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I think it's important to parse country music. There's Nashville country music and then there's county music. Actual country music is great. Nashville country music is not.
Would you be so kind as to share a few of those artists?
See, I caught my ex listening to country yesterday, and I know she’s just doing it because her new gf is into country, and it sounded like your aforementioned Nashville schlock. I figure if she’s going to force herself to listen to country to impress her gf, least I can do is suggest some real country artists.
I am here for you! There is so much good country music, what they play on the radio is mostly shit. But like with every other sort of music, what's good is good.
Jason Isbell
Hayes Carll
Tyler Childers
Joshua Ray Walker
Charlie Crockett
Sturgill Simpson
The gay cowboy with the deep voice - Orville Peck
And a few I heard on the Saving Country Music top 25 this year and liked:
Charlie Marie, Mack Geiger, Sam Platts
If they are ladies into ladies - Kacey Musgraves, Waxahatchee, the supergroup album The Highwomen, and all of the members, Charlie Marie has such a voice.
AFA radio guys, Alan Jackson, Allison Krause, Lyle Lovett are good.
ETA - since this whole conversation came from some racist rant - there is a straight line from country to R&B and you can hear it in Charley Crockett's music, Leon Bridges, Carolina Chocolate Drops. Music is all related. You can always find a path from one style to any other style but almost all those paths were laid down by black people first, at least here in the US.
Johnny Cash for sure but a modern example is Sera Cahoone. Give her Couch Song a listen.
Another great is Lucero. Fucking amazing country rock! The album Nobody's Darlings is one of my absolute favorites.
Neko Case is always amazing.
Ben Nichols, the lead singer of Lucero, has an album based on Blood Meridian call The Last Pale Light in the West that is absolutely phenomenal as well.
Hell yeah, its always in my playlists. Really captures each of the characters in Blood Meridian very well