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23-661: [REDACTED] Look up neotraditional in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Neotraditional may refer to: Neotraditional country , a style of country music Néo-trad , a musical style from Quebec New Classical Architecture , an architecture movement New Urbanism , an urban design movement Traditionalist School (perennialism) Islamic neo-traditionalism See also [ edit ] Neotraditionalism (disambiguation) Traditionalism (disambiguation) New Tradition (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

46-546: A goal to create an open-access database that included every recording "since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost". The first All Music Guide , published in 1992, was a 1,200-page reference book, packaged with a CD-ROM, titled All Music Guide: The Best CDs, Albums & Tapes: The Expert's Guide to the Best Releases from Thousands of Artists in All Types of Music . Its first online version, in 1994,

69-551: Is an American online music database . It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands . Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne . AllMusic was launched as All-Music Guide by Michael Erlewine , a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in

92-416: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Neotraditional country Neotraditional country rose to popularity in the mid-1980s, a few years after the so-called " outlaw movement ", a previous "back-to-its-roots" movement, had faded in popularity. Neo-traditionalism was born as a reaction to the perceived blandness of the mainstream country music at

115-497: The Bakersfield sound . The album was considered a sharp contrast to the then current trends of country music, at the time relying on the "urban cowboy" country-pop scene. AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine observed: And that's the genius of Strait Country —it showed how it was possible to be planted firmly in traditional country yet flexible enough to play softer stuff without losing that hardcore stance ... by blending

138-476: The 1970s and 1980s, such as Ronnie Milsap and Anne Murray , along with the flood of former pop acts (see B.J. Thomas , Billy Joe Royal , The Osmonds , Bill Medley , Dan Seals , Exile and Juice Newton ) switching to "country" to revive their careers. In 1981, George Strait had made his musical debut with the album Strait Country . The album was based on an approach towards traditional country music and its subgenres of honky tonk , Western swing , and

161-441: The acts that were still popular in the 1980s, more of the neo-traditional artists survived the shift into the 1990s than did those who did pop country in the 1980s tradition; Travis, Keith, Strait, McEntire, Loveless and newcomer Alan Jackson stayed true to the neo-traditional sound and continued to have mainstream success alongside their newer, more pop-oriented rivals. In 2000, Strait and Jackson, both of whom remain popular as of

184-454: The base of country music fans who remained loyal to the genre. Neo-traditionalism, to a certain extent, fell out of favor in approximately 1991, when Billboard removed record sales from its country chart and a new brand of popular country music exploded into mainstream popularity, led in large part by Garth Brooks , Toby Keith , and Reba McEntire (who merged neotraditionalist styles, with stadium rock -influences). Despite this shift, of

207-524: The company after its sale. Alliance filed for bankruptcy in 1999, and its assets were acquired by Ron Burkle 's Yucaipa Equity Fund. In 1999, All Music relocated from Big Rapids to Ann Arbor , where the staff expanded from 12 to 100 people. By February of that year, 350,000 albums and two million tracks had been cataloged. All Music had published biographies of 30,000 artists, 120,000 record reviews and 300 essays written by "a hybrid of historians, critics and passionate collectors". In late 2007, AllMusic

230-468: The early 2020s, recorded a song titled " Murder on Music Row " which spoke directly to the rift between neo-traditionalists and pop-country musicians. The lyrics include scathing criticisms of the Nashville establishment such as "Someone killed tradition, and for that, someone should hang." Strait revisited the topic in his 2016 song " Kicked Outta Country ", which noted that history was repeating itself at

253-421: The hardcore honky tonk, Western swing and Bakersfield country with a few melodic ballads that weren't designed for the barroom, he set the template for years and years of modern country. It is with Strait Country that George Strait is credited with starting the neotraditional movement. In the early 1980s, Ricky Skaggs , a picking prodigy who took his inspiration from Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley (Skaggs

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276-519: The mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard . After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan , he founded All Music Guide with

299-485: The neo-traditional boom of the late 1980s and into 1990. As the mid-1980s approached, the pop country of the early 1980s was rapidly falling out of popularity as the Second British Invasion and MTV revolution took hold of American pop music, and country music sales overall had fallen to levels not seen since disco . The promotion of traditional country sounds was in part a retrenchment to appeal to

322-425: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Neotraditional . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neotraditional&oldid=1224273134 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

345-500: The time as artists like Strait were being marginalized just like artists such as Merle Haggard and George Jones had been in 1991. Jackson made similar remarks in his own song "Where Have You Gone", released at the same time as Strait's, remarking in an interview that he hoped that younger country musicians would embrace the traditional sound because as it stood, "country music is gone and it's not coming back." AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG )

368-403: The time, which had been influenced by the rise of the " urban cowboy " fad. New (or "neo-") traditionalism looked to the elders of country music like Ernest Tubb , Hank Williams , Kitty Wells and George Jones for inspiration, and was a precursor to the more general categorization known as new country. The creation of neo-traditionalism was also done in contrast to the more pop-oriented acts of

391-450: The tone in the late '70s and early '80s. Following that, Randy Travis , Patty Loveless , and The Judds used vintage musical stylings, covers of classic country material, and carefully crafted vocal delivery to help bring New Traditionalism to the vanguard of country music for a time. Some of the last top-10 hits from a number of classic country stars (such as Merle Haggard , Conway Twitty , George Jones , and Don Williams ) came during

414-409: The tone of the music and the platforms on which the music is sold. It then connects that data together, in a way that can intelligently tell you about an entire type of music, whether a massive genre like classical, or a tiny one like sadcore ." In 1996, seeking to further develop its web-based businesses, Alliance Entertainment Corp. bought All Music from Erlewine for a reported $ 3.5 million. He left

437-501: Was a Clinch Mountain Boy as a teen), began making music that he believed brought country back to its roots; Skaggs' style drew heavily on country's bluegrass vein. Another neotraditional country artist was one of Skaggs' friends and former band-mate, Keith Whitley , who focused largely on countrypolitan ballads. After his success with " Don't Close Your Eyes ", Whitley was said to be a promising new artist; however, in 1989, he died of what

460-582: Was a text-based Gopher site. It moved to the World Wide Web as web browsers became more user-friendly. Erlewine hired a database engineer, Vladimir Bogdanov , to design the All Music Guide framework, and recruited his nephew, writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine , to develop editorial content. In 1993, Chris Woodstra joined the staff as an engineer. A "record geek" who had written for alternative weeklies and fanzines, his main qualification

483-504: Was an "encyclopedic knowledge of music". 1,400 subgenres of music were created, a feature that became central to the site's utility. In a 2016 article in Tedium , Ernie Smith wrote: "AllMusic may have been one of the most ambitious sites of the early-internet era—and it's one that is fundamental to our understanding of pop culture. Because, the thing is, it doesn't just track reviews or albums. It tracks styles, genres, and subgenres, along with

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506-455: Was officially listed as an alcohol overdose at the age of 34 (this diagnosis has since come into dispute). Despite his death, Whitley's sound remains influential among country artists. At that same time, artists like Emmylou Harris , John Anderson and Gail Davies , whose hits included re-makes of songs by Ray Price, Webb Pierce, Carl Smith, The Louvin Brothers and Johnnie & Jack , set

529-422: Was purchased for $ 72 million by TiVo Corporation (known as Macrovision at the time of the sale, and as Rovi from 2009 until 2016). In 2012, AllMusic removed all of Bryan Adams ' info from the site per a request from the artist. In 2015, AllMusic was purchased by BlinkX, later known as RhythmOne . The AllMusic database is powered by a combination of MySQL and MongoDB . The All Media Network produced

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