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by: shodan66 Active Indicator LED Icon 15 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Nov 19, '14 9:27am  
...they just call it Texas Country, Red Dirt Country, Outlaw Country, or the broader range of Americana.  Jason Isbell killing it with his Song of the Year "Cover Me Up".  Been covering this song for a few months now and it gets me every time.

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~ 9 years ago   Nov 19, '14 9:47am  
I wouldnt just listen to that and think Country Music. Maybe my brain has been tainted with new country music. 4951
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shodan66 Active Indicator LED Icon 15 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Nov 19, '14 11:31am  
Mainstream Nashville country music has made a huge divergence from where country music started out.  Some of that is good...it's the most listened to genre in the US now...some of that is bad...they've adopted a much more pop sound and artists rarely write their own songs anymore.  Of course there have always been singer/songwriters who would do other writer's songs as well.  Just used to be that most of them came to the game with a pocket full of originals.  Now you're consider original if you have a pocket full of your own.Most of us in the Texas country scene call the product coming out of Nashville "Hick Hop", "Bro Country" or "Pop Country".  Like all music, it's an individual taste thing. 4951
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shodan66 Active Indicator LED Icon 15 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Nov 19, '14 11:33am  
Here you go @BooBear...some Texas country that I think you'll think sounds like "country"...

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~ 9 years ago   Nov 19, '14 11:49am  
That does sound more county to me. The first seemed almost more folk type but I dont really know much about music. If I like it I listen to it, if I dont I turn it off.
I would listen to the first more than the second. 4951
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shodan66 Active Indicator LED Icon 15 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Nov 19, '14 11:58am  
The first seemed almost more folk
 
@BooBear: That's exactly it, ma'am.  What used to be considered "country" is now sort of grouped together with folk, Appalachia, bluegrass, etc.  It's a hodge-podge that falls under "Americana".  "Cover Me Up" won the 2014 Americana song of the year, Isbell won artist of year, and his album "Southeastern" won album of the year.
The point of my original post is that there are some really good options in music to be found today.  There are so many ridiculously talented artists playing in this genre because they don't fit in Nashville's cookie-cutter machine and it's past time that they get a national stage to play on. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Nov 19, '14 12:06pm  
it's past time that they get a national stage to play on.
 
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Ill have to set a pandora channel for him and see what else is out there. 4951
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donnatella Active Indicator LED Icon 13 Forum Moderator
~ 9 years ago   Nov 19, '14 12:22pm  
I prefer 90s country, back in Travis Tritt, Wade Hayes, Gary Allan, Rick Trevino and Clay Walker's hayday.  4951
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shodan66 Active Indicator LED Icon 15 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Nov 19, '14 12:32pm  
I prefer 90s country, back in Travis Tritt, Wade Hayes, Gary Allan, Rick Trevino and Clay Walker's hayday. 
 
@donnatella: You should listen to Sturgill Simpson, Blackberry Smoke, Hayes Carll, Aaron Watson, Wade Bowen....the list is very, very long.  You can hear them on 92.9 and 100.3' HD2 stations.  You can also live stream several Texas country stations.  My favorite is  http://www.texasmix1053.com/ 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Nov 19, '14 12:50pm  

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>> I prefer 90s country, back in Travis Tritt, Wade Hayes, Gary Allan, Rick Trevino and Clay Walker's hayday. 
 
@donnatella: You should listen to Sturgill Simpson, Blackberry Smoke, Hayes Carll, Aaron Watson, Wade Bowen....the list is very, very long.  You can hear them on 92.9 and 100.3' HD2 stations.  You can also live stream several Texas country stations.  My favorite is  http://www.texasmix1053.com/
 
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Love me some Aaron Watson. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Nov 19, '14 1:42pm  

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>> I prefer 90s country, back in Travis Tritt, Wade Hayes, Gary Allan, Rick Trevino and Clay Walker's hayday. 
 
@donnatella: You should listen to Sturgill Simpson, Blackberry Smoke, Hayes Carll, Aaron Watson, Wade Bowen....the list is very, very long.  You can hear them on 92.9 and 100.3' HD2 stations.  You can also live stream several Texas country stations.  My favorite is  http://www.texasmix1053.com/
 
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shodan66 Active Indicator LED Icon 15 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Nov 19, '14 2:14pm  
@ProblemAgain, love that Hayes Carll song.  There's a Music Fog vid from 2010 of him doing it with Bonnie Whitmore and I actually like her voice better.  Nothing against Cary Ann Hearst, I dig her voice, too.  I just like the sing-song Whitmore puts in it a little more.Sturgill Simpson sounding an awful lot like some old Waylon:

He was at Fitzgerald's last week.  Could have seen him for the $10 cover but I had a conflict.  Maybe next time. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Nov 19, '14 9:27pm  
shodan: love that Hayes Carll
song.  There's a Music Fog vid from 2010 of him doing it with Bonnie
Whitmore and I actually like her voice better.  Nothing against Cary Ann
Hearst, I dig her voice, too.  I just like the sing-song Whitmore puts
in it a little more.i like that one too.bonnie whitmore has that naughty little giggle in her delivery that brings it on home...

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ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Nov 19, '14 9:29pm  
you might also like dave alvin.....

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shodan66 Active Indicator LED Icon 15 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Nov 19, '14 11:00pm  
I don't think very many non-musicians realize that country and blues are kissin cousins at their roots.  Dave Alvin and a lot of the California country scene like Merle Haggard, Gary Allan, and such have a heavy blues feel to a lot of their music.Paul Thorn runs along those lines but tilts maybe more towards the country in the front with the blues as the foundation.Given the holiday season upon us...this song might be appropriate for many:

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