Suggest me some country
 

My taste for country is quite picky so I have trouble finding stuff I like. I don't like old coutnry much at all, and I prefer female singers.

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Bright Eyes' last few albums, besides Digital Ash are good modern alternative country. But if you want classic, then try and get a Patsy Cline compilation. Her song "two cigarettes in an ashtray" is the epitome of sad country. Emmylou Harris is one of the good ones, also.

Oh, and Beck's "Stereopathetic Soulmanure" has a couple killer country tunes on it.

Crane Wife by The Decemberists is a good country feeling album
Harvest by Neil Young (which is basically a country album, but not quite) is also very good

yes, harvest is great.

you don't like old country?

yeah, well,

cash
willie
waylon
dolly
hank

those are the basics really.

a good country rock album is sweetheart of the rodeo by the byrds.

also, if you like the sound of country but can dispense of the songs, then check out earth's album hex.

Yeah.

Dolly.
Cash.
Some Cat Power.
Some Bright Eyes.
Some Neko Case.
Willy.

Whatever, man. It's all the bee's knees.

Nobody likes Son Volt or Uncle Tupelo?

i still need to get me a good son volt record, but i like what i have heard.

Dolly. <-------------- meh
Cash. <-------------- was wearing all black and singing about tortured souls before trent reznor was born. but the man said no old country.
Some Cat Power. <--- steve shelley on drums, first two albums!
Some Bright Eyes.<--- not familiar with them
Some Neko Case. <--- YES!!! she's the best. canadians rock.
Willy. <--------------- never really got into him, but don't dislike him necessarily either

good stuff... and ryan adams also. not to be confused with bryan adams.

- Hmm... well why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael?
- No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.

check out mindy smith, she does a mean cover of "jolene" with dolly herself singing backup.

Hillbilly Deluxe - Dwight Yoakam

Gram Parsons - GP & Grievous angel

Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Sr., Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, John Prine, Hank Snow, Bill Monroe, Buck Owens, Carl Perkins, Roger Miller, Willie Nelson, Gram Parsons, Linda Ronstadt, Dwight Yoakam

& I suppose Porter Wagoner too, since I mentioned Dolly first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...formers_by_era

Thanks for the suggestions y'all!

Y'all come back now, ya hear.

Which reminds me of the excellent classic bluegrass of Flatt & Scruggs, or The Stanley Brothers.

One of my all-time country favorites though is a lil' freaky-deaky tune called "Sixteen Tons" written by Merle Travis and made popular by Tennessee Ernie Ford's 1955 version.

Letterman sometimes plays a clip of Kucinich singing it to the bewildered astonishment of all present. Letterman's joke is that Dennis is a crazy little man singing a crazy song and doing so in an "inappropiate" setting. The truth is that the song is incredibly relevant today even though it was originally written about abuses in the coal mine industry.

Chances are, you have heard it before:

Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said "Well, a-bless my soul"

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the canebrake by an ol' mama lion
Can't no-a high-toned woman make me walk the line

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

If you see me comin', better step aside
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
One fist of iron, the other of steel
If the right one don't a-get you
Then the left one will

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

link to mp3 download or stream
http://www.mp3raid.com/search/downlo...en_tons/2.html

Big pick 'em up trucks.

New country is terrible. It's atrocious filth. It all sounds the same and it's so God damned cliched and annoying. Fuck anything on the popular country radio. My mom listens to country. It's gross.

i saw porter wagoner open for the white stripes and he was insane!!! his whole band, played awesome and the songs were kickass.

i never heard the appeal of dwight yoakam, all the songs i've heard from him have been hyper boring.

can ask suggestion for something myself? anybody can recommend good trucker music? (raw country with trucker related lyrics).

truck-drivin' honky-tonk country:
Floyd Tillman, Johnny Paycheck, Tammy Wynette, Roger Miller & C.W. McCall, of course...Conway Twitty, haha if you have to go there.

