Jahfin Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 http://youtu.be/XQGjkBuMGAU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazedcat Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Long before anyone thought of the term alt.country...........the original Stardust Cowboys here........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 I love the New Riders. It was bands like them, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Goose Creek Symphony, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, John Prine, Jimmy Buffett, Steve Goodman and Jerry Jeff Walker back in the 70s that paved the way for my "cowpunk" fandom in the 80s and appreciation of alt.country after that. I'd also have to throw Waylon, Willie and David Allan Coe into the mix along with Leon Russell's Hank Wilson's Back, Volume 1 album. I think it's also fair to say that the some of the country rock leanings from bands like Skynyrd, the Outlaws, the Charlie Daniels Band, the Allmans and the Marshall Tucker Band also played a part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazedcat Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 The first couple albums by the New Riders were really terrific. Poco was the commercially accepted country/rock band at the time but hey, it was the Riders who made listening to twang cool for me and people I knew back then. Commander Cody/Airmen was another great band as you mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 The first couple albums by the New Riders were really terrific. Poco was the commercially accepted country/rock band at the time but hey, it was the Riders who made listening to twang cool for me and people I knew back then. Commander Cody/Airmen was another great band as you mentioned. Yeah, those early NRPS records are great. I've heard some of the latter day ones and they're also good, just not as good as the early stuff (which seems to be the case with most any band or artist). Poco is also definitely worth a mention, as is Pure Prairie League. Both of those went downhill as the years progressed though with Poco becoming a poor man's Eagles (if indeed there is such a thing) and Pure Prairie League radically altering their sound to try to fit in on country radio in the late 80s. I have no problem recognizing Vince Gill as a great picker but those years he spent with Pure Prairie League are among their worst. Unless folks are a fan of Diamond Rio, Restless Heart and Sawyer Brown, the same cookie-cutter country bands they seemed to be trying to emulate. Back to the New Riders, I saw them a few years ago and they're definitely worth seeing if they breeze through your town. Sad thing is, most of them have passed on. However, the original members that are still part of the group (David Nelson and Buddy Cage) do a very admirable job of capturing the spirit of the band but seem to have more jam band tendencies then the original incarnation of the band which was much more country oriented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jahfin Posted January 26, 2012 Author Share Posted January 26, 2012 Regarding the discussion Strider and I were having in the Wilco thread about alt.country and how their newer albums have little to nothing to do with that style of music anymore, I thought it fitting to include this clip here. I can't recall the number of times I've been taken to task for my love of alt.country on this board by my detractors, none of whom have ever actually bothered to listen to the music they supposedly hate so much. I give you a Drive-By Truckers song, one that has very little in common with either "alt" or "country". It has much more in common with Crazy Horse than anything else. Take that you deaf, non listening motherfuckers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 2, 2012 Author Share Posted February 2, 2012 Tim Easton is a singer songwriter who's usually referred to as "alt.country" but this cut is a prime example of just how difficult it can be to label artists and how misleading those labels can sometimes be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jahfin Posted February 12, 2012 Author Share Posted February 12, 2012 Lydia Loveless from the Sleepover Shows website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jahfin Posted February 18, 2012 Author Share Posted February 18, 2012 http://youtu.be/4p3xi8WHVgs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 20, 2012 Author Share Posted February 20, 2012 Even though the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival that's held annually out in San Francisco has been mentioned here pretty frequently (mainly due to Robert Plant performing there), I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned the passing of the man that put it on (for free, no less), millionaire Warren Hellman. In his honor, lots of veterans of Hardly Strictly got together yesterday out in San Francisco to remember him. The concert was free and streamed live over the internet. More on Hardly Strictly (which will continue this Fall as usual) here. 02/19/2012 - San Francisco, CA 1. The Weight (All-Star Band) 2. Speeches by Warren Hellman's family 3. I'll Fly Away (The Go To Hell Man Clan) 4. Big Rock Candy Mountain (The Go To Hell Man Clan) The All-Star Band included Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Buddy Miller, David Rawlings, Steve Earle, and Old Crow Medicine Show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 21, 2012 Author Share Posted February 21, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jahfin Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 This is an entry from a Tres Chicas fan that he submitted to NPR as part of their Why Music Matters series. Even if you're not a fan of alt.country or Tres Chicas, it's still well worth taking the time to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazedcat Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Digging through my one remaining box of old viny, I came across Poco's live album "Deliverin'"...............I forgot I ever bought it lol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv6KuDi0hy0&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLBEB8B04C831BEE4C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 I think I have Deliverin' on CD somewhere. I picked it up out of a budget bin several years back. Recently, a friend of mine was complaining about Poco being played on the Outlaw Country channel on Sirius/XM. Goes to show how opinions can differ so greatly as to what is country and what isn't. Then again, if it was one of their latter day songs (especially from the Legend era) then I could see why one would complain. Some of their material from that era has more in common with latter day Eagles than it does with the early days of Poco, when they were definitely a country (or at least a "country rock") band. The Gourds at Threadgill's in Austin doing the rarely played "Flamenco Cabaret" from their Bolsa De Agua album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted March 12, 2012 Author Share Posted March 12, 2012 Trailer for Before You Leave, a new documentary about Mary Gauthier's search for her birth parents. http://youtu.be/xHbXVI1VJS0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janvier Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Best alt.country song, in my opinion.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah J Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Not sure if they are alt.country but I always loved their music Pure Prairie League - Early Morning Riser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted March 13, 2012 Author Share Posted March 13, 2012 I would definitely consider Pure Prairie League to be "alt.country", it was just before someone came up with that name. I guess in those days they were referred to as "country-rock", definitely a predecessor to alt.country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jahfin Posted March 16, 2012 Author Share Posted March 16, 2012 In honor of Jerry Jeff Walker who turns 70 today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted March 17, 2012 Author Share Posted March 17, 2012 Reflections on Uncle Tupelo's March 16-20, 1992 which was recorded twenty years ago today. How one album can change your life: Remembering March 16-20, 1992 by Uncle Tupelo [Recollection] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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