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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:Despite loving blues and some old outlaw country stuff I never really got the whole "alt country/country rock" thing. I recently started a new job somewhere and my boss got me into Drive By Truckers by giving me a few albums (Southern Rock Opera and Dirty South). This is now my new favorite band. I love how they are basically a mix of classic outlaw country with a southern rock flair and the downtuned guitars add a real grittiness to the twang. I love these guys a whole bunch. Check out Pizza Deliverance too, it contains one of my favorite Mike Cooley songs titled One Of These Days. I hope by some grace of God that Isbell comes back.
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Some Northern New Mexico alt-country bands: Anthony Leon and the Chain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xmaXshmRCY The Imperial Rooster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqCcsZHIgP0
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I love everything DBT has ever done but Gangstabilly and Pizza Deliverance are far and away my favorite albums. I keep hoping they'll revisit that old sound someday.
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HORATIO HORNBLOWER posted:I love everything DBT has ever done Oh dear lord, they're playing with the Old 97s in March. So gonna be going to that.
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Count Chocula posted:
I played in a band, backing a singer-songwriter, that opened for Hayes Carll at the Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos. Probably the biggest gig I've ever played. The audience was pretty vomitorious though. Just a sea of middle-aged white people, all dressed alike.
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I never seriously listened to country before but I grew up around the sound of it thanks to my dad and I really dig it, especially the sound of Southern girls. So, I'm looking for recommendations on that front. I'm hooked on Neko Case thanks to this thread, so far. But, I'm looking for a more traditional country/americana sound.
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Maybe try Hurray For The Riff Raff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smu5P06DUlo
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Deakul posted:I never seriously listened to country before but I grew up around the sound of it thanks to my dad and I really dig it, especially the sound of Southern girls. Gillian Welch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miIeU_kIljk
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Feb 18, 2013 21:42
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Oh poo poo it's Stoney Larue! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QU_fBRLks4 Mike McClure of Reckless Kelly (who you should be listening to) is doing drat good with this new band. This is an acoustic version, which I think lacks the oomph of the regular version, but it's still great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_x6-8PWXGk Best country band I've heard of in the last few years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQrv-cgfnVw Deakul posted:I never seriously listened to country before but I grew up around the sound of it thanks to my dad and I really dig it, especially the sound of Southern girls. Definitely check out Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12KarQjxKg4 rockamiclikeavandal fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Feb 19, 2013 |
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Feb 19, 2013 05:26
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Great suggestions, beautiful voices all around. Keep em coming.
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Motorpsycho did a country album with some local musicians back when they were starting to get big in their native Norway. Some bits are a bit silly (the whole thing was released as a fake OST) but over all, there's lots of good stuff - mostly country and southern rock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uNUc_vrezo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqMDv68_V0A Then a few years later they did another one. It's also pretty drat good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-tiLXI1sDg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpiujfJQPKQ
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Seconded, listen to this song. Best off that album. Other suggestions would be Sera Cahoone, who is consistently good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu4SWhBmc3Q And One Hundred Dollars, from Canada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdFusYVXvfQ The lead singer of OHD does good solo work, as well. Check out "Calm and Collected" on this site, and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaD_xgig-l0
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Trans Ferdinand posted:I played in a band, backing a singer-songwriter, that opened for Hayes Carll at the Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos. Probably the biggest gig I've ever played. What is is with altish country crowds? Outside of San Francisco, they all seem to be older suburban looking people?
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Is it still cool to like Will Oldham? Viva Last Blues is still one of my favorite albums of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mPn21H3PC4 His stuff as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy doesn't seem to be as highly praised as the old Palace stuff, save for I See A Darkness, but I still really enjoy it. Here for your entertainment, a song about public sex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6usq24SlZ8 Oh gently caress yes, The Mountain Goats, definitely my favorite band. My username is actually an old song by them. John Darnielle is hands down the best lyricist in the modern generation of songwriters, and dear loving god his voice is so loving intense, whether he's screaming in your face at a show or singing sweetly and softly through his old Panasonic RX-FT500. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVH19r4XA8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2NwP64RoG8
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I've really liked the Kelly Willis album What I Deserve ever since I first heard it back in '98, I should probably poke around and see if I like any of her other work as much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iBTOZlbqTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ess0iTBfVE e: Well huh, George Strait covered this in 2006, I had no idea. And as a semi aside: Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is one of my all time favorite albums, it's just perfect from beginning to end.
