School me on GOOD country music

[dark_star]

Haven't check in on TGR in a while as life got busy, but this thread continues to deliver. Thanks all!

[Phall]

That Margo cover of Sermon is chilling. I'm excited to hear that album in full. I love Stereolab, and lots of other great female vocals on that. Hopefully they don't butcher anything like (in my opinion The National did to the Day of the Dead album).

Johnson just released a show date in SLC, gotta try to check that one out. Missing Whitey Morgan as i'll be in Steamboat that weekend, but Bingham is also coming in March which should be a great show. Been waiting on him to come through for a while.

[greenmachine]

Houndmouth!

[greenmachine]

If you are a deer tick fan check out middle brother (side project )

[Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo]

Turnpike Troubadours (sometimes annoyingly popular does not equal not good. falls into the same category as "I don't like country music..yeah, Wilco...they are my favorite. Jayhawks? Haven't heard of them).

I was about to post these guys up in this thread. They have definitely blownup since opening for whoever it was last summer, maybe summer before (Miranda Lambert?) but they still bring it. We saw them at Belly Up here in town last summer and Charlie Crockett opened. One of the best concerts I've ever been too.

[Self Jupiter]

That’s not the Issue


Maybe old hat but still a good one

[greenmachine]

Turnpike is good stuff - catchy songs - love it. Hayes carll , Ryan Bingham , Cody jinks , uncle lucious, reckless kelly, whiskey Myers , the wild feathers , Tyler Childers , wood brothers - all good !!

[GiBo]

Don't know if they've been mentioned, but The Steel Woods are the shit. More southern rock, but I've been digging it.

[snapt]

Let me introduce y'all to Slaid Cleaves

The pride of South Berwick Maine, now of Austin Texas. His Pandora is pretty much a summation of this thread.





Plus Slaid can Yodel.

[Chugachjed]

I would never have guessed Slaid Cleaves was from Maine.

[Woodsy]

I would never have guessed Slaid Cleaves was from Maine.

One thing I learned about growing up in the South, living out West and then moving to the North East is they have rednecks everywhere, he is great.

[Cheeseburger King]

Chris Stapleton: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

oh yes


just found out that he is touring with Margo Price & Marcus King Band- hope to make one of those shows

[deepsouthmafia]

The wife got us Kenny Chesney tickets for Christmas.

[glademaster]

The wife got us Kenny Chesney tickets for Christmas.

FFS

[Woodsy]

The wife got us Kenny Chesney tickets for Christmas.

hell of a party, not sure it fits with the rest of this thread.
post a song you think does or go back to being your normal unfunny trolly self.
TY

[Woodsy]

[willywhit]

The wife got us Kenny Chesney tickets for Christmas.

Nasty !!!

[Woodsy]

the man has been mentioned but heard this song this AM and damn, just damn

[Woodsy]

Bumping this thread because it deserves to be bumped... so many great suggestions here that I've enjoyed over the past two years.

I was listening to Townes Van Zandt earlier tonight, which made me think of it as it was this thread that turned me on to him. Probably the best songwriter I've ever heard- listening to his music helped me through a rough patch a few years back. Anyone who doesn't already own it should read a bit about Townes' life, then go out and buy "Live at the Old Quarter" immediately.

IN CASE YOU MISSED THE NEW RELEASE OF OLD STUFF

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...i-need-778549/

[Danno]

the man has been mentioned but heard this song this AM and damn, just damn

Yesterday was Emmylou Harris's birthday.

[Chugachjed]

Local boy. Good skier too.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B3A280mebaw

[ill-advised strategy]

[Woodsy]

Good stuff, but seems especially up Foggy Goggles street

[KQ]

Too bad they don't have a YouTube video of the actual performance. Probably find it on NBC.com. From The Voice a covert of an old Charlie Daniels song:

[Jacques Strap]

This thread became irrelevant at "Keith Urban" and should've been locked and/or purged. But Hell, there was probably a "Toby Keith" in there at some point before that I didn't catch due to selective blindness.

But I guess that's ok as very little of this thread has been country.... In general, whenever someone uses the word "GOOD" in front of "country music", what they invariably mean is "I asked my Redneck buddy for some recommendations but I can't stand this twangy-George Strait shit" and are really looking for Americana or at most, country rock. In which case, just stick to Lady Antebellum and Wilco, or Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bruce Springsteen for the classics.