So glad to see Jason and the Scorchers get mentioned, sale mikeyfinn
love a bit of country, some of the cheesy stuff and some of the more down and gritty. Don’t agree that what Bob Harris plays is shit, some great stuff on there.
I really like this
Midland dont quite click click with me yet but I am persevering
Couple of Guy Clark tracks that seem to fit in well with current affairs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QryLf3-C4Uk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KTGlRAkecb4
And some Townes, because he was a genius.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zprRZ2wFQD4
And finally Steve Earl doing a song by Townes and his song about Townes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-FhjevjNLRQ
I see Cowboy Junkies are supporting Ed Sheeran on his tour. I didn’t realise they were still going. I’d love to see them live but not in the principality stadium prior to Ed Bloody Sheeran. Their cover of Sweet Jane is one of my very favourite songs.
About half my play list is what is called Country. Probably spent too long in the Outback. 🙂
Generally not aware of genres. If I like a song I like it.
I am partial to a bit of Austin Lucas - a new home in the old world is a great album
I think Jolene is one of the finest songs ever written.
Jolene gets on my nerves. If your bloke’s messing you around just leave him and let Jolene have him, you’re better off without him… Grow a backbone woman!
It’s more about the groove than the lyrics for me. I suppose like any other genre there is something for nearly everyone in there.
Glad someone up there mentioned Eric Church. I like his modern take on outlaw country - love his voice and music, but his lyrics can be a little bit drippingly sentimental for me at times. Still love Talledega though. 🙂
I see Cowboy Junkies are supporting Ed Sheeran on his tour. I didn’t realise they were still going.
Yep. RNCM Manchester 10th November. On their own. I shall be there.
I prefer the rockier country, so Jason Aldean and Brothers Osbourne are my current favourites.
Love a bit of Sugarland too, Jennifer Nettles has one hell of a voice.
Still like a bit of older stuff as well, we always go to the Opry when in Nashville and always find someone new to get into.
Steve Earl very much my bag... also enjoying a lot of Jace Everett these days. Going kinda bluegrass Gangstagrass for some epic hybridisation with rap, and Native Howl for a mix of bluegrass and thrash metal (it really works!).
Oh... and Cash, obviously.
And I am just a dirty goth usually 😉
I used to be very anti-Country, but through a bit of exposure to it - even more so in Moab a few weeks back - it has grown on me!
I was brought up with a lot of country music.. I know most of John Denver by heart and still listen quite a bit. There are some gems. Otherwise, Emmylou Harris, Dollie Parton (Yes, Jolene is brilliant), Dr Hook and the Medicine Show (at the limit of country?), Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers (The Gambler is, in my opinion, one of the all time greats, better than Jolene). There are certainly more that don't spring to mind immediately, but yeah, I like it and I love the good stuff.
Much of the "Modern" country I still feel is a little contrived ("They just take a Celine style song and sing it with an exaggerated accent."). I'll admit that this is probably because I only pick up on the mainstream stuff and don't get the good stuff. I am enjoying Nathaniel Rateliffe too, and though it's not country it has an undeniable influence, in my opinion.
My wife hates it all, and I sometime think she'll shoot any speaker that plays country music. She's French, though. 🙂
I passed a benchmark in my life, back in the days when you actually physically bought music, when I walked in to HMV and quietly and shamefully asked them where the Country section was.
it was for the Miranda Lee Richards album with this on it. Still think it’s beautiful....
Everything is country really binbins. Even hiphop.
But not jazz.
"Hey, Bai!"
"Tang!"
Quite partial to proper country, or alt-country, along with bluegrass and American folk, Emmylou Harris is a long time favourite, along with Gillian Welsh and Nanci Griffith; I had the great pleasure of seeing Emmylou play the Jazz Cafe in London, with Gillian as her support. Nanci was in town and and turned up, so the three of them were singing on a tiny little stage a couple of feet away from me. Stunning. Patty Griffin has sung with Emmylou, and has a fantastic voice, she’s a great songwriter too. Mary Chaplin Carpenter has a country style about some of her music as well.
