Greatest Post WW2 Decade of Country Music

[YellowSnow]

I'm proud of you Pisser for putting the proper person fronting your poll graphic …
When you were talking about the 70s in another thread and you weren't including Dolly as an original I was about to drive myself down to Bend and smack some sense back into you
I'm not sure that there's anybody more original than Dolly

Dolly is great. Better than Whitney at the song she fucking wrote. Although your 90s vote should have disqualified you from running a cuntry bracket around here. Christ.

Better than Whitney? No fucking way.

Completely different than Whitney? Absolutely and a great song by Dolly.

Whitney’s version is iconic.

Dollys version is a demo tape.

A demo tape of that’s raked massive royalties - on Whitney’s airplay.

Yes, Whitney's version is iconic and great, but it's cliche to say it's better than Dolly's OG. I prefer the more subtle, angelic nature of Dolly's Appalachian pipes vs the over the top gospel ones of Whitney. Plus I like the backstory of how she wrote the song.

 

[iDawg]

…while we are talking about Dolly. The single Jolene slowed do to 33 is pretty cool. Perhaps posted before, but I’m too lazy to search

 

[Tequilla]

I'm proud of you Pisser for putting the proper person fronting your poll graphic …
When you were talking about the 70s in another thread and you weren't including Dolly as an original I was about to drive myself down to Bend and smack some sense back into you
I'm not sure that there's anybody more original than Dolly

Dolly is great. Better than Whitney at the song she fucking wrote. Although your 90s vote should have disqualified you from running a cuntry bracket around here. Christ.

My vote goes to whatever decade that you view King George at the peak of King George
I defaulted to the 90s but you could easily go just as easily to the 80s or 00s …

Peak King George is the 80s, rather easily.

Then change my vote to the 80s

 

[Tequilla]

Jolene is one of the most iconic songs ever IMO

 

[huskyhooligan]

Friends in Low Places - early 90. I think KMPS had a daily listener top 10 and a live version with an extra verse was number 1 for years. Garth Brooks had a best selling album sold exclusively at McDonalds for three months. I recall the local McDonalds, in Seattle, selling out. Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson, Faith Hill, Dixie Chix, Shania Twain, Sheryl Crow-ish and others. Careers of others like George Strait had some of their biggest hits, and attention and air play was paid to veterans like George Jones.

 

[LebamDawg]

tough call all the way around on this one
being the hick I am, I actually record the Legends of Country on RFD channel. It is the original Country Show that became the Grand Ol' Opry. All of that is 50's. Hard to listen to the 50's all day long, a couple of hours is Otay as Buhwheat would say.
80's is when country went main stream, Jimmy Dean, Barbara Mandrel both had TV shows, HeeHaw was great. Lots of classic and a Texas influence.
90's about the same as the 80's. I did not listen to too much country back then but knew all the popular singers.
When I moved to Lebam in late 2000's the only radio stations I could get were country stations and they played popular stuff - So if I voted, the 2000's is what got me into listening to country, was it the best? Nah, but changed my music tastes the most.

 

[whlinder]

I picked 90s largely due to greatest exposure to the music then. Family in Kansas, formative years, spent many summers on the farm doing farm work back in the days where cassette tapes and then CD players were the only way to have portable music. So I listened to a lot of radio, of which the options were country or farm news radio. "This is Paul Harvey. Stand by for NEWS!"
Country music makes a lot more sense and is a lot more enjoyable when you listen to it while driving around in a tractor in a field for hours and hours at a time.
I know the major artists but haven't ever listened to much country which was made per-1987.