Some of the ones I would have posted are already up, here are a few fill-ins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbaz_T6BN3g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIX4dmzjq5E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rrqBsG1yXs
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Some of the ones I would have posted are already up, here are a few fill-ins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbaz_T6BN3g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIX4dmzjq5E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rrqBsG1yXs
Thanks, I hadn’t heard of that one. Need to give it a listen and drink a Mad Dog Margarita down at the Texas Chili Parlor.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
You may already know, but Steve’s first gig was playing bass in Guy Clark’s band. Towns Van Zandt was always hanging around with Guy in those days, too.
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Originally Posted by flowing alpy
Kind of a cliche tune at this point, but it does have one of my favorite lines of any country song in it:
"them that don't know him won't like him, and them that do sometimes won't know how to take him. He ain't wrong, he's just different, but his pride won't let him do the things to make you think he's right."
I like country. I like most of the old stuff mentioned already, but there's actually a lot of really good stuff coming out today too. Undertow mentioned some of it. I'll add some more. I'm more a fan of honky tonk/rock adjacent country than really neo-traditionalist stuff slower, but there's a lot of that coming out now too if that's more your thing.
Turnpike Troubadours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ZW0pA5COc
Whitey Morgan, more honky tonk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzGMnDpJ2-4
Coulter Wall, more of a traditionalist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l4gdhPqh3E
Dean Brody, has some fun narrative songs (this has a brief Lindi Ortega cameo, who is also good):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqv4F98JjaQ
Graham Stone Music, one of my brother's college friends whose music has been getting some good press lately:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMQ0BZ5oEg8
"Hard on Equipment" by Corb Lund hits home pretty good for me. This same post may be buried in the other thread too but fuck it.
Sure. I learned about the album here, which includes some good history: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...e-to-guy-clarkQuote:
Originally Posted by billyk
I have a photo somewhere of my oldest kid as a toddler (he's now a teen) standing in the grass at hardly strictly bluegrass with Guy Clark playing on stage in the background. When we used to go to that music festival, i always made a point to get that kid in listening distance of all the old timers, even if the kid would be too young to remember.
Not sure why I didn’t post this one first time around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Iz0iVvhEc
Standing On A Rock: Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Trudy: CDB
Country Honk: Rolling Stones
A current fave.
https://youtu.be/eEEm2G1Ya38
Starting about 5 years or so ago a buddy of mine who is way more into country than I'll ever be started inviting me to shows. I've seen Willie's Outlaw Tour a few times which has had some amazing lineups; last year was Billy Strings, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Charley Crockett and of course Willie. I've seen Sturgill, Jamie Johnson and Stapleton as well, all of which give me kind of a new 'outlaw' sound. Seen Zac Brown Band and Darius Rucker as well but I'd consider them more pop, but they put on really fun shows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunion 2020
Still not a country fan per-se, but good music is good music is good music, and I have to say that I'm hard pressed to name many better that I've heard in the past 5 years than Billy MF Strings, Isbell and Sturgill.
Don't you blaspheme! Billy Strings is not Cuntry music!
Of course, the real stuff.
https://youtu.be/1ASmI5GWW64
That's not Cuntry either, that's good music. Aka, OG bluegrass.Quote:
Originally Posted by TNKen
ISBD, you've got some killer choices in there!
I love country music. There is loads of garbage, but there is also loads of excellence and variety.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Hard to pick just one. I think the best in the business right now is Sturgil Simpson. Definitely give his library a listen. Insane how many great tunes he has. Killer band too.
Currently playing this on repeat. Kids going to be a legend
https://youtu.be/hCebq5lLgos?si=90lHM5H1vLesoVnI
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I saw Doc Watson twice, when I was 12 and when I was 60. The last was at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and he was as good then as the first time I heard him. The other two Sat nite closing acts were Earl Scruggs and Ralph Stanley, not necessarily in that order. Combined age of about 280 and none of them were missing any notes.
One of my favorite Steve Earl tunes
And then there's the version by the town of Galway
duno what its considered but while i'm not into country i do like Dwight Yoakum, also Lyle Lovett
Get a grip, bluegrass is part of the country music genre.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
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Robert Earle Keen says that when he was asked what kind of music he played, he looked out the motel window and answered "Best Western". It would be a better story if I could type a Texas accent.
Isbd, thanks for posting lefty!
I went to Hardly Strictly for a day or two for several years until 2009. We took my thing #1 to three of them when he was a toddler and a preschooler. I always tried to see the old timers and would get my kiddo to be exposed to an old timer or two. I have photo of him with Guy Clark on stage about 40 feet away. He got to see/hear Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, and Doc Watson, too. It was also the only time to got to see John Prine. I never got to see hazel dickens. T Bone Burnett always seemed to have the coolest mini super groups at that festival. Friends saw one of his sets with Robert Plant and EmmyLou and a super small audience cuz it was early at that one really cold stage.
Doc and Sittin' on Top of the World is a classic.
Country radio music gives me hives. Bluegrass does not. Therefore I am allergic to one of them and not the other. One of them is country and one is not.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn
sorry, but that's fucking dumb. the world does not define itself by what riser4 thinks; you have decided that you don't like country based on country radio and thus anything you like cannot be called country. why not instead just say you don't like country radio?Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
When I'm dictator, some things are gonna change.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
I would call what he doesn't like "arena country". aka bad rock and roll. Radio country is a pretty good name too but some of us have access to good country on the radio--KVMR (which is online) on Saturdays for example.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Yeah, I tend to call it mainstream country radio (to differentiate it from the americana-type stations).
There are some "mainstream" artists I like, Dwight Yoakam comes to mind, but most of the country I like would not generally be played on mainstream country radio.
Riser4, does Johnny Cash cause you any cognitive dissonance? Because he isn't played on mainstream country radio and we've established that "country music gives you hives", but only a fool would say Johnny Cash isn't country.
Kpfa (online) mid-day and afternoon on sundays has been similar.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Yes, some dissonance. Talented and popular guy, an icon. Definitely Country, but not Cuntry. I like a bunch of the "old timey" music too. There's a switchover that happened somewhere in the 70's ish. It's an ill defined blurry line. There's a certain sound I can't pinpoint that the music took on that drives me up a wall. Not to mention a good sized segment of the audience for this newer music.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Bluegrass is Bluegrass, it's not country. It's not part of the country genre, it's its own thing and always has been.
And Pop Country blows.
QFTQuote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
can y'all just call it good and the reasonable ones join the adults in discussing good music sometimes called country in the proper fkn forum.
Bluegrass New grass, its all jam band now
Charley Crockett. The Man from Waco. The whole album!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKysmArw2I8