People think country music is bad, and it's usually because they're listening to the wrong kind. You know you're listening to the good kind if you are hearing one of three types of song:
1) Here is the story of a guy who got shot
2) This is why I'm in jail
3) You would not believe how hungover I am
1) Here is the story of a guy who got shot
2) This is why I'm in jail
3) You would not believe how hungover I am
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4) trains
5) Merle Haggard making fun of dorks from Oklahoma
Steve Earle, Texas Eagle
Guy Clark, Texas 1947
https://youtu.be/dS2LIHBRotE?si=CfAf8huInwcrX4ah
https://youtu.be/Rkr2AbyVnIk?si=oXdAP77zESiUxSjS
https://youtu.be/WnwmOfmZbb0?si=9meEdgI6X1_7o4pP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eRPOaMuU4o
Train song as a country subgenre/trope, not... the band Train. Not that I dislike Train
but we're talking the children of the Orange Blossom Special hefe
(That’s me. I’m the knucklehead.)
"Pancho and Lefty," of course; but "If I Needed You" is one of the sweetest songs ever written.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QKiFJdljwk
"Forget it. He's on a roll."
2. Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
3. Point me in a direction please
The highlight that year was Lonestar: Mr Mom….we just couldn’t turn it off, brilliant!!!
now you're gonna die
https://open.spotify.com/album/0AAW8aytDh2xZiNUbaMySW?si=cs3ocq_aRqGwow6dK-RZmA
https://youtu.be/B9FzVhw8_bY?si=2o67Ga1CxUemh2go
A man did me wrong
Everything Orville Peck sings
Seems to fit
-Sturgill Simpson, esp the insanely good Metamodern Sounds of Country Music.
-Tyler Childers
-Amigo the Devil
-Brent Best/Slobberbone
-Cross Canadian Ragweed
-Son Volt
-Colter Walls
-Gurf Morlix
-Slaid Cleaves
-Steve Earle
-Waxahatchee
-Sarsh Jarosz
-Watchhouse/Mandolin Orange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL3iHhERWJw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIOx4T4Gpg
Not so much country but blues but Sweden's (f'n SWEDEN?) Daniel Norgren is out of this world great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA-HdbAtkbU Hints of Neil Young in his voice for sure on this track.
Anything the guys from this band are involved in is good
https://elmadrigal.bandcamp.com/album/statis...
The best country isn't called country, it's Americana. Outlaw country is usually good as well.
(Random suggestions on Spotify got me listening to Abby Anderson, who was singing about "If you killed somebody I'd hide the body, hand on the Bible I'd lie on the stand" and I'm thinking hang on, should you be telling us all this?)
WONT YOU FLYYYYYYYYY HIGHHHHHHHH FREEEEEEE BIRRRRRRRD YEAH *sick ass guitar solo*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTFXRIY6-fE
https://pandora.app.link/1mtRBVrm3Nb
Tells you how long it's been since I used the service.
Pickup Truck Swelling
To oversimplify
Irish/Scottish/Welsh folk->Appalachian folk + The Blues -> Country
Women country music: "I killed my abusive husband and left his body floating in the creek out back"
5) I don't love you anymore but I'm not going to cheat
6) I love you but I'm not going to stop drinking, sorry.
Trains good.
https://youtu.be/6XyRdJr4LSc
or, cringe, R and B, sorry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCEHQ_nhxOA&pp=ygUbeW91IGNhbiBuZXZlciBnbyBob21lIGFnYWlu
sorry not sorry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc49sZa2mwA
• (no lyrics, only furious banjo picking)
I'm not a country fan but sometimes bluegrass goes fucking hard
Then recently I heard Paul Cauthen’s Cocaine Country Dancing & I’m hooked.
https://youtu.be/0hh974VZjNs?si=jJisE2ZnKiwA43iB
Patsy Cline transcends genre.
Cash, Jones, Lynn, Tucker, Williams Sr. not Jr.
If there ain't some Dolly songs you like you just haven't listened to enough of her catalog yet.
Allison Krause, Gillian Welch, etc.
Guy’s his own brand of country and I respect him for doing his own thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_zS_uiPWxs
5) met someone who doesn’t want to be a role model, but taught me a life lesson (and possibly died)
✅ Is it a LUKE BRYAN song?
❌ Is it a LUKE BRYAN song?
Because "BRO COUNTRY," for me, is the single most loathsome "sub-genre" of music in the history of music, and Luke Bryan is the most loathsome "BRO COUNTRY" singer.
this is the only bood country song
https://youtu.be/UpBVDSJorlU?si=lNe4PC172bxtEKMM
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got run over by a damned old train
- Steve Goodman
1) my dog ran away
2) my truck won’t start
3) my wife left me
It was made before the 80s
6) sturgill simpson's entire catalog
friday nite football, old friends, kick back, good times, mama an' 'em, family all around...
high school sweetheart, went away come back, love these kids even tho they ain't mine...
church on sunday, work on monday, fried chicken, cold beer, this old truck...
- my girl left me and I miss her but I hope she’s thriving
- my horse is the best
- my job sucks, choose better for yourself
- this dude cheated on me with my mom, one of Dolly’s most epic bangers
That's one of the things that makes Johnny Cash greater than, say, Nick Cave.
Something Marty Robbins sang alot about
https://youtu.be/0hh974VZjNs
BIG TRAIN ROLLING DOWN THE LINE
MAKES ME LONELY
SOMETIMES
I WISH
TO RIDE OVER HERE
SOMETIMES
I WANT
TO RIDE OVER HEEEEEEEEEEAAaaahhhh
🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
https://bsky.app/profile/lamberty.bsky.social/post/3kt2ivav4b62v
One of my favourite Bob Newhart lines.
Orville Peck
4) I’m drivin’ this truck & y’all don’t even know how lonesome/horny I am