Thread 127645581

Old school hillbilly thots edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-sQtO5gZww

Howdy! Please use this thread to discuss country music and all of its related genres, including bluegrass, jamgrass, outlaw country, Red Dirt country, country-rock, folk, alternative country, and many more. All country music is welcome, old and new, mainstream and indie, as long as it's good!

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>Lostgrass Archive (obscure bluegrass & country rips)
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YourLast.fmlistening charts are highly encouraged!

Feel free to drop any recommendations below, no matter the subgenre (but please do attach subgenres to it!). We are in the long and intermittent process of compiling updated recommendation charts, so your contributions will be very appreciated.

What are y'all spinning?

Not music.

The two most recent country albums I've listened to are Mike Love - Country Love (unreleased but amazing) and Glen Campbell - Oh Happy Day (Country gospel)
Anyone got any experimental country music related to sound collage/plunderphonics/vaporwave ?

>>127646151
>experimental country music related to sound collage/plunderphonics/vaporwave
Death took Papa Nez before he could make this a reality

I find myself going back to The SteelDrivers over and over, especially their older stuff with Chris Stapleton on vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q3Bo_Kz8qQ

>>127648407
Steeldrivers were great. Chris' songs and vocals injected an outlaw edge into bluegrass which is not always common.

>>127645581 (OP)
https://practicegirlfriend.bandcamp.com/track/road-trip

https://practicegirlfriend.bandcamp.com/track/dont-run-around-on-me

Here's some of my music. Let me know what you think. Wanna do it more hi-fi with a full band soon

>>127648444
Saw Chris earlier this year. He gave an incredible show. Didn't know he did bluegrass, too. I'll have to give a listen.

>>127648465

The first thing you need to do is learn how to sing.

The second thing you need to do is learn how to play guitar.

The third thing is how to write songs.

The fourth is how to mix your tracks, or at least how to hire someone who knows how to do it already.

But other than that, you're good to go!

>>127648941
I saw in an interview with Chris that before he started recording his music, all of his revenues from songwriting went towards funding him to tour around with The SteelDrivers.... imagine that. He's a bluegrass artist at heart it seems.

>>127649162
He even carried over the Steeldrivers vocal harmony style into his solo work with his wife providing the female accompaniment. It's a weird combination on paper but it works.

>>127648465
i was about ready to call this garbage until i listened to it. you're actually pretty good, anon. that second track you posted has the makings of an old-school country track. keep it up!

I found a bandcamp page that's uploading vinyl rips of vintage country albums from the 50s-60s
https://righteous33.bandcamp.com/music

>>127649389
Thanks. Definitely have to check this out later.

>>127648465
great

>>127649162
Maybe he could tour with Billy's band when William Apostol decides to do a solo tour.

Ok but how the hell is he so good
https://youtu.be/t4V3S7kGNjY?si=lfdrX_BwX_uKOfD4

>>127645600
t. wpop gooner

Banjo recommendations? Sick of listening to Earl Scruggs all day

>>127656045
Noam pickelny from the punch brothers

What's AOTYSF?

>>127656045

You ever listen to Billy Failing's solo record?

>>127645581 (OP)
Rose Maddox was a real G for folks in the know but sadly not recognized by most country fans.

Here's some tapes I snagged at an antique mall, all of them operational with no signs of quality decay. I expect I'll play the Freddy Fender one into the ground, he's an underrated classic and the whole tape is a banger.
One the streaming side, I've been unable to get this one out of my head, listening to it has been addictive https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3t4gN5rM1bo&si=ugX-QnZeFtBW1Fnc

>>127661748
based and fender pilled

>>127648465
I like your songwriting. Wish there was more going on with the guitar but keep at it man

>>127661784
You can't render the Fender. Seriously though, Rancho Grande is such a fun song and I don't even need to mention Before The Next Teardrop Falls

>>127661748

Amazing song! And you found this on a cassette tape? Can't believe the high quality!

>>127653551
Smart, charismatic people are often pretty good with impressions.

>>127658326
Snipe Hunter for me for sure.

>>127662269
Sure did, its the gem of the collection so far. That and this Gordon Lightfoot one I snagged, but I'd love to get an actual album instead of a Best Of. The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald calls to me

>>127645581 (OP)
Spinning this rn fren

>>127648444
>>127648465
My wife won't stop listening to Stapleton at the moment. A development I'm perfectly okay with.

>>127645581 (OP)
Is the imgur link private or something? It shows an error.

>>127648465
Posting this here took balls. You're not quite there son, but keep it up and you will be!

>>127663576
LGA here, I've tried everything I can to fix the imgur link but it won't work. I just tried to reupload to imgur but imgur "detected copyrighted material" or something. I think I might try mega.

>>127663576
Anyway, here's the imgur link dumped

Who do I play next?

>>127645581 (OP)
>Maddox brothers
god i will be so happy when boomers die and this style of music disappears

>>127663812
Is the Maddox brothers boomer music though?

>>127646151
You might go with the Reverend Kristin Hayter record Saved!

