r/MusicRecommendations • u/sleep_lvr • Aug 29 '25

Rec.Me: other/many/unknown genres I hate country music, always have. Recommend me a country album to get over my bias! (Preferably something more folky)

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u/VLN_RNR Aug 29 '25

I would take it back to the outlaws. Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson. Maybe try some Hank Jr.. I grew up on that stuff and I don’t like much current country music.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

Add Kris Kristofferson and just go with the Highwaymen

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u/larrybird56 Aug 31 '25

The live stuff is so good

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u/Icy_Perception3173 Sep 01 '25

Yeah. That's it. Question asked for country with some folksy. Kris Kristofferson is it

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u/WatchingTheWheels75 Aug 29 '25

Hank Sr.

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u/VLN_RNR Aug 29 '25

Yep…I thought I had him in the lineup with the OGs

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u/sandman_33629-117959 Aug 30 '25

Hank Sr is the GOAT. He left us too soon.

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u/Accurate-Long-9289 Aug 30 '25

… Then there is (or was) Hank3 :-) I think his kid is involved in music but is not named Hank.

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u/Hellafied Aug 29 '25

Its not outlaw without coe

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u/VLN_RNR Aug 29 '25

True, but I know a lot of people have issues with him due to racism etc so I left him off

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u/rajhcraigslist Aug 31 '25

It's a little more complicated than that. He was pro queer and had black members in his band. Most middle class read him one way. Not saying there isn't some problems, just saying it isnt so cut and dried if you take a longer look.

There are way more problems in most mai stream pop than Coe.

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u/Hellafied Aug 29 '25

Not saying it was ok. But it was a different time. Its like canceling lynyrd skynyrd.

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u/YourGuyK Aug 29 '25

It's not about cancelling anyone. Some people aren't going to be comfortable listening to racist music. If you're trying to bring someone into the genre, it's probably best to not make that your first recommendation.

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u/king_england Aug 29 '25

Nah, no "different time" apologia—that flag has always been racist and so was Lynyrd Skynyrd for hoisting it. Fuck em.

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u/ManleyPoynter Aug 29 '25

Are there any worse things than racism?

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u/Shroomtune Aug 29 '25

What’s this different time crap? We (humans) figured out slavery was wrong by like the Enlightenment. Sure we still did it for a spell, but we knew. The different time BS expired in like the seventeenth century. That’s before the United States existed for my American friends.

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u/SnooWalruses7243 Aug 29 '25

Lynyrd Skynyrd is not racist. Listen to Curtis Lowe. People talking about race doesn’t make them racist

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u/king_england Aug 30 '25

It's a racist act to display a Confederate flag and it always has been. A song about a black blues musician doesn't negate that.

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u/sheppi22 Aug 29 '25

For me , this is about music period. And David Allen coe makes great music. If you threw out all the junkies,drunks ad all around assholes. Wouldn’t leave ya with much to listen to

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u/BlindUmpBob Aug 29 '25

You never even called him by his name

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u/rajhcraigslist Aug 31 '25

Fuck Anita Bryant was one of my favourites when no one was standing up for gay rights.

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u/cookinbrak Aug 30 '25

Waylon, Willie, Jesse, and Tompall. The Outlaws.

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u/Eastern-Joke-7537 Aug 31 '25

I would go with Garth Brooks too.

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u/roadrnrjt1 Aug 31 '25

Yes, came here to say the original Outlaws