Hiiii! You can do this for the main characters or just for yourself, the mod!!
shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals. 🫶🫶
Been a MASSIVE fan of your art for since EVER. Not to confuse music preference with stellar fashion but you seem the cowboy enthusiast; any country music recommendations for beginners? 🤠
Awww, thank you so much omg!! 🥺💗 and I actually really love country music!
A lot of it depends on the sound you're looking for, cause there's like at least 50 sub-genres that fall under the country label, and some of them were more popular during certain periods than others
Personally, I prefer a lot of the sounds that were popular in older (Pre-2001) country, so some of my favorite artists from the 40's-60's are:
Hank Williams
Johnny Western
Patsy Cline
Don Gibson
Kitty Wells
Marty Robbins
Eddy Arnold
Tammy Wynette
Willie Nelson
Moving into the 70's, country kind of starts to change a bit from that old traditional folksy-country sound into something that has a few more contemporary rock and even pop influences, so some of my favorite artists from the 70's-80's are:
Merle Haggard
Linda Ronstadt (also check out this song too)
Buck Owens
Dolly Parton
Gary Stewart
Glen Campbell (also check out this and this song, bc these are all tied for my faves of his lol)
Terri Gibbs
Johnny Lee
George Strait
Shenandoah
And then heading into the 90's, some of my faves are:
Suzy Bogguss
Brooks & Dunn (this one too)
Then there's a few modern country/americana acts that I REALLY love. These are the ones I've found to have a lot of reverence for the roots of the genre, so their sound is a little older than most contemporary country acts:
Charley Crockett
Yola
Logan Ledger
Pokey LaFarge
Sierra Ferrell
The Cactus Blossoms
Bella White
The Steeldrivers
Chris Stapleton
And last but certainly not least is the gateway drug of a man who got me into country music at all, Johnny Cash. I've been listening to him since I was in middle school, back when I used to say that I loathed everything about country music except for him. Johnny Cash just has a way of breaking genre barriers for people, even tho his sound was and for the most part always had been very traditionally old school country. He gets his own section cause there's way too many good songs that I implore you check out, including (but certainly not limited to):
I Got Stripes
Cocaine Blues
I Still Miss Someone
Jackson
Cry, Cry, Cry
Ring of Fire
It Ain't Me, Babe
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Song of the Patriot (not a patriotic person but this is one of my Alfred playlist songs lol)
Goodbye, Little Darlin'
ANYWAYS I hope I didn't overwhelm you! I just really love country music and I think it gets such a bad rap, so I go a little crazy the few times that people show interest in exploring the genre a little more, lol.