Country Music Thread

[satanisrealagain]

uncle tupelo.

[rub-a-dub]

I watched 'Don't Look Back' last night and Dylan is asking one of his friends if he's familiar with this "brilliant" song by Bill Anderson, 'She Lost Her Love at 3 AM'.  I'd never heard of it and found this version. It is pretty damn good ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xL6Qr-B2Gc

[Dualyard]

So much great stuff out there in thrift stores....Some current favourites:
The Voice Of Billy Joe Spears (Capitol),  Kay Adams Make Mine Country (Tower), Freddie Hart California Grapevine (Capitol), This is Tommy Collins (Capitol), Jeannie C. Riley the Generation Gap (Plantation) and every note recorded by Jerry Jeff Walker and friends during his dusted flies lovers /drunken period (72-75): Jerry Jeff s/t, Viva Terlingua, Walkers Collectibles and  Ridin High.

[clif]

Tommy Collins can be a slippery slop. I had a friend who bought a bunch of singles on the cheap. Some were cool honky tonk and some were kind of smaltzy.

Waylon's Honky Tonk Heros album deserves a mention if it hasn't

[velcro]

dont have anything to add to this country music convo but here are SOME of my favorite westerns:

Ride the High Country - Sam Peckinpah (beautiful "twilight" western". Before Peckinpah revamped his style and in turn the American Western. A great sendoff to the classical style)

Left Handed Gun - Arthur Penn (paul newman doing his best method impression. one of my favorite films. psychological. for fans of the billie the kid mythos.)

Red River - Howard Hawks (an obvious pick, thenagain they all kind of are. Another method favorite, Montgomery Clift, in a role that puts him against THE archetype of "manhood' in the old west, the legendary John Wayne. Incredible picture.

The Shooting, Ride the Whirlwind - Monte Hellman ("alternative" low budget 60s westerns I have a feeling many people here are probably already familiar with.)

Who Shot Liberty Valance - John Ford (a VERY obvious pick, gonna leave out other twilight favorites like The Searchers and the dusk western Fort Apache. distills the perfect "civilization" vs. frontier meta narrative perfectly. Who killed liberty valance? Who tamed the West? Jimmy Stewart plays a senator and JOhn Wayne plays a man who has outlived his days. an obvious classic)

Man from Laramie, Winchester '73, Naked Spur - Anthony Mann / Jimmy Stewart collaborations. A trilogy of sort and Jimmy Stewart at his most dark and crazed (naked spur?). Been awhile since i've seen these. also recommended: Man of the West with Gary Cooper, the Furies with Barbara Stanwyck, and Tin Star with Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins.

My Name is Nobody - Tonino Valerii (the only spaghetti i'll mention because that can be such a rabbit hole (which i'm happy to go down, though there is a mountain of stuff i havne't seen yet) . A Trinity film with Henry Fonda. Screenwritten by Leone, this is a sendup of the spaghetti genre, which at this point had long jumped the shark in a way that Leone resented. Plays on the Ford "myth vs reality" cliche. One of the most epic gunfights/mass killings in cinema history. A satire that reaches poetry. Henry Fonda and Trinity are a great fucking team. No match for Leone's entrance in the classical twilight genre, Once upon a time in the west, but thenagain matching that masterpiece is a tall order..

Lonesome Dove miniseries - originally intended to be a film starring john ford, jimmy stewart, and henry fonda with apparently bogdonovich at the helm. A twilight-ish western from 1985. Men passed their prime, yada yada yada...starring robert duvall and tommy lee jones. 80s tv so the direction and cinematography are  but still a great one. “Yes, a hell of a vision,”

Open Range - Kevin Costner (the black horse of the bunch. not actually a favorite but notable nonetheless. Shares a producer with Clint Eastwood's twilight-ish masterpiece (you seeing a trend here?) Unforgiven (the last canonical western - in my opinion). It even comes with a rain scene....lightning doesn't strike twice, this is nowhere as good as unforgiven, but worth a mention.

Meek's Cutoff - Kelly Reichardt ( a feminist western? a party is forced to follow a man they're not sure they can trust. the women follow their men, whose judgement they start to question. maybe canonical? a western in the broadest sense. Michelle Williams at her strongest (and not crying for once).






so many more but its now 5:30 and i can leave work.   

[tlipman]

Picked up a copy of Doc Watson's self-titled record the other day, been listening to that

[suitor]

Joe Buck Yourself is always good. He's got a mohawk and sings about the devil and shit. He's been in Th' Legendary Shack Shakers and Hank III's band.



