George Jones’ classic down-and-outer is like the flip side to the above Alabama song. And how, to paraphrase Dierks Bentley, those songs about the past might help us all “move on” into the future that still lies ahead. To accompany our recent Country Clichés feature, which looks at the various forms of nostalgia in country music dating back to the 1920s, we’ve come up with ten songs from the past several decades that show the different forms nostalgia can take in contemporary country music. 1 “Automatic” or the Judds’ classic “Grandpa (Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Old Days)” can give us comfort as they spin stories about how back in the day we all got by with less and were plenty happy about it. While some artists have dug up specific memories to create enduring songs, others have simply charmed us with tales of the good ol’ days, a time when life was simpler and people were happier, or so it often seems in hindsight. The past is, like the present, complicated. Some of these memories are happy and nourishing, others come with additional details that can be painful to revisit or that we would never choose to endure again. ![]() We remember the ‘good times’ of our old hometown, our moms and dads, a former lover, a favorite childhood moment or simply the look and feel of the house we were raised in. Whether it is the smell of grandma's cinnamon apple pie or the condensation from an ice cold Coca-Cola, it is often those small, seemingly unimportant, details that are often the ones we remember the most. ![]() ![]() It's human nature to want to replay all those happy, fuzzy memories like a home movie in our minds.
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