School me on GOOD country music

I posted an audio of this the other day but now the actual performance from The Voice is online. This guy is going places - take note

https://youtu.be/TSSXWzqIu9w

LOL! Oh I remember this song...........sing it Barbara!

https://youtu.be/kVYDGhhJMU0

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Originally Posted by I've seen black diamonds!

I agree that there are some crap country songs here, and some examples that just aren't country, and that there are plenty of folks who like country music only when it isn't very country, but think the genre is pretty darn expansive.

Americana isn't so much a genre, as a catch-all phrase for music that isn't being sold within any more mainstream format. It's similar to the way the term "Folk Music" was used 50 years ago. There is plenty of "Americana" that is more "Country" than much of the right-wing-pop-music-with-cowboy-boots that is played on most country radio stations. There is also plenty of "Americana" that is nothing more than excessively strummy pop music with folksy outfits. Country represents both an ever-broadening genre, like Rock 'N Roll, and a marketing track that only represents a far more narrow section of that genre.

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Brian Henneman of The Bottle Rockets spends about 5 minutes explaining how they have been pigeon-holed into a sub-genre of Country music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYnsd2tM9ug

Super-Maggotty Bottle Rockets tune, possibly bluegrass :rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQr9vC9T020

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Originally Posted by Peruvian

Brian Henneman of The Bottle Rockets spends about 5 minutes explaining how they have been pigeon-holed into a sub-genre of Country music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYnsd2tM9ug

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Yeah, that's perfect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgxPq4isAI8

Ok, I'll STFU now.

technically considered "folk music"


https://youtu.be/zprRZ2wFQD4


https://youtu.be/iloyyrVt7EM

I luv me some country music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWEQDyrbphE

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Originally Posted by Peruvian

Brian Henneman of The Bottle Rockets spends about 5 minutes explaining how they have been pigeon-holed into a sub-genre of Country music.

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thats some bullshit. Just a lead in to their new song.

1st off the Bottle Rockets are and will always be in the same Genre. "bands that NPR DJ and Music programmers and dudes that like bands"before they get big" like because they never get big as they are good, not great"

2nd he knows and we know "Outlaw Country" started back in the early 70s with Willie, Shaver and Merle & many others. You can argue who and when but Waylon Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser, ( see above) released an album called, wait for it, "Wanted! The Outlaws" in 76 so it was already well underway as it was a Platinum record, maybe the first in "country music?"

Any how he even made fun of it ( and being hounded for blow) in a song later in the 70s
https://youtu.be/CyOVLfMn3Wo


Outlaw Country from then on got applied to anything out side the Mainstream of county ( funny as see PLATINUM RECORD for Outlaw Country)

In the 80s & 90s this was really anything not getting airplay on increasingly commodotized & sterile country radio.

2000 on it would be applied to Roots Rock, Alt Country, etc that the Bottle rockets were lumped into occasionally but more crossed paths with because of where they played and who they played to.

Now, Outlaw Country is a lot of things from insta accounts to 1000s of spotify playlists and including a pretty good Sirius station I listen to sometimes (funny never heard the Bottle rockets on there)

Call it what you want, argue about what it includes.
Good music is good music and everyone defines good differently.

Even got written up in the Rolling Stone recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxORIb6FWpU

David Hartley and John Stannard. These guys are good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqxLMeJ9IuI

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David Hartley and John Stannard. These guys are good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqxLMeJ9IuI

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Ray Price, Asleep at the Wheel, Merle Haggard, Willie.

All four in this video.
Ray Price segment at 0:45 is pretty tight!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMPIzMnudQU

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Originally Posted by dn4989

Ray Price, Asleep at the Wheel, Merle Haggard, Willie.

All four in this video.
Ray Price segment at 0:45 is pretty tight!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMPIzMnudQU

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I saw that tour @ Radio City, fkna fantastic

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Mmmmmm, mmm. That's some good shit.

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so how do you feel about Texas Country Music?

