Did you also get caught up in the country revival in the early 90s?
Posted by Key-Technician-4693@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 171 comments
Only for you to basically never get back in to it again?
leavy23@reddit
It's been a long time, but I was definitely doing some Boot Scootin'!
imatumahimatumah@reddit
Out in the country past the city limit sahhhhn....
leavy23@reddit
Is that the joint that starts jumping every night when the sun goes down?
imatumahimatumah@reddit
Yes. They've got:
1) Whiskey
2) Women
3) Music
4) Smoke
IIRC it's where all the cowboys go.
RedditGotSoulDoubt@reddit
Is that like new boot goofin?
WITWITS@reddit
leavy23@reddit
Hell ya, in 1993 it was!
OkPie8905@reddit
Did you get down?
vociferousgirl@reddit
If there's going to be any kind of boogie, it best be Boot Scootin'!
CommonNative@reddit
They made us do country line dancing in PE. It was also the reason why my doctor gave me a permanent GET OF OUT JAI---er PE card. My knee kept blowing up to the size of a grapefruit
vociferousgirl@reddit
We also had to do a line dancing and square dancing in PE
Real-Championship331@reddit
Garth Brooks was such a big cultural phenomenon in the early 90s. I've never been a country fan but for some reason had a few of albums. Still listen to them once in a while
3OsInGooose@reddit
Garth Brooks is still the best concert I've ever been to. Dude POURS out energy.
MadeMeStopLurking@reddit
In 2015 he had a concert that sold out in seconds. Every ticket was $60. He wanted everyone to come and even stayed 2 days so he could get as many people as possible.
The tickets showed back up in resale for $300. He was so angry that he canceled both shows and announced a new ticket sale but they would not be transferable. Sold out in minutes.
Best show ever.
idog99@reddit
I never much cared for that. Garth Brooks guy... Now Chris Gaines; that was a good singer.
icy_sylph@reddit
That album was surprisingly good…
Randa08@reddit
I live in the UK and was so Into 90s country, my first concert age 13 was Garth Brooks. I had to go on my own because no one else listened to it. Still the best concert of my life
darcys_beard@reddit
Where you from. In Ireland, Garth Brooks was huuuuge, but no other country artist seemed to cross the water since Kenny Rogers and Dolly.
Modern country nowadays may as well be Tibetan throat singing over here now, such is the lack of interest.
Educational-Party774@reddit
Garth Brooks sold out 8 nights in Dublin in 1994. The whole country was mad for him. And line dancing.
Real-Championship331@reddit
I'm from Massachusetts, not exactly known for its country music either
fitzbuhn@reddit
My first CD was his black and white album. I was definitely into country at this point but I was also in west Texas. But Garth Brooks, Brooks and Dunn, Reba fuckin McEntire, Tricia Yearwood… on and on
Real-Championship331@reddit
Thats the other one I had - I may occasionally want to listen to Friends in Low Places after a few brewskies...
phazedoubt@reddit
That's my go to warm up song for karaoke. It was the class song for our graduating class of '94 and we all had to learn it for the pep rallies.
Latter_Painter_3616@reddit
Fun story: he was one of the talking heads in the Kansas documentary and they were apparently a big inspiration for his entry into music. He had a wide ranging set of influences so his music just appealed to a much broader set of demographics. Plus he’s legit talented
redditprofile99@reddit
Yes, same. My friend and I loved No Fences and listened to it all the time. I'm not a country fan either and that was the only album of his that I owned.
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
At my first boy/girl party circa 91/92 we all gathered around in a circle and sang friends in low places. I was in 6th grade.
TwoBirdsEnter@reddit
That’s so funny! Kids are weird!
My son was in 6th grade last year, and the kids were obsessed with John Denver’s “Country Roads”. Not as hilarious a choice as Garth Brooks, but also random AF.
GenevieveLeah@reddit
We had a beloved Pop radio station in Detroit transition to all country . . . By playing Friends in Low Places for 24 hours straight.
whole_nother@reddit
We sang it for a D.A.R.E. presentation and danced like zombies. Was this normal?
