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I Love Country Music, I Love Bluegrass

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onebatmother · 27/03/2008 10:43

I want to confess my love of the Music That Dare Not Speak It's Name..

I was listening this morning to some Randy Travis, and practically weeping with pleasure. The voice, the music, the wordplay, the depth of the storytelling..

does anyone else care to join me in spreading the Gospel and Praisin'?

Where are you Cappuccino?

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onebatmother · 27/03/2008 10:43

ITS name.
Damn.

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motherinferior · 27/03/2008 10:44

Oh GOD yes.

Mr Inferior regularly threatens to leave me over my choices of music. Then he realises there is no contest

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onebatmother · 27/03/2008 10:46

Yaay!

How are you motherinferior?

Are you eclectic or specific? I have a very limited playlist at the moment..

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motherinferior · 27/03/2008 10:48

I am broadening my list at the moment, courtesy of my new Ipod and our local library. But must confess am not good at Mr Travis, must get some...

motherinferior · 27/03/2008 10:49

I am quite ashamed of the depths of my devotion to Johnny Cash, too.

bundle · 27/03/2008 10:50

bloomin' heck

i was just listening to johnny on the way to work!

bundle · 27/03/2008 10:52

the hundred miles one?

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onebatmother · 27/03/2008 10:54

Ah.
Mr Bat is v. knowledgeable, but doesn't really listen much now. Though in his youth he was a Bluegrass musician.. Whole family was, in fact. In Yorkshire. Which is not as unusual as it sounds...

I am desperate to spread the Randy Travis word. Of all the 'pure' country Nashville artists that emerged in the 80/90's, he's the one whose won my heart..

Do you ever use iTunes? Or too broke?

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onebatmother · 27/03/2008 10:56

Hello bundle!

Ah, Johnny. Now my knowledge of him could definitely be improved. I know most of the obv ones but I need further guidance.

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WendyWeber · 27/03/2008 10:57

Here's a lovely country lyric for you laydeez

(Came across it last night while searching for bonkers American names, I knew there was a Hoyt out there)

I like country too - given very limited knowledge - I love Islands in the Stream (or is that too commercial for proper country?) and also Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash.

policywonk · 27/03/2008 10:58

I am agog at Mr Bat and his bluegrass tykes.

WendyWeber · 27/03/2008 10:58

Oh, hoot at the google ads beside that song

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 27/03/2008 10:58

I am killing the kimya dawson album.
I love her, more folk than country but so lovely.

SixSpotBurnet · 27/03/2008 10:59

DH has got me really into alt country. Love Gillian Welsh and Lucinda Williams. I want Gillian Welsh's cover of Hickory Wind (a Gram Parsons song) played at my funeral.

IorekByrnison · 27/03/2008 11:06

Hello Onebat, I love The Carter Family. Does that help?

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onebatmother · 27/03/2008 11:06

Hello Devil, Wendy and SSB.

Oh yes, Gillian Welsh..Would you say she was alt? Haven't heard of Lucinda Williams or Kimya dawson?

Alison Moorer anyone, in an alt groove?

Policy, yup. fiddle, banjo, dobro, steel, mandolin. Mr Bat has depths, I tell you. The Bat Brothers played bluegrass festivals as a family trio. Older brothers still do.

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Earlybird · 27/03/2008 11:07

Count me as a fan too.

Do I get points for the fact that I saw Tim McGraw shopping for food over the Christmas holidays? Baseball hat (pulled low) instead of cowboy hat....and for anyone who's interested, the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum in Nashville is really quite good.

moondog · 27/03/2008 11:08

Oh God me too. Me too!!!!!!

To make you really sickeningly jealous, I have spent loads of time 9and talking months and months I tell ya) sitting on porches in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina,drinking beer and singing along to loads of real live bluegrass musicians.
Yes indeedy.

Oh, and have been to barndances in little shacks too where people come from all over in pick up trucks.

totalmisfit · 27/03/2008 11:09

i love johnny cash. i love the O Brother Where Art Thou? sound track. I think the kind of 'country' music i like could best be described as American Folk, because to me 'Country' means horrid artificiality in the form of LeAnn Rimes and Dolly Parton and Billy Ray Cyrus, iyswim?

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 27/03/2008 11:10

Anyone who loves country should love Manu chao.

It's a big step in style but the same philosophy of unselfconscious storytelling and pure joy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2v_XY-wsjs

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onebatmother · 27/03/2008 11:10

Iorek, Bloomin' Heck! that is hardcore.
Oh, I have to go and find some Mother Maybelle now.

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Earlybird · 27/03/2008 11:16

onebatmother - if your dh is a bluegrass fan, is he also an Alison Krauss fan? How about Nickel Creek?

Not quite sure about the Alison Krauss/Robert Plant album, though I like the concept very much, and want to like the final product. (By the way, if you ever have a chance to see Alison Krauss in concert - go, go, go. I've seen her twice at Southbank, and she (and her band) are marvelous.)

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onebatmother · 27/03/2008 11:16

total, there can be joy in pomp country though.. sometimes. And Dolly's not all crap, you know.

Moondog! Blimey, anyone I'd know?

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moondog · 27/03/2008 11:17

David Allen Coe 'You never even called me by my name

Top porch tune

moondog · 27/03/2008 11:18

Dunno Onebat.They were just all enthsiastic ameteurs.