Hey Sup Forums, I know almost nothing about country music. Is there any country worth listening to? The only "good" country I've heard so far was Tones Van Zandt, and I only know of him because Conor Oberst cited him as an influence.
tl;dr: Good country thread.
>inb4 some faggot posts that Jason Aldean meme
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John Prine s/t is fantastic, you should definitely check it out if you like Van Zandt.
Depends on what you mean by 'country.'
I've been digging the Sumner Brothers lately.
Conveniently, here's a TVZ cover.
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Bonnie Prince Billy and Songs: Ohia are Sup Forums favorites.
Blaze Foley
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kris kistofferson has some great stuff
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prine is indeed excellent
also for some more recent artists you might like
chris knight
bleu edmondson
turnpike troubadours
hank III
corb lund
hayes carll
and it's more southern rock than country but check out blackberry smoke
Neil Young
johnny cash
pic and gram parsons
From one of my Country AOTY's.
Another 2016 AOTY contender.
Townes Van Zandt was such a great artist. Too bad the production on his studio albums always takes away the edge from his music? That's my experience.
His live recordings are phenomenal. Heartbreaking stuff. There's this violin bit in some live rendition of Waiting Around To Die that's just pitch perfect scream of pain.
Another AOTY contender.
I don't know if this is exactly country, but among TVZ I really like the White Buffalo too (though that's going to *Americana* territory IIRC).
He did amazing cover of The Highway Man
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Most country related artists seem to be better in live.
I like sturgill simpson
Lots of nostalgic dads singing songs to their sons this year.
not from this year, but here's a nostalgic son
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Someone mentioned this is a recent Country thread and it blew me away. Great sound on this one.
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Holy shit!
Adding that to my backlog tonight.
Thanks for the rec.
Sturgill Simpson is a personal favorite. Metamodern Sounds is great.
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Time to hit you up with feels OP
Another 2016 Country AOTY contender.
nigga this is ASS
I hate it when people ask "is there country worth listening to?"
Mostly because pre-1965, about a third of all popular music was country and country related genres, and these days almost everything takes influence from country music a la country rock, "folk" or rock n roll.
But if you want a couple of good country bands, Wayne Hancock and the Devil Makes Three.
Then figure it out from there. Country is one of the easiest genres to into.
The last song on this album destroyed me.
Listen to the whole album if you want but honestly you only need this song and maybe the title track. I'm probably being too harsh but I really wish the whole album was like the last 2 songs.
>nigga this is exquisite
ftfy
This is what a normie Milk Eyed Mender would sound like
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glad someone enjoys that as much as i do
Joanna Newsom without the annoying voice?
That's exactly what I was thinking.
>implying that's a bad thing
oh but it is you
you literally heard ONE song ONCE and you're arriving at all these conclusions
take a chance on something new bud
these threads are wayyy too comfy
ya'll need to explore more
Uncle Tupelo - new madrid
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kennychesney is GOOD SONGS HAVE MEANING NO FAKE COUNTRY BOY BULL SHIT
Red of Tooth and Claw is good storytelling-like album. Anything else like it? I like how dark it is too.
>I'll watch you crumble into sand
>If the right shows mercy
>I'll use the left hand
it's fantastic.
i heard it today during lunch after seeing it posted on here and all i wanted to do what give it another listen, start to finish, but i got busy. good good shit.
i know what u mean brother
did you hear his wtf interview with marc maron. even sturgill simpson is on board with his whole shtick. honestly, it's moderately annoying but someone had to do what he's doing.
it took a couple listens but honestly, i'm enjoying the new josh kelley. thoroughly enjoyable shit if you ask me.
meh, I think scuzz twittly does it better
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