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
I don’t know but dancing like zombies to friends in low places during a dare presentation is so funny 😂
whole_nother@reddit
The idea was that we were in “low places” because we died of…alcohol or something
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
Lol. We had to do GREAT (Gang resistance education and training) after DARE. Gang friends might be the friends in low places.
Lain_Omega@reddit
No. Openly mocked it actually. Was an asshole teen after all
garden__gate@reddit
Nope, I was a city kid. Honestly didn’t even realize it was a thing until years later. In my high school it was alt rock or rap.
Cheapchard9@reddit
I grew up in a rural area with a 99% white population. It was R&B/rap majority. Low amount of mainstream alt rock.
My friend and I were classic rock and techno.
Country was very very rare to hear in school.
Sumeriandawn@reddit
Growing up in cities with less than 5% of the population was Non-Hispanic White.
Country music wasn't popular. I wonder why?🤔
ButIDigress79@reddit
Country peaked in the 90’s.
fakehalo@reddit
It was kind of the beginning of pop country where it all started sounding the same, gimme the stuff before that.
Cheapchard9@reddit
That is exactly what happened to country music for the past decade and half. The Nashville migration happened where everyone wanted to go and be the next big thing.
All Nashville could churn out is pop country and yes, it all sounds virtually the same. To me, most of them are forgettable due to that.
A couple country stations near me will kick on 90s often and it does help mix it up. That era actually hit better.
redditprofile99@reddit
There is actually some really good country music out now by people like Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson, and others. But I would agree that a lot of the Nashville music is garbage.
Plus25Charisma@reddit
If you like Tyler Childers, check out Scott H Biram. I will constantly tell people about that dude because he's awesome.
diopsideINcalcite@reddit
Charlie Parr too. Cheap wine is a great song
Rin_thepixie@reddit
I agree, Scott H is awesome!
redditprofile99@reddit
I definitely will! Appreciate the recommendation.
Plutoniumburrito@reddit
Truth!
This-Cell7957@reddit
Facts
meatee@reddit
I'm from Nashville, so it was entirely unavoidable (still is). I hated every second of it (still do) 😂
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
I went to school with Dunn’s daughter. It wasn’t until much later that I put two and two together that she was the same Dunn as Brooks & Dunn. Anyway, boot scootin’ boogie was a huge hit in ‘90s Tulsa, Ok. But nothing compares to our hometown hero Garth Brooks. He still sells out multi day shows every year in Tulsa.
Vigilant_Fox7782@reddit
“Should’ve been a Cowboy… Should’ve learned to rope n’ ride…” hell yes country music was all around me back then (even as my dominant musical preference shifted to faster, heavier sounds), some of it was freakin’ killer. Garth, Toby, Travis Tritt, Hal Ketchum, Mark Chestnutt, Clint Black, etc… Not to mention culturally we had Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman and Walker Texas Ranger helping maintain the motif every Saturday night… and Kenny Roger’s Roasters, remember that place??? Great stuff.
johnny_moronic@reddit
I was just listening to [A Thousand Miles From Nowhere] this week. 90's Dwight Yoakam slaps.
YVRkeeper@reddit
Everything then seemed like it was trying to be anthem rock. I can just picture a stadium concert with a massive light show.
Now it sounds like bands want to be booked at country-themed chic weddings of only 40 people at someone’s uncles barn so they can post it all over a white woman’s instagram.
emotyofform2020@reddit
Nope
Dream-Ambassador@reddit
First concer I went to in 1992 at age 12 was Reba McIntyre and John Michael Montgomery. I grew up in rural Oregon though. But I also listened to alternative and kinda went more in a rock direction until I joined a folk band in 2010 or thereabouts. I still listen to country, love sturgill Simpson, gave him and his band a ride to their hotel once at a festival. I put on the 90’s pop country when I’m feeling nostalgic, or when it randomly pops up on my iPhone. “Forever and ever, amen” popped up today and I listened twice!
darcys_beard@reddit
Belatedly. Garth Brooks was huge here in Ireland but it mostly passed me by.
Then I met my American wife, and she most definitely had been caught up in it. And force fed it to her "unamericanized (with a zee) Irish Boy".
"Chattahoochee" is a legit banger!
whole_nother@reddit
Chattahoochee is one of the GOATs for sure!
