Recommend Some Good Old Country Music

[HairyBelafonte]

I generally think that country is a lame version of the blues.

How so?
Well, first, let me say that this view is founded on ignorance and I would never seriously argue this with anyone. That said, I think that blues is the ultimate folk expression of the hardships, struggles and joys that people dealt with in the past. Basically, country speaks on the same things, but with less soul. I know enough to know that this generalization is pretty pathetic and didn't really mean for it to be taken too seriously.
I dunno about that, less soul? If you listen to old country (30-40s) its basically pre-war blues sung by white guys. Alot of the same songs even. If you enjoy stuff like the Mississippi Sheiks, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Skip James, etc. then most would like early country blues.

 

[hcrink]

Yeah, I mean, the less modern you get the differences between rural white music and rural black music get smaller and smaller.

 

[HarveyCanal]

As many Houstonians will attest, George Strait was

during the 80's.

 

[pickwick33]

As many Houstonians will attest, George Strait was

during the 80's.

I think he's killin' it right now, based on his last album (and the live show I saw last winter).

 

[JimBeam]

WAYLON JENNINGS pre 1978. That is all.

 

[mrmatthew]

Jim Reeves

Super easy to find (dollar bin common) and some of his stuff is really good.

 

[captainplanet]

i will ride for early dolly. living under the same roof as my ma made apreciating this music impossible, but now I hear tenesse mountain home and it takes me back to good (and very cheesy) memories.

definitely have love for hank williams and johnny cash too.

 

[Bambouche]

>>Old To New<<

Matt Bauer
Elizabeth Cotton
Carter Family ("Wildwood Flowers" is a tremendous song - Anita Carter's "Farewell")
Blue Sky Boys ("Story of the Knoxville Girl" is pretty gangsta)
Stanley Brothers
Lucinda Williams' first few albums
Texas Gladden & Hobart Smith (see "In the Willow Garden")
Woody Guthrie
Osbourne Brothers
Townes Van Zandt
Terry Allen
Flatts & Scruggs
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Anything Dolly Parton, consistent through the mid-'70s
Willie Nelson
Merle Haggard
Waylon Jennings
more...

 

[edith head]

The Louvin Bros creep me out but i kinda like them. Their harmonies rule

gahhh!

 

[tbone]

in random order:

Johnny Horton
Old Merle Haggard
Buck Owens
Bob Wills
HANK
Woody Guthrie
Old Crow Medicine Show
Jerry Lee Lewis

the "country" I like.

 

[Woimsah]

Devil Went Down To Georgia has been known to rock a party way in the wee drunk hours....
I actually dropped that in a set one time in Boston at my residency and it went over so big that I was told I counldn't play it anymore - apparently heads were getting a little rowdy.

Glad this thread came up though....I'd love to know about older country that's heavy on the slide guitar and is real mellow and sort of jazzy....that shit's mad fuckwitable.

 

[KARLITO]

pretty much everything listed
+ Charlie Feathers

 

[edith head]

tons of knowledge was dropped in the country murder ballads thread a few years ago

 

[Mad Drama Teacher]

Nobody has mentioned Emmylou Harris yet?!

 

[hcrink]

Nobody has mentioned Emmylou Harris yet?!

Ewww.

 

[Mad Drama Teacher]

Nobody has mentioned Emmylou Harris yet?!

Ewww.
Blasphemy!

Your hero Parsons liked her.

 

[hcrink]

Nobody has mentioned Emmylou Harris yet?!

Ewww.
Blasphemy!

Your hero Parsons liked her.
Dude was a man whore, of course he liked her.

Seriously though, I like the 2 record she did with Gram, but her solo records don't really do it for me.

 

[Mad Drama Teacher]

Definitely those two GP records. Kinda surprised nobody's mentioned him yet, probably because he's either too obvious or is not considered country, even though the Nashville crowd adopted him as one of their own.

 

[hcrink]

G.P. is a very country album.

 

[pickwick33]

Definitely those two GP records. Kinda surprised nobody's mentioned him yet, probably because he's either too obvious or is not considered country, even though the Nashville crowd adopted him as one of their own.

i dont think mainstream nashville EVER "adopted" gram, dead or alive. the byrds played the grand ole opry when gram was a member and they didnt go over too well.