Demon in my Head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kdlwocvldY

Devil is on his way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQsmf4Z6JfA

Evil Motherfucker From TN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ydNfJHxwX4

Drug Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE76f-up34g

Bitter Is The Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Iyvs9jFlo

[Jared]

Recently came across this dude Pete Drake who runs his pedal steel through a talk box for some pretty stellar results. Totally ahead of his time, pre-Frampton, pre-Roger Troutman, etc. He gets into some almost rockabilly-ish, or at the very least, proto-Junior Brown territory at times, and while that stuff is fine, it's the totally mesmerizing ballads where he really shines. It does kinda veer towards novelty - although I'm admittedly a sucker for vocoders of all stipes - but the uniqueness of it transcends the novelty factor IMO. Beautiful and borderline psychedelic stuff.

Here's a great video of him, for a good start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R9an8AU3No

[kjelli]

Have Colter Wall been mentioned. excellent country from Canada, highly praised by Steve Earle amongst other

[jdt]

I came here to second Mickey Newbury and Chris Darrow, both of which (despite producing great works for others) are incredibly underappreciated. Newbury is best known as the author of "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Is In)" for First Edition; Darrow for playing in Kaleidoscope (from LA) and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Drag City has issued the key works from both of them.

[HTR]

If you want something recent fueled by whiskey & some testosterone, try Whitey Morgan & The 78s.  On the mellower side, Sturgill Simpson.

Rusty Wier was a B-lister in the outlaw country days but his first couple albums are solid.

I really like BR5-49, except for their final album, which is boring.  They were dynamite live.

I've been listening to a ton of Waylon lately.

[Mark Daid]

The Nance/Joyner sets last night were SO country. 

[Jared]

Filled in for a 50’s / 60’s r’n’r program on a relatively new community station last night and turned it into three hours of (mostly) c’n’w. It should be archived to stream for the next two weeks. Sorry about all the technical difficulties.

https://www.radiofreeamerica.com/show/pomeade-serenade-kuaa

Rusty Dean - Saturday Satan, Sunday Saint
Buck Owens - I’ve Got a Tiger By The Tale
Melba Montgomery - My Number of Heartaches Is Unknown

Johnny Horton - I’m Ready, If You’re Willing
Jim Thomas - Long Time
Vernon Oxford - Let’s Take a Cold Shower
Stella Parton - Ode To Olivia
Carl Smith - Hey Joe
Robert Mitchum - Little Ole Wine Drinker Me
Tami De - How Many Times Can a Broken Heart Break
Richard Snow - Suppertime

The Poor Boy - Mom
Loretta Lynn - My Angel Mother
The Poor Boy - The Bills Are Coming In
Norma Jean - It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Gary Ellison - How Could You Do This To Us
Dottie Lou - One More Memory
Bob Eck - Cold Empty Silence

Jerry Lee Lewis - She Still Comes Around (To Love What’s Left of Me)
Carole Christensen - It Don’t Do No Good To Be a Good Girl
The Statler Brothers - Flowers On the Wall
Porter Wagoner - The Rubber Room
Eddie Noack - Psycho
Johnny Paycheck - (Pardon Me) I’ve Got Someone to Kill
Jack Quist - Can’t Get Enough Cocaine
The Wilburn Brothers - The Wild Side of Life

Tanya Tucker - Delta Dawn
Jessi Colter - Roll On
Waylon & Willie - I Can Get Off On You
Tompall Glazer - Mendocino
The Hagers - Break My Mind
Mac Davis - Lucas Was a Redneck
Bobby Darin - Questions
Roger Miller - Little Green Apples

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - Seeds & Stems (Again)
Randy Goodrum - Honey Bee (Please Answer Me)
Waylon Jennings - Think I’m Gonna Kill Myself
Gary S. Paxton - Will There Be Hippies In Heaven
Klaus Schulze vs Richard Kostelanetz
Jerry Garcia - Late For Supper / Spidergawd
The Byrds - Wasn’t Born To Follow

Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over The Line
Tom T. Hall - Strawberry Farms
Chicago - Free Form Guitar vs. Earthstar - French Sky Lines Suite
Billy Swan - Don’t Be Cruel
C.W. McCall - Night Rider
Bobbie Gentry - Mississippi Delta
Jim Ford - Rising Sign
13th Floor Elevators - Barnyard Blues
Hank Williams - We Live In Two Different Worlds (Slowed) vs. Roedelius - Herold

Alex Chilton - No More The Moon Shines On Lorena
Peter Grudzien - The Unicorn
The Louvin Brothers - Pitfall
Tex Ritter - Just Beyond The Moon

13th Floor Elevators - May The Circle Remain Unbroken

Starting next Saturday, I will have my own weekly program on this station, KUAA. It’s been about eight years since I’ve had my own show, so I’m really looking forward to getting back into the swing of it again.

[androo]

nice one jared.

Klaus Schulze vs Richard Kostelanetz this is the odd one out, right?

[Jared]

nice one jared.

Klaus Schulze vs Richard Kostelanetz this is the odd one out, right?

Thanks Andrew! There were a few psychedelic diversions in there towards the end, yeah. The whole thing kinda started sober, peaked into the outer reaches, and calmed back down towards the end. Lysergic Segue Denouement, etc.