/country/

Gatekeeping is a good thing and you should suck a fat cock. If retards like you don't wanna educate yourself and listen to the actual music being discussed in a thread then maybe you should take some time off the internet. Or if you're just trolling maybe you should take a look in the mirror and ask yourself why you were born in the first place.

Just gave this a listen and it was pretty good. Saw them on Twin Peaks but never really paid attention to their stuff until now.

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not an ounce of discussion going on in this thread, homo

I'll discuss you sucking on my toes as we listen to some essential country and western so you can begin to have a grasp on what country and western really is.

Let's talk about how fucking amazing Souled American was, especially in the late period when nobody gave a fuck. Pic related is a masterpiece in the genre and still no one cares.

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IM GONNA TAKE MY HORSE TO THE OLD TIME ROAD

Is this country?
youtube.com/watch?v=wwyXQn9g40I

Southern Rock.

Based

sounds like country.

its hippie country

Anyone else thoroughly anticipating Aaron Lewis' upcoming record? Sinner was pretty based

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Country rock, which has an amazing amount of music. ABs are okay, but nigga -
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=zprRZ2wFQD4

More like
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Yes

Suzy Bogguss, Patti Loveless, Kathy Mattea, Trisha Yearwood, Dixie Chicks, Lorrie Morgan, Reba, Mary Chapin Carpenter
>tfw love 90s country gold sung by women

GONNA TAKE MY HORSE TO THE HOTEL ROOM GONNA RIDE UNTIL IN CAN TAKE NO MORE

What do you think of Kacey Musgraves?

off topic, but Staind are reuniting

Any John Fahey fans here? His repertoire includes:
>American Primitive (he coined the term and is the de facto father of the genre
>Folk, Country, Blues, Bluegrass

Inspired by: Charlie Patton and other delta blues players, Merle Travis and other country style players, neoclassical composers such as Holst and Ives

youtube.com/watch?v=QJ2vHWfssPg

The audience I would recommend him to the most are acoustic guitar players. I discovered him a few years ago and he radically changed my guitar playing.

Who /merle/ here?

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hail to the kings

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Yiss

COULD BE HOLDING YOU TONIIIIIIIIGHT

Amen

yes sir, love his early to mid 70's material. not quite sure what happened later in his life... Requia is trash though

lets hangout

Only if we listen to this unsung masterpiece

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martinis and lsd

What happened later is him finally resignating from everything and succumbing to bitterness and cynicism and his creative ability going to shit because of it. Also alcohol and coca-cola abuse and Epstein-Barr disease

Things I learned in a hobo jungle
Were things they never taught me in a class room

youtu.be/zwwJslhVTTs

Pic-related are my essential country compilations. I'm know lots of important artists are missing, this is just what I listen to.

Will post some of my favorite country albums in a few minutes

Reminder that rym as a whole has terrible opinions on country.
User ~Benimal has a good country collection if you're interested.

Alt-country is fine as long as it's American
Listening
Good stuff
Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club
Dixie Chicks - Home
are my favorites from this era

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done, kansas city southern should have been a hit

knew a guy who was violently homosexual. the only thing that would calm his homo rage was george jones

Some of Gene's best lyrics if you asked me. Silent Crusade, Home Run King (existentialism and baseball, nbd), Sister Moon, Past Addresses

saw yonder mountain string band last night. bluegrass is boring to me, although they had a slampig on violin who was impressive.

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true, especially potent after the overproduced No Other

Who /townesvanzandt/ here?

What are Yea Forums's thoughts on Wilco?

his voice is a major turn off

really gay

I wish you people would stop posting that emotionally dishonest garbage. There's so much better, sincere country out there.

hail to the slamqueen

I felt this way about No Other for over a decade, but I'm warming up a lot.

>makes no suggestions

are the thomas jefferson kaye albums worth a listen?

Everything up to Ghost is Born is incredible. Outside of A.M which is just okay. Would rather listen to Uncle Tupelo.

Some of my favorite country albums
Not good and

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I think the 1973 s/t stands up to the best White Cloud material, personally. First Grade gets to be a bit much for me personally but there are some great songs on it, like Northern California and a version of All Cried Out that maybe isn't quite as good as White Cloud - well it's hard to say. It has a different vibe, more sentimental, but it's really good too. Definitely worth hearing.

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Try pic-related
Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music

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youtube.com/watch?v=5inlqbevPdM&list=RD5inlqbevPdM&start_radio=1&ab_channel=SeanCoxen

some real stuff

>Blind Willie Johnson and Mississippi John Hurt
Country and Country blues are two distinct genres, even at the time.

>marty robbins is anything but entry-level pop country/ tourist magnet
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Taylor swift's worst album is miles ahead of that western score-aping pile of garbage

THICC

Who gets into my boy Eugene Chadbourne? Always pushing country as far as it goes.
youtube.com/watch?v=yDBhL8Omm7c
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youtube.com/watch?v=H4fnEgRkcc4

This is really good. Thanks
You're correct. I still think it's good listening if you want to get into country. That first row in my chart is really just "country-origins" as I don't really think country was very well defined until Hank came around.

so you're down to hang?

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You know it

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They can use all the fans they can get.

Not very knowledgeable about these genres, but I adore Doc Watson's style. Anything else like him? His bluegrass stuff with Earl Scruggs is pretty nice too, but I like him best just fingerpicking away on his own.

meet me on boi pucci lane (santa monica)

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Fucking right my dude. Listen to this masterpiece backstage recording playing with the legendary Don Reno from Reno & Smiley.
youtube.com/watch?v=4nPoESXAXlc
Partially so you remember that Doc, while a very adept fingerpicker, was a world class flatpicker. And also so you can hear some guy say (around 1:20) "Play Country Boy Rock and Roll" (a R&S song) and Doc say "I can't do it," only at 18:05 to get asked again and then completely fucking nail it and everyone laughs that laugh that only happens in the presence of a guitar player who only comes once in a lifetime.
Then also listen to Reno & Smiley
youtube.com/watch?v=yV4qtj8_S4I

Weirdly enough, on rym, Roots Rock and Swamp Rock aren't classified as country music. Not sure as to why.

