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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Gents (and Lady),

When I was a youngster back in the 1970s, I listed raptly to country music. At the time, I thought country music was kind of the "soul of every day America." From the 1980s onward, I didn't listen to country. In the last year, through the power of the Internet, I've enjoyed going back to listen to some of the big songs of that era. Bear in mind, this is the first time I've listened to some of these songs in 40 years. Thus, I'm hearing them with "fresh and decidedly older ears."

One thing that is striking is the complete lack of responsibility shown by some of the "protagonists" in the songs. For example, there's a Don Williams hit (the name escapes me) that includes the line "...you know I'm a rake and rambling man, free as an eagle flies. Look at me now and tell me the truth, do I look like a daddy to you?"

Well, no, you don't. At least, not a good one.

Then there's "Delta Dawn," a hugely popular hit from the early '70s. A line in that song notes that "all the folks around Bronwnsville think she's crazy." Well, dang, she is. She's wandering around town with a suitcase in her hand looking for a mysterious brown-eyed man. She's bats.

Then there's the Dolly Parton hit, "Jolie." In this song, the protagonist is a woman begging another woman not to steal her husband. Come on. Either kick the woman's but or kick your husband's but for fooling around. But crawling to the "other woman"? Give me a break.

There was some awfully good and down-to-earth country music "back in the day," but alot of the rest left something to be desired.

Can you gents (and lady) think of other songs that, later in life, struck you in a different way?

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ORIGINAL: TOMLABEL

Not country, but I still like this one: Son of a Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield.

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Come to think of it, I don't think I will be able to hear the the line "Don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern Lawyer" anymore without picturing Canoerebel... ;)

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Gents (and Lady),

When I was a youngster back in the 1970s, I listed raptly to country music. At the time, I thought country music was kind of the "soul of every day America." From the 1980s onward, I didn't listen to country. In the last year, through the power of the Internet, I've enjoyed going back to listen to some of the big songs of that era. Bear in mind, this is the first time I've listened to some of these songs in 40 years. Thus, I'm hearing them with "fresh and decidedly older ears."

One thing that is striking is the complete lack of responsibility shown by some of the "protagonists" in the songs. For example, there's a Don Williams hit (the name escapes me) that includes the line "...you know I'm a rake and rambling man, free as an eagle flies. Look at me now and tell me the truth, do I look like a daddy to you?"

Well, no, you don't. At least, not a good one.

Then there's "Delta Dawn," a hugely popular hit from the early '70s. A line in that song notes that "all the folks around Bronwnsville think she's crazy." Well, dang, she is. She's wandering around town with a suitcase in her hand looking for a mysterious brown-eyed man. She's bats.

Then there's the Dolly Parton hit, "Jolie." In this song, the protagonist is a woman begging another woman not to steal her husband. Come on. Either kick the woman's but or kick your husband's but for fooling around. But crawling to the "other woman"? Give me a break.

There was some awfully good and down-to-earth country music "back in the day," but alot of the rest left something to be desired.

Can you gents (and lady) think of other songs that, later in life, struck you in a different way?

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

I must admit I cannot recall many (if any) songs that have come to mean something different years later.

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

There was some awfully good and down-to-earth country music "back in the day," but alot of the rest left something to be desired.

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I think M&M is a rapper from the '90s? To the best of my knowledge, I've never heard one of his songs. I don't know anything about him personally, though I think I heard he's pretty profane. That's the sum of my M&M knowledge. On my Q Scale, he'd rate about 0.01 (well, I think that's a proper use of the Q Scale, but I'm fuzzy on that too).

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

From there I enjoyed both Country and Western (Is there a difference?)

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ORIGINAL: oldman45

I liked the country ballads of the 60's and 70's. Marty Robbins comes to mind.

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Cribtop captures the essence of what I was trying to say. Country music had sort of an "aura" of innocense and wholesomness of "back roads America," but when you actually listen to the lyrics, they often leave something to be desired.