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Trans Ferdinand posted:I played in a band, backing a singer-songwriter, that opened for Hayes Carll at the Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos. Probably the biggest gig I've ever played. Huh, when was this? I saw Hayes at Cheatham Street awhile ago, maybe I saw ya playing. When I went it was primarily students in the crowd though, and he was playing with John Evans and this dude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ojzG9fRfc Anyways, here's some old Austin stuff that I'm amazed hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet. I'm sure everyone here's heard of Townes, but if not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_3w_gXing and Blaze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZwrpUbcXpM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRLc2O1xtYk drunken angel by by lucinda williams is about blaze, he was shot and killed  and Kinky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlBuoBV-Sa0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-wAlp7PDYM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61IfTP53z8Y and todd snider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmcJWPYcr1I a bad enough dude fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Mar 14, 2013 |
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I have always enjoyed old crow medicine show, and the newest album didn't disappoint. I wish more people listened to songs other than Wagon Wheel. One of my person favorites, Highway Halo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBrx0heRem8 And one from the new album (Carry Me Back), Ways of Men https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZVln1ocZxQ
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Jason Molina died.
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I came across Dead Soldiers on Bandcamp recently and liked their album enough to buy it. Their own tags read: country gothic-americana alt-country americana bluegrass roots Memphis which I guess is a fair enough description, although I really like their use of electric guitars to beef the sound up at times.
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BeastOfExmoor posted:Jason Molina died. I'm really loving bummed about this. He was only 39. I kicked in some money for his rehab fund last year and was hoping he'd get better. Well, at least his music is suitably morose for mourning.
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hot drat, great thread! I got pretty into country music at college but none of my friends these days are big country fans so I've kind of lost touch with new stuff. I've added a bunch of stuff to my buy list, excited to change like every CD in my car haha. PS: Everyone says they don't like country, except Johnny Cash, then you play some of the bands/people from this thread and suddenly they're window shopping for boots on the internet. Its really too bad these acts don't get more attention just because the "county" label turns people off right away.
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The Transatlantic Sessions own. A bunch of folk and country artists from North America, Ireland, Scotland, and England get together in some scenic area and jam while they film it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwvf9d5WBCU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5X4Q6jFtHg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHcYiOsO3a4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb8AVVlAltk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W7QM8X2EdE
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How have I never heard of these guys before? I just saw Richard Shindell at the Tin Angel and he covered this tune and ripped my loving heart out with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Ezpsc2ERU
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Chinston Wurchill posted:I'm really loving bummed about this. He was only 39. I kicked in some money for his rehab fund last year and was hoping he'd get better. Yeah, me too on being loving bummed and also sending him some money last year. Sad tale, but it seemed inevitable based on what information was coming out about his condition over the past year or two. a bad enough dude posted:
Todd Snider is a legend. For anybody interested in getting into him, East Nashville Skyline and The Devil You Know are both masterpieces and would be the places to start in my opinion. I'm more partial to the East Nashville Skyline and afterwards era, but his entire catalog is worth exploring if you like what you hear. He's a great storyteller with his lyrics, and lets his smart-rear end sense of humor come through without veering close to novelty songs, which is what a lot of classic country from the 50s to the 70s was like too.
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kingturnip posted:I came across Dead Soldiers on Bandcamp recently and liked their album enough to buy it. These guys are fantastic! Thanks for sharing them. If anyone's a fan of Slim Cessna's Auto Club, they're about to release a new retrospective album/their first live DVD, called SCAC 102: An Introduction For Young And Old Europe. They're awesome live, so I'm hoping the DVD shows that off.
