Was Garth Brooks the best?

• MANAZE

  

  I know there are some good country singers today and from the past. I just think that Garth Brooks was the best. Any thoughts?
• bases_loaded

  

  Garth was pop.
• wildcats20

  

  No.
  
  BUT he was the best performer ever. I would love to see one of his Vegas shows.
• MANAZE

  

  he wasn't pure country but by no means was he "pop"
• Red_Skin_Pride

  

  Garth wasn't even top 10. His early stuff was pretty good country. After his second album, his work should be irrelevant to country music discussion, because it became pop. So to answer your question, his whole CAREER, no he is not one of the best. If you think he is country, someone needs to get you a Johnny Cash/Waylon Jennings, or most especially a Hank Williams CD.
• I Wear Pants

  ccrunner609 wrote: All country music sucks

  Addendum: Unless we're considering Johnny Cash country. Because Johnny Cash does not suck.
• MANAZE

  

  so what your saying right now then there are no country music singers on country music raido today?
• ou1980

  Nuff said...
  
  
• GoChiefs

  

  wildcats20 wrote: No.
  
  BUT he was the best performer ever. I would love to see one of his Vegas shows.

  This..I'm a big Garth fan..but I wouldn't even put him in the Top 10 greatest country singers ever.
  

  MANAZE wrote: so what your saying right now then there are no country music singers on country music raido today?

  About 90% of the shit on the radio today isn't even close to being country.
• bcubed

  

  GoChiefs wrote:

  wildcats20 wrote: No.
  
  BUT he was the best performer ever. I would love to see one of his Vegas shows.

  This..I'm a big Garth fan..but I wouldn't even put him in the Top 10 greatest country singers ever.
  

  MANAZE wrote: so what your saying right now then there are no country music singers on country music raido today?

  About 90% of the shit on the radio today isn't even close to being country.

  Agreed on both points!
• hang_loose

  He has a long way to go but Zac Brown has moved up a few spots!
• Bio-Hazzzzard

  

  Not a big fan of Garth myself, alot of old time country singers are like Cash and Haggard ring a bell in my mind. As for the present country Jason Aldeen gets my vote.
• GoChiefs

  

  Aldean is one of the best out right now. Definitely top 3 on today's radio.
• wildcats20

  

  ^^Yup.
• LJ

  

  hang_loose wrote: He has a long way to go but Zac Brown has moved up a few spots!

  Zac Brown is the epitome of pop country along with rascal flatts, Keith urban and the majority of the female artists
• GoChiefs

  

  Chris Young
  Eric Church
  Jason Aldean
  Justin Moore
  Jamey Johnson
  
  Probably could throw Luke Bryan in there somewhere.
  
  Probably my tops list of the 'newer' country artists.
• Curly J

  

  Hell of a performer. I'd still go with George Strait over Garth. (Garth would probably say the same thing)
• Fab1b

  

  Ladies and Gentleman, Mr. Conway Twitty:
  
  
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• GoChiefs

  

  Chris LeDoux = GOAT entertainer!
• Trueblue23

  

  Alan Jackson. Nuff Said.
• Curly J

  

  Fab1b wrote: Ladies and Gentleman, Mr. Conway Twitty:
  

  Thanks for not linking That's My Job. (I tear up everytime I hear that song)
• Red_Skin_Pride

  

  MANAZE wrote: so what your saying right now then there are no country music singers on country music raido today?

  There are a handful of artists right now (about 8-10) that I really enjoy hearing because I feel like despite the "pop" trend, they are at least TRYING to stay true to country music and how it's supposed to sound. There are more than aren't too "poppy", but they aren't exactly traditional sounding country either. Pretty much the rest are all pop singers.
  
  My favorites:
  Justin Moore
  Chris Young
  Eric Church
  Jamey Johnson
  Shooter Jennings
  George Strait
  Miranda Lambert
  Ashton Shepherd
  
  Two people I can't stand people saying are "true" country singers (and I'm gonna get yelled at for this judging by the responses above) are Jason Aldean and Gretchen Wilson. Jason Aldean hasn't had a hit since "Amarillo Sky" that sounded like country, and Gretchen Wilson has never had one. Sorry, but I'd take Carrie Underwood anyday over her. Neither one is truly a country singer, but at least Carrie is easy on the eyes and she CAN sing very very well, she's just in the wrong genre.
  
  A couple people I enjoy listening to that aren't really traditional-sounding country artists, but they haven't fully went toward the pop thing are Craig Morgan, Rodney Adkins, and yes, Jason Aldean. It's like you can tell they're trying to be country, but they're that type of "we came from a pretty average, well-off, middle class family" but they liked country growing up so they make their version of what they envision country being.
  
  And THE THING that's killing country music, that I CANNOT stand are these fucking pop groups. I HATE RASCAL FLATTS. And now, because some middle aged suburbanite people who were born in, grew up in, and still live in NYC, LA, Miami etc buy all their CD's, there's a TON of them showing up. I'm sorry, Gloriana, Love and Theft, and most especially LADY ANTEBELLUM. They are NOT country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  And I'm not against some pop music in country. It's hard to generate money that keeps bringing in good artists without the exposure and the fan base that other genre's offer. I don't hate Taylor Swift, because some of the younger audience that listen to her are going to discover, say, Miranda Lambert and be turned on to more traditional country music. Most won't, but some will. The one thing she's doing that's most productive for the genre is bringing in younger listeners, which country hasn't had a superstar artist do that in quite some time. I also enjoy Darius Rucker. He obviously has roots in a differnt genre, but he can sing, and his songs are a lot about his family, love and many good values that country has traditionally focused on. His actual music is still a bit poppy, but I think the amount of fans he brings, plus his focus on values outweighs the pop stuff.
  
  That's all JMO, but other than about 8-10 people, we are a LONG, LONG ways from days of Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty and even solid country bands like Alabama, Kentucky Headhunters, or Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. There's very very few left (basically George Strait, and occasionally Brooks and Dunn, when they're not trying to make a surefire hit), and even fewer young singers coming up, which is scary. Because if the trend doesn't switch back soon (history suggests it will, as it usually does, but it still makes you nervous) we may lose what few connections from TRUE country we have remaining.
• wildcats20

  

  ^^^Unfortunately B&D are done.
• Red_Skin_Pride

  

  Trueblue23 wrote: Alan Jackson. Nuff Said.

  Not even close. Alan Jackson hasn't made a country song in over a decade. Listen to his early stuff, and listen to the stuff off his last album. It doesn't even sound like it's the same guy.
• Red_Skin_Pride

  

  wildcats20 wrote: ^^^Unfortunately B&D are done.

  I know, like i said, less and less all the time :s