Country Music Appreciation Thread

[edinatlanta]

I've got to pay more attention to concerts in Atlanta...just found out I missed Junior Brown about a month ago...

 

[scarphe]

dub miller
harris ryden
ray wylie hubbard
fred eaglesmith
bruce robison
bob wills
brian burns
guy clark
stephanie urbina jones
hoyt axton
gary p nunn
conway twitty
just a few

 

[Spatlese]

Originally Posted by edinatlanta

Would make sweet passionate love with her. At least twice.

+ many

Originally Posted by Brian278

Highly partial to Neko Case To a lesser extent, Ryan Adams, Wilco, and Jenny Lewis. The standard more indie-ish stuff. Also artists that aren't really alt-country but incorporate some elements here and there, M. Ward, etc. Can't claim to be into what are probably the "real" alt-country bands that are going to be rattled off here.

Ironically, I actively hate 99% of all popular country, i.e. Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Jason Aldean, etc....it's some of the most derivative, corny **** I've ever heard in my life.

+1, esp. your second statement.

 

[MrG]

Originally Posted by Brian278

Ironically, I actively hate 99% of all popular country, i.e. Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Jason Aldean, etc....it's some of the most derivative, corny **** I've ever heard in my life.

I agree with you here, with the exception of Alan J. His stuff is pure (neo) traditional country music. Pop country is a musical abomination, and most of the stuff on the radio now is pop country, but I can't fathom including Alan Jackson in that category.

Originally Posted by edinatlanta

I got some DBT love.

Decoration Day and Dirty South are alt-country masterpieces. I wish Isbell would rejoin the band so they would start playing the songs he wrote again. I never get to hear most of my favorite DBT songs live because they won't play the stuff he wrote.

 

[MrG]

Originally Posted by edinatlanta

I've got to pay more attention to concerts in Atlanta...just found out I missed Junior Brown about a month ago...

I saw him open for Alan Jackson once. That was an awesome show. Junior was just insane to watch on the steel guitar.

 

[edinatlanta]

Originally Posted by MrG

I agree with you here, with the exception of Alan J. His stuff is pure (neo) traditional country music. Pop country is a musical abomination, and most of the stuff on the radio now is pop country, but I can't fathom including Alan Jackson in that category.

Where were you...when they built the ladder to heaven?


I like Carrie Underwood.

Not her music.

 

[Bhowie]

Originally Posted by scarphe

dub miller
harris ryden
ray wylie hubbard
fred eaglesmith
bruce robison -1
bob wills
brian burns
guy clark
stephanie urbina jones
hoyt axton +1
gary p nunn
conway twitty
just a few

+1 on Texas Tornadoes

-10000000 on Alan Jackson

 

[edinatlanta]

Get this song off iTunes, such a great one done in the studio.

Really sums up Country ethos.

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[edinatlanta]

Rockabilly anyone?

 

[Bhowie]

Originally Posted by edinatlanta

Rockabilly anyone?



Get Smart really digs western swing, and I think rockabilly.

 

[redcaimen]

Can early Little Feat be considered country music?

+1 on the pop country hate.

 

[NorCal]

Man I love me some country. Grew up listening to great old country (and a little modern)
Emmy Lou Harris
loretta lynn,
Dolly Parton
Hank Williams, Jr.,
Johnny Cash,
George Jones,
Willie Nelson,
Hoyt Axton
Dwight Yokoam
Ernest Tubb
and so on... Really there are so many great old country acts, its hard to list them all.

In the realm of country rockabilly Rhonda Jackson and Link Ray come to mind.

 

[NorCal]

If anyone likes alt. country with a really traditional feel check these guys out.
http://www.blushinroulettes.com/music/

 

[edinatlanta]

I want to go to the ******st Tonkiest Beer Joint in Town.

 

[Bhowie]

How could I forget the Derailers.