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Ya know, in hindsight, I probably over-reacted to seeing the names "Keith Urban" and "Kenny Chesney". On the whole, there's a lot of great music in this thread, some of it Country, some of it Country Rock, some of it Alt Country/Americana, whatever; all still good music. And besides, as over 75% of the music in my .mp3 player is punk, I should probably be forbidden from judging other's taste.

Texas Country -- I love it. It's my favorite breed of the Country Music species. Although, I prefer the term "Red Dirt", since Oklahoma is often included. And, Texas Country is a problematic term in my opinion, because the "Texas Country" genre wouldn't include the likes of Bob Wills, George Strait, Pat Green, Outlaw Country, East Texas Country Blues, etc.; although the term "Texas Country" could.

So in that spirit, here's a couple tunes from a Texas Country/Country Rock artist that I always end up playing during the summertime. He's not great, but it's fun, reminds me of college. So put in a pinch, crack open a beer, and give it a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edhRvWGonDs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPeYBB-K7I0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8flMOQ0rQaI

^he is playing shows in tiny places right now. Get some!

Tyler Fucking Childers.

Although not country Charlie Parr.

One for the summer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qe-Il5_3Io

colter wall !!!!!!!

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Tyler Fucking Childers.

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fkn A!!!!

going to see him again in December...so psyched

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colter wall !!!!!!!

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He put on a great show opening up for the Wood Brothers here recently.

Saw the wild feathers a while back open for band of horses and was impressed. Saw them again at the tractor over Labor Day . Damn fun band and rocking too[emoji869]

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He put on a great show opening up for the Wood Brothers here recently.

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that is some line-up. Hoping to catch the Wood Bros in January

Merle, George Strait, ol Hank, Whitey and the 78's, Loretta, Patsy (best voice), LeAnn (a close second), Tammy, Danny Flowers, Waylon, Willy, Dwight, Jamey Johnson, Kevin Fowler, Keith Whitley, Ryan Bingham (some), Cochran .. All been posted already I'm sure.
Not much new in there, but it's all ya need.

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Merle, George Strait, ol Hank, Whitey and the 78's, Loretta, Patsy (best voice), LeAnn (a close second), Tammy, Danny Flowers, Waylon, Willy, Dwight, Jamey Johnson, Kevin Fowler, Keith Whitley, Ryan Bingham (some), Cochran .. All been posted already I'm sure.
Not much new in there, but it's all ya need.

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Merle who?

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colter wall !!!!!!!

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Mother fucker, this guy can spin a yarn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU8As9ymPvw

Been finding some new (to me) shit lately:

-Paul Cauthen (can't really figure out how to classify this guy)
-Tyler Lance Walker Gill
-Jason Wells

All apologies if Charlie Robinson has been mentioned prior.

I just got hipped to him last night at a Shooter Jennings show in Reno.
Shooter and his band did a rousing cover of this here tune:

Love Charlie. Unfortunately he had to retire from singing due to a medical issue.

Shooter will be here Friday. Have a retirement party to go to. :mad:

New guys, old songhttps://youtu.be/Ai0TNApo0lo

Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins were pretty damn bueno together...




This one's a bit more Laurel Canyon, but it's still got some twang:

Streaming live now:
http://luckreunion.com/tilfurthernotice

Charles Wesley Godwin: This guy kills me......
https://youtu.be/5TJPmPZMPe0
Ward Davis: He's alright. Def belongs in the Colter, Tyler, Sturgill camp
https://youtu.be/3XSndD9jEdU

Live Hiss Golden Messenger at 7pm - https://youtu.be/XCSV6ikrMvE

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Live Hiss Golden Messenger at 7pm - https://youtu.be/XCSV6ikrMvE

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Thanks for that, was listening to the KEXP session and switched over right before it started

https://youtu.be/0hh974VZjNs

Paul Cauthen puts on a hell of a show. I’ve never seen people dancing at a country show quite like that. His band is super tight and makes it super funky.

I’m real excited for Sturgill to come out with this bluegrass album.


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