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I lurk this thread occasionally and discovered 16 Horsepower here a year or more ago. Since then, I worked my way through all of their stuff and Wovenhand. David Eugene Edwards is one of those musicians that just creeps into my head and hangs out there playing gloomy, gothic-sounding, genuinely weird stuff on way fewer instruments than it sounds like. Anyway, I like this video for Longhorn. Animation is unrelated but works surprisingly well. Straw Foot, originally a 16 Horsepower song, played on an old nylon-strung (previously gut) banjo with a mandolin body, sort of. Tiny Desk Concert, wherein he explains the aforementioned instrument. As I Went Out One Morning.  at that soulpatch.And my favorite version of Wayfaring Stranger.
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Kvlt! posted:Hey guys, I really dig Shady Grove and anything else that Garcia/Grisman did together. Anybody got any reccomendations for similar stuff? Anything by Peter Rowan and Tony Rice (who happen to have the best version of Shady Grove). HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Oct 17, 2014 |
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Oct 17, 2014 16:31
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Didn't Gillian play drums a little on Big Iron World?
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Oct 17, 2014 19:27
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Have The Wood Brothers been mentioned yet? More singer/songwriter type stuff than country, but great soulful songs. Chris Wood is the bassist for Medeski, Martin, and Wood, and Oliver did a bunch of blues stuff back in the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U0arXdrvlE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbqpyqOyUKI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYY1T7BYd9U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf-QI2EdUhg And a longer one, several songs with an interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkVq7VmH6eE
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Feb 12, 2015 17:53
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MrBling posted:Can you guys recommend some stuff that is a little rough around the edges? Murder By Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3llU-smhnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NI9BB7Dp-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPEmRhYOOuY The album Red of Tooth and Claw is loving gold. Very similar to Wovenhand's stuff, the later incarnation of 16 Horsepower. Though there are some string sections.
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Jul 28, 2015 21:36
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clutchpuck posted:The Goddamn Gallows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDTTnXfsMus The Pine Box Boys, if you like this sound. Not quite as dirty.
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Jul 28, 2015 23:00
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Wovenhand's stuff is a good bet, but it's not at all what you'd think of as country. Really dark and broody. Gothic, even.
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Jul 29, 2015 18:22
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I'm watching Sarah Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O'Donovan right now. Sarah Jarosz has played four different instruments in as many songs and is a loving good musician. Holy poo poo. Also they're all playing into a single condenser mic that Noam Pikelny loaned them last minute. Seriously classy ladies. Also Punch Brothers is next so that's cool.
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Aug 30, 2015 02:36
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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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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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Sep 1, 2015 04:00
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It's like every red dirt act. Every drat one of them.
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Sep 9, 2015 18:19
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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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Sep 9, 2015 19:15
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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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Sep 9, 2015 21:11
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The Avett Brothers are played out.
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Sep 10, 2015 17:24
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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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Sep 10, 2015 22:23
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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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Sep 19, 2015 17:09
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Somehow I've missed out on the Turnpike Troubadours all these years and am making up for it by listening to all the albums twice today. That's my story, hope you liked it.
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Sep 24, 2015 18:45
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Hey look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZOn-6Rq1Rg They are good.
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Oct 2, 2015 23:43
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The 90s were full of great country. And lots of lovely country, too. But come on, George Straight? Travis Tritt, Tim McGraw, Brooks and Dunn, Chris LeDoux? Garth Fuckin Brooks? Solid loving gold and I won't hear otherwise.
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Oct 5, 2015 05:30
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HORATIO HORNBLOWER posted:Bull. "Live Like You Were Dying" is gold from start to finish and one of the best pop country albums of all time. Of all time. This is truth. I like a lot of that radio country from the 90s because it was the music of my childhood and because it's objectively far better than today's radio country. The musicianship was decent, lyrics were mostly pretty good, some even clever and funny, or at the very least original. How many modern radio country songs actually tell a coherent story? Compare today's songs, which are mostly ballads about date rape, to The Night The Lights Went Down in Georgia, Friends in Low Places, Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde, and Callin Baton Rouge. Even into the early 2000s, radio country was more acceptable than what gets played today. Then Deeurks Bently, Kenny Chesney, Montgomery Gentry, and Toby Keith started the descent into the cesspool that produced Luke Bryan and the like.
