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| All the Pretty Horses (alt. country recs)
Looking for more stuff in the alt. country/outlaw country/americana vein.
Doesn't have to be undiluted country/folk/blues though, hence some of the selections. More so a general American South and West thing, and the different modes within those. Southeastern murk, southern gothic, Texas roadhouse, remote trailer in the desert, flavors of Mexican music, whatever. Lonesome, booze soaked, redemptive.
Inb4 any sludge. | | 1 |  | Townes Van Zandt
Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas
"Pancho & Lefty" is an all timer. | | 2 |  | Billy Joe Shaver
Live at Billy Bob's Texas
Ditto for "Live Forever." Discovered this guy through a Norm MacDonald tip. | | 3 |  | Lucero
Lucero
Lucero's "Kiss the Bottle" cover kills the Jawbreaker original. | | 4 |  | Jason Isbell
Southeastern | | 5 |  | Johnny Cash
American IV: The Man Comes Around | | 6 |  | Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
I See a Darkness | | 7 |  | Natalie Prass
Natalie Prass | | 8 |  | John Moreland
In The Throes | | 9 |  | Lucinda Williams
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road | | 10 |  | Night Moves
Colored Emotions | | 11 |  | Richmond Fontaine
You Can't Go Back if There's Nothing to Go Back To | | 12 |  | Phosphorescent
Muchacho | | 13 |  | Saintseneca
Last | | 14 |  | This Will Destroy You
This Will Destroy You | | 15 |  | Comadre
Comadre
"Drag Blood" is sort of old west-y. | | 16 |  | Johnny Cash
American III: Solitary Man | | 17 |  | Explosions in the Sky
Friday Night Lights | | 18 |  | Sun Kil Moon
Ghosts of the Great Highway | | 19 |  | Modest Mouse
The Lonesome Crowded West | | 20 |  | Two Gallants
Two Gallants | | 21 |  | Earth
The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull | | 22 |  | Ben Nichols
The Last Pale Light in the West | | 23 |  | Lucero
Tennessee | | 24 |  | Willie Nelson
The Essential Willie Nelson | | 25 |  | Kacey Musgraves
Same Trailer Different Park | | 26 |  | Panopticon
Kentucky
Digs not on sput:
Spookyland - Adventure Song
New Madrid - Yardboat
Country Mice - Hour of the Wolf | | 27 |  | Giant Sand
Long Stem Rant | | 28 |  | Lambchop
Thriller | | 29 |  | Johnny Horton
Greatest Hits | | 30 |  | Jenny Lewis
The Voyager | | 31 |  | Wovenhand
Refractory Obdurate | | 32 |  | Songs: Ohia
The Lioness
Title track rends the heart. | | 33 |  | Margo Price
Midwest Farmer's Daughter | | 34 |  | Futurebirds
Hotel Parties | | 35 |  | Natural Child
For the Love of the Game | |
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04.11.16 | Calexico!! | PattBraderson
04.11.16 | Deer Tick - The Black Dirt Sessions | theBoneyKing
04.11.16 | Well you've got some classics already (4, 9, 12), but I'd recommend:
Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
Neko Case - Blacklisted
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
Wilco - Being There
James McMurtry - Complicated Game
Steve Earle - El Corazon
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
This list is also a gold mine:
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Kentucky_Outskirts/top_100_alt_country_albums_of_all_time/ | braspberries
04.11.16 | @theBoneyKing Neko Case, Drive-By Truckers, Uncle Tupelo, Steve Earle, and Wilco all fall into that category of artists I know, but never really explored. Didn't know where to start with their discographies. Same goes for Son Volt, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams Jr., David Allen Coe, and Merle. Ryan Adams I never bothered with because I'm put off by a forty year old man dressing so twee. Heartbreaker is universally lauded though, so I guess I have to listen.
Appreciate the recs so far guys. | LotusFlower
04.11.16 | sturgill simpson's new record is a jam x45 | furyroad97
04.11.16 | Check out Sturgill Simpson's last album leading up to the new one. If you're a fan of the psychedelic side of country, you're gonna love it. | Stereochrome1
04.15.16 | What a shame it is that real country music is reduced to being called Alt-Country | theBoneyKing
04.15.16 | Yeah that is a shame, both are great but modern pop country has given the general country moniker a bad name. |
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