Rock Band Country 5-pack official, coming next week

by Ross Miller on Dec 8th 2008 5:30PM

Harmonix has made official the previously reported Rock Band country music track pack for the week of December 16. Judging by the comments in the earlier post, the tracks may not be your cup of tea, but please keep the "it's Rock Band" cries to a minimum.

Country Pack (680

/ $8.49)

Brad Paisley - "Mud on the Tires" (160 / $2)
Brooks & Dunn - "Hillbilly Deluxe" (160 / $2)
Dierks Bentley - "Free & Easy (Down the Road I Go)" (160 / $2)
Dixie Chicks - "Sin Wagon" (160 / $2)
Miranda Lambert - "Gunpowder & Lead" (160 / $2)

All tracks are masters and will be available for download next Tuesday and Thursday for Xbox 360 and PS3, respectively. Now that we've gotten a few more genres checked off the list, what do you say we see some Roots Crew from Philly represented, eh Harmonix?

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Tags: bently, brad-paisley, brooks-and-dunn, brooks-dunn, dierks-bentley, dixie-chicks, dlc, miranda-lambert, PS3, rock-band, rock-band-2, rock-band-dlc, rock-band-weekly, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (72)

Country's not my cup of tea, but I'm all for variety. Besides, Rock Band is best with friends, and all my friends LOVE country music.

So, really, I need to get new friends.

+1 for coming to the awesome conclusion

I once had a friend that like Country music.

I eat him.

*patiently waits for mariachi band*

Are any of these likely to be fun to play and musically interesting?

Asking here is quicker than spending half an hour watching youtube vids >:D

YES! These are all great songs...well I can vouch for miranda lambert, brad paisley, and dierks bentley. Not really into dixie chicks though.

The guitar solos seem like they will be very difficult and fun!!!

I can't wait

Sin Wagon has GREAT guitar and drum sections, and the singing will definitely prove to be challenging. Will definitely weed out the good singers.

All of the songs are actually great songs that will prove fun to play. I love country music so I'm bias, but I highly recommend this pack and commend the company for adding this variety to the game!

Should they have called the game ROCK Band if they're going to release country for it? I know, I know, more variety is good, and they already have content that isn't really rock. Still though, they should perhaps consider just calling it 'Band' at this point.

Mercenaries 2 should change it's name because you can buy extra content - Obama and Palin skins - and they're not mercenaries!

Are you claiming that Sarah Palin isn't mercenary? I think you might be wrong there...

You don't just steal cars in GTA...they should change the name to "Grand"

You don't just cry far away in Far Cry 2, they should change the name to "2".

You don't just fall down in Fallout 3, the should change the name to Out 3.

You don't just imagine about babies in Imagine Babyzzz, they should change the name to BABYZZZs

I just mean that the game obviously appeals to people that like more than rock music, and perhaps it's time for it to grow to become a platform for interactive music rather than a game featuring one form of music. Basically, Rock Band should become a media player instead of a game.

It's either downloadable content for Rock Band or they release a whole new $100 game "Country Band" which features a dobro controller and is not compatible with current accessories for a few months, by which time they've released "Jazz Band", "Polka Band", "Marching Band"...

Just eat the DLC and don't complain.

Every other reply to your thread needs to shut the hell up, but from a musical geneology perspective, modern country songs have more in common with rock music than traditional country. A lot of modern country songs are musically indistinguishable from rock already, having shed their folk/gospel/old country roots entirely.

I still hate country as a genre, but there's an easy solution to Country DLC in Rock Band: If you don't like them, don't buy them.

Have you listened to Pop Country in the last ten years? Rock Band works just fine as a title...

lol, sorry bob - that's what I get for not reading all the comments first...

I'm glad there's something for everyone, but this is surely not for me! Still the wallet needs some rest, so I'm happy they're catering to someone else's tastes this week.

We need more comments like this on the interwebs. +1 for you.

