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I just got back from seeing David Rawlings Machine, and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen. The current lineup includes Willie Watson from OCMS, and John Paul Jones, who I understand was in some sort of blues covers band back in the 70s. They played most of the songs off of "A Friend of a Friend" surprisingly few Gillian Welch songs, and so many covers. Watson's voice harmonizes really well with Gillian and David, and he even took center stage for a few songs. Meanwhile, Jones hung back the whole show trading mandolin licks with Rawlings, and when they started playing "Going To California" the whole audience lost their poo poo. (They snuck a few other Zeppelin riffs into the instrumental breaks of other songs too). If any of you West Coasters can still make it to one of their remaining dates, do so.
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cemaphonic posted:I just got back from seeing David Rawlings Machine, and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen. The current lineup includes Willie Watson from OCMS, and John Paul Jones, who I understand was in some sort of blues covers band back in the 70s. They played most of the songs off of "A Friend of a Friend" surprisingly few Gillian Welch songs, and so many covers. Watson's voice harmonizes really well with Gillian and David, and he even took center stage for a few songs. Meanwhile, Jones hung back the whole show trading mandolin licks with Rawlings, and when they started playing "Going To California" the whole audience lost their poo poo. (They snuck a few other Zeppelin riffs into the instrumental breaks of other songs too). I saw them a few years ago (pre-JPJ) and it was loving great. They were all on something, it was in a tiny hall, crowd was great. I wish they'd tour up north more.
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stealie72 posted:This may be a weird question, but: I'll probably be stretching the genre definition a bit here, but here's what came to mind. Dolorean were from Portland and always remind me of our gloomy winters here in the pacific northwest. http://open.spotify.com/album/54jbDJxuup4KlxcwkHnbou - I can't find a Youtube link for "Traded For Fire", but this whole album is good so here's a spotify link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvXvL5Cr8VE - Maybe my favorite song of theirs. Only available on an out of print 7". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kulfIPSGvUA Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter - This is my favorite song by them, but I haven't listened to the last couple albums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlCIjOBeoCQ Elliott Brood - I know I've talked about them here before. Their first EP is a bit all over the place, but the first two LPs after that are great. The third and latest one is kind of hit and miss though, IMHO. Here's a wintery song from each of their four releases in chronological order: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbpVCcvSzp0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_TIb6MM27A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRKoq1flyss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbavKO6UPjU I also find anything from Jason Molina/Songs: Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co to be very good listening in the winter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG6gpwYH1DM - The most midwest song ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6SGydtVA4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO6abj9yRUc - Glad they finally released the studio version of this. This four song set he did in 2003 is my favorite thing he recorded. I wish they'd release it officially since it deserves to be heard more widely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TDKHd6G9EI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2J0aRRNbHg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYTEszHXuBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-DkVradzFk
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Got tickets to Austin Lucas, Jon Snodgrass, Northcote & Jayke Orvis Pretty damned excited.
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I lurk this thread occasionally and discovered 16 Horsepower here a year or more ago. Since then, I worked my way through all of their stuff and Wovenhand. David Eugene Edwards is one of those musicians that just creeps into my head and hangs out there playing gloomy, gothic-sounding, genuinely weird stuff on way fewer instruments than it sounds like. Anyway, I like this video for Longhorn. Animation is unrelated but works surprisingly well. Straw Foot, originally a 16 Horsepower song, played on an old nylon-strung (previously gut) banjo with a mandolin body, sort of. Tiny Desk Concert, wherein he explains the aforementioned instrument. As I Went Out One Morning.  at that soulpatch.And my favorite version of Wayfaring Stranger.
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Oct 16, 2014 23:11
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Hey guys, I really dig Shady Grove and anything else that Garcia/Grisman did together. Anybody got any reccomendations for similar stuff?
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Kvlt! posted:Hey guys, I really dig Shady Grove and anything else that Garcia/Grisman did together. Anybody got any reccomendations for similar stuff? Have you listened to Dave Grisman's other stuff? There's a lot of it. If you need vocals, it's probably not your thing. Most of it is "newgrass" in sort of the same niche as Bela Fleck (minus the electric instruments). Composed, jazzy instrumental pieces based around bluegrass instruments. I think the DGQ20 boxed set is a good place to start. Don't know if it's in print or not. If you like that stuff, try some of Edgar Meyer's projects. Composed classical music with more than a toe in bluegrass/americana. The one with Bela Fleck and Mike Marshall is more uptempo. If you do need vocals, have you listened to Punch Brothers? If not, what's wrong with you? Gillian Welch, too, obviously.
