I recently heard that country radio stations are catering mostly to the 13 to 25!
Question: Do we even have a chance at getting traditional country back on the radio?
Answers: Do we even have a chance at getting traditional country back on the radio?
Well, I think they're bound to play a lot of Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban if they're looking for a fan base of 13-25. I don't think they have much of a chance of getting Tanya Tucker, George Jones, Tammy Wynette and other artists from that era back. It's all gone pop. They say that it's the younger generation buying the cds, so that's the crowd they're likely to try and please. Look at the people saying they love Taylor, Carrie, and all the others like them. There's so many, and none of them sound traditional. The only artists on the radio today that actually sound country, are the same artists we had 20 years ago, but they just happen to still be making music. If not for them, it'd be all pop.
EDIT: I think another thing is that the producers and the people controlling the stations are realizing that there are still people that want to hear the classics, so they are putting them out there as "Hear all the classics you love for just $ per month". They have realized that they can make money by marketing these new artists as "buy Taylor Swift's new cd now" and then turn around and get the classic fans with the "All you want classics" station that you actually have to pay for seperately. It's all about the money and people just go after whatever they can get.
We have local Am station here kkyx but yeah to fm stations play mostly new country waaaaaaaaaa since i live i SA we do hear lot George strait that closes we get to traditional country shame anit it
Boy howdy Tex I don't know if we will ever be able to get the traditional sounds back on America's airwaves but it would be a great day if and when we actually could. If some of these smaller independent owned stations would start a classic country program for at least two hours per day that would be great. I think with the bigger stations that are corporate owned it would be much harder since they seem to all go with the play list that is mailed to them and they don't want to vary from that. Remember the times when all country jocks would at least play one or two classic country songs each hour then it got to where they wouldn't even do that. I long for the day when the traditional sounds can once again be heard from coast to coast. Great question by the way.
The funny part is that the 13 to 25 crowd doesn't know they're really listening to mid 60s and eary 70s rock. sshhhhh! don't tell them.
I think it's terrible how times passes and leaves us "old timers" in the dust. They don't play Big Band music on the radio anymore either.
That's ok, in ten years, these 13 to 25 year olds will be in the same boat as we are. lol
We have a station in north Florida here that on Saturday mornings, the DJ has a "radio swap shop" where you can buy, sell, or trade stuff over the airwaves, and play the "game"
where he will play a song and you name the artist,
The down side of that is the program only lasts 4 hours, then it goes back to the T.S.,C.U.,R.F. stuff all over again
i do not think that traditional country will get the play time that it should. As the population gets older we are going to need to start to rattle some chains .
We have several in the DFW area that play traditional tunes.
1190 am - lonestar 1190
92.1 ktfw the dj on sunday afternoons is awesome, he plays 50's,60's and some 70's
95.3 khyi they play Texas country and some traditional mixed in and the same guy that owns that stations another one in greenville it is 92.1 and they play traditional,
There honestly is a chance. It is based on cycles that Country has gone through before. I honestly believe if they "kids" hear traditional country they will want to listen to it. So the best chance is to get some traditional artists to come out in a crowd that takes over the music scene again.
hey!!! i'm 25!! and i hate the radio country crap! i requested they play george jones "white lightning" on the request hour last night, and they did.....of course the rest of the songs they played were crap, but at least i got the possum some air time! Most of my friends around my age can't stand pop country either. We all prefer Hank, Waylon, Willie, George to the new stuff.
probably not. hey but at least its not crap, oh i mean rap. i'm 31 and love of course george strait and alan jackson, but can't live with out conway, don williams, george jones, tammy wynette (have to have george and tammy), etc. I can't hardly stand some to the new "talent" like taylor swift, sugarland.... is that really country faking an accent. although i do like some of the stuff by kenny chesney, but i don't think thats really country. (i do love montgomery gentry, but i think thats southern rock, right?)
What is good will always come back,if we love country,real country music and we do,I believe,that I speaking for myself I ,have set it free by:Not trying my best too keep it out there ,by not teaching all I might have,thereby setting it free.It is my raising,country,to pass on what my family taught me.I did not,what people listen too now,is what the money changers want them to.That is what they push for the dollar now,not what an artist feels,or has lived.What we love,will return when we quit laying the money down for the trash.
It has gotten so bad that we have given up on the local station totally and switched to Sirius
I think that there is a lot of validity to that statement. I know that while we would all like to wish and hope that major radio stations would play classic and traditional music; there is some truth to what Fancy says. So long as they are "making" music, their names will stay out there with the general listening public. I honestly believe that it does come down to money. Let's face it, The U.S. really doesn't have an economy so to speak of, we stopped producing things years ago. In order to have an economic base, those monies now are brought in by raping consumers of their personal likes. We now pay for radio to hear what you like rather than what is marketed, you now pay for television instead of watching network television and even that; now you will be paying for it with the conversion to digital signal.
Sure, you will hear traditional country on radios that you are willing to pay for but I don't see it ever happening to free radio.
It isn't a matter of playing what is good music, it is a matter of playing what sells and when I think about it, I probably spent more of my personal income on music when I was in that age bracket to so I am not sure that the target sales group has changed that much. Just the majority of traditional and classic fans have gotten older and the classic and traditional music makers have gotten smaller.
I can believe that. Everything ( well, except for Viagra ) these days is geared towards young people. I guess they forgot about us older folks...