Key-Technician-4693@reddit (OP)
So how hot exactly does it get on the Chattahoochee?
whole_nother@reddit
Even hotter than a hoochie coochie, believe it or not
Key-Technician-4693@reddit (OP)
Oh of course. That would be the hotness level on such a river.
whole_nother@reddit
I have been in it down yonder, and it was quite hot.
Key-Technician-4693@reddit (OP)
It can get a little crazy on said river. Just try to not get caught.
darcys_beard@reddit
If you've laid rubber on the Georgia asphalt, you should be ok in that regard.
whole_nother@reddit
Nah, I typically settle for a DQ order, such as a burger or grape sno-cone
Grundle95@reddit
I grew up in a small town so it was all around me even when I didn’t want it. Especially when I didn’t want it.
sherahero@reddit
My first concert around 1994 was Reba & Brooks n Dunn.
WickedShiesty@reddit
Nope. I'm what you call one of those city New England Yankee boys.
breathless_RACEHORSE@reddit
Club mix?!
lavasca@reddit
Nope.
Country had a negative reputation where I lived. So it was assumed that country fans were pro-organized hate. There were only 2 guys who were willing to admit to liking country and they were not pro-hate.
PuroPinchePedo@reddit
West Texas so of course I did
bloodpriestt@reddit
I worked at cuntry radio station right after I graduated HS from 96-98 while I was commuting to college.
As a result, I know every lyric to every stupid fucking song from the era. If I’m in a public place and some Colin Raye song is playing, I know every note like Jason Bourne. Except my repressed memories are of terrible, terrible music
GenevieveLeah@reddit
Hells yeah
RIP Naomi Judd
singleguy79@reddit
I don't know about revival, but that's when I got into country music.
lopan75@reddit
Yup. Because of my parents. Still some of the best country of the last 40 years. Fell off when I got into Alt-rock in '96
donaggie03@reddit
I was country when country wasn't cool
LocalConspiracy138@reddit
Fuck no, this stuff made me hate country. I didn't even give any country a chance until a friend reintroduced me to Johnny Cash in my 20's.
RangeLife79@reddit
Neon Moon was a mood...
mochajon@reddit
When I was 7, I got a Walkman for my birthday. Someone gave me cassette tapes from Garth Brooks, Brooks & Dunn, MC Hammer, and Biz Markie… it’s been a wild ride from there.
yowza_wowza@reddit
Oh yeah. We still listen to 90s country in our house. The style is so goofy and catchy and fun. Reminds me of taking trips with my grandparents in their gladiator van while blaring US 101.
jharrisimages@reddit
First CD I ever owned, I was 5. 😂👍
Somewhereoverrainbow@reddit
Where I come from, it wasn't really a high school dance until they played Fishin' In The Dark. And at some point Shook Me All Night Long. Yes, definitely listened to a lot of country.
sexwiththebabysitter@reddit
No
afghanwhiggle@reddit
Fucking hell no.
not4u2see@reddit
GiantGingerGobshite@reddit
Sister tried to drag me line dancing because they needed more boys. But even the chance to awkwardly hit on girls couldn't get my young self to deal with Country music
LeavesOfBrass@reddit
Well you see one of them always wears a hat, and, the other one never does.
Lostarchitorture@reddit
Mark Chestnutt, Tracy Byrd, and Clay Walker all coming from my hometown area those years really put a huge country music influence on the area.
here_we_go2324@reddit
It's all my parents listened to at the time, so I got lots of exposure. Never chose to listen to it on my own accord, but some nice memories tied to some of the songs/artists. There was a lot of catchy music in the genre for sure.
Distinct_Safety5762@reddit
I was a punk but my grandfather was a country fan, but that was limited to Sons of the Pioneers, Oak Ridge Boys, and Johnny.
I did and still do find Garth and B&D to have some enjoyable songs, and now that I’m old enough to not care about getting called a “poseur” I can admit it publicly 😂. Plus, when you’re a punk and all your’re doing karaoke “Friends In Low Places” is not limited to a single genera!
NeptuneAndCherry@reddit
My first job played country all the time. I Stockholm Syndrome-d my way into appreciating some 90s and very early 00s country. Some of it still makes its way onto my playlists
FulcrumYYC@reddit
You mean the last time country music was actually good.
