Does anyone like country music? 'Cause I think I do but....

[EllieG]

I don't know where to start. Any ideas? I don't want silly yee-haw stuff but am stuck. Bought some Alison Krauss and Union Station and liked that, (though perhaps not all the Bluegrass-iest tunes quite as much)but what to listen to next?

with emmylou

Check out Gram Parsons too
(agree with mrsruffallo - Wichita Lineman is wonderful)

• if you like that try Bobby Gentry & Glen Campbell also you can't go wrong with a bit of Nancy & Lee (IMO)

great minds Clement

wonderful world, valentine, all of me,

he did a great version of hallelujah (pre x factor)

willie nelson rocks

as does bert jansck

brad paisley, the lyrics on this one are beautiful

this thread has sent me on a lovely little youtube reverie. I think you might like JJ Cale too. I started with 5, so have a fondness for it, but there's plenty more.

Early Ryan Adams is good. Try Heartbreaker, his first solo album, and Whiskeytown's (his former band) album "Pneumonia" is fantastic.

Shawn Colvin "Polaroids" or "Steady On".

Emmylou Harris.

Ryan Adam's Come Pick Me Up - the best country song chorus ever :

Come pick me up
Take me out
Fuck me up
Steal my records
Screw all my friends
They're all full of shit
With a smile on your face
And then do it again

I wish you would......

This is great! Am off to go look on youtube at all of these and then spend money I don't really have buying albums and have to hide them from DH and pretend have had them for ages