Geordi-Yes.jpg: Cocaine Blues, a story about stuffing your nostrils with nose candy, killing your wife, going on the lamb, getting caught, and begging not to be locked up for the rest of your life.
Geordi-No.jpg: Accidental Racist, a story about being a white guy who asks permission to say the n-word.
look up folk punk
I love folk punk, and ska punk too.
Key and Peele nailed it
“now I see it”
Billy strings, sturgill simpson
Sierra Ferrell is another great one, she does some songs with Billy Strings.
Went to a show w/ a friend, didn’t know what I was getting into. Billy Strings had me dancing my ass off and I mostly don’t like country music. It’s all about when they they’re just jamming, it’s incredible.
Billy strings is hella talented.
It’s somewhere on the bluegrass<>country spectrum I wouldn’t really call it country music.
Id argue bluegrass is a subset of country
I wish radio stations felt that way too so they’d play some decent shit instead of pop garbage.
Technically true but nowadays someone will say they like or don’t like country it could mean almost anything lol. But when it comes up I presume modern pop country.
It’s definitely not the first thing people will think of when you say “country”, but it goes hard and definitely has more rural/smalltown/backwoods roots so I think it counts as a subset of country
I love the jamming too! The grateful dead/jerry garcia started out with a more bluegrass sound, which apparently is what the jammy nature of their music was inspired by. See the hart valley drifters
Ya I love the Dead, especially when they play the trippy less structured (my old Deadhead friend says it’s called “space”)
See the hart valley drifters
I like it! This is Jerry pre-Dead?
I think so, I found them from reading something about the history of the dead
Trampled by turtles, the devil makes three
I love The Devil Makes Three
Townes van zandt rolling in his grave right now seeing the state of modern country music
Livin’ on the road, my friend, was gonna keep us free and clean…
Now our breath’s as hard as kerosene
Goodbye Earl -The Chicks
Murder is good, racism bad;
Sorry, <insert ethic slur here> that’s the best take I had.Nah it’s still bad. Not as bad as rap though.
There’s a lot of good rap and country; there’s a lot of bad rap and country. I think you just haven’t been lucky enough to encounter the good stuff - but I advise you not to disregard entire genres of art because you don’t like what you hear on the radio!
The absolute worst rap is better than any given radio-tier country song. I’d sooner listen to my white-as-hell cousin’s mix tape over whatever the fuck two first name having country singer.
This-Is-America.mp3
Those black eyes peas tasted alright to me, Earl
Take a ride to laaaaake EARL…
And, of course, their careers died because they dared to not be right-wing.
I suspect they are still not ready to make nice.
Tyler Childers
The catechism I would put on Reddit when the 20 something men would say country music sucks:
Jason Isbell
Hayes Carll
Sturgill Simpson
Tyler Childers
Margo Price
And I would now add Charley Crockett and Joshua Ray Walker, so good.
Colter Wall, Joshua Quimby, and Nick Shoulders too!
I like “I’ve got a fast car” because it reminds me of “Word around the office, you’ve got a fat cock. I’ve got a fat cock too.”
We should rub our fat cocks together. Maybe some oil.
Weird
Orville Peck
There’s something about his voice that I have a hard time with.
I have a hard time too… but in a good way. 🥰
I’m not really into his music but boy do I love that guy. I’ll bet he’s despised by the latter category of country musicians described in the post
I asked my kids one time to play “that gay cowboy with the deep voice” because I couldn’t remember his name. They both said “Orville Peck is gay?” Lol.
I mean, come on… I took one look at him and knew what team he played for lol
“Goodbye, Earl!”