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Kvlt! posted:Hey guys, I really dig Shady Grove and anything else that Garcia/Grisman did together. Anybody got any reccomendations for similar stuff? Anything by Peter Rowan and Tony Rice (who happen to have the best version of Shady Grove). HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Oct 17, 2014 |
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BigFactory posted:Have you listened to Dave Grisman's other stuff? There's a lot of it. If you need vocals, it's probably not your thing. Most of it is "newgrass" in sort of the same niche as Bela Fleck (minus the electric instruments). Composed, jazzy instrumental pieces based around bluegrass instruments. I do like vocals but I don't need them to be there to enjoy it! I'll check all these out, thanks!
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Kvlt! posted:I do like vocals but I don't need them to be there to enjoy it! I'll check all these out, thanks! Gillian Welch is basically my favorite musician ever, so I probably undersold her. Time (the revelator) is her best album and probably the closest to Shady Grove (although not really that close in a lot of ways, but it's two acoustic guitars with great vocals playing haunting music). Soul Journey has drums and some great songs. Her first two records are a little more in the Americana/Appalachia idiom (with some country on the first record, too. That's a T-Bone Burnett album. Find the outtakes if you like it. Totally changes the feel). Harrow and the harvest has one of her best songs, and some filler in my opinion. Really good, but not great. And the Dave Rawlings Machine record is really great, so that one counts too. There we go.
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BigFactory posted:Gillian Welch is basically my favorite musician ever, so I probably undersold her. Time (the revelator) is her best album and probably the closest to Shady Grove (although not really that close in a lot of ways, but it's two acoustic guitars with great vocals playing haunting music). I just met Dave at Pappy and Harriets last weekend. Dude is super nice and friendly and I was happy he was willing to chat with me. I kept looking around for Gillian and John Paul Jones, but they weren't with him while he was checking out bands... They are some of my favorite musicians there are right now.
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That's cool. He seems like a good dude. And I don't think it comes across on records, but in concert he plays like Jerry a little bit. He's a super talent.
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Oct 17, 2014 17:53
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Didn't Gillian play drums a little on Big Iron World?
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Oct 17, 2014 19:27
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Didn't Gillian play drums a little on Big Iron World?
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Didn't Gillian play drums a little on Big Iron World? She played drums on Soul Journey.
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I'm sitting here sorting through music and drinking whiskey and cokes on a Friday night. I've managed to convince myself that Keith Whitley's "I'm Over You" was the last great country song to actually hit the top 5 (maybe 10) on the country charts (in 1990). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fJCF_OUkXA I challenge you to find something better released later.
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Dwight Yoakam had 3 top-5 hits in 1993. Ok, just double checked to make sure these songs hold up, and yeah, they're good. Thousand Miles From Nowhere is real good. #2 on the US country charts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLprAUar11U BigFactory fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Oct 18, 2014 |
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Oct 18, 2014 12:46
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Thats a good song yeah but there were a lot of great country songs in the 90s. Clint Black, Alan Jackson, just too much to list.
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I like Jason Eady. Pretty much straight and good country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_txX4pcnA6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCrWp1kPHtw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9gKMU4TJU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1QE0BhFgxM His latest album Daylight & Dark is great. Sheng-Ji Yang fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:I like Jason Eady. Pretty much straight and good country. I love that guy If you want to see a band that sounds like a honky tonk circa 1965, check out Johnny Berry and the Outliers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR4b4HBhNSw
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Can anyone tell me what type of folk/country is used in the trailer for this movie? Sorry to link to Amazon but I couldn't find this particular trailer anywhere else. Any more music you can reccomend in the style of that song would be much appreciated, thanks http://www.amazon.com/Oxyana-Sean-Dunne/dp/B00EXP2UI8
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Kvlt! posted:Can anyone tell me what type of folk/country is used in the trailer for this movie? Sorry to link to Amazon but I couldn't find this particular trailer anywhere else. Any more music you can reccomend in the style of that song would be much appreciated, thanks That's Johnny Corndog/Fritz. He's cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hpg4EXeg6Y https://jonnycorndawg.bandcamp.com/ Stuff that sounds specifically similar to that song... hm I don't know. Sad folk country would be Townes Van Zandt territory I guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6JG-yE8UTw&t=31s
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:That's Johnny Corndog/Fritz. He's cool. Thank you so much! I'll be checking out more of his stuff for sure!
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Oct 27, 2014 22:45
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Recently came across Parker Millsap and he's blown me away. His voice is amazing and his songs are surprisingly sophisticated for a 20 year old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLiga19OBGQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXEfVEDYhGQ His only official music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYuIwVxIEA And a love song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK_x_nxLXJk
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I went to FEST 13 in Gainesville this weekend and got to see a little acoustic/folk/alt-country stuff in between all the punk. Matt Woods played a couple sets, one solo and one with a band, and both were awesome. When he played this song he was so emotional I thought he was going to loving shoot himself at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1GRfHs-im4 I got a chance to see Ben Nichols, Tim Barry, and Chuck Ragan perform together like a makeshift Revival Tour which was a real treat. Arliss Nancy played a couple gigs in a small Irish pub and loving killed it. Jon Snodgrass and Cory Branan are coming to town next month, and I'm pretty excited about that. Jon is always a good show and I've never seen Cory before.
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If you're into Murder By Death they're doing a kickstarter for their new album https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/murderbydeath/murder-by-deaths-album-big-dark-love-and-poster-ar And not touring in my state or anywhere nearby 
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Can anyone reccomend some stuff similar to this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE79bGx_x4I&t=20s
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Kvlt! posted:Can anyone reccomend some stuff similar to this? It's been mentioned a couple of times before, but the soundtrack to the Broken Circle Breakdown is probably up your street if you're looking for more of that.
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The Sadies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc9JWMaDJXs James Low https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoVepwP71tk Glossary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVTVzJgwVEI Richmond Fontaine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YniBMMslpu8 Friends of Dean Martinez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf7Xhb3R83o Tim Easton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-04vsc4SSY Bottle Rockets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzim1iYhmGA&list=RDIGyDdrrhvWY&index=2
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Anyone ever heard of these guys? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvBz2S9Z5yk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFnonoCoQDU I can barely find anything about them online and the only available albums seem to be used on Amazon. I really like it.
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I really have to wonder what was wrong with me circa 2011 that I couldn't appreciate Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes. I loved their debut album and listened to it so much and then I completely abandoned them with their second release and couldn't get into it. Listening to it now, as the winter is closing in and the snow falls, It's just so romantic and comforting. Excellent.
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The Walking Dad posted:I really have to wonder what was wrong with me circa 2011 that I couldn't appreciate Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes. I loved their debut album and listened to it so much and then I completely abandoned them with their second release and couldn't get into it.
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The Walking Dad posted:I really have to wonder what was wrong with me circa 2011 that I couldn't appreciate Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes. I loved their debut album and listened to it so much and then I completely abandoned them with their second release and couldn't get into it. I love that song. It feels very existential to me. Also, there is a playlist called "Folksy Christmas" on Spotify which is pretty okay. At least to hear new people.
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"The Body Electric" by Hurray for the Riff Raff was American Songwriter's 2014 #1 song of the year: http://www.americansongwriter.com/2014/12/american-songwriters-top-50-songs-2014/5/ It's pretty great, and also sums up a lot of the whole weariness of violence that's happened this year, despite coming out in February. The song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogTh2CpOwzo
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Kvlt! posted:Can anyone reccomend some stuff similar to this? yonder mountain steing band - town by town and elevation are two albums you might like
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The new Punch Brothers album really loving owns.
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Paper With Lines posted:The new Punch Brothers album really loving owns. I've been hearing this. Where do I start with them?
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Blast Fantasto posted:I've been hearing this. Where do I start with them? Honestly, anywhere. Antifogmatic is my favorite of their albums due to having Rye Whiskey as a track, but everything Chris Thile and/or Noam Pikelny touches is magical. The same group also made Thile's How To Grow A Woman From The Ground which has a bunch of great covers.
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I can't stand their web player and hate that the Android app won't let me use my Chromecast but god drat if WSM (650 AM) doesn't complete my weekend. If you want to have a terrific Sunday night, do this: Starting at 5pm EST, tune into wfpk.org (broadcastig from Louisville, KY) for Root and Boots http://tunein.com/radio/Roots-n-Boots-p1294/ At 8pm, you get a solid 3 hours of bluegrass and "old timey music" From 11-12 is the Grateful Dead hour After that, switch over to WSM to hear old Grand Ol' Opry recordings from the 40s, 50s and 60s.
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Bonzo posted:I can't stand their web player and hate that the Android app won't let me use my Chromecast but god drat if WSM (650 AM) doesn't complete my weekend. Fantastic post! Check out the United States of Americana as well!
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