please recommend me country

[user_1934]

I just mean that I like these albums and they collect some great 45s that are rather hard to find. Plus, I like the cover art. Check out 'Diesel Smoke & Dangerous Curves" on Starday. It's a great one.

[mudd]

you'd certainly be outta luck hunting down rockabilly if you were judging by the cover art, but maybe that's just not the direction you're looking for?

i'd certainly give one a try if i saw it cheap, but only if it was compiled fairly recently from much older stuff.

m

[user_1934]

You have problems with this?



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[user_1827]

one of the greatest records ever.

[user_1934]

If you want to talk Waylon, this is a really good later LP that is often overlooked. I've listened to a lot of them, too and you can usually find this cheap.



This has my favorite country song ever but the rest of the album isn't too good. Dudley released a lot of albums going back to back with trucker to ballad,trucker to ballad. Damn annoying but 'This Night Ain't Fit For Nothing But Drinking' is classic. I got it in my computer if you know somewhere to post it.

[user_113]

Read some books.

Alternately, screw taste and all that hoary canonical stuff, download Jo Dee Messina's "Heads Carolina, Tails California" and dance.

Enjoy.

[dwd]

here are a few suggestions, particularly if you want to hear some great pedal-steel playing:

any Ray Price early-to-mid-60s stuff:
Night Life (1963) (my first recommendation - 3 or 4 of the songs were written by Willie Nelson; Buddy Emmons on pedal steel)
San Antonio Rose (1961)
Love Life (1964)
The Other Woman (1965)
Another Bridge to Burn (1966)

Charley Pride: In Person (1968) (Lloyd Green on pedal steel)

Buck Owens Greatest Hits

the 1971 self-titled debut from New Riders of the Purple Sage (with Jerry Garcia on pedal steel, he kills it)

[user_1827]

the 1971 self-titled debut from New Riders of the Purple Sage (with Jerry Garcia on pedal steel, he kills it)

i second that

[grisha]

you'd certainly be outta luck hunting down rockabilly if you were judging by the cover art, but maybe that's just not the direction you're looking for?

i'd certainly give one a try if i saw it cheap, but only if it was compiled fairly recently from much older stuff.

m

yes it might be silly. it's just for me this sort of cover art is associated with awful latin music comps and 'exotic percussion' and such lps. i might get some, if i find any of them (i mean country lps), but i don't have much love for these covers. and i usually prefer to stick to comps by individual artists, that's my listening prefrences.

mudd, it's might as well be that rockabilly is not what i'm looking for.

and as of right now i am not planning to read any books on the subject.

[dave quam]

grisha definitely look for some charlie pride LPs, they are usually like a buck, people give them away. I have like 5 of his albums, all of them are pretty nice. I dont know which ones i have offhand as my LPs are in chicago and i am not at the moment, but hey they are a dollar.

[user_1934]

Nice to see Charley Pride is getting respect on the board but please spell his name right.

[MRS]

Herr Bricks needs to chime in here. From the IHM advice of he who lives on the mountain but once walked among the people and heard their stories, I bought up all of Johnny Paycheck's records on the Little Darlin label. Awesome honky-tonk.

[user_772]

I've been listening to the Louvin Brothers this morning -- "Satan is Real" and "Tragic Songs of Life" are both beautiful and very heavy...

[SOZ]

I've been listening to the Louvin Brothers this morning -- "Satan is Real" and "Tragic Songs of Life" are both beautiful and very heavy...

Yep, perhaps the best country harmony duet.

I don't follow much contemporary country since most of what I've heard is ass, but I dig some Dwight Yoakam. I can't name any albums, though.

Merle Haggard's "Root's vol 1" is pretty awesome. One of my favorite albums in the last few years.

[Stevo]

I feel like that Kris Kristofferson has some heat, but I've yet to explore his music. Anyone?

I bought the Essential set a couple of months back and rreally love the 1st disc of that. So I'd assume that his 1st few lps are all good.


As to Hank Williams the Proper box set Hillbilly hero is pretty good. I think it might lack a couple of obvious tracks but still 4cds including 1 of Health & Happiness shows can't be snezed at.
Also really like
Hillbilly Boogie which sounds like r'n'r 10 years early
Milton Brown & His Musical BRownies Western SWing stuff
Flatt & Scruggs The Mercury Recordings (from Proper iNtroduction series)
The Hank Snow Proper Introduction
Moon MUllican Proper double
& the Ploughboys,Doughboys etc Western Swing set
Proper's pretty good label for this stuff
Ernest Tubb Texas TRoubadour set's pretty good too
Stevo

[Stevo]

I've been listening to the Louvin Brothers this morning -- "Satan is Real" and "Tragic Songs of Life" are both beautiful and very heavy...

That Razor & Tie compi of their stuff is brilliant. Can't think of the title offhand.

Also Charly Rich's The Fabulous Charly Rich is a recent discovery of mine that I forgot to put in the other list.

Marty Robbins Trail Songs & Gunfighter Ballads & More TS&GFB is pretty good & has great guitar throughout. I picked it up because I heard the story about Jeffrey Lee Pierce coming into an early Gun Club rehearsal suggesting it as a new direction.
You can hear some of the guitar riffs lifted by Thin White Rope on In The Spanish Cave too.
Stevo

[user_333]

"www.memory"

[user_437]

David Allan Coe - Penitentiary Blues


Also, some of Howe Gelb's recent work is a great tribute/throwback to some of the greats. Particularly,


The Band Of Blacky Ranchette - Still Lookin' Good To Me

and...


Arizona Amp and Alternator

[user_1655]

Hank Williams
Lee Hazlewood
Townes Van Zandt
Hasil Adkins
Kinky Friedman
Jerry Reed
The Bryds

[surfer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzUe5p8GX2g

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