now for the alt-country and country rock
Chickasaw Mudd Puppies (I will always carry the legend of their incomparable country blues deep within my heart...fucking art-country, not alt-country)
Elvis doing country
The Rolling Stones doing country
Bob Dylan doing country or roots rock
The Band doing country or roots rock
Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan
Grateful Dead doing country or roots rock
Jerry Garcia Band (mostly bluegrass)
New Riders on the Purple Sage (mostly bluegrass)
Ween doing country
The Byrds doing roots rock
Buffalo Springfield doing roots rock
Neil Young doing roots rock
John Cougar Mellencamp doing roots rock
CCR doing roots rock
The Eagles doing roots rock
The Flying Burrito Brothers
Olivia Newton-John's early mellow country
Gram Parsons
Emmylou Harris
Drive-By Truckers (a good band from Athens, check 'em out)
Uncle Tupelo
Old 97's (oops)
Son Volt
Whiskeytown
Wilco (at times)
Steve Earle
Lucinda Williams
Linda Ronstadt
Charlie Daniels Band
Exile (so-so)
Pure Prairie League (so-so)
Kinky Friedman
The Jayhawks (so-so)
Alison Krauss & Union Station (although much is bluegrass-based)

Yes. She has the voice of a fucking angel

Roxy Music - Country Life

I'm a huge Old 97's fan. They're my favorite alt-country band. Too Far to Care is awesome, Fight Songs is good, and I was going to get Wreck Your Life last time I was music shopping but they didn't have it.

I haven't heard much of their stuff but I like Drive-By Truckers a lot.

Also, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Neko Case (she's amazing), Wilco (yes, I like Wilco, so suck it), Ryan Adams, The Avett Brothers, and Johnny Cash.

My favorite country at the moment is Bhutan.

I hope to travel there soon.








I made a joke! haha ha ha ha hahahaha haha ha.

ha.

I'm seeing the Drive-by Truckers on Saturday! Woo-hoo!

I'm seeing them next Thursday! Hooray for us. Is yours gonna be a "rock show", or a stripped down folk show, noumenal? I have to settle for the latter... but I'm just happy to see them at all... the small theater they'll be performing in is the perfect place to be up close and personal with the band/music.

In addition to Drive-By Truckers, I recommend Lucinda Williams and Grant Lee Buffallo.

I think Fight Songs is their best.

I've never heard any Rhett Miller solo.

noumenal, what, no Ronnie Milsap mention?

I'm pretty sure that what I'm seeing is part of the DIRT UNDERNEATH tour, which is the stripped down thing. I'm fine with that.

atari, isn't his glowing visage enough?

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thanks for the recomendations, atari.

No prob.

I made a couple of country mixes recently (have a few already) and then happened to catch some PBS deal where they play archival videos (sometimes full-length, but most of the time they are clips) and simultaneously shill a country compilation (to raise money, I suppose), and the set they were selling had just about all the same songs as my my discs.

Deja vu, but I almost forgot this time around (in this latest "country music" thread)...

My second grade school teacher, Wanda Malette, wrote "Looking for Love" which appeared in the Urban Cowboy soundtrack. I was in class in sixth grade at the time the announcement over the intercom was made.

have the kinks been mentioned? their country stuff, of course.

Yeah, they did do a few roots-rocky country-folk things.

Muswell Hillbillies I love.

other favorite Kinks
(just consider me obnoxious if you must)
Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround
The Village Green Preservation Society
Something Else (favorite early Kinks)
Preservation Acts I & II
Arthur

even like Soap Opera and Low Budget to an extent

Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet through Exile on Main St. Not all of those albums are country, but the country that's there is excellent.

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This guy is awesome too, because he's my dad and I played half the instruments on that mofo album.

You bet, some of the best ever country-rock.

...and there's also a noteworthy country-tinge on some of Sticky Fingers (Sway, Wild Horses, Dead Flowers) and Some Girls (Far Away Eyes), but you know that already.