You might recognise the song that Nick and PJ Harvey covered

Sensitive types always like country music

Snags

3 of America's great songwriters

Live

Taking it in turns to sing

Not sure whether anyone's mentioned Iris DeMent - definitely worth a listen.

I believe she is about to tour Oz.

I wish she would bring John Prine with her

He made a really good DVD a few years ago and she sang on about half of it

Just bought tickets for Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell at Broadbeach

More Louvin Brothers

Possibly my favourite record cover or at least one of them

Gospel songs

perfect for Sunday's and Monday to Saturday as well

I much prefer The Louvins to Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hutchins

If they listened to them they would realise how irrelevant they are

^ Excellent. Just got it myself.

Don't be a bad boy

You just bought the record?

I'm a good old boy

But up to date politics

You just bought the record?

I'm a good old boy

But up to date politics

No I just bought the CD.

Tragic Songs of Life is also on the way.

This is Emmylou singing a Louvin Brothers song

In the middle of the picture is Linda Ronstadt and on the right Clarence White an extraordinary country player and member of the Byrds

Died young on a motorbike from memory

This is St Nick singing a Louvin Brothers song

Sorry about lousy photo

No I just bought the CD.

Tragic Songs of Life is also on the way.

Just bought a box set of 6 cd with their collected works as brothers

Very addictive super singing and great music

Been reading about them on the net

Ita is classic country music

God fearing songs and a short life fighting his demons

One of his wives put a few rounds in his chest

We should have a gtg

A country music gtg

Listen to the songs instead of the stereo

This is a supergroup of alt country players before there was any such thing

Alejandro Escovedo Michael Hall and Walter Salas Humara who I am not familiar with from a band called The Silos in the 80's and 90's

Alejandro Escovedo is on the rock n roll side of country and has played in punk bands and cow punk bands Rank and File mentioned previously by someone here

Michael Hall was also a punk player in the Austin music scene

By punk we are talking American as opposed to British type

Michael Hall cds are available as are Alejandro Escovedo who still records and plays today in concerts that get rave reviews

He was also the artist of the decade according to No Depression a country music alt mag

Michael Hall writes for a Texas Magazine that covers arts and politics

Well worth checking out with great singing and writing and a rocking cover of The Stooges I Wanna Be Your Dog

Not sure whether anyone's mentioned Over the Rhine. Fantastic music and very well recorded.

Ahh the wonderous Loretta Lynn

Jack White loves her enough to produce a record of hers

Country music before it became a dirty word

Unfortunately most of the record spinners here would hate this

But if you were born in the 50's or 60's and wonder about what sort of life their housewife mum lived it is perfectly summed up here in a few verses of concise writing and nuanced singing that finishes with a sort of joke on herself

Worth looking up

The saddest singer of all time

I once read a book about him and his short 29 year life read like one of his songs

In physical pain from back problems he wore a corset from memory to help keep his back straight when performing

I think that introduced him to prescription drugs

And alcohol and women fuelled his personal life and poured out in sad song after sad song and remains the prototype for sad singers today

Even Jason Molina sounds cheerful alongside this stuff

Good looking guy

Broken hearted singing

Women trouble

Long way to fall

Not sure at what age this was taken

Just a bunch of clean cut kids playing in a country band

Clean shaven crew cuts the neat and tidy look that sold a million records and shed tears all over America

But off stage it was pants down and empty bottles and stolen sex with whoever happened by

And then home to the house the wife and John Howard's picket fence that served as a refuge from a

back stage a soap opera of cheating and drinking that became an endless source of real life material that ruined many a life not just Hank's

Hoyt Axton is one of my favourites but sadly never got much recognition in Australia during his lifetime.

He wrote a lot of songs which were recorded by others and occasionly covered other peoples songs

Edited April 2, 201510 yr by holdencaulfield2007

Great song about Townes Van Zandt by one of his biggest admirers

From possibly Steve Earle's best record

All my tears indeed

Happy birthday Emmylou

For yesterday

One of the wonders of the country music world

Can't wait to see you and Rodney Crowell in June

I will know I'm in heaven when I hear Gram Parsons George Jones Patsy Cline and Ralph singing in that Angel Band

Are all Alt Country albums made sideways?

Edited April 3, 201510 yr by rantan

Only when I take the picture

My iPad takes lousy pictures and then takes clear ones

Also it is a 27 inch screen which seems to make it worse

Also depends on how or what I am using to show the graphics

Add me and you have odd less than good pictures

I believe she is about to tour Oz.

24th of May in Brisbane at the old Museum