Lately I've been starting to get into country/Americana type music after a lifetime of never hearing any of it. Let's a get a country that isn't trash thread going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZcH2OOMV4A
we're all aware that traditional country is decent, now here's the real challenge: can /mu/ name some contemporary/pop-influenced country that's good?
i mean there's so fucking much of it, there has to be some good stuff somewhere right?
>>60947467
Yesterday I saw someone post some kind of electronic country thing. I wouldn't say it was good, but it was kind of interesting, so I guess its a step forward.
Country's been stagnant for so long that something has to be about to happen. I can see alt-country blowing up in the next few years
>>60947467
My Morning Jacket is good but it's not pop
>>60947640
>I can see alt-country blowing up in the next few years
you're 20 years too late for that one m8
DUNT GIT BETTER N ISS PHAM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yDBhL8Omm7c
>>60947467
old boots, new dirt by jason aldean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpgL4mqEis
>>60947416
I honestly think that some alt country is more sincere than mainstream country at this point. Just listen to Jesse Sykes; she doesn't have the twang, but she has the instrumentation, and combined with her unique voice, it sounds as warm to me as some of Johnny Cash's stuff. It's not perfect, but it easily has more of that Americana heart than anything you're liable to hear on CMT.
>>60948574
currently live in bakersfield, buck owens still runs this town. i hate him for it. i hate his country influence. i hate everything he stands for.
>country
>that isn't trash
Does not compute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM0mjukDGRw Only country album that matters.
>>60947467
kacey musgraves
>>60949696
/thread
>>60949696
looks like someone you'd expect to hook up with on craigslist
Some artists from this century:
Sarah Jarosz:
Live on NPR Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxpuB10FaSE
An amazing cover of Tom Waits's "Come on Up To the House": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzapgZI5SEc
Hank 3:
Straight to Hell (Full Album): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE3CT1Ql-Hs
Rebel Within (Full Album): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBfVcbJ-N8
The Avett Brothers:
Live on NPR Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQRt6p8T7g
Ballad of Love and Hate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pre7bINBps
Cover of that one song from that one album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDtjDUN6_Rw
The Milk Carton Kids:
Prologue (Full Album): https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=0VC58tGG_t4
Live on NPR Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp0xjVzmKxY
Lyle Lovett:
Texas Trilogy (originally written by Steve Fromholz, the former poet laureate of Texas. Willie Nelson once called this the best song ever written about Texas. I'm not sure what's up with the video, it's just a bunch of people dicking around on a ranch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MelQfpNKm50
That's Right (You're Not From Texas): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ-v4nljxXw
>>60952003
Also, yes I know Lyle Lovett is older than the rest of the people on this list, I just included him because I love his version of Texas Trilogy so much
>>60947640
>electronic country thing
This is not recent m8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=76&v=VcDy8HEg1QY