>>127663832
they were the boomers' boomers

>>127649162
>>127649185
Listening to their first studio album with Chris right now. It's sad they weren't together longer. They were an incredible act, and I think the public would really be down to see Stapleton return to the genre seriously.

>>127663724

I'd go with Nitty Gritty. It's really special:

https://youtu.be/cbYdX6NwOwI

Totally unfamiliar with the genre, caught Alison Krauss (who I had never heard of) on Rick Beato’s channel which led me to her albums with Robert Plant which I ended up loving, which led me to this latest Union Station album which I also ended up loving

Kind of a palate cleanser from all the gloomy rock I’m immersed in, even the sad songs are melancholy and still beautiful instead of gloomy

Now I want to go watch O Brother, Where Art Thou again

Any pointers on where to go from here appreciated

bump

Can't believe I missed Shadowgrass yesterday. Would've been so much easier to catch their show than anything else coming later this year.

Going to see Miss Sierra tonight, wish me luck boys. Hope she plays this banger https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=H2RZ_Y_Ls40&si=XAiQpNi6h3M4KqIH so I can get jiggy with it

>>127669687

Hope I get to see her someday, too. She's impossible not to love.

My favorite Sierra song:

https://youtu.be/njqB6443bf0

>>127670113
Hay fever's knockin' at your door!

Sierra is GF material.

>>127667355

I recommend starting with Turmoil & Tinfoil, Home, Renewal, and Highway Prayers by Billy Strings. He's the most popular bluegrass star today for a reason, and he's also early enough in his career that you have potentially decades of fandom left to enjoy afterwards if you like what you hear.

Molly Tuttle's taking things in a pretty new direction with her latest record, so I recommend you start with Crooked Tree and City of Gold if you wanna get started, and then try So Long Little Miss Sunshine if you find yourself a serious fan and wanna see where she takes herself. Greensky Bluegrass is another worth getting into, and will have a new record out on Halloween of this year.

As for newer acts? Shadowgrass is getting some buzz. I just listened to their latest album and quite enjoyed what I heard.

Heard BigXthaPlug has a country album now. Can't imagine how bad it is.

Anyone play the banjo?

>>127676420

Yes. It's my second-favorite instrument behind the guitar. Would love to upgrade my model, but even cheap ones play and sound well enough if you see they're taken care of and set up properly.

My friend's bluetooth in his car is fucked so he has to use his CD player, so I bought him a Flying Burrito Brother's CD.

>>127676420

Presumably we're just counting fivestring, but the answer's still yes, and it's easier than you'd think.

another gay cmg ripoff thread popped up

>>127677492
It won't last anymore than the last one did. I'm not worried.

anything like brent cobb

>>127676546
I've still yet to give 'em a listen. Any recs on where to start with 'em?

https://youtu.be/P85HmYBJ0m4

just found out from 1900-1940 the Rockefellers along with some other people as a part of public school and mass education went to Appalachia and told them their traditional music was evil and would confiscated fiddles and other instruments and kids weren't allowed to do traditional dances or singing with the intention of destroying the oral tradition and making the kids function in mass society better.

of course this is following the period from like 1870-1900 when most appalachians land and privately held farms was stolen from them by northern companies and many people were basically enslaved

very weird cultural genocide went on with these people that no one seems to talk about, anyway good way had some recordings of some people from it at least even if the tradition itself is dead

>>127676420
Do you prefer clawhammer ot three-finger?

>>127681865
Yeah, there were always varying degrees of waspy snobbery to the “moral uplift” campaigns of that time. The movement to alleviate poverty and promote education often not-so-subtly characterized itself as “civilizing” certain peoples. They were basically using the same rationale for colonialism but in the white man’s own back yard.
Whats interesting though is that country music as we know it really grew out of the old-time folk revival which occurred in the 1910s and 20s, as urbanization and migration further obscured the cultural heritage of the rural population, and there rose a demand for the traditional mountain music that the old folks were nostalgic for. All of the first hillbilly music stars were geezers because the younger generations had forgotten.

>>127669687
I saw her late last year. She's really good live!

>>127680652
The only ones i have by them are Guild Palace of Sin, and Burrito Deluxe. Both are fantastic listens though; Gram Parsons heavily involved in both.

I really need to get off my arse and check out the rest.

>>127684084
>Guilded

rather

>>127672083
>>127683773
She was absolutely insane y'all. Her live performance brings her music to an entirely new plane. The entire crowd chanting when she played Fox Hunt was enough to make the ticket worth it, let alone the entire rest of the set. Seeing her live is an essential part of the Sierra experience I believe, the poster is kind of ugly to me but that concert was so good I'll proudly display this thing on positive association alone. And if you don't care about that I got this Emmylou/Ronstatd/Dolly cassette

>>127679424
Vincent Neil Emerson is the closest by far. I'd also recommend Cole Chaney and Ian Noe but they're a little too dreary compared to Cobb's tendency to be jaunty. Maybe Luke Bell

>>127648407
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSzlV6VNqI4