Great Country Music!

“A few of us were griping about the state of big commercial country music elsewhere. In your view, what are the classics of country music? Who are the established folks performing today that you enjoy? Whose up and coming? Who has no one ever heard of that would be famous if fame came for sheer musical merit?”

“Don Williams”

“I dunno (and don't care) if it's country but...
Old Crow Medicine Show”

“I love OCMS ~ more bluegrass-y than anything, I think. "Wagon Wheel" and "Hard to Love" are two of my favorite songs.”

“Uncle Tupelo - Alt. Country at its finest!”

“They show up a lot on Prarie Home Companion... Good Stuff!

(Old Crow Medicine Show)
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“Eddy Arnold and Marty Robbins are some of the classic country music performers.

One of the Crook Brothers lived across the street from us. He would get my mother and I back stage to meet everyone. Funny I can't stand Country music.”

“To me OCMS is more like a modern version of an old time jug band.”

“Hey WK...
Is that you playing the bass?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br8efx6-q94”

“Oh yeah,
Hank Williams III.
The boy inherited grampa's pipes.
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“George Jones and Cash are my two favorites but I like the old country western stuff much more than today's country. I do love Brooks and Dunn though. If I had to pick one guy who plays country today I'd say it's Travis Tritt...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9158024973360268568&q=travis+tritt&hl=en

If ya don't have a fiddle and slide guitar on the stage and a mullet on your head it ain't country!”

“Damn I wish! Jeff Tweedy in his much younger years. Now he fronts the band Wilco. Other lead singer (one singing the song) is Jay Farrar. He leads the band Son Volt which has a new albumn due out in March.

Can't #&%!$ing wait!”

“Becky Hobbs, Allison Krauss (not sure of the spelling)”

“Just about any good Bluegrass band.”

“You spelled it right and Hell Yes.”

“I still like the country music that came out of Austin TX in the 70's

Willie and Waylon
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Jerry Jeff Walker
Guy Clark
David Allan Coe etc.


There was some pretty good country that started in the late 80's, Clint Black, Mark Chestnut, Allan Jackson, Patti Loveless, George Strait.

If they can't set down with a guitar and sing they ain't real country. Too many pretty faces these days that need a backup band and singers to make it.”

“There was a great show on PBS (around Thanksgiving?) about how the Carter Family got started... WSM and the Opry...


a-Ha --

American Experience: The Carter Family: Will The Circle Be Unbroken


If THAT ain't country... (you know the rest, LOL)”

“That was a good show.”

“They should've put out a companion CD for that one.”

“I've got to get me one of these jackets!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUO98WIlVNQ”

“It's Dolly Parton's old buddy, Porter Wagoner b'gosh!”

“Jimmy Dean
Earnest Tubs
Slim Whitman
Buck Owens
Freddy Fender
Charlie Dainels Band
Jerry Reed
Just a few I grew up to, ridin' down the dirt backroads with my dad in hos 'ole truck.”

“Ped, as I read the thread title I thought, #&%!$ not since the 80s can anything be called great country. This new crap ,pop with a twang is junk. Some good ole Oak Ridge Boys, Alabama, Old school Willy, Hank, Merle, Waylon so much great ole stuff.

I would include Johnny buy he is country (IMO) he transcends all genres. He simply is music at its most American and best. Modern Bluegrass is great.”

“I agree Birch - I'm not sure how much of it is because we're getting old and how much is because the good stuff doesn't make the big time anymore.

People listed a lot of stuff I like, including:

Willie and Waylon, Ray Wylie Hubbard
Jerry Jeff Walker, David Allan Coe, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Ernest Tubbs, and Allison Kraus. I used to love Marty Robbins - haven't listened to him for a long time though.

Other classics I think of off hand are Patsy Cline (although she shades to pop), Gram Parsons, Asleep at the Wheel, The Flatlanders (Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Jimmy Dale Gilmore) separetely and together.

Two singer-song writers who are up great IMHO and starting to get some recognition are Mary Geuthier and Lori McKenna (Faith Hill's 3 covers don't quite do the songs justice).”

“Patsy Cline and Merle Haggard (And Then Today, I started Lovin You Again!) are my favorites. I also think Ray Charles did one best country and western albums ever. Charlie Pride was another great black C&W artist. Waylon Jennings, Tammie Wynette, George Jones, what can you say? Floyd Crammer was probably the best C&W piano player on the planet. Johnny Cash! Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys go way back and then there is Hank Williams Sr. All the modern stuff pales in my opinion but I'm old and I understand that the young kids get to have their time too!
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“new country sucks

FUTK!”

