Country and Western music thread
Since this place is crawlin with rock an rollers,I thought it only fair to share something a bit different.Besides,there are no "music" threads per se,so this looks like the only "legal" place to put it.:shifty:
Drumbledore gave me the idea when he started his "All about Africa" drum thread,which I think gives everyone a chance to experience a different and wonderful side of music.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ebiwO4O70"]YouTube - Here's A Quarter [Call Someone Who Cares] (Video)[/ame]
Heres a "political" one that in its words,makes it one of my favorite songs.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omZ05EtVVTg"]YouTube - Travis Tritt - Lord Have Mercy On The Working Man[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Dmj6uDecs"]YouTube - Travis Tritt - Put Some Drive In Your Country (Video)[/ame]
Do you know what you get when you play a country record backwards?
You get out of jail,
you get your job back,
your dog lives,
your girl returns,
youre sober again,
your truck runs...
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFHJ41ktt3Q"]YouTube - Merle Haggard -- Are The Good Times Really Over[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8A9Y1Dq_cQ"]YouTube - Willie Nelson with Ray Charles - Seven Spanish Angels[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4s0nzsU1Wg"]YouTube - A Country Boy Can Survive[/ame]
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Hey good one LudwigLifer! And you know there are quite a few sides to country music drumming too. One band that I played in quite a while back loved the fact that I knew how to play the "train beat" with rods or brushes, as well as being able to play "country-swing", shuffles, polka beats etc. I think they sorta found it strange that before I'd played with them, I had been playing in a group where we played odd meters, polyrhythms, ethnic and just plain weird scales (as we were an experimental group), but because I'd been a groove player for such a long time, it was kinda felt good to play a backbeat once again. So I never knock any genre really. I also discovered great country drummers like Eddie Bayers, Tommy Wells, Paul Leim, great great groove masters. Jeez, even Dony Wynn, a guy I used to love listening to playing with Robert Palmer, he ended up with Brooks and Dunn. And then there are all the great players behind great blues guitarists who can cross over into country so well. Tommy Taylor when he was playing with Eric Johnson is a great example. And you know what the sad thing is? Look on the list of drummers on the Drummerworld list...only Paul Leim and Chris "Whipper" Layton are mentioned, hardly anyone else!
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Its been said on here before,everyone should study everything.It can only make you more versatile.
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Heres a couple mountain boys I have admired ever since I first saw them.They play like Johnny B Goode ringing a bell.One of my very favorites.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaiyW_UDuG0"]YouTube - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCBdiutb-50"]YouTube - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - " Orange Blossom Special "[/ame]
Here is a metal beat invented by country music!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv_Mgpr6TRg"]YouTube - Beginning Drum Beats : Country Drum Beat Tips[/ame]
It's only when you get to see that there are some basic drumming principles that apply to all styles that that's when a person realises that despite surface differences, music, no matter what style, is really what counts.....if it is done with passion and heart!!-Drumbledore
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"Steve's Boogie"....Eric Johnson with Tommy Taylor on drums.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0jqs4PUJes"]YouTube - Eric Johnson - Steve's Boogie ( Live from Austin ,TX )[/ame]
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Took Mrs. RHD to see Tim McGraw last summer. I know there are no drums in this, but this song pulls me in every single time I hear it.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhE3SWCIyhQ&feature=related"]YouTube - Tim McGraw - If You're Reading This - Calgary[/ame]
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That quite alright RHD03,some of what I posted didnt have drums in them either and neither did the title to this thread.There is always a rhythm beat though.:icon_wink:That song has good meaning and feeling.
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Travis Tritt is one of my favorites aalong with Hank Jr.
I liked the Willy and Ray vid, that was great. F;att and Scruggs is a classic.
I liked the Eric Johnson that was posted too, that boy can play ther guitar.
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Big & Rich's Loud
Co-written by my drum teacher . . .
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvs1jfelelo&feature=player_detailpage"]YouTube - Loud by big and rich[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmI_bW0Nwwc"]YouTube - The Road Hammers - I'm A Road Hammer[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx24WZ8Cf78&feature=related"]YouTube - Cheaper To Keep Her[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDY6bWT5oTM&feature=related"]YouTube - Corb Lund - Truck Got Stuck[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pd3qRp3EnE"]YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]
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Nobody partys like rednecks!!!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZC_wkIW4U4"]YouTube - Jason Aldean - Hicktown[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldQrapQ4d0Y"]YouTube - Toby Keith - As Good As I Once Was[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6nxHNrIwJA&feature=relmfu"]YouTube - Brad Paisley - Mud On The Tires[/ame]
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And we have a great sense of humor!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HfsBqNxp1Y&feature=relmfu"]YouTube - Toby Keith - High Maintenance Woman[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPGF7_UKOs4&feature=fvwrel"]YouTube - Brad Paisley [I'm Still a Guy][/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE6iAjEv9dQ"]YouTube - Brad Paisley - Online[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9mpDAJOPac&feature=relmfu"]YouTube - Brad Paisley - Celebrity[/ame]
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And our women.....
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEJh-aMMpJ0"]YouTube - Sugarland - Settlin'[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCMqcFAigRg&feature=fvsr"]YouTube - Taylor Swift - Picture To Burn[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xjy6EuMPGA"]YouTube - Miranda Lambert - Famous In A Small Town[/ame]
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This is what its like to hang out with my wife!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82dDnv9zeLs&feature=related"]YouTube - Gretchen Wilson - Redneck Woman[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr1BiEvb6Iw"]YouTube - Gretchen Wilson - All Jacked Up[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c5E6aIByMY"]YouTube - Terri Clark - Dirty Girl[/ame]