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2023 College football thread - That's A Wrap (9 Viewers)

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country AND Western

I get the gag, but what's crazy is that's kind of not ridiculous given that what we know of old country was blues and folk-influenced while Western was jazz/swing/big band influenced.

I think.

You're welcome to look it up and enjoy the music lesson. Western swing was a thing in country-esque music.

I just looked it up. That's fairly accurate. Country was southeastern and Appalachia-influenced while Western was southwestern and border states.
 
country AND Western

I get the gag, but what's crazy is that's kind of not ridiculous given that what we know of old country was blues and folk-influenced while Western was jazz/swing/big band influenced.

I think.

You're welcome to look it up and enjoy the music lesson. Western swing was a thing in country-esque music.

I just looked it up. That's fairly accurate. Country was southeastern and Appalachia-influenced while Western was southwestern and border states.
Hadn't thought of that. That movie came out in, what, 1980? I feel like C&W was a commonly used phrase when I was a kid, but I can't remember the last time I heard someone use it
 
Hadn't thought of that. That movie came out in, what, 1980? I feel like C&W was a commonly used phrase when I was a kid, but I can't remember the last time I heard someone use it

Very common phrase when we were kids. They're very similar in that they're predominantly white people with similar instruments and similar tempos. They're just borrowing music from either blacks, really poor whites, or immigrants. And who they're borrowing from makes the difference in the country and the Western.

At least that's my dilettantish way of explaining it.

Nobody uses it anymore because modern country might as well be hip hop or corporate rock. That's my editorial take on the whole thing.
 
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