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The new Sarah Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O'Donovan songs are so good. We are truly in a modern bluegrass revival and it is led by Nickel creek people, imo.
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You're drat right. They're setting a pretty high bar. I'm With Her is some of the best acoustic music I've seen in a couple years. No qualifiers. I really regret not paying more attention to Jarosz, she's just a hell of a picker. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Aug 30, 2015 |
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Aug 30, 2015 03:29
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Also Punch Brothers is next so that's cool. I actually just started listening to them after someone mentioned them to me. These guys are pretty good and I wish I had more stuff like it to listen to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=braQeLkJUvE
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You know that Chris Thile, who is the mandolin player in the Punch Brothers, is p famous for other things so you might find some traction there. His solo album How To Grow a Woman From the Ground is great. Also, apologies if you already knew this, but he is also in Nickel Creek and they own so much.
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Aug 31, 2015 02:54
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Where do you start with Nickel Creek? Cause I first heard of them in high school from my friends who were into Dave Matthews type poo poo and never checked them out cause I didn't trust their opinions and wasn't into this kind of music then anyway.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Where do you start with Nickel Creek? Cause I first heard of them in high school from my friends who were into Dave Matthews type poo poo and never checked them out cause I didn't trust their opinions and wasn't into this kind of music then anyway. I'd say start with any but their most recent record, then listen to their most recent as it is a bit more eclectic.
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Aug 31, 2015 05:48
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El Jebus posted:I'd say start with any but their most recent record, then listen to their most recent as it is a bit more eclectic. So listen to their new one, and then move on to listening to it again?
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Aug 31, 2015 15:13
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Sorry if its been posted by Watkins Family Hour is pretty drat good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-2fPmcTgu8
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Start with Nickel Creek at the beginning, and listen to Chris Thile's solo stuff alongside, also chronologically. Punch Brothers are drat good and Thile is a virtuoso, but I can't get excited about most of his songwriting. I recognize the amazing talent, but it's just not my stuff. I've seen him a bunch over the last 12 years, and my favorite show of his by far was with Edgar Meyer and they played all baroque and classical stuff. He's awful pretentious and clever with his own later material, and I think the last two Nickel Creek albums suffered for it. He prances all over the stage and makes faces and poo poo and it really distracts from the rest of the band for me. poo poo, I didn't even realize Gabe Witcher played drums, and Thile stood in front of him furiously humping his mandolin while Gabe was doing a pretty amazing violin and drum set performance. I guess that's what you can do when you're about the best there is. For my money, I'm With Her completely stole the show. I got Sarah Jarosz's latest solo album immediately and boy howdy is it just solid.
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Yessssssssss, finally got reservations for steamboat music fest. Read the lineup and be jealous: 2016 LINE UP AMERICAN AQUARIUM BAYOU ROUX BLACK WATER BRIDE BRANDON RHYDER BRI BAGWELL BRUCE ROBISON CASEY DONAHEW BAND CHARLIE ROBISON CHUBBY KNUCKLE CHOIR CODY CANADA & THE DEPARTED CODY JOHNSON & THE ROCKIN’ CJB CORY MORROW CROOKS DIRTY RIVER BOYS DOUG MORELAND DUB MILLER DUSTIN WELCH GARY P. NUNN & THE BUNKHOUSE BAND HALEY COLE JACK INGRAM & THE BEAT UP FORD BAND JAMIE LIN WILSON JASON BOLAND & THE STRAGGLERS JASON EADY JOE ELY JOHN BAUMANN JOHN FULLBRIGHT JOHNNY BUSH JONATHAN TYLER JONNY BURKE JOSH ABBOTT BAND JOSH GRIDER KELLEY MICKWEE KEVIN FOWLER KEVIN WELCH KYLE HUTTON KYLIE RAE HARRIS LEE ANN WOMACK MATT SKINNER MAX STALLING MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY MICKY & THE MOTORCARS MIDNIGHT RIVER CHOIR MIKE MCCLURE BAND PAUL THORN RANDY ROGERS BAND RAY BENSON RECKLESS KELLY ROGER CREAGER SCOTT MILLER STONEY LARUE THE BLACK LILLIES THE MATT HILLYER BAND THE O’S THOM SHEPHERD & COLEY MCCABE TREVOR G. POTTER TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS UNCLE LUCIUS WADE BOWEN WILLIAM CLARK GREEN WILLIS ALAN RAMSEY ZAC WILKERSON ZANE WILLIAMS PLUS MORE ARTISTS TO BE ANNOUNCED! http://themusicfest.com/home/ invision fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Sep 9, 2015 |
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Sep 9, 2015 17:45
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I don't know who any of those people are. Edit: that's not true, I know Lee Ann Womack.