“Forgot to mention Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams (Car Wheels on a Gravel Road!) and Kim Ritchie. Three great female kinda- country singers.”

“Rock on, Crash!

Buck Owens, hell yeah!

The man "died with his boots on".
Buck ate his favorite meal, chicken fried steak, then played his show and went home and died in his sleep.
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“Roseanne Cash and Carlene Carter”

“The Flying Burrito Brothers with Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman.


"On the thirty-first floor,
A gold plated door
won't keep out
the Lord's burning reign!'

Now that was real dayglow cowboy music.”

“You all ever heard any Rocco DeLuca? I'm not sure if I'd call it country or rock but maybe Rounktry. Great live (one of the best ever yet,ime), but the CD was less good.”

“SH, we always played that one in G ----



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“OMG - Sol. I forgot Merle Haggard.

I assume Asleep at the Wheel pales in comparison to Bob Wills - but I saw 'em live a few times, including at Armadillo World Headquarters and they've got a special place in my heart.”

“My goodness you all are so fickle.
Just a few days ago you were just in LOVE with the greatest Country Music Band ever, The Dixie Chicks. LOL
Their feelings will be hurt, none of you guys said a word about these GREAT ARTISTS. ;-)”

“Rockabilly is tons of fun.”

“C'mon Stovestomper, let's keep that passive-aggressive trolling off the non-fuego threads.”

“Watch it Nimblefoot, you're close to being on the schit list with comments like that.”

“It appears that since Nowslimmer quit net-nannying the net nanny, the job is vacant. Someone's got to do it;)”

“That's on the album where one of the band members has that Porter Wagoner sytle suit with the sparkles but his suit has a teradactyl*(sp?) on it.

*one of those flying dinosaurs”

“I've been listening to an old Chris LeDoux CD today.”

“Can't remember hearing Asleep at the Wheel but Bob Wills had a sound that influenced a lot of bands. They were more Western than Country. Lots of fiddles. There was one guy in the band, maybe Wills himself, that would add these high pitched "Aiiiiihaaas" in the background. Don't know how to describe but neat. A band that I know that must have listened to Wills is Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks. That is/was a great band. Incredible female vocalists in that band. Go listen to a song, I think the title is "The Road to Success". Awesome! Those gals can sing!
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“Yeah, who posted that link to the George Jones number on Youtube... saying something about 'Wow- what a jacket!'... You automatically knew it had to be Porter Wagoner, LOL



Ya know... in South Carolina, there's many a tall pine.”

“The Byrds "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" Damn Tilt.....You know all the good stuff!”

“Yes it was Bob Wills with all "Aiiihaass" in their songs. My son was lucky enough to get some fiddle lessons from Johnny Gimble who play with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

You can see the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee,
It's the home of country music, on that we all agree.
But when you cross that ole Red River, hoss,
that just don't mean a thing,
'Cause once you're down in Texas,
Bob Wills is still the King.
('Bob Wills Is Still The King' by Waylon Jennings)”

“

Sorry, this is WEEN - 12 Golden Country Greats

1. I'm Holding You
2. Japanese Cowboy
3. Piss up a Rope
4. I Don't Wanna Leave You on the Farm
5. Pretty Girl
6. Powder Blue
7. Mister Richard Smoker
8. Help Me Scrape the Mucus off My Brain
9. You Were the Fool
10. Fluffy
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“
"Sweetheart of the Rodeo" is an All-Time Favorite, to be sure!

I need to get some fretwork done on this beat-up Japanese D28 --- it buzzes in 'a few' spots. It ought to; I've been beating the crap out of it playing that kind of stuff since about 1976 (thirty-one years? [gulp]).

I ought to be a hell-of-a lot better at it by now! LOL


I had a folk-playing brother about ten years older and fell among evil companions at a young age. I was introduced to the music of people like Bert Jansch, Ian & Sylvia, John Stewart... The Byrds, Tom Rush, Phil Ochs... Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie... Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson... and of course all those crazy commies like Pete Seeger, the Weavers... and Irish Folk Out The Wazoo

I had a mindblowing experience the other day --- I found the lyrics to "Random Canyon" as recorded by Peter Stampfel and the Holy Modal Rounders. Hadn't heard that one in over twenty years!


By my mislocated mesa with my counterfeit contessa,
Who is secretary for the local grange.
Where the psychedelic sage keeps the cattle in a rage,
And the changing range is getting mighty strange…
And the changing range is getting mighty strange!

”

“I didn't know Ween did a country cd, but they do like to ride the horse - junkie country.



I can't believe I'm the first who thinks "Great Country Music" is an oxymoron.”

“Move on Toejam. This thread don't like yer type.”