PitchforkArms: Need Country Music recs

DadKungFu 10.13.22	Hell yeah Jerry Jeff Walker - Viva Terlingua! Guy Clark - Old No. 1 Buck Owens - I've Got a Tiger By the Tail
SlothcoreSam 10.13.22	there is an album out tomorrow that you might like. Plains - I Walked With You a Ways https://plainsband.bandcamp.com/album/i-walked-with-you-a-ways It's Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson
Flugmorph 10.13.22	Townes Van Zandt
PitchforkArms 10.13.22	@DadKungFu - spinning now @Sloth - oooo, going to look out for that @Flug - love me some TVZ, Waiting Around to Die is one of my all-time tracks
Colton 10.13.22	Orville Peck
Drifter 10.13.22	jam george jones - trouble in mind album
PitchforkArms 10.13.22	Colton my dude we have gone back and forth on Many a Orville Peck threads. He is my modern fav
YoYoMancuso 10.13.22	michael jackson - thriller
PitchforkArms 10.13.22	@DadKungFu this Buck Owens is MY JAMMMMMM
PitchforkArms 10.13.22	@cuso -_-
ZombieParty 10.13.22	John Denver - Poems, Prayers & Promises
fogza 10.13.22	Ghandhi has a very good country list https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=1069973&listid=195941
DANcore 10.13.22	You prob know these already but I’ll throw em down anyway Gram Parsons-Grievous Angel Waylon Jennings-Dreaming/Honky Tonk Heroes Honey Harper-Starmaker Jason Isbell-Reunions Johnny Cash-American Recordings TVZ-Live at the Old Quarter Emmylou Harris-Pieces of the Sky/Quarter Moon/Luxury Liner/anything she’s done bc she’s a hidden gem and such a gilf Willie Nelson-Stardust Chris Stapleton-Traveler Sturgill Simpson Kacey Musgraves-Same Trailer Diff Park Waxahatchee-St Cloud
DominionMM1 10.13.22	george strait- strait country clint black- killin’ time dwight yoakam- guitars cadillacs etc
Pho3nix 10.13.22	Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings - Heroes Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson - Waylon & Willie Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger Colter Wall - Songs of the Plains The Highmen - Highwayman The Highwomen - The Highwomen Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska (just throwing this in here in case you haven't listened to it, a warm rec!) Chris Stapleton - Starting Over Orville Peck - Bronco Johnny Cash - Orange Blossom Special Merle Haggard - Okie from Muskogee Don Edwards - Goin' back to Texas Billy Joe Shaver - I'm just an old chunk of coal... but I'm gonna be a diamond some day The Statler Brothers - Bed of Rose's
Vinnymcscoop 10.13.22	Grant MacDonald - Ram Ranch
ArsMoriendi 10.14.22	Lavender Country - Lavender Country (gay protest country from the 1970s)
Minortimbo12 10.14.22	alright, alright yeah, alright, ALRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT
PitchforkArms 10.16.22	Thank you everyone for the recs - spinning lots of these!
nuklearmoose 10.21.22	Twangy shit alright! Hank Williams Jr. - Country Shadows Bill Phillips - Put it off Until Tomorrow (first track is duet with Dolly Parton) Loretta Lynn - Coal Miners Daughter (obvi) Ray Price - Night Life George Jones - The New Favorites of George Jones Connie Smith - Connie Smith Jack Greene - All the Time (or There Goes My Everything, both are good albums) Webb Pierce - Memory #1 Johnny Paycheck - At Carnegie Hall Stonwall Jackson - Trouble & Me Ruby Wright - Dern Ya Eddy Arnold - Cattle Call Oh yeah , Willie Nelson - Both Sides Now , and most of his 60s stuff is awesome too.
PitchforkArms 10.22.22	Hellll yes. Lots of artists in that list that I know and like - will spin lots of this soon!
PitchforkArms 10.31.22	Any super modern recs?
nuklearmoose 11.18.22	Zephaniah O'Hara, and Daniel Romano (Sleep Beneath the Willow, Come Cry with Me, and If I've Only One Time Askin'). Joshua Hedley's Mr. Jukebox too.