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Sep 9, 2015 18:08
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It's like every red dirt act. Every drat one of them.
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To be honest a line-up like that can be a lot of fun. I've seen a couple of those bands, and heard of some of that line-up based on performances at bars/clubs here in Knoxville (Eady is playing at my favorite bar in November here, and it seems American Aquarium plays here at least 3 times a year). That said we have a 3 day festival like this every April in Knoxville. It is full of small bands like on your list, but this year it was headlined by groups like the Decemberist, Drive-By Truckers, and Langhorne Slim and the Law. The smaller bands mostly played in bars (they was like 5 of them) located on the street than ran by the main stage. To be honest I enjoyed the bars more than the main stage. Also it helped that the festival organizer included a surf punk band, some rap (Gangstagrass, which believe or not was fun as hell live), soul music, and other genres to break up the pure Americana feel. Edit: A couple of Knoxville local acts on that line-up too. Black Lilies (which I am seeing on 10/2) and Scott Miller are both part of the Knoxville scene.
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I'm thinking real seriously about buying some advance lift tickets for that weekend. I bet there will be some drat good supergroups happening what with the Cody Canada/Reckless Kelly/Micky and the Motorcars all being there together.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I'm thinking real seriously about buying some advance lift tickets for that weekend. I bet there will be some drat good supergroups happening what with the Cody Canada/Reckless Kelly/Micky and the Motorcars all being there together. Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. There's also usually an after-hours hotel get together where a lot of them just hang out with acoustic guitars + fiddles and jam and get hammered. For everyone that doesn't know, that's basically THE list of red dirt/texas country bands. A lot of bands from that list are very very well known in Texas/Oklahoma. Also shame on you for sleeping on Turnpike Troubadours! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTYq66Tx1GY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3jGkqcvR80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lLZlufKuaQ e:I might have an extra hotel reservation. I'll know in like 2 weeks whether it's taken or not.
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I had forgotten about the song Before the Devil Knows We're Dead. What a good one. What makes "red dirt country" distinct? I haven't heard of most of those bands.
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Paper With Lines posted:I had forgotten about the song Before the Devil Knows We're Dead. What a good one. It's like the catchy part of some of the more rough-edged mainstream country acts except it has decent musicians, doesn't suck, and the lyrics aren't "guuurl come on over beer cans tailgate Saturday night shake it dirt road party party party moonlight bare feet truck bed." Also more guitar-heavy. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Sep 9, 2015 |
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I was super excited that Avett Brothers and Jason Isbell were coming to Kentucky. Then I found out they're in one of the shittiest concert venues I've ever been to, Rupp Arena in Lexington. And tickets are $60 apiece. I'm really glad they've found success, but goddamn. I remember years ago when people had no idea who they were and I could get into a show in some tiny assed venue packed to capacity and see them play for $10.
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Was surprised with some super sweet Avett Brothers tickets for my birthday. Very excited to see them play, from the live stuff I've seen on YouTube I feel like it will be a great show.
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I am not that big of an Avett Brothers' fan (I and Love and You is my favorite album by them, and I haven't liked anything since), but they put on a great live show. Worth seeing even if you are just a fan in passing.
