Alternatives Quote by Jim Goad

A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is singing it.…

— Bradford Cox

People would say, 'Why are you guys in country music? You look like you're in the Backstreet Boys.' We took so much heat. We…

— Jay DeMarcus

“Even the minstrels who came in the back yards and sang "If I had my way, You would never grow old" were sad, too.…

— Betty Smith

One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean…

— Randy Houser

Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they're like, 'That's not Patsy Cline.' And everyone…

— Kristian Bush

Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group…

— Paul Burch

In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if…

— William Christopher Handy

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of…

— Jay Heinrichs

“For two full days we picked green beans out in the field, under the molten rays of the summer sun, rows and rows of…

— Richard Horan

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

— Carlisle Floyd

Well, the things that country music is parodied for sometimes - trains, drinking, sin, cheating, redemption, jailhouses, rambling, hoboing, on and on, all those…

— Marty Stuart

“In general, those from outside the southern culture built a style around exaggerations of southern music, and missed the lonesome hillbilly and blues feel…

— Colin Escott