The latest Kylie album ("Golden") is country-based and is Very Good. I capitalised that so it is definitely true and therefore a thing.
Jazz is a step too far Bravissimo
Tru dat mofo.
Johnny Allen
I cannot BELIEVE no one has mentioned Wheeler Walker Jr!!
All NSFW, but completely hilarious dead-pan parody. He's utterly committed to being awful and it's amazing.
Pussy King
If My Dick Is up, Why Am I Down?
Redneck Shit
I like John Rich. 🙂
I like being left alone, robbie faulkes...should be my theme tune!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=etgS6_rbo1I
Horses and divorces by Slaid Cleeves...has yodelling and everything!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sajl564gJ0
Definitely. I sing this one on the bike too...double win...
If we're doing parodies, check out Ezio doing A Country Song.
At one of their gigs, they told a story that when they were recording in Nashville, one of the other bands there was a real country band, and their engineer told them that Ezio did a real country song. After playing this (and cringing slightly at doing so) the real country artist said with a straight face "yeah, I know someone that happened to".
Country eh?
For some comedy (but not parody, really) stuff
Hayes Carll - She left me for Jesus
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Screw you, we're from Texas
John Hiatt - Since his penis came between us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58hHVlZCfvM
Paul Overstreet - She only likes me for my Willy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_1rhOcGo24
And the redneck Christmas Carol: Robert Earl Keen - Merry Christmas from the Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg
If you want parody, however, this may be one of the best.
Country Mike - Sloppy Drunks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTsndWHi9ZI
'Country Mike' being Mike D from the Beastie Boys...
The Beastie Boys always threatened to release a country album. Alas it can no longer be 😕
The Beastie Boys always threatened to release a country album. Alas it can no longer be
They already did - Country Mike's Greatest Hits!
This has one a them slidey sit down geetar fings in it, so must be country influenced.
deadlydarcy
Everything is country really binbins. Even hiphop.
BullSHIT! Otherwise hip-hop videos will appear.
[i]They already did – Country Mike’s Greatest Hits![/i]
You must have a [i]really[/i] small screen...
DezB - Subscriber
You must have a really small screen…
I don't get it...
It’s more about the groove than the lyrics for me.
Modal song, innit. Dolly is the real deal, showing her roots in more ways than one. Appalachian mountain music straight outta Scotland and Ireland.
[i]I don’t get it…[/i]
The post above the one you were replying to!
The post above the one you were replying to!
Yes, it was me that posted it...
Ah, yes, how jolly confusing 😆
I'm just getting into it. I've found myself listing to German C&W station RPR1 on tunein quite a bit recently - particularly when driving.
Hayseed Dixie are awesome, if you like them have you heard The BossHoss?
I always love this version of John Prine's 'Speed of the sound of loneliness'
Pyro I saw The Dead South couple of weeks ago. Great gig and they’re back in January. I’d also invite Myley Cyrus (sp) to do her campfire songs. Well worth checking out on You Tube.
Pyro I saw The Dead South couple of weeks ago. Great gig and they’re back in January. I’d also invite Myley Cyrus (sp) to do her campfire songs. Well worth checking out on You Tube.
Also got back into listening to Lone Justice for the cowpunkers scene.
I got kinda into the really trashy stuff ironically at first but now kinda like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbE3TUegz3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWu4aynBK7E
Edit - how do I embed a video on this forum then?
Can't believe Lucia Williams hasn't been mentioned (sorry, can't post vids)
My wife and I started listening to a bit 3-4 years ago after watching 'Nashville' on TV..
It has escalated a bit from there, and our 11 year old daughter listens to a bit as well now.
We went to the C2C festival at the O2 back in Feb and saw Kacey Musgraves, Sugarland, Luke Combs Kip Moore and a few others.
I really like Ashley McBrides stuff, Sugarland (Jennifer Nettles was amazing at C2C) and a new Irish girl called Catherine McGrath. I'm also quite happy listening to some older stuff.
I'm sure we'll be back at C2C next spring.
