Anyone still enjoy real country music?

mookeywrench
mookeywrench Posts: 6,134
edited November 2009 in Other Music
None of that pop music with twang BS.

Check out the Maldives awesome new band from Seattle (of coarse).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWmMTJ3guh8&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6--2Fy0QHDo&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubKnXKj4oSQ&feature=channel

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  • dpmay
    dpmay Posts: 643
    hank iii !
  • MysteryTrain
    MysteryTrain Singapore Posts: 1,189
    Yeah, I do, Johnny Cash and Hank Williams.
  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,134
    wow, you guys really know how to expand your boundaries
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, DBT....
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  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    dpmay wrote:
    hank iii !


    YES!!!! :mrgreen:
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  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Hardcore Twitty fan here. Always keepin' it real for the Conway...

    The bulge doesn't lie, folks. That is true country...

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  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    mookeywrench wrote:
    Check out the Maldives awesome new band from Seattle (of coarse).
    look like hipsters to me... i dont know that "real" country music (as you call it) can be made by anyone in a baby blue v-neck... but im skeptical of the sincerity of any new music these days... not critiquing the music itself - its actually pretty good... just cant shake the feeling its a new age parody of the "real" country youre looking for

    we can agree that all of mainstream country is shit these days though... little or no blues roots left in any of it
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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,134
    Kilgore_Trout wrote:
    mookeywrench wrote:
    Check out the Maldives awesome new band from Seattle (of coarse).
    look like hipsters to me... i dont know that "real" country music (as you call it) can be made by anyone in a baby blue v-neck... but im skeptical of the sincerity of any new music these days... not critiquing the music itself - its actually pretty good... just cant shake the feeling its a new age parody of the "real" country youre looking for

    we can agree that all of mainstream country is shit these days though... little or no blues roots left in any of it

    maybe the term ' "real" country ' has become bastardized with classic country and that's the root problem.

    And just to make sure we're on the same page here:

    you're feeling the music, but because he's wearing the wrong t-shirt, the sincerity is now thrown out the window? Shouldn't the music alone do the talking?
  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    mookeywrench wrote:
    Kilgore_Trout wrote:
    mookeywrench wrote:
    Check out the Maldives awesome new band from Seattle (of coarse).
    look like hipsters to me... i dont know that "real" country music (as you call it) can be made by anyone in a baby blue v-neck... but im skeptical of the sincerity of any new music these days... not critiquing the music itself - its actually pretty good... just cant shake the feeling its a new age parody of the "real" country youre looking for

    we can agree that all of mainstream country is shit these days though... little or no blues roots left in any of it

    maybe the term ' "real" country ' has become bastardized with classic country and that's the root problem.
    true... not really a fair criticism on my part... good banjo and fiddle, thunderous guitars... thats all i ask for in my country... theres definitely still good country out there... just harder to find... kindof like any kind of music and all of todays neatly packaged, tone deaf pandering :cry:
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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,134
    agreed
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    Yeah, basically anything from the 70's or earlier and/or from the Lost Highways label is a pretty good bet. But the crap that they call country these days? The worst.

    Here in Texas we have our own version of country we call "Texas Music". A lot of it is probably more closely related to Americana than Country, but anway there is some great music coming out of here that most of you folks probably never heard of. But some you have.

    Robert Earl Keen
    The Flatlanders
    Asleep at the Wheel
    Ryan Bingham
    Junior Brown
    Charlie Robison

    Just a few good ones. I've always liked George Strait too, and he's the rarest of country singers for me- a popular artist that makes genuinely good music.
  • dpmay
    dpmay Posts: 643
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    dpmay wrote:
    hank iii !


    YES!!!! :mrgreen:

    yeah, curb records recently released this sweet box-set tin thing of his first three albums, and i got it at the local crappy big-box record store for like 12 bucks. i think it was mispriced. sweet day, i didn't have any of his albums before that...
  • PJGARDEN
    PJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    gabers wrote:
    Yeah, basically anything from the 70's or earlier and/or from the Lost Highways label is a pretty good bet. But the crap that they call country these days? The worst.

    Here in Texas we have our own version of country we call "Texas Music". A lot of it is probably more closely related to Americana than Country, but anway there is some great music coming out of here that most of you folks probably never heard of. But some you have.

    Robert Earl Keen
    The Flatlanders
    Asleep at the Wheel
    Ryan Bingham
    Junior Brown
    Charlie Robison

    Just a few good ones. I've always liked George Strait too, and he's the rarest of country singers for me- a popular artist that makes genuinely good music.

    What?? No Pat Green? J/K, I couldn't stand that guy.

    I used to listen to country a lot but I think I kind of got burnt out on it. I grew up listening to it and over the years its kind of faded away for me. I still love some Hank though, Sr. that is.
  • pjfan021
    pjfan021 Posts: 684
    merle haggard...
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    mookeywrench wrote:
    None of that pop music with twang BS.

    Check out the Maldives awesome new band from Seattle (of coarse).

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWmMTJ3guh8&feature=channel

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6--2Fy0QHDo&feature=channel

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubKnXKj4oSQ&feature=channel

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLo_2t9v_lI&feature=channel
    ...
    Check out 'The Sadies'... they were touring with John Doe earlier this year. Great country band.
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  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    For a great newish "country" artist I'm really into Ryan Bingham. I try and get him exposure to anyone interested in the genre.

    http://main.losthighwayrecords.com/arti ... px?aid=257

    Ryan Adams and the Cardinals are basically country too, and damn good.
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Kathleen Edwards is one of the better songwriters of this generation.
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  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    keeponrockin wrote:
    Kathleen Edwards is one of the better songwriters of this generation.

    Agreed
  • Jeff Murray
    Jeff Murray Posts: 1,259
    gabers wrote:
    For a great newish "country" artist I'm really into Ryan Bingham. I try and get him exposure to anyone interested in the genre.

    http://main.losthighwayrecords.com/arti ... px?aid=257

    Ryan Adams and the Cardinals are basically country too, and damn good.

    Ryan Bingham is about as country as I get, but he has a good rock sound to his style. You could almost put the Drive By Truckers in that category too, but to me they are rock too. There are some good acts out there, I just don't like the overly twangy types of country, I need the rock edge or some hint of the blues. "New Country" is a joke, no authenticity what so ever.
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    keeponrockin wrote:
    Kathleen Edwards is one of the better songwriters of this generation.
    ...
    I agree with this one.
    I found out about her when she was touring with John Doe and they swung by these parts. I went out a couple of days later and picked up a couple of her CDs. Really good music and she's a pretty damn good guitar player.
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