Verbull710@reddit
Dwight Yoakam is the f@ckin man
Terri Clark kicks ass
There were other 90s acts that were aight
No-Problem7594@reddit
I have not one but two Dwight Yoakam T-shirts that guy rules
No-Problem7594@reddit
I was Gone Country a little before then
Hypatia76@reddit
Born and raised in the deep south, so definitely listened to, and still love, a lot of that 90s country. Reba, Jo Dee Messina, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, the whole lot of it.
I don't really listen to it much but I admit I have a Spotify playlist with those songs that I sometimes listen to when I'm feeling nostalgic.
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
The song remembers when
I love old school Trisha
full_of_ghosts@reddit
Nope. The twanginess of country music has always been like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
Sometimes people ask me, "What about country music that's not twangy?" to which I ask, "Is it even still country, in that case?"
Old-school country without twang is just folk, and I like folk. Modern country without twang is just rock, and I like rock.
that-one-girl-who@reddit
If you listen to a Chris Stapleton song and don’t like it and thinks it’s twangy, then you just don’t like good music. I’m not a huge fan of country music but that man is one of the best singers/somgwriters/guitar players I have seen in a long while. Many other famous singers and musicians (not country) have mad respect for him. Did you see him do the national anthem at the last superbowl? That man is a star.
https://youtu.be/WFKXJ091Ed4?si=9OHjFnUgiwL8ZBRE
https://youtu.be/YcHL0kUFPhw?si=8FIBWo5GwjOTxRJq
https://youtu.be/Ql3Vz2642pk?si=47sE3XsTmHMBo7a-
https://youtu.be/IBLruNfUqUs?si=hKd_VTwKVDUjttlg
Potential_Being_7226@reddit
Chris Stapleton is excellent. He’s the exception for me when it comes to modern country music. I wish there were more artists like him.
full_of_ghosts@reddit
This kind of condescending bullshit is an insta-block. Bye bye now.
Lastofthehaters@reddit
No, no I do not
Potential_Being_7226@reddit
So much so that I have 90s country playlist. I wish Garth Brooks was on Apple Music!!!
It’s the only country I can listen to (well, except for Dolly, Emmy Lou, and a couple Glen Campbell songs).
TPlain940@reddit
I heard "Neon Moon" for the first time last year and that's as far as I'm going.
abarthvader@reddit
Cigarettes After Sex has a great version
lacroixanon@reddit
Bro I'm listening to Tanya Tucker at this moment
the_noise_we_made@reddit
Fuck no.
TRDF3RG@reddit
Definitely not.
DebiMoonfae@reddit
My dad listened to country so I also listened to country. No trend needed.
Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit
Def no!
JadeDragonMeli@reddit
My parents did. Billy Ray, Brooks n Dunn, Garth Brooks, Randy Travis, Vince Neil, etc on repeat while I was trying to listen to Smashing Pumpkins and Metallica lmao.
amayain@reddit
This was exactly my experience. I was super into alternative rock at the time and talked so much shit about the 90s country that my parents were listening to. A decade later, I begrudgingly accepted that I actually really like a lot of the songs that they were listening to. Now I blast it and my wife talks shit about it. I'll give it a decade or so before she starts digging it too, lol
furious_Dee@reddit
vince gill*
radio on at dinner every night.
JadeDragonMeli@reddit
Vince Neil did not sound right as I was typing! Vince Gill!
Well, I grew up on a farm in Southern Maryland, so the radio was rarely not on 98.7 WMZQ.
022ydagr8@reddit
I liked some of the music but not enough to turn it up in the car. The best country music is played backwards. The truck fixes itself the wife comes back home and the dog didn’t die.
DoctorMario1000@reddit
Ah man love this era of country
Single-ch@reddit
Hell no! Country and Death Metal. I don’t know which one I can’t stand more.
icepick3383@reddit
Not then, and certainly not now. Bro country of the last decade is TERRIBLE and I just never related to 90s country either. Especially with the great wave of music that was out at the same time. But with that being said, mean who doesn’t know “friends in low places” or “I like it I love it” lol.
My country music tastes pretty much extend to outlaw country like Waylon, cash, Hank jr, Johnny paycheck, and Sturgill Simpson.
