Country music recommendations pls

Mrs A really enjoying pop-country stuff along the lines of Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum, Sugarland etc. And I don’t mind it too!

So any recos for modernish, popish country stuff pls.

Thanks

Drive By Truckers:

Their best of is on Spotify.

The new Blitzen Trapper album (American Goldwing) is great, maybe more ‘americana’ than country but I’m not sure exactly what the distinction is…

If you like these I’ll post some more. The lyrics make me smile I bet they make your Mrs smile. Sorry they start with ads.

Might have been a bit off with DBT…

Gillian Welsh is brilliant

the Knopfler Emmylou album sounded pretty good, as far as I’ll ever go into that music

Hayes Carll, not pop country but brilliant

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I would have the world know I love the Dixie Chicks.

great … some sounds like it’ll be good addition to repertoire … keep ’em coming

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Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose is a modern classic.

Check out The Snakes

Americana/Rolling Stones/Lloyd Cole type stuff

alt country is where it’s at.countrywise.

Any of Emmylou Harris’ albums are worth having, but Elite Hotel, Pieces Of The Sky, Cowgirl’s Prayer, Wrecking Ball and Red Dirt girl are almost essential. Cowgirl’s Prayer has one of the most beautiful, haunting songs on it, Prayer In Open D, which can practically have me in tears. It’s the song I want played at my funeral.
Pieces Of The Sky has Boulder To Birmingham on it, a song she wrote about her relationship with Gram Parsons, and another beautiful song.
Patty Griffin can sort of be classed as country, but covers rock, folk, jazz, sometimes on the same album. She works with Emmylou quite often as well. Flaming Red, her second album, has the most contrast, and is well worth getting.
Gillian Welsh as mentioned is amazingly good, more earthy early twentieth century style music, sort of dust bowl era.

M Ward and Lucinda Williams – Oh Lonesome Me

Bonnie Prince Billy – Another Day Full of Dread

Check out Laura Cantrell. Especially the “not the tremblin kind” and “when the roses bloom again” albums. Beautiful voice, great songs , bit of jangle. These albums never fail to make me happy

Second/third Gillian Welch – all her albums are great, if different in tone.

Time (The Revelator) is probably my fave – I could never tire of I dream a highway.

Excellent can we have a what is and what isn’t country argument.
If I had to nominate just one person who is country step forward George Jones.

Neither of those sounds remotely country to my ears, Richpenny. Both sound like music to commit suicide to.

This isn’t quite country either, Cajun:

First time I’ve heard Laura Cantrell, nice ditty.

If you want Country in a Leonard Coen style try Josh T Pearson

this and this http://youtu.be/hBs2N1UCvY4

Seems like a lot of love for country here… ’tis the reason that I bought a t’internet radio, purely to tune into Texas or Alabama’s or at the moment, Denver’s finest country stations. Find it very frustrating that there’s twenty odd music channels on my tv but not a single country one. Remember CMT? I remember as a kid being amazed that there were songs about racing cars, pick ups and (big green) tractors… Ace.

Caitlin Rose: http://thecaitlinrose.com/

Secret Sisters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QUF8yoxJaM

Kort: http://youtu.be/OY4UMEhYGnI

Has to be Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris.

Steve Earle FTW. My hero

Before anyone gets the idea country singers are generally angelic women or depressed cowboys here’s Toby Keith:

Disclaimer: not safe for home viewing and likely to make any non-American feel nauseous.

For radio, Froggyland[/url] kept me going for 2 weeks on the road in VW a few years ago

A VW, that reminds me:

Some sublime pedal steel playing to balance out the angry american.

oh lonesome me was lovely..
some stuff there is unbearable though..I’m looking at you red,white and blue.amongst others.
Uncle tupelo,son volt,some wilco,cowboy junkies,natalie merchant.
though some of that stuff is more folk,or bluegrass than country.
north mississippi allstars is good,not strictly country though.
lots of stuff on youtube.
and iris dement is good.
just my opinion like,though that red white and blue merits a ban for several generations.
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“Barn Doors and Concrete Floors” by Israel Nash Gripka (can’t do linky thingy!)
It was recorded in a barn in the Catskill Mountains and is getting plenty of listens at the moment.
More Americana than Country to be fair.

Old Crow Medicine Show

+1 for Old Crow Medicine Show

Also The Felice Brothers & Justin Townes Earle, though neither of them are “country” in a Nashville kind of way.

Also really like Lucinda Williams

and if you like your new country to sound like good ole country then may I suggest Jamey Johnson, in his words, “Somewhere between Jennings and Jones”!

So much to choose from really. Quite a few of Brad Paisleys songs are quite amusing if you want a fairly trad country style with a modern twist. Videos to the songs are usually quite amusing. For example:

Toby Keith as mentioned earlier has some lighter moments including songs like As good as I once was or I wanna talk about me

Shooter Jennings did a cover of walk of life but this was the better song for me

For something a bit more mellow I love this song although her (Jennifer Nettles) voice takes a bit of getting used to. She also did a duet with Bon Jovi on Who says you can’t go home.

[videlo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPG1n1B0Ydw&ob=av2e[/video]

A bit mnore bluegrass stylee but lovely delicate vocal from Alison Krauss and Lucky One

And if you want an X-Factor back story American Stylee it would be hard to top Kellie Pickler 🙂