. Looked great (really loved the older pics) and sounded better!

I love the really old country stuff. Can't wait to see it all!

[UniteFightBack]

11. Yeah the old country stuff is like a whole 'new' world to a lot of folks. Some good stuff in there

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. Loved Jazz, Baseball, Vietnam, WW II, National Parks, Civil War - I'll give this one a pass

my least favorite music genre by a mile.

[UniteFightBack]

10. I feel bad for the folks who just outright dismiss it and say I hate it. Patsy Cline for goodness

sake! I like something from almost every music genre. Why close yourself off like that? I saw a documentary a long time ago about early country music and it was very interesting and ya know what I heard a lot of songs I liked!

My favorite music is classic rock and old hip hop and disco but I would be very interested in seeing this.

[Archae]

12. I couldn't agree more.

One of the highlighted artists in the preview last night was Willie Nelson.

I confess to not liking what I call "crying country."
(And I'm kind of iffy on trucking songs too.)

Van Halen did a couple songs alongside Hank Williams Jr.

Exile, the group that did the 70's hit "Kiss You All Over" went over to country with "She's a Miracle."

[MicaelS]

16. You have to remember a lot of that hate..

Is sheer politics.

If Conservatives like it must be automatically terrible. Just like NASCAR.

Plenty of love though when the Dixie Chicks told off Bush.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. I like opera. A lot of people don't. If the whole cast of the Metropolitan Opera

came out in rabid opposition to Trump, would you run out and buy season tickets to the Met if you never liked opera before? Sometimes it's just a matter of personal taste and nothing to do with politics.

[MicaelS]

25. True. n/t

[ailsagirl]

13. Pure genius-- he's our national treasure

[Little Star]

14. +!000000

[Aristus]

17. Hell no.

Country music is just fascism with cowboy boots instead of jackboots.

[Archae]

20. Even Willie Nelson?

The Dixie Chicks?

Charley Pride?

Merle Haggard?

[Brother Buzz]

23. Go ahead and throw the baby out with the bathwater

Country music, indeed, has been usurped by the right it the last few decades, but there is a ton of old time Country music out there that is really outstanding.

If Hank Williams had half a chance, he'd come back and kick his asshole son into another world.

[MicaelS]

26. So if I like Country Music.

Does that automatically make me a Fascist?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. Not at all.

It might make you a person with dubious taste in music, though. . But, de gustibus non est disputandum. You're a fascist only if you like Lee Greenwood.

It does seem to be true, though, that country music seems to be more popular with Republicans than with Democrats, for reasons having nothing to do with a remarkable tolerance for nasal, out-of-tune singing, and here's a theory about why: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/friendly-interest/201809/why-republicans-listen-country-music-and-democrats-don-t

[AncientGeezer]

27. Really? Johnny Cash, Willie, Waylon,..etc are "facists"? Really?

Apparently we have a new definition of fascism.....

[Dave Starsky]

33. Johnny Cash - The Man in Black

His signature song. Tell me how this speaks "fascism" to you:

[Everyman Jackal]

19. You would like country if you would listen to some of the great songs like

My Horses Ain't Hungry by Kelly Harrell.

[sop]

28. There are so many great C&W songs

I can't take the Bro-country crap about trucks, beer and taking your girl down to the old swimmin' hole, but stuff like Merle Haggard's "Misery and Gin" stands the test of time.

[Everyman Jackal]

29. I first started listening to Webb Pierce and Kitty Wells.

I used to watch the Grand Ole Opry every chance I got. Luckily even when I was stationed in Turkey and Germany I could listen to Country and Western songs playing on the radio from stations in the Southwest.

[rurallib]

31. Got to watch out of curiosity

I wrote country music out of my life long ago, but maybe I missed something.
I can give it a try and I can always shut it of - always willing to try to learn.

[Captain Zero]

32. Whats not to like about Kris Kristofferson and...

Townes Van Zandt, Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison?