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so i'm getting more and more into country, starting with the great johnny cash i've discovered more or less after his death, shame on me.

i'm looking for anything (links, playlist...) to extend my knowledge into cow boy music.

i want some super dumb, raw, classic country songs or artists basically. Think of some stuffs you would put in a country vs dirty south xxtra dumb mixtape or sumthing.

i heard Timbaland mentioning some Bluegrass shit but everything i heard bluegrass-wise was a bit cheesy

thanks!

tron

― tron, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.folkways.si.edu/images/40077.jpg

get this. it is amazing

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Tip: get down your local Oxfam, there's always a really good bluegrass/mountain music/Hank Williams comp available for like £1.50.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

everything i heard bluegrass-wise was a bit cheesy

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Try Tex Williams, Tex Ritter, Bob Wills, Eddie Noack, Arthur Smith, Flatt and Scruggs, early Dolly, Porter Wagoner, "Tennessee" Ernie Ford, Hank Snow, Gene Autry, Lightcrust Doughboys, Liz Anderson, Rose Maddox, Merle Travis, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Chet Atkins, Roger Miller, Roy Rogers, Wilf Carter, Roy Hogsed, Patti Page, Marvin Rainwater, Speedy West, Teddy Fell, Texas Jim Williams, Spade Cooley, Sons of Pioneers, Webb Pierce, Pee Wee King, McKinney sisters, and many others.

Hillbilly Boogie, Western Swing, Honky Tonk, Bluegrass and Yodeling/Singing Cowboys. It's all gold. Bear Family Records is one place to start, great for hard-to-find things. And there have been some super cheap box sets of this sort of stuff out on Proper Records.

In Berlin, country is all the rage (as is cowboy culture generally). See for instance:http://www.pingpongcountry.de (and I was fortunate enough to DJ one of these glorious nights - best night ever in B-Town).

And some of this bluegrass is damn hot. You know, just find Steve Martin's "King Tut" and flip it over. Man this guy was good at hoeing down.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

believe it or not, there is also excellent country music out there that ISN'T just spinach and liver for ancient history majors (not that everything above fits that category, but lots of it does):

rolling 2004 country thread

― chuck, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Not to mention:

Big & Rich: Album of the Decade?

― chuck, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

well, that smithsonian collection is sublime. some of the church music on it is incredible, hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck gear. i like liver, anyway.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Can somebody help me out trying to find out about a documentary I saw years ago on English television about women in country music, as far as I recall it was the last of a three part thing about country music in general. There was a bit about Dolly Parton writing Coat of Many Colors and a disproportionately high amount of stuff about KD Lang, but I remember the whole thing being really great and interesting and I can never fucking find out what it was called. I saw it maybe four years ago.

― I know, right?, Monday, 27 October 2008 13:51 (seventeen years ago)

bump

― I know, right?, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

“Lost Highway: The History of Country Music.” is what it was called I think, does anyone know where I could find out more about this. Google is leaving me short so far

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Monday, 13 April 2009 15:24 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

i have been listening to a lot of martina mcbride

― surm, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:13 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

I was too amused by this academic exchange to let it go unshared:

Stack, Steven, and Jim Gundlach. "The effect of country music on suicide." Social Forces 71.1 (1992): 211-218.

Maguire, Edward R., and Jeffrey B. Snipes. "Reassessing the link between country music and suicide." Social Forces 72.4 (1994): 1239-1243.

Stack, Steven, and Jim Gundlach. "Country music and suicide: A reply to Maguire and Snipes." Social Forces 72.4 (1994): 1245-1248.

Mauk, Gary W., et al. "Comments on Stack and Gundlach's “The Effect of Country Music on Suicide: An Achy Breaky Heart May Not Kill You." Social forces 72.4 (1994): 1249-1255.

Snipes, Jeffrey B., and Edward R. Maguire. "Country music, suicide, and spuriousness." Social forces 74.1 (1995): 327-329.

Stack, Steven, and James Gundlach. "Country Music and Suicide—Individual, Indirect, and Interaction Effects: A Reply to Snipes and Maguire." Social Forces 74.1 (1995): 331-335.

― Me So Hormetic (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:10 (thirteen years ago)

thanks for these links, they're great reading.

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 19:09 (thirteen years ago)

ha this is great. it'd be great for a stats class too.

― dyl, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 21:50 (thirteen years ago)

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