Is Gunfighter Ballads the greatest traditional country album of all time? Even discarding the the association with New Vegas, no other old school country album seems to hold a candle to it.

Have I just been listing to the wrong albums or does it seem to me that you’re better off listening to compliation albums when it comes to country as a whole?

What do you mean by traditional country album? I don't even think it's the best country album in 1959, let alone all time.

Penis

Well, could you name some examples of albums you think are better. I’m fairly unfamiliar with country from the 40’s—60’s period.

It's perhaps the first great country album but it certainly isn't the best. The album format was really popular until the mid-late 50s. Most of all, Gunfighter Ballads isn't "traditional country". Simply popular country with southern influence.

Hank and Cash. Radio singles dominated that period.

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I'll stay in 1959. That year the Louvin Brothers put out Satan is Real, Reno & Smiley put out Good Old Country Ballads, George Jones released White Lightning, The Stanley Bros put out three albums that are excellent but especially Hymns and Sacred Songs
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best sad country album?

youtube.com/watch?v=auMirvOelIo
Faron Young is based af

Keep this shit out of here.

I've barely scratched the surface with Country, but Jason Molina's solo albums, Johnny Cash's late albums, especially when he was dying, and Townes Van Zandt s/t come to mind.

soundcloud.com/ellis-l4d2/red-dead-redemption-2-oh-mollie

Keepin the 80s-90s neotrad style alive and still goin big on the charts

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Good god no, man. Any given Mickey Newbury record runs circles around it.
youtube.com/watch?v=5CBum4fMS44

it's really not that good

Sorry, you might have been asking instead of rhetorically asking whether Trail Songs was the saddest - my bad if so

Thownes Van Zandt
The Gub Club
Link Wray
Marty Robbins
Cash
Leonard Cohen?

IM GONNA TAKE MY HORSE DOWN THE OLDTOWN ROAD
IM GONNA
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE
UNTIL I CANT NO MO

Tourism

I've used rym before too

You both sound like life is working out for you

Thownes Van Zandt
>Yep, but try Guy Clark
The Gub Club
>Great band, not country
Link Wray
>All time bro, Rumble was the first song I ever learned on guitar, but not country
Marty Robbins
>Watch this video of Merle Haggard impersonating him
>youtube.com/watch?v=-kzDLFNmevk
Cash
>Try Charlie Feathers
>youtube.com/watch?v=v_09uJmaSiY
Leonard Cohen?
>Great guy, not country

just pulling your chain, those are all great artists

this. also:

COUNTRY BILLY MADE A COUPLE MILLY

So is Creedence Clearwater Revival Country despite them being from California?

Yeah I'm more drunk than I should be posting this shit. Thank you though friend, your response has been saved

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Are there any other British Rock acts that made Country Rock besides the Rolling Stones?

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Country rock sometimes, southern rock other times.
Southern rock like
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Country rock like
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based and thuggerpilled tripfag
>song starts with "Yeah, whaddup, I'm tryina put my dick inside of yo panties"

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Oh hell yeah there was. Here's an easy answer:
youtube.com/watch?v=hrCu3Pkqzgg

Yes it is

yes, many.

One day, Ol' Man Nez will get the respect he deserves.

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Just to amend this one, if you meant British bands that normally do rock and roll doing country, then the other easy-ish answer is
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And then suddenly I see the light of something called the moon, and though my path is planned it's not rehearsed.

It's hist most consistent and accomplished western album, but he has several other quality LPs with that premise. There's the sequel, More Gunfighter Ballads, of course, but Return of the Gunfighter and The Drifter also have their share of classic songs and underrated gems. All together I would call it the Gunfighter Quadrilogy.

she's ok, but a little popish for my taste. check out lindi ortega

Not enough people are into this fucking great record
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>AAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE WHACHU WANNNA DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Check this out - Guy Clark proximate. Verlon played and recorded with Guy in his late period
youtube.com/watch?v=T_Lkg7GsKQQ

What's the best Buck Owens/Bakersfield Sound album?

Dwight yoakam

this is real country as opposed to most of the shite in this thread

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Yea Forums has the worst kind of taste in country

also real country

here you fucks:
youtube.com/watch?v=0anqjYUD0D0

it needs autotune.

50s and 60s trad, hippie country, and alt country are all valid and important, but the tourists have massive chunks of the genre entirely in their blind spot. If someone stops at johnny cash and gram parsons, they aren't getting the full picture.

jangly country pop song with great guitar sound, but you have to be able to stand the sweetness:
youtube.com/watch?v=PN30oCQsPBg

it's really all about haunting, tearjerker ballads: youtube.com/watch?v=ttggMJeUAo4

More Alt-Country/Folk Rock but still an amazing album.
youtube.com/watch?v=J-xca9TVT_o&list=PL3gdXHvVjKHG48bNhZ-Gw_Bzq8-ufAwSU

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dwightyoakamacoustic.net

yeah, maybe if you're a FAG
youtube.com/watch?v=BoBQvGA-ZIA

Y'know Bakersfield is a town in California, right? Most of California, geographically speaking, is country.

I wouldn't call them country, but country isn't a regional thing. Wherever there's country, there's country music.

youtube.com/watch?v=S8oM4-EltVY&feature=youtu.be

youtube.com/watch?v=LJVFY_LX9Ik

>country thread
>no mention of Porter Wagoner

Really, Yea Forums?