I've been trying to find that CD everywhere, being a big Western Underground fan, as they were the "Chris LeDoux sound", but I can't seem to find it anywhere around here.
The only thing is, I just don't think it will be the same without Chris, which sort of makes me a bit hesitant to buy it, but I think I will nonetheless.
Speaking of Chris LeDoux, I can't find the CD/DVD set that was released a few months back either, which I really really want to get.
I am Afraid I do not care much about Most of what is Called "Country and Western" music as it is done today, done by what are called, Drug-Store-Cowboys or Want-To-Be-Cowboys !
Aww, Chilibill, it's not all bad, just most of it 
Like I've said before, I love the "new traditional" sound, eg Garth Brooks(my favourite, as I've said before), Brooks & Dunn, those sorts of guys, who have it rocked up, but still sound traditional. Not to-the-bone tradtional, but still relatively tradtional sounding. Actually, going on a bit of a personal rant here, but I'm sick of people saying Garth "ruined" country music, and that the new sound was all because of him. Because he didn't start that new sound, the Outlaw movement did, ie Cash, Waylon, Willie, Kris did because they rebelled from the traditional sound at the time, and they're the biggest figures in country music. (Saying that, I do love them to death, and think they're phenomonal). Anyway, I'll hop down off my soap box now ( I tend to get a bit defensive when someone says something bad about Garth, he's my musical equivalent of Duke, ie I'm totally obsessed, and hates to hear any hating or any bad said about him)
Well my examples sound traditional compared to artists such as Rascal Flatts, Carrie Underwood etc, who I'm constantly sick of hearing, and are winning country award, after country award, for music that is far from country. Actually any new sound, so to speak, after the Garth/Brooks & Dunn/etc era started to sound too much like pop.
I mean, apparently nowadays throwing a steel guitar into your songs means you're country. Or adding one line of twang. Personally I think they just call themselves country, because the market is easier to crack. I mean, they'll probably be gone in a few years anyway. 80 % of the "new" stars, will have no longevity
I imagine most folks here (except for Chilibill) are too young to remember the old-time masters of country music such as Hank Williams, Faron Young, Webb Pierce, Hank Snow, Leroy Van Dyke, George Jones, Lefty Frizzell, Johnny Horton and their like. They were popular back in the Fifties and early Sixties and turned out some great music. I've downloaded some MP3s from these singers on Amazon's web site (only cost 89 cents per song, which is pretty reasonable).
Too young to remember, well I wasn't even around when most of those guys were aroud.
But definitely not too young to appreciate it. Hank, well he practically invented the genre.
And George Jones, well he's still going! He most recently had a hit with a Garth Brooks duet, Beer Run(B-Double, E-Double, Are You In?) back in 2001/2.Which, I just love that song to bits, two of my favourite artists together, and another recent one, Choices, around 10 years or so ago, which is in my three favourite songs from any genre, coincedently enough, that top 3 are all country.
I agree, the Rednex version of Cotton-Eyed Joe doesn't sound country, and to be hoenst, I'm not even sure why it's considered country.
But then again stranger things have happened.
Country music is evolving, whether we like it or not.
I like the "rocked up honky tonk" sound of Garth Brooks(my favourite, ever), Brooks & Dunn, Chris LeDoux and a few others, who are still relatively traditional, just with a rock flavour.
And I love the real traditional sound aswell, Johnny, Willie, Waylon, Kris, George Jones etc etc and the newer traditionalists like George Strait, Alan Jackson(well most of it, apart from the 2 2006/7 albums, they were just not right), Mark Chestnutt etc
The ones that are considered country but just aren't are what I don't like, eg Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts and the like.
I've heard Cotton Eyed Joe, only the Rednex version, which is very upbeat, almost like a dance mix.
Thanks for posting those Chester!
It's great to hear real country music!
Convoy & I've Been Everywhere are personal favourites of mine.
If anyone gets the chance, have a listen to Dwight Yoakam's new album Dwight Sings Buck, where he sings the songs of Buck Owens. Only Dwight could've pulled it off as he did.
The ones I mentioned were the ones that came to my head at the time, there's so many more I could've added, pretty much all the one's that have been listed.
I agree smokey, Troy's a great singer, you'd find most of our singers have kept on the traditional line. Lee Kernaghan pretty much kept on it up until his recent album "The New Bush", it's totally true, because he went new! Another great Aussie country singer is Adam Harvey, he's got a very traditional sound, one thing that contributes to that is his low voice, it's as low as Johnny Cash's was, if not lower. He'll be supporting Brooks & Dunn in Brissie, so it'll be great to see him live.
I was watching CMC(our local country TV station) a few days ago and it had the 30 Best Country Music Award Winners of all time, and it was filled with the pop elements of Shania Twain's & Faith Hill's, while these two started very country, the video's that they showed weren't. Brooks & Dunn are the most awarded artists in history, and only had one video shown, Johnny Cash only had one, George Strait had none, which I was annoyed at, Alan Jackson had one, or none, can't remember. I'm ranting again...oops
All I can say is thank goodness we have other ways than just radio's to listen to our music, if that was the case, we'd be in trouble.
Got an early christmas present today - The Very Best Of George Strait Volume 2 1988-1993 
I was watching a repeat of this years CMA's today. And 1) I was thinking how pathetic(IMO) country singers are today 2) how country just isnt country anymore
The only real country & western on that night was George Strait, who i believe is the best country voice alive today. I'll admit, I do like some of the "country" that is playing today. Namely out of the new country, so to speak, Brooks & Dunn, there's a reason they're the most awarded act in history, they are just phenomonal.
But I think i heard only 2 real country voices being King George 
& Josh Turner.
Anyway to the real basis of this thread
It's amazing how much country has changed.
We've gone from legends like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Gene Autry, Roy Acuff, George Jones, just to name a few to teeny boppers like Rascal Flatts, Carrie Underwood & Big & Rich, who sound about as country as Britney Spears(ok maybe not that bad).
Here's the people that I like that are recording today
George Strait aka King George
Garth Brooks (although he as a very instigator in the rock element)
Brooks & Dunn
Josh Turner
The occasional Kenny Chesney song.
I'm very much a traditionalist when it comes to music, and to be honest I'd rather hear fingernails on a blackboard than listen to Rascal Flatts or Carrie Underwood.
Sorry for ranting, but I had to vent 
