Who says all of today's country sounds the same?
 
http://www.npr.org/2015/0...y-songs-have-in-common

That's depressingly well done. I heard a 'new' country song recently (female singer, can't remember who) that had the exact melody from a Lonestar tune my wife likes.

WOW!!!! Prob'ly the BESSSTTESSST C&W song I'VE EVVVVVA heard - - HaNdS dOwN!
 
C&W is notorious for this sort of thing and has been from the beginning. Just another clue as to why I could never really take it seriously. And for some reason that crowd isn't as sue happy as other genres.
 
 
 
AND the BEST part. --->>> This is what DAWs are all about. Who could have ever thunk to do this without one.

These guys are a nice antidote to all that stuff, although they have a definite Eagles vibe;
 

 

They need Sonny Landreth in that band.

The CHB tried that mash-up trick in THIS SONG (at the end of the song) but not quite as successful.
 

Good job!
 
And below is why they called it "Nicklebacking."  Two of their songs, unadjusted, with one playing in the left ear and the other in the right.  This one is killer to hear wearing headphones!
 
http://www.nwdreamer.com/download/Nickelback%20-%20How%20You%20Remind%20Me%20Of%20Someday.mp3
 
 
 
 

I confess..I once went to a nickelback concert as part of the dreaded human tradition of "taking one for the team" aka guys sometimes put themselves through the unthinkable to get laid. Honestly, they put on a decent show, but it did not make me want to hear there music anymore. It was the pop rock equiv of hearing a 12 bar blues jam session where it is basically the same song going for a couple of hours. The energy of the rabid fans and the instant familiarity with each song due to it sounding like the last kinda works live but is brutal to listen to via album.

There is a long thread over on keyboard central on this mash up, and most of the comments on the current state of "country" music are right on the mark.
 
the real sad issue are the comments on the youtube page from the redditors who think they know everything about music and cant see beyond their myopic generation and arse.

This is why I no longer listen to 'country' music, but instead listen to bluegrass. While there will always be similarities in music (after all there is only so much you can do with a limited number of notes - this is math after all) there is something that is just too much of an 'algorithm' to a lot of music today. There was some discussion a while ago about how the money behind the music now use software to analyze music to see if it has the 'components' to be a hit song. No wonder everything sounds the same.
 
Another reason to like the old days, where each town had its own DJ, who selected the songs that were played for that station, and a small band could come in to the station and might just get a break and have their record played. Lots of good and different stuff was found that way.