# Is there any "intelligent" country music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-intelligent-country-music/481347 "2009-01-15T00:05:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-intelligent-country-music/481347/141 "2013-03-18T15:22:03Z")
> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#): > > ^^^ There isn’t a song like that from him, but James did sing a song last night during his online show at the Stage It website that was written by him earlier this week named “Smile Because It Happened”. 🙂 🙂 🙂 > God bless you and him always!!! > Holly You’re right, that wasn’t a James Otto song. I confused it with James’s Otto’s _I Got a Seriously Crazy Internet Stalker (Who thinks I know who she is in real life)_ from his seminal album _Get This Crazy Woman Away From Me_. Moved me to tears it did. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-intelligent-country-music/481347/142 "2013-03-18T15:27:13Z")
> [@Little\_Bird](#): > > You’re right, that wasn’t a James Otto song. I confused it with James’s Otto’s _I Got a Seriously Crazy Internet Stalker (Who thinks I know who she is in real life)_ from his seminal album _Get This Crazy Woman Away From Me_. Moved me to tears it did. Knock it off. If you have a problem with another poster, take it to the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-intelligent-country-music/481347/143 "2013-03-18T16:37:18Z")
> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#): > > ^^^ 😃 😃 😃 > God bless you and David Allan Coe always!!! > Holly Steve Goodman wrote “[You Never Even Called Me By Your Name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Never_Even_Call_Me_By_My_Name)”–as Coe admits in his introduction. Some of his other “hits” were outright purchased from songwriters–they got a lump sum, he got the credit & the royalties. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-intelligent-country-music/481347/144 "2013-03-18T17:14:36Z")
Go [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ixSSbNDKo) for the video of what I think is another great and intelligent country song, one that I send out to a good deal of people who have decided to write to me here: “Startin’ With Me” from Jake Owen. 🙂 🙂 🙂 God bless you and him always!!! Holly ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-intelligent-country-music/481347/145 "2013-03-19T02:53:23Z")
Another intelligent country song is [“Get Right With The Man”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHaJegv6Sjs) from the duo named Van Zant. 🙂 🙂 🙂 God bless you and them always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly P.S. My most favorite line of the song is “Its better to be hated for who you are than be loved for who you’re not.”. 🙂 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-intelligent-country-music/481347/146 "2013-03-19T03:32:19Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > I’m not sure where country becomes western or country becomes americana, but Gillan Welch and David Rawlings fit in there somewhere. [Ruby](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcBfCsJW9Ts) is a gorgeous song, and their lyrical influences aren’t your standard country influences. [I Wanna Sing that Rock And Roll](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-jfY74qZRs) is about Ralph Stanley thinking that the other side of the musical grass might be greener. [Winter’s Come and Gone](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4WwYh8Vifo) is just a damn beautiful song. Yeah, Gillian Welch is my answer to this thread. [Time (The Revelator)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdYG-Nh_AxU) Darling remember from when you come to me that Im the pretender, Im not what Im supposed to be but who could know, lf Im a traitor? times the revelator, revelator. [Ruination Day](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yXM8wxg6XM) And the great barge sank. And the Okies fled. And the great emancipater took a bullet in the head. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-intelligent-country-music/481347/147 "2013-03-19T03:35:18Z")
Another intelligent country song is [“I Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmeGpmVNg5A) from Aaron Tippin. 🙂 🙂 🙂 God bless you and him always!!! Holly P.S. My most favorite line is at the beginning when Aaron sings “Sometimes I’ve had to go without for being my own man.”. 🙂 🙂 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-intelligent-country-music/481347.md?page=7)