When y'all die and go to hell, "Sweet Home Alabama" is going to play on a loop and you'll think back to this conversation and about how right Ole Verc was.
Verc, what do you listen to?
Open minded guy, I like it. Jane Says is a song I like a lot. I hate modern country too man. Most of it is garbage, just an attempt to reach more than one crowd instead of actually making a decent written song. I've never tried out jazz, but I'd like to. Idk how much this is blues, but I like Stevie Ray Vaughn a lot as well. I try and listen to everything and give it a shot, except screamo heavy stuff. That is awful.Singer-songwriter stuff. Indie rock stuff. Blues of every conceivable flavor. Jazz of every kind but the "smooth" variety. Alt-country/"Americana" country and old-school Johnny Cash/George Jones/Tammy Wynette country, but not the modern Nashville power-pop country crap on the radio. Like every old bastard, I have a heavy bit of nostalgia crap on rotation, but I try not to let it be more than half of what I listen to. I mean, I could listen to Black Sabbath and the Pixies and the Cure and Jane's Addiction all day every day and be perfectly happy, but I work pretty hard to keep up with what's new. I still listen to college radio pretty obsessively.
Open minded guy, I like it. Jane Says is a song I like a lot. I hate modern country too man. Most of it is garbage, just an attempt to reach more than one crowd instead of actually making a decent written song. I've never tried out jazz, but I'd like to. Idk how much this is blues, but I like Stevie Ray Vaughn a lot as well. I try and listen to everything and give it a shot, except screamo heavy stuff. That is awful.
Singer-songwriter stuff. Indie rock stuff. Blues of every conceivable flavor. Jazz of every kind but the "smooth" variety. Alt-country/"Americana" country and old-school Johnny Cash/George Jones/Tammy Wynette country, but not the modern Nashville power-pop country crap on the radio. Like every old bastard, I have a heavy bit of nostalgia crap on rotation, but I try not to let it be more than half of what I listen to. I mean, I could listen to Black Sabbath and the Pixies and the Cure and Jane's Addiction all day every day and be perfectly happy, but I work pretty hard to keep up with what's new. I still listen to college radio pretty obsessively.
Blues is pretty much just four chords. You can play it with a full rock and roll band behind you, like Stevie Ray Vaughn did, or you can play it with just you and a guitar [1]. I think what I love about it is that everyone is working in such a narrow circumscribed idiom, so it's all about arrangement and performance. Totally different animal than the singer-songwriter stuff.
As far as narrow idioms go, I liked hip-hop until it got fat and happy and the politics went out of it. I got sick of hearing about how great these guys' cars are and how much PT they bang in about 1996.
[1] (Check out the late great Son House sometime, which I think is the greatest solo drinking music in the world.)