# Country music of the 1980s

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-of-the-1980s/485823>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 14, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-of-the-1980s/485823 "2009-02-14T15:29:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-of-the-1980s/485823/21 "2009-02-16T21:59:03Z")

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> [@Sean\_Factotum](#):
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> And he had no love of Shania Twain after she made it big. He called her “Nashville’s highest paid lap-dancer.”

Well, when the man’s right, he’s right! I stopped listening to country music around the time Shania got really popular, and around time time Faith Hill had her makeover and stopped singing country music. To me, that marks the clear point when C&W stopped being C&W and became nothing more than a strand of obnoxious, over-produced, underwhelming, pop crap.

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**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-of-the-1980s/485823/22 "2009-02-16T23:04:43Z")

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The Cowboy Junkies. They got a bit coffeetable later, but _Whites Off Earth Now_, _The Trinity Sessions_ and _Caution Horses_ were a fantastic hat-trick of albums. Oh, and killah def lang, especially when The Reclines were still her band.

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-of-the-1980s/485823/23 "2009-02-18T09:22:53Z")

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> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#):
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> He was around in the 80’s but I don’t think he became well known until Garth Brooks got famous.

Maybe not well known, but damn good and under appreciated.

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