Country music

[Dos XX]

 

[displacedtexan]

Feels like the place for this one.

This song just pulls hard on my heart. My grandparents mostly raised me. Mom and dad were too busy or whatever. I was probably a little a$$hole too. Kids are like that, ya know.

Anyway, this one popped up while I was driving one day a few years back and I had to pull over for a minute it hit me so hard.

Anyway probably too much for this thread but enjoy the song.

The Highwaymen are legends

I love The Highwaymen, Guy Clark should be way more well known than he is. He wrote that one about his grandmother's boyfriend.

 

[displacedtexan]

It’s funny how some of these newer guys with great older sound come out the gate like a bat out of hell to just run out of steam and get ghey. Childers , Bryan, bingham all on my skip list for being clowns .
If you haven't already check out Colin stough

Zach Bryan?

He came out of the gate as a clown.

 

[IronNoggin]

 

[Valsport]

 

[AK Troutbum]

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This is the kind of music I was raised on. Both my grandfather, and my father played it as kids. My father played the guitar, and my grandfather played pretty much everything, from the guitar to the fiddle to the banjo, and anything else he could get his hands on. He was especially accomplished on the fiddle, and although he didn’t think he was very good with the banjo, in my mind, he was the king. Among other things, my father built guitars as a hobby, and he fancied his builds to be as good, if not better than Martin’s. Here’s a picture of my grandfather and father in the early 1940’s and a few pictures of one of my father‘s custom built guitars, that my daughter currently plays.

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[aMurderOfCrows]

The fake accents that all sound the same and the ultra large extra cheese ball lyrics are a major detractor.

 

[Sandhills]

Didn't go thru all 39 pages but Corb Lund is a good musician and puts on a hell of a live show.

Dave Stamey, he's more cowboy/sons of if the pioneers type of a singer but I put the kids to bed every night with his songs.

Ray Charles and Louis Armstrong had a couple really good country albums

 

[Dos XX]

Saw Fred live last night.

 

[IronNoggin]

 

[Cherokeeguide]

I'm listening to Brad Paisley's "Fifth Gear" right now.

When that runs its course, it'll be "Dirt Does Dylan" from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

Allison Krauss and Union Station after that, then Rhonda Vincent and the Rage.

When I was a kid, my parents bought me the NGDB's "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" LP. That and John Denver's "Poems, Prayers, and Promises" LP changed my former six year old self's life. Those two LP's were the catalyst for a desire to make music myself.

For older people who play, a lot of them cite seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show as being their "I wanna be a musician" trigger. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band are, to me, what the Beatles are to them.

 

[Joshk358]

I’m not really into the mainstream, new age, country. Who are you listening to? Some of my favorites:

Sturgill Simpson
Whiskey Myers
Brent Cobb
Jamey Johnson
Cody Jinks
Childers, Stapleton, Wall

Then of course the old school guys who are always in style.

Who am I missing that I need to add into the mix?

That's right up my alley.