I Love Country Music, I Love Bluegrass

[onebatmother]

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?

thought it was a character in heartbeat

Mary Gaulthier is a good one if people like Lucinda Williams and Kathleen Edwards.

margo, I would so start a Jolene babyname thread.

Zippi - just realized that I do know Lucinda Williams! But I think Tammy is more my style..

I like the Lonestar one too Digby. Have avoided them so far bcs I thought they were going to be a bit too .. Austin for me (do like alt, but not as much as pure country) But I like it..

I am here

I will email gibberish she will want to come

(onebat where in Yorkshire? I hung out with some strange musician types in West Yorks - maybe your dh and I went to same pubs?)

Oh yes VS she is muchly fab.

I have to go pack, have wasted far too much time already.

This thread has just made me burn her to CD actually for my labour bag.
Thanks OBM

this brings back long buried memoroies blanket on the ground she is so cool

Mr Bat says "Bluegrass is acoustic country music with - usually - no drums, originating in the Appalachian region of the Southern States of America. Named after Bill Monroe's band The Bluegrass Boys - Kentucky being the Bluegrass state. Standard lineup: fiddle, banjo, mandolin, double bass, guitar, and 3 or 4-part harmony singing, and characterized by presence of high tenor male voice, often referred to as 'the high lonesome sound'. Greatest exponents of high lonesome sound would include Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley."

CAAAPPIE!
No, he's East Yorkshire, near York..

I thought I was alone. It's like posting a thread about having 3 vaginas and finding that all your favourite people are the same.

i like steve earle too

ellis nunit one in fact the soundtrack to dead man walking is pretty good and the long road is one of my favourites ever

You have 3 vaginas Swedes?

Steve Earle v v good. He has been married about seven times, talk about a triumph of hope over expectation or summat...

East Yorks? Me sis and bil live there.

Onebat - York is in North Yorkshire.

I was too polite to mention that, VictorianSqualor.

Swedes! For crying out loud! Et tu?

zippi did you know that Alison Moorer is married to Steve Earle now? Am slightly creeped out by the age gap..

VS -

Swedes, feck off. Where DP is from is NEAR York, but IN East Yorkshire.

God I must do some work, will check back later. Am very satisfied!

what is the age gap..purely curious to know what age gap is creepy lolol

i know jackshit about country music

i think he's 53, she's about 28..

though he looks pretty good for an old guy

Relatively speaking.

just asking cos i am seeing someone 20 years younger so i am just 90% creepy rofl

Oooh yes. I was raised on a diet of Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette, Crystal Gayle, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris

Since I've known DP he's introduced me to some newer artists - Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Shania Twain (pre-pop Shania, I hasten to add), Lonestar, Alan Jackson.

When we went to the states, we just had Country Radio on all the time and came back with loads of albums of people we'd never heard of before.

Anyone else got the Trio albums? Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt. Spine tinglingly good.

I never realised Kris Kristofferson was a real person.

Too much fAMILY GUY.

My dh is learning bluegrass banjo.

It's growing on me.