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nate fisher posted:I am not that big of an Avett Brothers' fan (I and Love and You is my favorite album by them, and I haven't liked anything since), but they put on a great live show. Worth seeing even if you are just a fan in passing. I and Love and You and Emotionalism are my two favorites albums of theirs and if I get to see a few songs off of those I'll be more than happy. Live music is usually pretty cool
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Bonzo posted:Rupp Arena has horrible, horrible sound. Absolutely god loving awful. I wish they would quit trying to push it as a live music venue, because it's totally unsuited for it. I do love when the Avetts cone to Louisville and play the Palace, though. It's always a good time.
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I saw Old Crow and the Avett Bros a couple years ago at Red Rocks and the sound quality was garbage. Instruments were clipping throughout the show. Some venues just aren't good for that kind of music.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXqloRsk05c
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New Birdcloud is out (hope they make it to Knoxville on this tour). Two of my favorites 'Here in Body' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSUOB2w_QSk 'I Like Black Guys' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=785Vhfh4EUc
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Does that give me an excuse to post this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1KKhZ80GDQ
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I foolishly just tried to listen to Spotify's "New Boots" up-and-coming country playlist. With the exception of a couple tracks (Cam's "Burning House" being the most notable), it was loving terrible. Are any of you keeping a spotify list of the various things that get posted in here that you'd be willing to share, or do we have a shared playlist like some of the other NMD genre threads and I missed it? I need some new stuff to listen to while I work, and having to constantly click the youtube videos in here is way too distracting.
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Aw sweet. Jason Isbell is playing a free show at my college. I'm not super into him yet, but I'm definitely not passing up a free concert.
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stealie72 posted:I foolishly just tried to listen to Spotify's "New Boots" up-and-coming country playlist. I agree so hard. Cam owns. Check out the Americana playlists if you want some good "country" music.
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Here's Sad Daddy. From Austin/northwest Arkansas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVrPCZQ3lzg And in a previous incarnation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMhtTuO3pzg HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Sep 19, 2015 |
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stealie72 posted:I foolishly just tried to listen to Spotify's "New Boots" up-and-coming country playlist. It's not necessarily what's posted in here, but it's red dirt/tx/etc country. https://open.spotify.com/user/whomikebishop/playlist/2IBUmeJVUpLtrOJK4Epzx7 I had kind of a happy song -> sad song playlist sort going, but it got screwed up and I'm too lazy to deal with it. Some of it is a lot better than others, but I think it's pretty decent.
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The cover of the new Dave Rawlings Machine album makes it look like Willie Watson is a tiny person. (it's a good album)
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stealie72 posted:I foolishly just tried to listen to Spotify's "New Boots" up-and-coming country playlist. Can confirm: new boots is no good if you don't like radio country. The "discover weekly" has been good to me. I keep a couple playlists Outlaw stuff https://open.spotify.com/user/121571918/playlist/0ZewDAiXlQ14UCIwGyqhpf Country and western and etc https://open.spotify.com/user/121571918/playlist/5io3hQqsO5LXFmcXI4V6HK
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Thanks to both of you for the lists!
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clutchpuck posted:Can confirm: new boots is no good if you don't like radio country. Thank for these, especially the second one. Here is my Outlaw Playlist if you're ever looking for more: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212113832/playlist/6VVEVOFAjGojJooWMTzVfl Unrelated, but the new David Rawlings Machine album is great.
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Perhaps the OP could update the, uhm, OP and have playlists? Count Chocula, you around? imo, we could have a much better op in general...
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I have a "best" spotify playlist that is about 95% country/altcountry/folk/etc. https://open.spotify.com/user/ehoovestol/playlist/4LgVEmV4mRwoMXenkKj3GX
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Ohvee posted:The cover of the new Dave Rawlings Machine album makes it look like Willie Watson is a tiny person. It's good but after one listen I like Friend of a Friend better. The Weekend is pretty strong and I like Pilgrim. The middle kinda drags. Candy's one of those songs that's fine in concert but doesn't really need a studio version. Not sure why they didn't try to put Knuckleball Catcher on this one. It would have fit perfectly into the back half and pulled the whole thing together. I think that's a good tune, but maybe they're saving it for Gill's next record, who knows. But overall I like all the strings, kinda gives it an early Elton John vibe. Dave probably sings it as well as he can, the mix is ok but not what I'm used to with them.
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