Talk:Riley Puckett

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Wasn't this guy an old-time musician? Badagnani 10:19, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes he was. He played the guitar and sang for the Skillet Lickers and also recorded solo. The yodeling cowboy (talk) 08:30, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article says country. So he did both? Badagnani (talk) 08:33, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Old-time country music. Nothing at all like the homogenized "product" that oozes from Naysh-ville nowadays. So probably shouldn't be called "country" music without explaining the context. +ILike2BeAnonymous (talk) 08:40, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The thing is,

Except that it clearly was country music, and was recognized as such then; the context has changed since then is all. Yes, you could call it "pre-Hank Williams country music" and you wouldn't be wrong. The problem with your statement is that old-time music (fiddle-based or not) was country music. +ILike2BeAnonymous (talk) 08:50, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, old-time music was country music at this time, it's only called different. When Billboard published the charts in the 1940s, they called old-time (or hillbilly) then Country&Western, because they need a better word tha hillbilly, or old-time. The yodeling cowboy (talk) 11:35, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Both old-time, hillbilly, and country music?

According to the covers of Riley Puckett albums, his music was both old-time country, early country, and hillbilly music. I'll think the oldest country (e.g. Puckett's band the Skillet Lickers, Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, perhaps Prairie Ramblers) was a sort of old-time; perhaps the music of that period should be called "late old-time". But of course not all old-time was country, and most country music is not old-time. Pål Jensen (talk) 17:14, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]