Nah.... 😀
'Weed, whites & wine....'
The Jamie XX and Gil Scott Heron album is brilliant if you fancy some good quality dubstep
I'd basically follow CountZero's suggestions. Particularly Emmy Lou Harris and Gram Parson: Boulder to Birmingham is about the latter by the former.
Gram Parsons - start with the Gram era Byrds, then go to the Flying Burrito Brothers, then move on to luxuriate in his solo albums (where you will also hear the young Emmylou).
For laughs, try Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen - then move back to the source: Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.
For more laughs plus some truly rousing live music, catch a Hank Wangford gig.
This has been a big Wednesday.
Thanks Rusty!
edit: [b]huws[/b] been there for years. Precisely why I want to find the history of country, thanks to Gil Sacot Heron and James Taylor and Emmylou Harris.
Kind of like when you watch the Rolling Stones in '67.
Where did that come from?
Lambchop?
I'm American and hate the stuff! 😡 There's entire radio stations devoted to it! 😯
It all sounds like this to me
samuri - MemberThey've got country............*and* western.
Very good 🙂
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Jason and the Scorchers
Gillian Welsh
Bob Harris on R2.
OP must listen to Alison Kauss and Union Station - Wow, the voice of an angel and well crafted songs with talented players, not least Jerry Douglas on Dobro guitar - check her out! 🙂
Start with two albums
Cash Live at Folsom Prison
Townes Van Zandt Live at the Old Quarter ( careful with Townes some of the stdio albums are shit)
Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the world and I'll stand on Bob Dylans coffee table in my cowboy boots and say so. Steve Earle
I've met Bob Dylan and his body guards and I dont think Steve Earle would get anywhere near his coffee table.After those two try Guy Clark, Blaze Foley, Kris Kristofferson all wrote amazing tunes.
Hayes Carll is my current favourite. Give 'trouble in mind' a listen.
If you want the Western bit of C&W then listen to Frankie Laine all entertaining 'cowboy' stuff.
Saw a lot of Cajun bands a few years ago, that's quite entertaining but forget trying to understand any of the lyrics. If you want to sing along just slam your testicles in the cutlery drawer and you'll be fine.
To make country sound good try "oil field country" almost anything sounds good after that.
Been living with a crazy canuck that loves that shit.
Felt like sticking his head in the fridge door and slaming it repeatedly for subjecting me to it.
He didnt much like the hospital podcast neither though
Finstigator- try the Townes Van Zandt stuff and also try Micah P Hinson.
Sarabeth Tucket (sp) is pretty good too.
I'll send you an email with a list off my spotifys.
Text me it please.
Mark
Another vote for Hayes Carll here, - I started with 'K.M.A.G.Y.O.Y.O and other stories' and soon bought the other 2 albums.
Funny lyrics, good writing and a unique voice 🙂
Can we have 'Trampled by Turtles' ?
Cowboy junkies
Martin plock
We died at sea
Elvis costello did an ace country album.
I can strongly recommend Kacey Musgraves album - Same Trailer Different Park - we haven't stopped playing it for months
David Allan Coe is always worth a listen.
Tyger is right on Alison Krauss and Union Station. I'm a bit of a fan of the Be Good Tanya's so laid back their almost horizontal.
I know that this a bit of a confession that will destroyer the on atom of credibility I aspire to but here goes........I think Dolly Parton is pretty good to. Ah that's better.
Elvis Costello album was 'A Good Year For The Roses', good stuff.
Lucinda WIlliams as mentioned earlier is excellent. Car Wheels on A Gravel Road and World WIthout Tears. 'West' has some excellent stuff as well. Listen to songs such as 'Jackson' or Lake Charles.
I also like Gillian Welch, Ryan Adams, Scud Mountain Boys, Pernice Brothers.
Alison Kauss and Union Station
+1
Mrs Binners, much as I love her, has some very dubious musical tastes. Country being one if them. Its absolutely bloody awful!!
I passed a benchmark in my life when, filled with self-loathing, I skulked into HMV (in disguise, obviously) and asked where the country section was, for this album....
...which is actually really good
Nothing modern that's for certain.
George Jones is Mr Country if you ask me.
Dwight Yoakam for newer stuff.
DO NOT listen to the radio 2 country show. That's not country.
Townes. Tower Song. End of thread.
emmylous harris - hard bargain album
George Jones is Mr Country if you ask me.
Has it really taken 3 pages for George Jones to get a mention? I would have posted a G.J. song but couldn't decide on which one.
Can't believe nobody has mentioned Dixie Chicks:
I don't like the rhinestoney stuff at all, but quite like the kind of country that I imagine is played by dangerous-looking drunken rednecks.
Like this:
Not 'canon', but still good.
'King of America' by Elvis Costello.
'Almost Blue' isn't a patch on it.
+1 for loads of the good (and funny) suggestions already posted. Whispering Bob Harris' shows are worth a listen for country / americana/ Austin/ Nashville sounds. A few years old, Rough Trade's country compilation might ease you into the less trad side of things if you find that side of things appealing. Some more "non-american-country" in the following...
First Aid Kit (simple arrangements, pop production, nashville sound, from Stockholm).
the Gourds (Austin meets Compton, some good playing, worth checking their other covers).
I'm going to listen to all of these tonight on the Mac....
I love dixie chicks - aint ready to make nice but thats about it
Keith Urban is a hell of a guitar player but don't like his music much
Modern Country pop - Shania
I suspect a lot of the prejudices against Country are against the "& Western" part.. if we're talking more about Americana / folk / roots /there is a lot of great stuff.
Some of my current faves:
Hank Williams
Lucinda Williams
Gram Parsons
Handsome Family
Josh Ritter
Whiskeytown / Ryan Adams
Johnny Cash
Be Good Tanyas
Mary Gauthier
Something to whet your appetite:
There's some good country music about but Johnny bloody Cash isn't it.
Musical garbage. Like a 1980s casio keyboard demo track but with some old geezer crooning over it.
Oooh did you bring your tinfoil hat? You're so going to get flamed for that. 😀
Toby Kieth is how I imagine most STW posters but with an Orange 5 rather than a Mustang.
There's some good country music about but Johnny bloody Cash isn't it.Musical garbage. Like a 1980s casio keyboard demo track but with some old geezer crooning over it.
I lot of cash material is unremitting shite, however the At Folsom Prison album is bloody brilliant. All of Townes Van Zandt songs are genius but some of the recordings are awful, the Live at the Old Quarter album is as close to musical perfection as I've heard. If you want to find out about his quite depressing life the docu called Be Here to Love Me is excellent, actually the sound track to that might be a good start too.
Steve Earles song about Townes is bloody brilliant too
Surprised no one has mentioned Jerry Jeff Walker
a cheerful tune
This has been an interesting day.
After I started this thread last night, I embarked on a drinking session that culminated in me drumming, in my pants, to Walk The Line.
Just like every Wednesday then.
Cash released this in 1994
which all sounds very familiar:
which was recorded by her
Saw Steve Earle a few months ago. Fantastic. I like Jeff Bridges as well. Radio 2 Country Show is good for a grounding.
Hello Rustyspanner if you remember me from the velodrome.
