I was silenced making a Jim Reeves comment on YouTube
Posted by Even Bjerkelien on September 8, 2024, 2:25 am
This concerns Larry Jordan's comments on today's silencing on Facebook too.
A country music fan on Youtube made a short two part country music history, he calls himself iHonkyTonk: When did Country Music stop sounding Country? (PAR [url=
When did Country Music stop sounding Country? (PART 2)
It comes as no surprise that Jim is not mentioned. Again, Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline gets more attention.
Marty Robbins is mentioned prominently having a hit with a pop sounding "Singing the Blues" in january 1957.
It seems to me that Cash, Cline and George Jones are the popular country stars of yesteryear today.
I made a comment going approximately like this:
"I listened to the Marty Robbins recording and it sounds like straight country to me. It features a prominent steel guitar, guitar and country piano fills.
In my opinion Jim Reeves with his 1957 hit "Four Walls" was the inventor of the Nashville Sound.
Patsy Cline is a legend, and deservedly so, but she did not, in fact, have a Nashville Sound hit until "I Fall to Pieces" in 1961.
Johnny Cash, to me, doesn't sound like country. He had a style of his own."
He even mentioned Cal Smith in the text in the video. I think he meant Carl Smith who was a lot more successful than Cal. Cal was a guitarist and singer in Ernest Tubbs band.
This censoring is infuriating...
Re: I was silenced making a Jim Reeves comment on YouTube
Don't get me wrong I love Patsy but it has always infurieates me that There were 2 other singers on the plane with her Cowboy Copas "The biggest star" and Hawkshaw Hawkins who was a fast fising star himself Patsy got in the Country Music Hall Of Fame Cope and Hawk have never gotton in there. Cowboy Copa's daughter died last month at 89 and she could not beleive it either! Even Johnny and Jack have never gotton in and they invented an entire rumba country sound! Jim should have been mentioned because durubg his life he had more hit records than label Mate Eddy Arnold snd help usher country music in to an entire new era! To do a proper video set on Country music it would need to be 18 hours long so we can remember more of the unforgetable artist from days gone by!
Re: I was silenced making a Jim Reeves comment on YouTube
Yes, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins are legends too. It took some years before discovering them, but they both made some great records.
Hawkshaw Hawkins is my favourite of the two. Hawkins recorded many great sides in the early 1960s which I love. "You Know Me Much Too Well" (1960), "Big Ole Heartache" (1961), "Twenty Miles from Shore" (1961) and "Darkness on the Face of the Earth" (Willie Nelson)/I Can't Seem to Say Goodbye (1962) are a few favourites.
I haven't listened much to Cowboy Copas but he was a great guitar player besides a great singer. If it is he who plays guitar on "Alabam". I also like "Flat Top Guitar Blues" & "Sold the Farm".
on September 8, 2024, 2:25 am