Country music, no way, yes way.

[Still-One]

Originally Posted by fonthillbilly

Emmylou Harris

Steve Earle

Roseanne Cash

Kathy Mattea

Mary-Chapin Carpenter

Nancy Griffith

The Delevantes

All considered country and light years beyond whatever passes for "new country" on most radio stations these days. Check them out. They're the real deal.

I am not a fan of country music but I do purchase the occasional disc where the performance is engaging.

Mary Chapin Carpenter hasn't really released "country" music for years. Her current Singer/Songwriter releases are wonderful.

Add Rodney Crowell to your list of "country" artists who write lyrics with the best of them.

There are few current artists whose crossover duets (often live) cover as many genre as Jennifer Nettles. She can rock it, pop it or blues it with the best of them.

[AudioNut]

Originally Posted by Rayooo

Just discovered and ordered on Amazon.. ( I know, how could anyone not have heard of this classic recording. I'd be one. )

.

I heard this album playing in a restaurant in Savannah, GA. in 1976, when it first came out and bought it that afternoon (LP naturally). Still have several copies and play them often.

I never really thought of "Wanted The Outlaws" as being strictly country, though. More Western/Cowboy/Texas/"Outlaw" music - although it is classified as country and was the first country LP to sell over a million copies.

I have it and love it - and I'm supposed to be the classical music guy here!

But, as most people my age will begrudgingly admit . . . "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys", (one of the songs on the album), and must remember going to double features on Saturday afternoon - to see Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, Lash LaRue, Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger . . . etc, etc. And yes, they, along with Superman and Tarzan were my real heroes!

[prepress]

I am from Nashville. I (only) live in Brooklyn.

[Chubba]

Rayooo,post 12.You summed it up perfectly for me,details included.Cheers Wayne.

[fonthillbilly]

Oops. And how could I have left out Lyle Lovett? Country and big band with a very cerebral edge. Generally well recorded too. Btw, the list i posted was in no way exhaustive. There are many more I love. Elvis Costello's Almost Blue got me hooked decades ago although it was almost universally reviled by country music fans and critics alike. His tribute to some of the masters clearly reflected his great love of the genre.

[NOLG4EVR]

Originally Posted by fonthillbilly

Oops. And how could I have left out Lyle Lovett? Country and big band with a very cerebral edge. Generally well recorded too. Btw, the list i posted was in no way exhaustive. There are many more I love. Elvis Costello's Almost Blue got me hooked decades ago although it was almost universally reviled by country music fans and critics alike. His tribute to some of the masters clearly reflected his great love of the genre.

Big +1 on Lyle Lovett. Can't really say he is truly country. His style is so unique it's hard to put him in a category. Just saw him recently and the show was fantastic. Also love Ray Charles. Modern Sounds in Country and Western is an all time classic album.

[aclearspot]

Back in the hippie days I was 20 and was reading Rolling Stones interview with Jerry Garcia. It seems Captain Trips was a big hillbilly music nut. At the time his fave was Dolly Parton .I thought about my music roots in West Kansas and my mom 78's. I dropped my "If Its Music, It Aint Country "attitude. I went hillbillynuts for a decade.Today I listen to just about everything except Kabuki music. I saw this guy last night in SanFransicko
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sduE-NDCFI]Dale Watson - Country My Ass - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jG58b5LWLk]Whiskey or God - YouTube[/ame]

[aclearspot]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9VhX7bFGRk]Raul Malo and the Mavericks: All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWgd5UPmjqs]Dwight Yoakam - 1000 Miles From Nowhere - YouTube[/ame]
ok I will shut up and go out with some twang and reverb

[NOLG4EVR]

Good point about Jerry Garcia. If you look at Jerry and the Dead's music it is heavily influenced by both country and hillbilly type music. Some of their best stuff is country style lyrics set to a very different beat but yet still derived from bluegrass style roots. It is always evident in their acoustic songs but definitely there in electric numbers as well. Not all of course, [Dark Star] [Terrapin] eg.

[JiveTurkey]

Originally Posted by NOLG4EVR

Good point about Jerry Garcia. If you look at Jerry and the Dead's music it is heavily influenced by both country and hillbilly type music. Some of their best stuff is country style lyrics set to a very different beat but yet still derived from bluegrass style roots. It is always evident in their acoustic songs but definitely there in electric numbers as well. Not all of course, [Dark Star] [Terrapin] eg.

Check out Jerry's Breakdown, Old and In The Way.