When did you start listening?

KEVIN OWENS · Post by **KEVIN OWENS** » 24 Oct 2000 7:52 am

The full title is "When did you start listening to and liking country music?"
Just a little research question.

RJP · Post by **RJP** » 24 Oct 2000 8:28 am

I started listening in 1997.

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Tyler Baum · Post by **Tyler Baum** » 24 Oct 2000 8:37 am

Thursday.

Ray Jenkins · Post by **Ray Jenkins** » 24 Oct 2000 8:50 am

Hearing probally in 1943,listning in 1951 when I met "Thumbs" Carlile in Baumholder Germany when I was 11 years old.He taught me the open chords on a six string.(not the way he played though)Ray

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David Pennybaker · Post by **David Pennybaker** » 24 Oct 2000 9:03 am

Somewhere around 1980 or so (pre- "Urban Cowboy", but just barely).

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Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 24 Oct 2000 10:11 am

I remember listening to a country show on the radio,the day they announced that Hank Williams had passed away.

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Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 24 Oct 2000 10:25 am

I guess the question is for the converts or those who recently started listening to "country".

I started listening to country music probably around 1944, or at least that's my first rememberance of it.

Anne Marie O Keeffe · Post by **Anne Marie O Keeffe** » 24 Oct 2000 11:12 am

It was there as I grew up but it was my parents who listened to it. I think I discovered it for myself when my then boyfriend (now husband) played a George Jones album for me. He had just discovered it too. That was April 1983. EUREKA!!!!

Martin Abend · Post by **Martin Abend** » 24 Oct 2000 12:25 pm

I guess I started with Uncle Tupelo in... 1996? Discovered Hank and the Anthology in '98. But I was never really interested in trad. country. Too much clichés.

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Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 24 Oct 2000 1:52 pm

Started listening in the early '50s, and got real serious about 1963. Had my first steel in '63, and my first pedal guitar in '65. I never stopped listening to other stuff, but Country was what I was playing most of the time. It's been a hoot!

Janice Brooks · Post by **Janice Brooks** » 24 Oct 2000 3:00 pm

Country music has always been in my backround. My early vinyl gifts and purchases were the likes of Johnny Cash and Roger Miller. I also have an uncle who had albums of Hank Williams and Marty Robbins.

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erik · Post by **erik** » 24 Oct 2000 3:15 pm

I was a Southern Rocker until the radio formats changed to New Wave around '81. Then i found Country.

Andy Alford · Post by **Andy Alford** » 24 Oct 2000 4:48 pm

Bob Anderson · Post by **Bob Anderson** » 24 Oct 2000 6:40 pm

Donny Hinson ...you wrote word for word what I was going to say. WOW!

Fred Murphy · Post by **Fred Murphy** » 24 Oct 2000 6:58 pm

I started listening to the Eddie Arnold show on radio in the 40's. He always started the show with Cattle Call.[This message was edited by Fred Murphy on 24 October 2000 at 07:59 PM.]

Les Green · Post by **Les Green** » 24 Oct 2000 7:30 pm

around 1946 or 1947

Kenny Dail · Post by **Kenny Dail** » 24 Oct 2000 8:42 pm

Aug. 10, 1929

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Bob Mainwaring · Post by **Bob Mainwaring** » 24 Oct 2000 9:24 pm

Round about a couple of years after old Hank passed away, I was wowed by that wierd sound, I knew it was a steel guitar as we had friends of the family who "messed" with them.
I got started myself when I heard "Lonnie Donnegan" sing Rock Island Line back in 1956 and was instantly taken by the whole scene back then which kinda` jived with R&R coming out.
When I first came to these shores in 1967 I was "knocked-rotten" with the sounds that Buck Owens was getting with a certain - Mr Tom Brumley who was wowing us all about that time with those never to be forgotten sounds.

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BJ Bailey · Post by **BJ Bailey** » 24 Oct 2000 10:31 pm

I guess I'm still a new convert of the hardcore country .
I just love those's clich'es.
I got into it alittle late in life tho,somewhere around 1943.
I began to sing hardrock early to,but only when that trusty razorstrap was put to my back side.
I though I had the meaness Momma in the world but she did teach me to dance early

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Jude James Shiels · Post by **Jude James Shiels** » 25 Oct 2000 1:08 am

I've always liked country music but this is what got me hooked. About 7 years ago I was listening to plenty of Bob Dylan, then when I heard Hank Williams after hearing Bob Dylan it all began to make a lot more sense. I understood the debt Bob and many other songwriters owed him.

I suppose when you are around 15 or 16 in Ireland you don't want to admit to liking country, but Hank Williams and Merle Haggard changed all that for me.

You gotta admit many of Bob Dylan, Neil Young and others of that ilk best records were the ones that featured plenty of steel guitar.....

P Gleespen · Post by **P Gleespen** » 25 Oct 2000 3:50 am

Well, if you don't count Hank, (which I won't in this case, since his music appeals to so many "non-country" folks, which is kind of weird, since he's so darn country...but I digress...) right after I started playing steel about 2 years ago, at the tender age of 30.
Before that, I never listened to country on purpose.

(...unless you think Uncle Tupelo is country. In which case, I'll have to say 1990 when they released the "No Depression" album.)[This message was edited by P Gleespen on 25 October 2000 at 04:58 AM.]

Dean Brown · Post by **Dean Brown** » 25 Oct 2000 4:21 am

I was a rocker throughout the sixties, but the merge into country started around 79/70.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 25 Oct 2000 6:25 am

Although I was exposed to it earlier because of my Dad, I seriously started listening around 68. I too, was a rocker at the time and continued to be a rocker as well as a country lover. I was a drummer at the time. Our band played everything from Led Zepplin to Merle Haggard. Great Variety.

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JB Arnold · Post by **JB Arnold** » 25 Oct 2000 7:12 am

Around 1969-The Dead came out with the live skull and roses album, recorded at the Fillmore, and they had a version of Mama Tried on it. Got me looking for Merle.

John

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