Impressive_Speech_50@reddit
Still pleasantly stuck there
Kitchener1981@reddit
I may have dabbled in the Dark Side of music
_MistyDawn@reddit
Fuck, no. 🤮
Traditional_Entry183@reddit
By the time we were a few years into the 90s, I was very disillusioned with the rock scene, not liking most grunge or alternate music, and i eventually found myself gradually becoming more of a country fan. By the time 2000 rolled around, country made up about a third of the music I'd listened to, along with classic rock and some new stuff, and there was a growing overlap between country and what was more of a rural rock and pop, which was my favorite part.
But then 9/11 happened, and country went way right wing a religious, and that was it for me. I've been done with it ever since. I have certainly wondered if more of a rural rock and pop subgenre could have grown and flourished otherwise.
aseradyn@reddit
I definitely got into a lot of country in the mid- to late- 90s. Then 9/11 happened and it turned into God and Country music and I went back to pop.
Kahnza@reddit
I grew up and live in a rural area. I had no choice. LOL
NW_Forester@reddit
That era of stadium country is just rock with a twang.
TheCatalyst5@reddit
No joke. I was listening to an old Shania Twain song on the radio the other day and it had way more electric guitar in it than what I remembered. I loved Shania!
cassandradancer@reddit
Boot scoot booooogy! At church dances we line danced. Oh god. And slapping your shoes. What were we thinking?
Reeferologist-@reddit
My elementary school made us line dance to this for like a month.
Creepy-Floor-1745@reddit
Where I lived, the people who listened to country weren’t folks I wanted to emulate. Not gonna be rude so I’ll leave it at that :)
stykface@reddit
Still listen to it today. Music itself peaked in the 90's.
tomqvaxy@reddit
No. I live in the south and fakey exaggerated country/southern accents make me want to stab my ears out.
jessek@reddit
Grew up in a town with a lot of hicks, I fucking hated it.
Bors713@reddit
Nope. Not even a little bit. “Newer” country is about the only genre I don’t listen to.
Aspence22@reddit
I listen to all kinds of music but in the 90s was subjected to a while lot of country from my parents. I will say even today I still listen to Dwight Yoakam all the time
Successful_Top_8489@reddit
I got sucked in. But only because Columbia house sent me the Brooks and Dunn and Garth Brooks albums for only 2 cents. 😂
Erik500red@reddit
You got ripped off, I got 12 for a penny
TwilightStranger@reddit
Grew up on it through most of the 80s and 90s. Still like to listen to Dwight Yoakam.
xt0rt@reddit
Nope, my mom was totally into it though. I did however go to the local skating rink one night because my gf at the time asked me to go. I was decked out in my hand-painted leather jacket and NIN skully (because I was super cool like that)
nitrot150@reddit
Little bit cuz I grew up in Montana and my BFF liked a lot of it. But I introduced her to Green Day and that was the end of that!
Transplanted_Cactus@reddit
I've never stopped listening to country. Yes, even country modern country. Even "bro country" and country rap and indie country and country rock.
tcorey@reddit
Yes
sicariobrothers@reddit
I’m a never country lifer
MustardSperm@reddit
Neon Moon still gets me going
mtb0022@reddit
No, and I’m not a fan of current country crossover music either. I refuse to listen to Morgan Wallen no matter how many times the algorithm recommends him.
Blaze_556@reddit
It’s what my dad used to listen when I was growing up so the only country I listen to is late 80s/90s.
Poodlepied@reddit
Late 80s and 90s country is the only good country.
fixxer_s@reddit
Nope. Metal, punk, rap, New Jack, pop...etc. somehow, avoided country. Guess I am too city for it by nature🤷♂️
skywalkerRCP@reddit
Hell no.
Plantayne@reddit
Not in the least, couldn’t stand this stuff.
Still can’t.
_1457_@reddit
Can't lie. I liked early 90s Colin Raye.
Conscious-Intern8594@reddit
No. I'm not a shit kicker. And that's an actual word in my dictionary. It has all the curse words, it's awesome.
