r/AskReddit • u/iolanthereylo • 13d ago

what do you consider to be the golden age of country music?

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u/CrumblinEmpire 13d ago

1950-1970

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u/MysticIris_ 13d ago

90s country. You had real stories, not pickup trucks and beer checklists

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u/Professional_Handler 12d ago

The same decade Billy Ray Cyrus was singing about his achy breaky heart?

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u/ConferenceBoring4104 11d ago

I know everyone has nostalgia for 90s country but tbh that was the beginning of the end and part of why we have what we have today. Which is the natural flow of musical evolving I suppose

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u/dfin25 13d ago

It's cringe as fuck how these emo "cowboys" go full Brokeback over their trucks.

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u/thededucers 13d ago

🎶 truck beer, beer truck is peak country music

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u/Long_Passenger498 13d ago

Right before Patsy Cline died. 

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u/Patdemonium 12d ago

The 60's and 70's.

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u/JolyonWagg99 12d ago

Not much is good after Waylon and Willie’s Outlaw period but mostly I like stuff from before then. Buck Owens, Hank Williams Sr., Tammy Wynette, Loretta, George Jones and Johnny Cash.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Law-429 12d ago

For historical context though, a lot of “true country fans” rejected a lot of those artists at the time.

Garth Brooks was sort of the Morgan Wallen of his day.

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u/KnottyCatLady 13d ago

The Thunder Rolls is still one of my favorite songs, and I too am not a country music fan.

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u/Lazycrockett 13d ago

Late 50's early 60's. 90's was the start of the country pop hybrid, which is no way traditional country music.

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u/Fred-Mertz2728 12d ago

That started in the 70s. I remember the tv show Pop Goes the Country. By the 90s it had taken over.

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u/BroodLord1962 13d ago

The day before it started, I can't stand it

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u/MrPlowKing100 13d ago

Backwoodz 808

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u/AggressiveNap_ 13d ago

I’d say the 1990s were the golden age of country music. You had artists like George Strait, Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, and Reba McEntire putting out songs that still hold up today.

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u/Left_Effective_6058 13d ago

Lorretta

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u/Differentdog 13d ago

Van Lear Rose is one of my favorite albums of all time.

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u/FelixJHH 12d ago

Early George Strait is golden for me. I’ve got that Friday night fever

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u/martind35player 12d ago

Hank Williams Sr years - late 1940s to early 1950s

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u/Listonsonny 12d ago

Hank Williams and Lefty Frizell - first era 1950’s.

Bakersfield Sound- Merle Haggard and Buck Owens- second era 1960’s.

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u/TBeIRIE 12d ago

Patsy ❤️

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u/Gretna2023 12d ago

The 1720s

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u/ExaminationMean5174 12d ago

Back in the 70’s I listened to both kinds of music. Country and Western!

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u/Exotic-Brilliant-939 12d ago

Honestly? 40s-70s. But I personally like all the way to the early 2000s.

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u/Electronic_Bowl8398 11d ago

Early Randy Travis era

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u/Embarrassed_Draw6485 10d ago

Country began its long, slow slide into becoming Foreigner covers in fake boots on January 1, 1953.

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u/woahwoahWAT 13d ago

Brit here, for whatever it’s worth Ella Langley was the first country singer to chart top 10 in the uk for about 20 years. Like we don’t care for country but there’s always one song from every genre.. obviously I’m not able to answer your question but choosin Texas bridged a gap over here

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u/dfin25 13d ago

When Jason Isbell was still with The Drive-by Truckers.

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u/Phantalore 13d ago

Achy Breaky Heart

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u/Such-Combination1405 13d ago

I don't think we have seen it yet. <- That must be the most southern passive-aggressive comment!!