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Favorite Alternative Country-Americana albums
Here's my list:
Son Volt- Trace
Whiskeytown- Strangers Almanac
Dixie Chicks -Home
Lucidna Williams- Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Uncle Tupelo -Anodyne
Steve Earle- Guitar Town
Emmylou Harris -Wrecking Ball
Mike Ness -Cheating at Solitaire
Dwight Yoakam - Beunos Noches from a Lonely Hotel Room, Blame the Vain, and Last Chance for a thousand years.
What do you think? Add your own favorites of course.
Son Volt- Trace
Whiskeytown- Strangers Almanac
Dixie Chicks -Home
Lucidna Williams- Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Uncle Tupelo -Anodyne
Steve Earle- Guitar Town
Emmylou Harris -Wrecking Ball
Mike Ness -Cheating at Solitaire
Dwight Yoakam - Beunos Noches from a Lonely Hotel Room, Blame the Vain, and Last Chance for a thousand years.
What do you think? Add your own favorites of course.
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Permalink Reply by john poole on -
Some albums and names that may not previously have been mentioned -
The Everly Brothers - Songs Our Daddy Taught Us
Fred Neil - Bleecker & MacDougal
The Gosdin Brothers - Sounds of Goodbye
Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Doug Sahm and The Sir Douglas Quintet - The Complete Mercury Recordings
Gene Clark - White Light
Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen - Lost in the Ozone
Johnathan Richman - Jonathan Goes Country
Ben Vaughn - Mono / Mono USA
The Walkabouts - Satisfied Mind
Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen - Bakersfield Bound
Lambchop - What Another Man Spills
Laura Cantrell - Not The Tremblin' Kind
Calexico - Feast of Wire
Jim White - Drill a Hole....
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Permalink Reply by David Shaw on -
Thanx for the reminder of the Walkabouts ... took me an age to find it in the Sargasso Sea of my music collection ... love that record ... and kudos to them for covering Gene Clark, Mary Margaret O'Hara AND Charlie Rich. Any other recordings by them that anyone wants to recommend?
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Permalink Reply by Bill Long on -
The Byrds: Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Michael McCloud: Live As I Can Be
Tom Gaston & The Wild Heard: Original & Traditional (the original one)
The Skillet Lickers: Live From Blairsville Courthouse
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Permalink Reply by Adrian Hodges on -
Hard to argue with any of these great records from Sonofspam, although am I the only one who has a blind spot about Lucinda Williams? I keep trying but I always find something off-putting about her voice. Sorry. I know that's heresy in these circles, and I do try again with every album. I've never heard the Mike Ness album, though. I'd also add Ryan Adams' Gold and Cold Roses, Son Volt's less fashionable third album Wide Swing Tremolo, and Chris Knight's first album. Just for starters...
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Permalink Reply by Sonofspam on
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It's funny but i love her voice but her lyrics tend to annoy me.
But it's ironic cause i was wondering how many female singers had that rough style in there voice and were popular.
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Permalink Reply by Kate Gerritsen on -
I way prefer that rough voice for females vocals and get quite bored with the rest. I like Lucinda a lot and so does my husband. One time our musician-son was riding with us in the car and we decided to play one of our favourite Lucinda songs - drat, can't think of the name of it now, but both the lyrics and the voice are quite abrasive. We were raving about the song then played it, and afterwards our 17 year old son said, "I think that is about the worst song I've ever heard!" We got quite a kick out of that - there is no accounting for taste.
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Permalink Reply by Dave O. on -
James McMurtry-Too Long in the Wasteland
John Hiatt-Slow Turning
Robert Earl Keen-A Bigger Piece of Sky
John Prine-Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings
Lucinda Williams-Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
The Jayhawks-Hollywood Town Hall
Jim Lauderdale-Pretty Close to the Truth
Rosanne Cash-Rules of Travel
Bodeans-Black and White
Lyle Lovett- and His Large Band
Jimmie Dale Gilmore-Spinning Around the Sun
Steve Earle-Copperhead Road
All of these artists have several albums that could easily have made my list but these are the ones that I play over and over.
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Permalink Reply by Daniel T on -
Nothing wrong with Sonofspam's best of. Trace is seemingly the frontrunner for being on most lists. It would be my favorite. "Tear Stained Eye" is my idea of the perfect Americana/ Alt - Country song. No surprise the Wilco catalog is right behind it. Is'nt that how this whole thing got started? Uncle Tupelo's "No Depression"? One good band made two better bands. Myself, I'm glad Jay and Jeff had different visions. Both are valid. Easy Ed makes a good point. North America includes Canada and Blue Rodeo's "Diamond Mine" was one of the first "y'all-ternative" records I could'nt stop playing. And I do mean record as in vinyl LP. I'm glad to see some going back to the Byrd's era, Youngbloods , Gram Parsons etc.... How about The Beau Brummels " Bradley's Barn". That was a departure from the norm. Could Americana go back so far as say the Rockabilly era? Maybe that's a question for another forum. Right now the CD I listen to most would be Mark Smilor's "Rural Suburbia". Given time , I believe it would make my favorites list.Which would be most of the catalogs of these artists,
Uncle Tupelo
Son Volt
Wilco
The Backsliders
Old 97's
Blue Rodeo
Emmylou Harris
Lucinda Williams
Gillian Welch
Cowboy Junkies
The Beat Farmers
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Permalink Reply by Kate Gerritsen on
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Hear, hear. Well said.
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Permalink Reply by solenoid lopez on -
Some of my favourites before stumbling across Uncle Tupelo in '92(and I did that because of my then love of all things R.E.M.), anyways:
Jason And The Scorchers-Fervor
The Long Ryders-Two Fisted Tales
R.E.M.- Lifes Rich Pageant (include all the IRS albums with this one but LRP is my fav)
Lemonheads-Lovey (first time I'm heard of Gram due to cover of Brass Buttons)
Neil Young-Ragged Glory (my first ever Neil purchase)
Dinosaur Jr-Where You Been
Post UT discovery:
UT-everything they did
Whiskeytown-everything but especially Faithless Street
Jayhawks-Hollywood Town Hall
Richmond Fontaine-everything but Post To Wire is my favourite
Neko Case-Furnace Room Lullabye
Wilco and Bragg-Mermaid 1 (the Wilco tracks especially although Walt Whitmans Neice is amazing)
Peter Bruntnell-Normal For Bridgewater
Ryan Adams-Heartbreaker
Loretta Lynn- The Van Lear Rose
Gillian Welch- Time, The Revelator
I'm sure there are others.
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