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[Borondir]

On the new album they are rock and fucking roll.

Yeah, but there's still some countryish songs.  And there were more country songs on earlier albums. I would have never called them folk though.

It's a damn good album, too.  I think I like Black Sheep Boy better, though.

  I still can't decide if I like Stage Names better because its fresher in my mind or if its actually better. Regardless, both are fantastic!

[Patrick]

I always kindof liked Patsy Cline's backing band.

[carrotosaurus]

Albert Lee's just a country boy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOFpQd7aJ9U

[screamingfool]

how about on the traditional side of things;

John Prine
Willie Nelson
Bobbie Gentry
Doc Watson
George Jones
Robert Force


and contemporary;

The Be Good Tanyas
Trailer Bride
Carla Bozulich (her cover of 'red-headed stranger' especially)
The Dolly Ranchers
Merrie Sloan
Rae Spoon

i know some of those are a bit more folk or bluegrass, but they definitely hit my country g-spot.

[Johnny C]

I can't believe I forgot to mention The Sadies. Excellent, excellent band.

[NarwhalSunshine]

Needs moar George Jones

[Patrick]

I would yell at you for the fact that he was mentioned two posts ago, but then I realized, "No, he did it on purpose." Why the change of heart? Because George Jones himself does not have enough George Jones to satisfy the world's need for more George Jones.

[Joybee]

I've only heard one of their songs so I haven't really given this band a good listen yet, but my friend said that Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is country-esque?

Someone please correct me if im wrong, I'm basically going by what I've heard.

[leperphiliac]

John Prine is good, but extremely depressing. "There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes, Jesus Christ died for nothing I suppose. . ."

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's album Howl is worth looking into.

[Patrick]

Depressing as that rhyme is, damned if that isn't one of the greatest I've heard in any genre ever.

That's the thing about country lyrics. Either they are intentionally written to be as hokey as possible (it's kindof like shred guitarists, always trying to see how far you can go) or they are the best poetry you'll ever find.

[screamingfool]

yeah but then john comes out with songs like 'that flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore' or 'jesus the missing years' which is the cutest song evar. "on his 13th birthday he saw a rebel without a cause, he went straight on home and invented santa claus, he gave him a gift, he responded in kind,gave the gift of love and went out of his mind"


btw i am still amazed that a man wrote 'angel from mongomery' but if anyone was going to do it it was prine.

[nothingrevolutionary]

Palace Music
Will Oldham
Palace Songs
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Palace Brothers
Bonny Billy

yes.

I am bad at figuring out what is and isn't country music. Is Smog country music? If it is, then Smog is definitely good country music.

yes.  not so much in his early work, but a river ain't to much to love is an exceptional country album.
see also:
jolie holland
josh ritter
vetiver but only kind of sort of.
devendra banhart too but also only kind of sort of.

(is this too old?  it's only been a few days.  i always get so nervous about this kind of stuff.)

[Thrillho]

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's album Howl is worth looking into.

I could spit hyperbole about this album forever, but let me sum up by saying I picked this as my album of the year in 2005, and here is the feature in which I declared it as such:
http://www.rockmidgets.com/features.php?p=1&page=4&id=533&page=4

[devinjames]

it should also be noted that there is considerable difference in country music between nashville and texas. during the recent drive from the hometown of new orleans to the home of the last five years of houston i noted this completely when listening to "whatever local country radio station i could find" and you could drastically hear the sound change somewhere between lafayette and lake charles from nashville centric country radio to what my mother calls "that goddamned texas twang".

along those lines a separate list should be made for texas country. as i generally like texas country more.

entitled "that goddamned texas twang" or "how come you're always going on about your lone star state". a list.

lyle lovett ("that's right (you're not from texas)" as previously referenced)
robert earle keen
adam carroll
willie nelson
waylon jennings

and most importantly:
charlie robison

then again, there's nothing like a good country musician in a noname bar in small town texas over a couple lone star beers and some gold tequila. recordings don't do justice. oh here i come el campo.

i mean: "i don't wear no stetson/but i'm willin' to bet son/that i'm as big a texan as you are/there's a girl in her bare feet/asleep on the back seat/and the trunk's full of pearl beer and lone star"

[Scandanavian War Machine]

Scott H. Biram is from Texas.

i think i uploaded one of his albums to the mediafire thread a while back. it should still be active.

[doombilly]

Merl!
Agreed. And folks I used to be a banjo picker. I know, shexy.