NO, the interwebs does not welcome friendly non-trolls/fanboys, get out!!!

My thoughts are simple. While I may not enjoy a ton of country music, I believe that more people to play games, the better the industry is for all of us. Why could we not take this as testing the waters for "Country Band"?

More people that play means more songs to be purchased. More song purchased means more bands to jump on the bandwagon.
More bands on the bandwagon means larger variety.

Larger variety will make us all happy.

Country pack? I guess every bassist needs to start somewhere...

On a serious note, I see no harm in this, as long as they keep it to DLC. The second I hear of on-disc country for RB3, when there are still so many great rock acts yet to be represented, there'll be hell to pay.

Give me some Pink freakin' Floyd already :@

Rock Band already has non-rock music. Why not add some country?

I would only play country on Rock Band if it was Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, or maybe Charlie Feathers.

ha im the only one on this post that likes country? i sing quite often on Rockband and i love singing country music. im just picking up brad paisley this time, but they should get some garth, strait, waylon jennings, allen jackson and josh turner. id be a happy man.

hear hear!!

also some alt-type country might be nice too, allison krauss (sp?) i think there isnt any wilco yet.

man would i love some okkervil river

I won't be interested in country music for Rock Band until they release a Jug peripheral.

I would always call dibs on the Jug.

I love jugs.

Don't we all?

HARMONIX/EA/MTV! Since you are releasing country and its Christmas time, can you give us the following for FREE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8HGswf584E

Still waiting for Pink Floyd DLC.

My girlfriend is very excited that country is coming to Rock Band. It's a game that defies genre loyalty, because anyone can enjoy a good music game.

If I play the country music backwards will the good music come back again?

"If I play the country music backwards will the good music come back again?"

You know, there's a country song about that... I am not joking at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbT-MbDEnWA

That was a joke long before the song, I can't believe some desperate redneck ripped off that old joke and wrote a song about it...

Yup, just proves a point about country music.

Hillbilly Deluxe sounds like a good choice, and am only otherwise familiar with Mud on the Tires, but there are far better country choices out there that would satisfy even the "It's ROCK Band" people (even by the same artists - Boot Scootin' Boogie anyone?).

The biggest issue with them releasing country music is the wasted time and effort. They could've devoted their energies into any number of bands that are far more deserving. How much Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, King Crimson or Queen do we have?

I'll take Mute Math DLC over this twangy boring poppy garbage.

Because they have no interest in those bands at all, right? They're either working on securing as many bands as they can get or the band doesn't want to work with them (like Led Zep). Its not THEIR faults.

And honestly, I hate country music, but I wouldn't go as far to say its GARBAGE.

There are literally hundreds of bands that should precede anything remotely country. The bands listed above were examples.

Country? Its good that there's more variety. There is still hope yet for some Roots.

WE AINT FOUND SHIT!

don't like the game but i love the roots

As a reformed country music fan (8 years clean and off the twang wagon) I'm surprised they picked such oddball tracks to introduce the genre.

I assumed there would be at least one Garth Brooks track in the initial salvo of country releases.

well lets not confuse what country music really is....country music is rock music, real country music is Elivs and Johnny Cash, bullshit "country" is the tracks that are coming out next week. Its pop music ladies and gentlemen...nothing country about it

I'm all for them releasing different stuff. I won't get any of this, but a lot of people will.

But, how can you have a COUNTRY pack, and not have JOHNNY FUCKING CASH?!

Cash transcends genre.

Oh go away country music. Well it's something I won't be buying. Ultra hardcore HAR HAR to people who do.

I don't like country music that much, but there is no doubt that some country music artists are excellent musicians. Just for their skills I'd say some should be included. Heck, even Dolly Parton is one hell of a guitarist, as good as any metal rocker.

I won't lie, I'm a bit disappointed this is the only thing coming out next week, but I guess it gives me some time to save up for most of the No Doubt pack.

I know, I know, I like No Doubt. :P

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