When I was strumming away and trying to be the next big thing in my twenties half a lifetime back, Neil Young covered any country and folk hankerings I had.
The wife's dragged me to Country2Country for a couple of years in Dublin and we've been to see Ashley McBryde within the past week with Brad Paisley a week away and Charles Eston a week later.
Do I need help? I haven't written angsty angry originals for twenty years or bought a rock album since Adore by Smashing Pumpkins.
The band's I've been playing in since I've done originals are therun of the mill covers bands playing Brown Eyed Girl.
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I recently discovered this cover of a Glen Campbell song
this got me listening to some classic country songs again and there are some fantastic songs from the country music corner.
I can't stand most of the slicker modern country music, even though the musicians are often extraordinary, and I can see the craft that has gone into the writing and production.
Here's a bit of Eilen Jewell, with her fantastic guitar player Jerry Miller:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTuBoqon4JA
The quality of this guy is amazing.
Some great musicians and the genre covers a large spread of music.
Had a great time at C2C the other year.
Off to that there London to see Brad Paisley next week.
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Country music has a long history and it’s a reasonably wide church these days so that’s probably not entirely fair but the tendency toward schmaltz does make me struggle with it a bit. MrsTheWeary was a fan of the new country era with artists like Garth Brooks so it’s that kind of era I’m more familiar with which was very much the revival of the hat and boots.
However, it’s one of the roots of rock’n’roll and to some extent reggae so I guess my world would have been worse off without it.
There’s quite a good BBC Radio 4 documentary on country music in Kenya. They sent troops to the Korean War and those that survived came back with a love of country music ( from fighting alongside Americans, I’m not sure the Koreans were into it) and there’s a healthy country scene there to this day...
https://youtu.be/YcxhytgOX-s