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Oct 7, 2015 16:26
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I wish they'd come through my area. I haven't been to a show where I've been worried about getting in a fight for a while. edit: I'm lucky enough to be working from home today, so I'm playing all their albums at high volume while trudging through spreadsheets in my underwear. They sound like Hank III and Lemmy teamed up. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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Oct 13, 2015 23:50
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The Goddamn Gallows led me to Jayke Orvis. I'm sure he's been mentioned in this thread, but here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aHD44CHidQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0bLJYtGTzo
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Oct 15, 2015 16:50
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clutchpuck posted:New Supersuckers album out today, "Holding the Bag". It's the follow up to their 1997 country-y record "Must've Been High". Noice. Love me some Devil's Food and Motherfuckers Be Trippin. Eddie Spaghetti once heckled me from the stage while he and Jordan Shapiro were opening for the Supersuckers.
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Oct 16, 2015 21:53
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Kvlt! posted:I've been really into the .357 String Band lately, can anyone reccomend some similar stuff? I'm not sure how to describe it..."outlaw" bluegrass maybe? Jayke Orvis, The Woodbox Gang, Pine Box Boys, Mountain Sprout, Split Lip Rayfield
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Oct 23, 2015 14:41
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Three Wooden Crosses is a song about death. The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia is also about death.
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Dec 3, 2015 03:22
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How is the snow?
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Jan 7, 2016 01:39
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Came here to post that. You may know me from music. 10,000 dead family dogs.
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Mar 11, 2016 06:34
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I need some recommendations of good dark banjo music. Something similar to David Eugene Edwards.
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Mar 24, 2016 20:38
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Thanks. I'm familiar with him but don't really get excited about him. I think I'm looking for something with a little more instrumental focus. Really not sure though. Maybe I should just make a playlist of all the banjo heavy 16 Horsepower and Wovenhand songs.
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Mar 25, 2016 04:35
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I just discovered Brett Detar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E74yqtoqmU The whole Bird in the Tangle album is quite good. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 15:08 on May 7, 2016 |
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May 7, 2016 15:01
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clutchpuck posted:Bought my tickets to Corb Lund's Down From The Mountain Festival in Eureka, MT August 15. That is awesome. I just got tickets for the Corb Lund show at a little bitty honky tonk just outside of my town in June. It's the ultimate venue for him. Just a little seedy, but safe, always full of hippies and cowboys and dogs. Capacity for maybe 75 people. Last time I saw him there, they had to take out tables to make room for people. No stage, just a corner. Can't wait.
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May 10, 2016 00:08
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That is also a prime place to see him. The one problem with seeing him in a college town is the grip of bros shouting "TRUCK GOT STUCK" all night.
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May 10, 2016 01:59
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Kvlt! posted:Can anyone reccomend some good Gospel/Faith based bluegrass? Ricky Skaggs. tao of lmao posted:Any love for Murder By Death? They opened up for Minus the Bear last year and I've been diggin them ever since. Not sure if it totally fits this thread, but have a listen.
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May 20, 2016 15:02
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Watching Corb Lund right now. Good as ever.
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Jun 22, 2016 04:32
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 He just took a couple shirts off and has a Slayer shirt on. Edit: And it turns out he's parked next to me. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Jun 22, 2016 |
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Jun 22, 2016 06:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8mT89QTpU0 This guy is pretty good.
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Jun 28, 2016 19:33
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I like the Wrinkle Neck Mules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VF9wtu5ti4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nomS6kdI1CI
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