Country music or what young people know as Alternative Country or Alt country

[Ian McP]

Great guitar sound

Googled them to See who they were

From Melbourne in the 80's

Surprising how many punk type players end up playing country music

The Slaughtermen were fantastic live, saw them many times, look carefully you'll see Mark Ferrie (Sacred Cowboys, the Models, Rockwiz Orchestra) on bass and yes, the guitarist is good because it's the very talented Andrew Pendlebury (previously in the Sports, I saw them regularly at the Kingston Hotel in Richmond)

 

 

Andrew put out a couple of acoustic guitar albums in the late 80's, here's one of them

https://www.discogs.com/Andrew-Pendlebury-Between-The-Horizon-And-The-Dockyard/release/4896294

he plays these days with Mark in the Mercurials

http://www.mercurials.com/

 

regards Ian

[Ian McP]

here's a fun clip of Mark Ferrie in his band Actual Reality

 

 

regards Ian

[keyse1]

Not even I like this

But dig the outfits

The Maddox Brothers

[keyse1]

Here's a few country music Americana or Alt Country records that I couldn't live without

Like this one

Sublime singing great lyrics beautifully played acoustic instruments and some duet singing with Willie and Waylon and Townes and although her other records are good this is something else

[keyse1]

Alejandro Escovedo I think he is the best rock n roller since the New York Dolls Ramones Clash etc in the 70's

But voted artist of the decade in the 90's by Alt Country magazine No Depression

So who am I to argue over genres

A live album of broken hearted singing that spreads the blood across the tracks with I think just a bit of violin cello his acoustic and a notable electric on the Stones cover of Sway

2 of his songs are linked together with a verse from Lou Reeds Street Hassle

Anyone done over by luv will recognise this record

[mickj1]

Currently playing this:

 

 

Rocked-up bluegrass from 1968.

 

cheers

 

mick

[audiofeline]

Gillian Walsh, Lucinda Williams, and take this gem from the Handsome Family...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGse5_FSaeg

[keyse1]

I didn't know it till Friday night when Jejj Tweedy sang it but this is one of my favourite Uncle Tupelo songs

A cover of Doug Sahms Give Back The Key To My Heart

With Doug his wonderful self sharing the vocal

[keyse1]

one of the best articles about Lucinda Williams that i have read

 The Wise Blood of Lucinda Williams

If you like great movies that are on the art side of the genre check out Wise Blood directed by John Huston 

I saw it in London about 1980

Remains one of the best movies i have seen

[keyse1]

Currently playing this:

 

 

Rocked-up bluegrass from 1968.

 

cheers

 

mick

I'll add a Clark to that

Believe it or not they cover Don't Let me Down by the Beatles

One of my favourite songs

Never occurred to me that it could sound so good country rock style

[keyse1]

Early Ry Cooder

Great sounding records

Gatefold sleeve with cool photo

Into The Purple Valley

Edited April 9, 2016 by keyse1

[keyse1]

Listening to Merle Haggard

As important as Johnny Cash in the country music world

But not among young people other than the players themselves

Like Johnny Cash there is a lot that you really do not want to hear but the best of it is as good as it gets for country music alt country or Americana

If you like Emmylou Lucinda Williams Gillian Welch or even the good Ryan Adams you are half way to liking this

Haggard's voice is as sad as Hank Williams and was a major influence on Gram Parsons who in turn is one of the biggest influences on alt country or Americana and was hanging around with The Stones when they made their 4 classic records

Well worth checking out

Start with this greatest hits

[keyse1]

One the saddest songsI have ever heard

A genuine "outlaw" that spent several years in San Quentin for break and enter after a series of arrests and escapes from various detention centers as a juvenile offender

Haggard was ashamed of his past at first and kept it a secret after he got out

Sang a lot of prison songs some written by others and some by him but all rang true with his personal experience to back up the words

[keyse1]

Trying to listen to all my new CDs

And then this shows up

Failed Pentecostal Parker Millsapp has a serious problem with Jesus and religion

Hard to believe he is only 22

America really is a bottomless pit when it comes to great country music or alt country or Americana or folk or blues or folk blues or folk country but whatever this is I don't need a second listen to know how good it is

If only they had politicians of this caliber

Check out the second picturpretty well sums it up

[Ian McP]

urban alt country, inner city angst? Great lyrics!

