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.