LardLad00@reddit
Put on your shit kickers and kick some shit
SalukiKnightX@reddit
I didn’t, but my Mom’s inner Kentucky bought a later album from Garth (and can’t stop calling Trisha Yearwood “Yarwood”).
shiftysquid@reddit
More than most. I started wearing cowboy boots and hats, and I started regularly doing line dancing on a TV show on TNN for a year or two. My friends desperately want to find clips of this, but they've been unsuccessful so far.
WhysAVariable@reddit
I used to live in the sticks in Canada and we only had country stations in the early 90’s, and no MTV/MuchMusic. So that’s pretty much all I listened to, besides the classic rock my parents liked, until I was 9 or 10. I still like it but I can’t stand newer country music.
DrunkShimodaPicard@reddit
No
hippity_bop_bop@reddit
My dad had some sappy Brooks and Dunn on repeat during his divorce back in the 90s. I took decades for me to be able to listen to them again.
WilliamMcCarty@reddit
I didn't get caught up in it, I was born into it. I'm a '77 baby but I was born in the south so I was raised on country music. Never admitted to listening to it back then since my crew was a bunch of headbangers but when no one was around I was singing along to the likes of George Strait and doing the Boot Scootin' Boogie.
This-Cell7957@reddit
After the 90s country went to shit anyway. With Glam country. I mean come on hootie and the blowfish is now country. You know it sucks after the 90s
AssignmentFar1038@reddit
Hootie and the Blowfish is not country. Darius Rucker is.
frougle_mcdugal@reddit
Not me, but my bus driver in grade school sure did. I heard this and Watermelon Crawl at least once a day on my hour spent on the bus to and from school. Still hate country music today.
SickSticksKick@reddit
My parents were into it at the time. I have a Spotify playlist of that era saved to remember those times
shempaholic@reddit
Oh yeah. I got into country sometime around 1992 or so, when I was in the 5th grade. Brooks & Dunn's "Brand New Man" was the first CD I ever got. I still love the stuff from that time. I discovered classic rock in the mid-90s, thanks to the country tribute albums that were coming out like Common Thread (Eagles tribute) and Skynyrd Frynds. Country started heading into a more pop direction as the 90s went on and I listened to less and less of it and more of classic rock. By 2000 I was out completely. Country music since then has been basically worthless IMO, with a few exceptions here and there.
SangestheLurker@reddit
I always thought I had that country period because I was trying to get closer to my loser step-father, but hell, if it was a whole movement then that actually makes me feel better!
Luna_Soma@reddit
My dad was really into country music. I loved country until I took a hard left into grunge.
I still keep a country music playlist on my Spotify for the songs I grew up on
strix_nebul0sa@reddit
Went to summer camp 1996 listening to the end-of-grunge, pop-punk and 90's EDM-ish stuff MuchMusic told me I should.
Came home a rabid fan of Garth, Kenny Rogers, Blue Rodeo...and not country, but that was the summer I became a life-long Hip fan, too.
Kenny Rogers quickly led to Johnny Cash, which led to real bluegrass (Earl Scruggs)…and probably made me a better, more well-round person. At least musically. But possibly in most aspects of life. and definitely led ot me playing mandolin!
The look of shock on my boomer parents' faces when, at the table at a family dinner, I asked my Grannie and Grandpa if I could borrow their Kenny Rogers record to rip it onto cassette...speaks to a very specific, Xennial-type time in music and technology history.
ApatheistHeretic@reddit
Never liked the music. However, I did like the ladies in the back-pocketless jeans in the 90s.
RipErRiley@reddit
Was more of a gangsta rap guy as a teen but also had some Garth & Diamond Rio tapes.
Key-Technician-4693@reddit (OP)
Same! Busta Rhymes, Juvenile, DMX, Lil Wayne…
Filth_Pig_@reddit
no, but i grew up in the midwest and that shit was too popular.
Lawnlady1980@reddit
Grew up in Kansas. Big time.
januraryfiftieth@reddit
Yep! My sixth grade year (‘94/95) I was a 94.1 KMPS Loyal Listener—they sent me a club card (like a credit card) to prove it lol
musashi-swanson@reddit
I lived in Wyoming and fucking HATED country then, like I do now (except for Wheeler Walker Jr)
GenghisConnieChung@reddit
Nope. Thank fuck.