 

Pete Best Beatles: Alamein Train (1980)

 

< Pete Best Beatles - Alamein Train. eccentric Melbourne pub rock comedy act from early 80's. Gary Adams (Clip Clop Club), Johnny Topper (3RRR), Frank Savage, Rod Hayward & Jim Williams. Produced by Ted Robinson for Open Channel, shown on TV show Spin Off (Andrea Phillips Producer) on Ch 31. >

 

[keyse1]

Very sad about Guy Clark

Great songwriter and raconteur that never made a record that was less than really good but never gained any real commercial success but was known to every singer songwriter in the country music alt country and Americana scenes

Wrote one of my favourite lines in music

From memory

And I have seen the David

And the MONA Lisa too

And I have heard Doc Watson play The Columbia Stockade Blues

Sort linking the high art of Western culture and the low art of country music

This is the first record of his I bought way back in the early 70's with Emmylou sharing vocals and a song about The Last Gunfighter

Texas Cooking

Edited July 10, 2016 by keyse1

[Citroen]

Early Ry Cooder

Great sounding records

Gatefold sleeve with cool photo

Into The Purple Valley

 

I really should get myself a vinyl copy, as I just love the art work.

 

[keyse1]

I love those first 3 records but stopped listening after that

In the last decade friends have given me his more recent records and have started listening again

One of them is a live album that is just great

Also went to see him play in Brisbane a few years ago

Supported by Nick Lowe another wonderful player from the 70's and across the decades

You can imagine how good that was

But you're right it is a great cover but make sure it is the American one that opens up

From memory the Australian one didn't open up

[Citroen]

Paris, Texas is a must.

I really like Chavez Ravine. 

More recent Talking Timbuktu is great.

 

But his style varies so much, and a lot hardly alt country.

[Ian McP]

left of centre, urban alt country again, a tune about hair envy

 

[Ian McP]

I love those first 3 records but stopped listening after that

In the last decade friends have given me his more recent records and have started listening again

One of them is a live album that is just great

Also went to see him play in Brisbane a few years ago

Supported by Nick Lowe another wonderful player from the 70's and across the decades

You can imagine how good that was

But you're right it is a great cover but make sure it is the American one that opens up

From memory the Australian one didn't open up

https://www.discogs.com/Ry-Cooder-Show-Time-Chicken-Skin-Revue/release/1036153

[Ian McP]

[Ian McP]

http://www.amazon.com/Border-Alamo-Bay-Ry-Cooder/dp/B000FUF8CU

 

< Raven presents two of RY COODER'S most acclaimed film soundtracks - The Border and Alamo Bay - on CD for the first time. After working and recording in the 1960s with Taj Mahal, Captain Beefheart's Magic Band and the Rolling Stones, guitarist Ry Cooder went on to craft a series of "patchwork of Americana" albums including such seminal and stirring screen soundtracks as The Long Riders, Paris Texas and Crossroads. Displaying a voracious eclecticism that eventually took him light-years from his traditionalist roots, and the kind of slide-guitar playing that could make a lizard crawl down a wall, Cooder turned out a series of dazzling 1980s film soundtracks - including The Border (1982) and Alamo Bay (1985). These powerful works blend everything from Tex-Mex to Turkish instrumentation. They are breathtakingly beautiful sound-scapes of beguiling, ethereal music. Includes performances by John Hiatt, members of Los Lobos, Freddy Fender, David Lindley, Van Dyke Parks, Flaco Jimenez, Sam the Sham and Jim Dickinson. Richly diverse, adventurous and textured music from a stunning musician and Grammy winning soundtrack master. A beguiling blend of Tex-Mex, boppin' blues, earthy rock and country with moody, evocative guitar work. Detailed historical liner notes and superb quality audio. >

[DdDesign]

I bought this album the other day and I'm really enjoying it! 

 

 

[DdDesign]

And this is great too…. Came out in 2015