Confessor
CCF Mod Squad
Not Bucky O'Hare!
Posts: 9,560
|
Post by Confessor on Apr 3, 2020 1:39:58 GMT -5
Oh, absolutely! You're correct that our tastes overlap a whole lot, but there's stuff like semi-modern R&B, UK garage, and cheesy pop that she likes, which I don't, and likewise, there's a fair bit of noisy indie rock that I enjoy that she doesn't. My wife also doesn't like Bob Dylan. 😧 She thinks he's a great songwriter, but she can't stand his singing voice. We do Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" live on occasion, but we do versions based on the Byrds' covers of those songs. When it comes to picking the songs we perform at our gigs, we have a golden rule which is that we will never perform or play any song that we don't both like. Luckily, that means that between us we still have a huge variety of rock, pop and soul to choose from. I must have the wrong idea of what UK garage music means or an inaccurate picture of your musical tastes, because I would have guessed that was something you might be into yourself. Well, it's not at all the same thing as garage rock or garage punk, which I love. UK garage is a form of dance music closely related to jungle, garage house, and R&B, which was popular in the 1990s and 2000s. Some of the bigger UK garage names include Dizzee Rascal, Craig David, Artful Dodger, and M-Dubs. Here's the Wikipedia article if you want to know more... www.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_garage
|
|
|
Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 3, 2020 10:09:46 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019
#60 - The Country Side of Harmonica Sam - If That's the Way It's Gotta Be
I've talked a lot about The Country Side of Harmonica Sam. The fact that one of the best traditional country bands today is from Sweden is incredible. But there's also the fact that someone involved with the band is a damn music archaeologist. This song (which is buried in the middle of their newest album) was previously released by Ralph Young on the RMR (Rocky Mountain Recording) label. RMR is a tiny studio in Cheyenne Wyoming. And Young, as best I can discover only released one or two singles. Whoever found this song did some damn fine spelunking.
So sit back and enjoy. Cause this is good stuff.
|
|
|
Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 7, 2020 10:24:58 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019
#58 - Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
It's almost impossible to overstate the influence that Uncle Tupelo had on what is now called Alt-Country. You don't have to like that nomenclature and you can recognize that there were antecedents (Gram Parsons, Townes Van Zandt, etc.) but Uncle Tupelo was an outsized influence on what was to come on the fringes of country and roots music.
This cover of the Carter Family standard is quintessential Alt-Country. And it's still damn good listening.
|
|
|
Post by berkley on Apr 7, 2020 11:31:53 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019 #58 - Uncle Tupelo - No DepressionIt's almost impossible to overstate the influence that Uncle Tupelo had on what is now called Alt-Country. You don't have to like that nomenclature and you can recognize that there were antecedents (Gram Parsons, Townes Van Zandt, etc.) but Uncle Tupelo was an outsized influence on what was to come on the fringes of country and roots music. This cover of the Carter Family standard is quintessential Alt-Country. And it's still damn good listening.
Sounds to me like a heavy Shane McGowan influence on those vocals, allowing for the American intonations.
(edit:) Come to thnk of it, it seems natural and obvious that the Pogues might have been an inspiration for some alt-country acts - have any of them ever mentioned the band in those terms?
|
|
|
Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 7, 2020 11:40:26 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019 #58 - Uncle Tupelo - No DepressionIt's almost impossible to overstate the influence that Uncle Tupelo had on what is now called Alt-Country. You don't have to like that nomenclature and you can recognize that there were antecedents (Gram Parsons, Townes Van Zandt, etc.) but Uncle Tupelo was an outsized influence on what was to come on the fringes of country and roots music. This cover of the Carter Family standard is quintessential Alt-Country. And it's still damn good listening.
