Roots Music Rec's Request
Apr. 19th, 2005 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisabetSo apparently there is a ton of interest in American Roots Music - so yay! I've drafted help on the essay front from two very intelligent and musical sources, so this might actually make sense. This is my goal for May/June.
Before that - I do want to do an actual *music* post of Americana, kinda like Lum did with the blues posts, just so there is a starting point. I mean, I can bring up King Wilkie or North Mississippi Allstars or Uncle Tupelo or Professor Longhair or Alison Moore or Steve Earle (and believe me, I *will*) but music is a strange beast in that we can talk all day long about what makes *this* Americana and how this is actually folk music but since it was so heavily influenced by such and such artist that it sounds kinda country and how this is classic country but if you listen carefully, you can definitely hear a blues influence and this is classic blues by way of southern rock and this is not any of the above, but something totally different, but is important because it helped shape all of the above.
And it can all be called Americana because it all arises from roots music.
But none of this means anything if we are just talking about it - we gotta listen to it as well (so we have something to talk about). So now I need your help - if you are reading this and are into roots music -- please post a couple of essential rec's in the comments cause, as you know, this is an extremely large playing field.
And my definition of roots music is extremely wide - so if you think it fits, go ahead and suggest it and tell me why (if you can, you don't have to).
Also - you can just give the name of the artist and album/song - uploading mp3s is not a requirement to play.
Before that - I do want to do an actual *music* post of Americana, kinda like Lum did with the blues posts, just so there is a starting point. I mean, I can bring up King Wilkie or North Mississippi Allstars or Uncle Tupelo or Professor Longhair or Alison Moore or Steve Earle (and believe me, I *will*) but music is a strange beast in that we can talk all day long about what makes *this* Americana and how this is actually folk music but since it was so heavily influenced by such and such artist that it sounds kinda country and how this is classic country but if you listen carefully, you can definitely hear a blues influence and this is classic blues by way of southern rock and this is not any of the above, but something totally different, but is important because it helped shape all of the above.
And it can all be called Americana because it all arises from roots music.
But none of this means anything if we are just talking about it - we gotta listen to it as well (so we have something to talk about). So now I need your help - if you are reading this and are into roots music -- please post a couple of essential rec's in the comments cause, as you know, this is an extremely large playing field.
And my definition of roots music is extremely wide - so if you think it fits, go ahead and suggest it and tell me why (if you can, you don't have to).
Also - you can just give the name of the artist and album/song - uploading mp3s is not a requirement to play.
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Date: 2005-04-20 01:41 pm (UTC)OMG - HUGE MASSIVE THANKS for the rips. This is awesome - I am so happy. Wow.
Lum sent me ripping software last night so here is the actual comp I was referencing in the expired link: This is Americana
http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2CYNKNEK2XSUY0EAE3HVKQGQXI
The only thing it is missing is some Gram Parsons. The Ralph Stanley "Wild Geese Cry" kills me. I am after Killa to vid "September When It Comes" and I have a vid planned to "It Doesn't Have to Be this Way" and I have Anna McCue on my shortlist of people to watch and "The Bible Song" haunts me. So I really liked almost everything they picked.
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Date: 2005-04-22 02:08 am (UTC)Fantastic stuff. I already had a number of those tracks but it was a great mix.
Gram is so wonderful. Not just the solo stuff but his group stuff too. On the rerelease of Sweetheart of the Rodeo there is this wonderful old radio promo that explains that they are the same Byrd's just gone country. Hang on, here it is (http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RGUH6681S3E61WI8NJ8FQLFOI)
I saw Anne McCue open for Melissa Ferrick a few years back and she is great and an amazing guitar player. It is mind blowing to hear her sing and then start talk ingbecause she is Australian and this perfect twang voice comes from somewhere inside her when she sings.
Another Lori McKenna Paper Wings and Halo (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3HR1P9OHLCH3M1BEMJS0YDD550) and Country Song (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1UZ0UVZGK8MWM1YOJYAX9ANCM6) by a band called the Idaho Falls. (-: