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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > No Music Discussion > Recommendation Megathread
 
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Jan 15, 2005

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either

ArgaWarga posted:

I'm looking for alt-country. I'm currently in love with Blitzen Trapper–I started loving them because they sounded like Pavement on Wild Mountain Nation, but I'll be damned if they didn't win me over with some of their more country-ish songs.

Examples:
Wild Mountain Nation on You Tube.
Their first Daytrotter Session. I particularly like Jericho.
Another Daytrotter session. I'm looking for stuff no more twangy than Stolen Shoes.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations. And if anyone likes Fleet Foxes and hasn't checked out Blitzen Trapper yet, get off your rear end and listen to the Daytrotter stuff.

Blitzen Trapper is a lot closer to alt-folk than alt-country, but check out War Elephant by Deer Tick, Shallow Graves by Tallest Man on Earth, Love is Overtaking Me by Arthur Russell, and All Hour Cymbals by Yeasayer.

I assume you're familiar with Harvest by Neil Young and Astral Weeks by Van Morrison, but if you somehow haven't listened to them yet, they're still the standard by which all other alt-folk albums are measured.

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