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6:10pm July 19, 2013
feliscorvus: youneedacat: I finally found the one tiny corner of my room that was unused, and got someone to move my record player into it. So I can listen to Lacy J. Dalton again! I mean, I’ve got most of her songs transferred into MP3 files now. (Practically none of her old songs, even the really good ones, exist for MP3. Probably because of her feud with Nashville? IDK.  But most of her stuff only exists on records.) But for some reason it just feels better to listen to it straight off of the record. So that’s what I’m doing. I grew up on this stuff, so it’s some of the most comforting music ever. It’s funny… so much of the music I heard growing up was country, that… I’d think all the different styles of country were all the different styles of music in general. It always surprised me to learn that, say, Lacy J. Dalton, or Kris Kristofferson, were country. Not because they weren’t. But because my ear differentiated between all these different sounds, I assumed some were country and some weren’t. Rather than that they were different styles of country. (And I still have trouble seeing most modern country as country. A lot of it sounds like pop with a Southern accent. And… Southern doesn’t mean country.  Meanwhile I show a lot if my favorite music to young country fans and they often get perplexed, like they like it but they’ve never heard anything like it before and don’t know what to make of it.) !!! YOU HAVE A RECORD PLAYER AND IT IS A REALLY COOL ONE TOO. Seriously, sorry about the caps but I literally squeaked out loud when I saw that. And agreed re. country music. I used to think I hated country because all I’d really heard was the “pop with Southern accent" stuff, which was essentially the same as the typical top-40 pop that held no appeal for me either, save for the accent part. But then I realized that I actually did like some specific songs (like some by Johnny Cash?) that were country. And then I discovered I *really* liked a lot of what would likely be considered “proto-country", i.e. Appalachian folk music. I have still not heard a ton of Lacy J. Dalton but from the bits I have it is definitely closer to Country I Like vs. Annoying Pop With Southern Accent.

feliscorvus:

youneedacat:

I finally found the one tiny corner of my room that was unused, and got someone to move my record player into it. So I can listen to Lacy J. Dalton again!

I mean, I’ve got most of her songs transferred into MP3 files now. (Practically none of her old songs, even the really good ones, exist for MP3. Probably because of her feud with Nashville? IDK.  But most of her stuff only exists on records.)

But for some reason it just feels better to listen to it straight off of the record.

So that’s what I’m doing.

I grew up on this stuff, so it’s some of the most comforting music ever.

It’s funny… so much of the music I heard growing up was country, that… I’d think all the different styles of country were all the different styles of music in general. It always surprised me to learn that, say, Lacy J. Dalton, or Kris Kristofferson, were country. Not because they weren’t. But because my ear differentiated between all these different sounds, I assumed some were country and some weren’t. Rather than that they were different styles of country.

(And I still have trouble seeing most modern country as country. A lot of it sounds like pop with a Southern accent. And… Southern doesn’t mean country.  Meanwhile I show a lot if my favorite music to young country fans and they often get perplexed, like they like it but they’ve never heard anything like it before and don’t know what to make of it.)

!!! YOU HAVE A RECORD PLAYER AND IT IS A REALLY COOL ONE TOO.

Seriously, sorry about the caps but I literally squeaked out loud when I saw that. And agreed re. country music. I used to think I hated country because all I’d really heard was the “pop with Southern accent" stuff, which was essentially the same as the typical top-40 pop that held no appeal for me either, save for the accent part. But then I realized that I actually did like some specific songs (like some by Johnny Cash?) that were country. And then I discovered I *really* liked a lot of what would likely be considered “proto-country", i.e. Appalachian folk music. I have still not heard a ton of Lacy J. Dalton but from the bits I have it is definitely closer to Country I Like vs. Annoying Pop With Southern Accent.