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Might be a bit bluegrassy for this thread, but Trout Steak Revival is a great little group from Denver that I'm quickly falling in love with. http://www.troutsteak.com
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I would like to recommend Javi Garcia and the Cold, Cold Ground, from New Braunfels, TX. The first record, A Southern Horror sounds like whiskey, knives, too many cigarettes and homemade drugs at sunset. That is a very accurate description, I promise you. Kind of like... a post-punk Ray Wylie Hubbard? Either way, he's brilliant, and I can't wait for his next record. This might be more "Texas Music" than "country music," but I figure it shares enough of the same DNA. http://www.thecoldcoldground.com/site/
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I saw Mark Lanegan open forNick Cave a few weeks back, and since then I've really gotten into him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lthYaPW465M Dude's voice is rad.
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trem_two posted:Todd Snider is a legend. For anybody interested in getting into him, East Nashville Skyline and The Devil You Know are both masterpieces and would be the places to start in my opinion. I'm more partial to the East Nashville Skyline and afterwards era, but his entire catalog is worth exploring if you like what you hear. He's a great storyteller with his lyrics, and lets his smart-rear end sense of humor come through without veering close to novelty songs, which is what a lot of classic country from the 50s to the 70s was like too. Yeah he's fantastic and totally worth seeing live. He's straight up hilarious and manages to put that into his songs while, like you said, avoiding novelty. I chose a somewhat goofy example, here are some others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E-a88n8LCU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZWmbWrMwqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLJJgehxfzs and I'll just tack this on since a great song and Snider does a good cover which I unfortunately can't find on 'tube. And this thread needs some Jerry Jeff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZDBXm11WXY Also here's a VERY young Steve Earle from the documentary Heartworn Highway, a good decade before he actually sold records. Guy Clark is also there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHE1dM4hYCw a bad enough dude fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Mar 20, 2013 |
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Horizontal Tree posted:Might be a bit bluegrassy for this thread, but Trout Steak Revival is a great little group from Denver that I'm quickly falling in love with. Thanks so much for this.
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You're very welcome. Its nice to give something back to the thread since I've found some good stuff here, and I'm pretty picky.
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RIP George https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-epx63Dd8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTFXRIY6-fE a bad enough dude fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Apr 27, 2013 |
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George Jones passed away today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VExw77xJsBQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onfce-UNmmE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCC-c7B5-Aw You know, this old world is full of singers But just a few are chosen To tear your heart out when they sing Imagine life without them All your radio heroes Like the outlaw that walks Through Jesse's dream No there will never be another Red-headed Stranger A Man in Black or Folsom Prison Blues The Okie from Muskogee Or Hello Darling Lord I wonder who's Gonna fill their shoes? He's singin' duets with Tammy again.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wNe7nwvU0A
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr4CHFXXM-Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYdPAjGYdmo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrCqNMb1S7Y To paraphrase, there is no such thing as an anti-drinking country song. Letting the Possum live longer than most of us will is proof that God exists and is pretty dope.
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Deakul posted:I never seriously listened to country before but I grew up around the sound of it thanks to my dad and I really dig it, especially the sound of Southern girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC57z-oDPLs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gekHV9DIjHc They're actually from Sweden 
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Hey, guys. Thanks for this thread; found a bunch of great stuff I hadn't heard of. Here are a handful of contributions: "Burn.Flicker.Die." by American Aquarium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biz1ljy2Wdw "Virginia" by Whiskey Myers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mog-LGR1-w Diamonds & Gasoline (Album) by Turnpike Troubadours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jCw5XG6RIg "Shoulder to Cry on" by Glossary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2MBtWBkDZ0 "Bruised Ribs" by Joey Kneiser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3r0X-4N64E "Man Alive" by Austin Lucas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY6eN0j60a0
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Sheesham and Lotus - I saw these guys last year at a festival and they are incredible. A mix of folk, ragtime, blues, and bluegrass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3at_zddByl8
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The other day I found myself in a car playing the local country station. I heard Darius loving Rucker covering "Wagon Wheel". I wanted to jump off a goddamn bridge.
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A Violence Gang posted:The other day I found myself in a car playing the local country station. I heard Darius loving Rucker covering "Wagon Wheel". Well that explains why our receptionist was humming it the other day.
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Anyone have some suggestions for something like Hank William III that's actually good? I find his outlaw, twangy stuff alright but he tries way, way too hard.
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