Country Music Thread

[Jared]

List your favorite C&W records here. Country rock even. The more miserable, damaged and drug-addled the better.

Personally always thought that scraping off half of each of 'The Silver Tongued Devil & I' and 'Jesus Was a Capricorn' by Kris Kristofferson and combining the remaining tracks could make for a completely solid and damn near perfect record.

Recently discovered this bonkers and totally sick C.W. McCall track. (Is there a song called"Night Rider" that isn't sick?)
https://youtu.be/sYZ3i5UwI9Y

Also have recently fallen in love with Shel Silverstein's 'Freakin At the Freaker's Ball' album.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsZwZHnb9N5ef8Ao9xC2WlfSUw9eYI9SZ

Not really obscure or anything, but I also can't get enough of the Statler Brothers' "Flowers Onthe Wall" lately. Here's a great video of them playing it on the Porter Wagoner Show.
https://youtu.be/1s8nRL2bPCU

[Jared]

Someone needs to upload "Break My Mind" by the Hagers onto YouTube. Most of their shit is mediocre as hell, but that song is a great product of the Age of Aquarius infecting Nashville's kool aid (of which there never seems to be enough).

[Spacecase Records]

CW McCall is pretty rad. Ditto Jerry Reed.

I spent a night in Bakersfield in 2004. Played Jerry's Pizza. I'm sure in some parallel universe that night is still going. I might be in the Crystal Palace right now and not even know it.

[Spacecase Records]

Also, one of the best records Gene Clark ever cut was the first Dillard and Clark record. Call it country-rock. Call it something ridiculous like mutant blue grass. (Or just check in with Discogs and see what they're labeling it -- and reprimanding for format issues). That record is awesome. 

[grievous angel]

Not really obscure or anything, but I also can't get enough of the Statler Brothers' "Flowers Onthe Wall" lately. Here's a great video of them playing it on the Porter Wagoner Show.
https://youtu.be/1s8nRL2bPCU

The verse for "Too Much In Love" by King Khan & BBQ may have lifted an idea or two from this song.

Tex Ritter's Blood on the Saddle is pretty good.  Compilations rather than LPs are usually the way to go with country music though...for me, at least.  I own tons and tons of country albums, and they're usually very good but rarely mindblowing. 

The deeper parts of Charlie Feathers' discography are worth looking into.

[androo]

y'gotta have a beer mate
https://youtu.be/Bw7R6RzDCn0

[Jared]

Tex Ritter's Blood on the Saddle is pretty good. 

Agreed. Although I think when I owned a copy, I pretty much exclusively listened to the title track and not much else.

[bruce]

Waylon, Willie, Loretta, dolly, you really can't go wrong with any of them. The outlaws(Waylon, willie, Johnny, and kris) probably borderline country rock. Jessie colter Waylon's wife has a new album that's really good. Chris Stapleton, is one of the new batch of outlaw country that is good, can't think of any of the others right now, sturgill simpson(?).

[Jared]

Waylon, Willie, Loretta, dolly, you really can't go wrong with any of them. The outlaws(Waylon, willie, Johnny, and kris) probably borderline country rock. Jessie colter Waylon's wife has a new album that's really good. Chris Stapleton, is one of the new batch of outlaw country that is good, can't think of any of the others right now, sturgill simpson(?).

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I like Sturgill's first two albums, third one not so much. Stapleton, I feel, is merely "not bad."

Borrowed a Jessie Colter album from my great uncle recently and really dug it. Hadn't heard anything of her on her own prior to that.

[vedicardi]

big keith urban gal here

[cranefortune]

Some recent listening: Charlie Feathers early stuff (maybe more on the early rockabilly side, but so good), lots of Terry Allen, Ray Wylie Hubbard and Steve Earle's tracks form Heartworn Highways.... really wish he had recorded more stuff during that time period (or if he did that i knew about it)

[clif]

I don;t have anything groundbreaking, but if you like Kristofferson you need to hear Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends: The Publishing Demos put out by Light In the Attic a few years ago. Just Kris with a guitar doing some of his best songs. Really great.

I love early George Jones. Mercury years stuff. Jerry Lee Lewis' country stuff is great too. Buck Owens is a favorite as well.

[settingson]

Mickey Newbury and Michael Nesmith are both worth a mention here, as is Chris Darrow.  "Artist Proof" is great.

[pdxpaul]

I don't know much about country music but Mississippi released a couple of really good albums of obscurish country 45s that are affordable and well worth buying. One is called Running From the Law. Forget how there are and what the others are called

[settingson]

I don't know much about country music but Mississippi released a couple of really good albums of obscurish country 45s that are affordable and well worth buying. One is called Running From the Law. Forget how there are and what the others are called

I think Six Feet Under is another one.