Sounds to me like a heavy Shane McGowan influence on those vocals, allowing for the American intonations. It's certainly possible. The lead vocals on that one are by Jay Farrar who went on to Son Volt after Uncle Tupelo split up. Johnny Cash and Neil Young are big influences on Farrar, though The Pogues and McGowan are certainly a possibility.
|
|
|
Post by berkley on Apr 7, 2020 11:52:25 GMT -5
Sounds to me like a heavy Shane McGowan influence on those vocals, allowing for the American intonations. It's certainly possible. The lead vocals on that one are by Jay Farrar who went on to Son Volt after Uncle Tupelo split up. Johnny Cash and Neil Young are big influences on Farrar, though The Pogues and McGowan are certainly a possibility. Yeah, I just added a line to my earlier post to say that it never really occurred to me before but it seems like they could have been a model for some alt-country bands to follow since at least some alt-country is sort of taking the same apporach to country music as the Pogues took to traditional Irish/Celtic music.
|
|
|
Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 7, 2020 12:42:42 GMT -5
It's certainly possible. The lead vocals on that one are by Jay Farrar who went on to Son Volt after Uncle Tupelo split up. Johnny Cash and Neil Young are big influences on Farrar, though The Pogues and McGowan are certainly a possibility. Yeah, I just added a line to my earlier post to say that it never really occurred to me before but it seems like they could have been a model for some alt-country bands to follow since at least some alt-country is sort of taking the same apporach to country music as the Pogues took to traditional Irish/Celtic music. I know Steve Earle is a fan, but I doubt there's a huge influence since they're pretty contemporaneous. I think The Waco Brothers have cited them as an influence. I'm not sure about anyone else.
|
|
Confessor
CCF Mod Squad
Not Bucky O'Hare!
Posts: 9,560
|
Post by Confessor on Apr 7, 2020 17:10:02 GMT -5
I listened to Steve Earle's Guitar Town album today and got all wistful and melancholy for Tennessee. Although Copperhead Road tends to be my go to album of his, Guitar Town is really great and it's been far too long since I last gave it a spin.
|
|
|
Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 7, 2020 17:28:43 GMT -5
I listened to Steve Earle's Guitar Town album today and got all wistful and melancholy for Tennessee. Although Copperhead Road tends to be my go to album of his, Guitar Town is really great and it's been far too long since I last gave it a spin. They are both great albums. The first half of Copperhead Road is so damn good though that side two feels like a let-down. Guitar Town is a crazy strong debut album. It's amazing that it came out a week before Dwight Yoakam's Guitars, Cadillacs, etc., etc., another super strong debut album.
|
|
|
Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 8, 2020 9:59:13 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019
#57 - Robbie Fulks - Let's Kill Saturday Night
This is almost certainly the lowest this has ever appeared on this list. Fulks is a noted iconoclast and this was probably his biggest song. It may not be his best, but it just kills me with nostalgia for a time when you'd drive up and down the street on Saturday night talking to friends and trying to make new ones.
And this is a pretty sweet live bluegrass tinged version.
|
|
|
Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 10, 2020 11:05:59 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019
#56 - The Country Side of Harmonica Sam - Lookout Heart
Our favorite Swedish honky-tonkers are here again with a cover of Coy Jackson's 1966 release "Lookout Heart." Again this is a serious case of musical archaeology to come up with this cut and make it rock fifty years later.
|
|
|
Post by impulse on Apr 10, 2020 14:37:56 GMT -5
Before I waste a lot of people's time with stuff they don't care about, are there any other heavy music or metal fans around here?
|
|
|
Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 10, 2020 15:05:26 GMT -5
Before I waste a lot of people's time with stuff they don't care about, are there any other heavy music or metal fans around here? I waste time in this thread all the time. So don't let that stop you.
|
|
|
Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 11, 2020 4:03:49 GMT -5
Since ukeleles came up in another thread, it reminded me of this, which I find myself coming back to quite a bit, because a) it's funny, and b) pretty amazing, too:
|
|
|
Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 13, 2020 10:29:12 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019
#55 - Joe Ely - Not Fade Away
I love Joe Ely. I love Buddy Holly. This is a match made in Heaven for me. Ely is, at heart, a roots rocker. And growing up in Lubbock his connections to Holly are clear. And Joe doing anything by Holly just rocks.
|
|