Alt-country and Drag City etc

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

I like these people:

Will Oldham
Smog
Joanna Newsom
Lambchop

Suggest anymore?

What about things that are more like sort of redneck droney? Like 'Pelt'.

[kol]

not sure if its the same genre but you should check out

honkeyfinger (http://www.honkeyfinger.com/) for some One man skronk blues mayhem

his live shows are pure quality!

[love_tempo]

I asked this a while back and since then I've found a few more things. Here's some of the ones I like, not all alt-country and some is folk. But then there's a fine line between country and american folk music.

Nina Nastasia - Blackened Air (my favourite at the moment, thanks for the tip knid)
Joanna Newsom - both LPs (my favourite of last month)
Diane Cluck - Oh Vanille (my favourite of last summer)
Suzanna and the Magic Orchestra - both LPs (my favourite of the previous summer)

Low - I Could Live in Hope
Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Sessions
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of The Great Highway
Vetiver - Vetiver and To Find Me Gone
Smog - A River ...
P.G. Six - The Well of Memory
Fursaxa
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Charalambides
Matt Valentine

[love_tempo]

Oh, and there's Indian Jewelry's "Invasive Exotics" LP. And I suppose before Low and Cowboy Junkies there was Gram Parsons and Neil Young. And I completely forgot Calexico, their debut "Spoke" is a fantastic album and a lot of the later ones are brilliant too.

[thomas hooked]

can't fuck with songs:ohia, magnolia electric co. etc.

cass mccombs is nice. as is jack ladder.
will oldham produced alaister roberts last album and though its very different (gloomy traditional scottish songs) its a real grower.

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Just to bring the highbrow back to pop music trite; Beck's earlier songs & less 'produced' repertois truly kick ass. Perhaps he's an irrelevant figure to mention here though, as I'm not really up on my Alt-C*ntry.

[TimB]

I still listen to the old Beck shizzle failry regularly.

[V Knid esq]

Just to bring the highbrow back to pop music trite; Beck's earlier songs & less 'produced' repertois truly kick ass. Perhaps he's an irrelevant figure to mention here though, as I'm not really up on my Alt-C*ntry.

Yeah I got his K Records debut album in a charity shop recently, it's mad, well bent blues bidnizz. Really like it.

Highly recommend Vetiver - really well produced slowcore country rock with a velvet undergroundy relentlessness.

And I LOVE this album

http://www.dragcity.com/press/pimages/mini/dc210mini.jpg

[christtjj]

silver jews
jim o'rourke
smog's red apple falls
golden smog

other stuff...

[Lady E]

yeah that first beck album is great (One foot in the grave) and Stereopathetic Soul Manure.

the rough trade country compilation (ive got the first one, they may have done more) has some excellent stuff on it - not all melancountry (!) which is what you seem to like - some old stuff like Replacements and Camper Van Beethoven.

if you go to edgworld steev there's a big section. or at least there was 2 years ago which was the last time i could afford to buy any records in there.

[cut out]

another to chance to plug free nina nastasia music.

http://www.daytrotter.com/daytrotterSessions/401/free-songs-nina-nastasia


peel session with hun hur tu (http://southfacing.org/music/ninanastasia_hunhurtu_peelsess ion.mp3)

[AVX23]

Yeah I got his K Records debut album in a charity shop recently, it's mad, well bent blues bidnizz. Really like it.

Highly recommend Vetiver - really well produced slowcore country rock with a velvet undergroundy relentlessness.

And I LOVE this album

http://www.dragcity.com/press/pimages/mini/dc210mini.jpg

great cover that - sweet.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

if you go to edgworld steev there's a big section. or at least there was 2 years ago which was the last time i could afford to buy any records in there.

I don't dare go in... although recently I have got disposable income again for the first time in about 2 years, I'm trying not to start buying 15 CD's a month again!

Cheers for the rec's people.

[thembuzz]

Yeah I got his K Records debut album in a charity shop recently, it's mad, well bent blues bidnizz. Really like it.



i managed to get a cassette copy of it in piccadilly records months before its uk release, back in '95, '96. still ranks among one of my greatest ever finds, that. people can bang on about vinyl all they like, but finding rare or hard-to-find releases on tape - that shit is golden

[love_tempo]

another to chance to plug free nina nastasia music.

http://www.daytrotter.com/daytrotterSessions/401/free-songs-nina-nastasia


peel session with hun hur tu (http://southfacing.org/music/ninanastasia_hunhurtu_peelsess ion.mp3)

Even though I've only been listening to her for a week, I think that peel session with hun hur tu is much better than the albums even. I think all the drones and penny whistles sound better and less clean than the violins on the albums. And it collects together some of the best songs.

As for vetiver they are like ear opium, great stuff. Try the last track on the first album or too many tracks to mention on the last album. 'Double' is my favourite. 'Idle Ties' on the second album is like rod stewart smacked up in the deadwood saloon. 'Maureen' is so good that jagger & richards could have written it 35 years ago. 'Red Lantern Girls' is great too.

There's a free streaming version here:
http://www.vetiverse.com/info/

[cut out]

yeah, it's great... i've been listening to it for the last 2 years so I know every bit of it though, so it was nice to see those new tracks which I think sound awesome... really understated playing.

i'd recommend Neurosis 'The Eye Of Every Storm' for some alt-country-post-metal