Theres something about country music that’s just so freeing.
I don’t know if it’s the instruments, the beat or the message but whenever I listen to country music I suddenly feel at peace. I want to say that there’s a country gene in me from my dad that makes me feel that way, but music and your interpretation is all neurological.
But for some reason, no matter what the science may be behind it, country music to me and my family has always been relevant. I’ve listened to a lot of music and none of it was strictly just country music, it still isn’t, but it seems to be what connect with me the most.
It was like that with Rock a lot as well for my brother. Raised the same way, he also practically raised me, and he connected the most with Rock music. My other brother, the middle child in the family connected with the more alternative music. It’s funny how parents can raise kids around a genre and they end up liking a new one, then there’s me.
I don’t like country music because it can be depressing or loving or about sex, it’s mostly how at home I feel. People raised around this genre have a comfortability because this genre also teaches life lessons. Country music isn’t just plainly what’s written, sometimes it is, but not all the time. I also think it’s what just comes with maturing from the south. I sing the songs all the time.
My dad was raised with Old or Classic country. One of his favorites being Keith Whitley and today in our generation we have people like Luke Combs, Chris Stapelton, Jason Aldean, and Morgan Wallen, who are all great!
But my dad and how he was raised, country was their whole life. He grew up with buddies who’d drive around Brookhaven singing Keith Whitley at the top of their lungs, (They still do- but minus the driving.) and we’d have get together and we all sing!
To this day it’s still one of my most listened to genres and my most listened to genre while I’m writing.
Classic and Folk Country are literally my favorite genres. Looking through the songs I know on guitar and they’re a pretty big portion of what I know how to play. Johnny Cash is the goat and I won’t hear nothing other than that!!! The way you describe the way country music makes you feel is pretty fantastic and I totally agree.