PitchforkArms 11.18.22	Thanks, Nuk - you gave me a bunch of recs that I have had on repeat, so you bet your ass I'm spinning these
nuklearmoose 11.22.22	No problem! Awesome to hear, I am glad! Personally have been really into Memory #1 and other Pierce albums lately. If you got any recs too Id be happy to listen! let me know what you think of the new stuff too
Sharenge 11.22.22	Ben Nichols - The Last Pale Light in the West
Kompys2000 11.22.22	Willi Carlisle- Peculiar, Missouri Sierra Ferrell- Long Time Coming Neko Case- Blacklisted Dougie Poole- The Freelancer's Blues The Hollering Pines- Long Nights, Short Lives & Spilled Chances All within the last 10 years except Blacklisted!
theBoneyKing 11.22.22	Blacklisted is an eternal rec
Emim 11.22.22	I dig Marcus King More bluesy than country but he's got a great voice
PitchforkArms 04.11.23	Have been stuck on Marty Robbins for weeks. Trail on, footsoldiers.
AmericanFlagAsh 04.11.23	I love twangy depressing stuff too! Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music Willie Nelson - Phases and Stages Townes Van Zandt - Our Mother the Mountain
Tundra 04.11.23	The Climb by Miley Cyrus
MillionDead 04.11.23	Looks like these fine folk have you mostly covered. I'd like to add Honky Tonk Til I Die by Eric Stickland & the B-sides to the discussion though.
PitchforkArms 04.12.23	Our Mother the Mountain is STELLAR
Ryus 04.12.23	yeah its incredible. check his s/t too, its just as good
PitchforkArms 04.12.23	Realized I hadn't had them rated. Love both. Waiting Around to Die is an all-timer for me.
PitchforkArms 04.12.23	The reviews for both of those TVZ records are pretty wretchedly not good.... might jump on one or two of em.
nuklearmoose 05.06.23	Coming back to this, what have you been enjoying the most over the last few months? Would recommend listening to Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and Wilburn Brothers next.. Troubles Back in Town has been in my head for days haha
robertsona 05.06.23	Nanci Griffith - One Fair Summer Evening
PitchforkArms 05.09.23	Strangely enough, I am doing a bluegrass set for a work function with a few work friends, so I've bees listening to a lot of Louvin Brothers. We're covering I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby. Otherwise it has been a lot of Tubb and Buck Owens. Streets of Bakersfield is amazing. @rob, will def spin
nuklearmoose 05.10.23	I just got a bunch of Buck cds this week! Ruby is a great bluegrass style album
Storm In A Teacup 05.10.23	I dont like country except some but i like western
Flugmorph 05.10.23	riveting stuff stormy death to the west
PitchforkArms 05.10.23	lol Storm listen to Marty Robbins my dood @moose - that's the owens record with his rocky top rendition, right? I remember it banging pretty hard
Storm In A Teacup 05.10.23	I have been for over 20 years lol
Storm In A Teacup 05.10.23	Im from and live in Oklahoma.
nuklearmoose 05.11.23	@pitch, yes it is. Love that version haha. The whole album is a barn party. Would def recommend for outdoor parties in the country!
PotsyTater 05.11.23	You are travelling a dark path pitchfork
PitchforkArms 05.11.23	Pots I been being like this. This old whiney ass country/gluegrass/folk is right up there with my fav music ever.
PitchforkArms 05.11.23	Actually a little surprised that you aren't into a bit of it, seeing as you're into some of the OG jazz singer folks
nuklearmoose 05.12.23	only "dark path" about classic country is its been so hard to listen to anything else because I always want to listen to CC lol
PitchforkArms 05.15.23	Stumbled across a hidden gem this weekend David Houston - Cowpoke What a great track
nuklearmoose 05.16.23	will listen, ive heard a few of his songs before and almost bought a record. ...wait a minute! I have heard this! have you heard Hank Williams Jr.'s version of Cowpoke?
PitchforkArms 05.30.23	I have not heard that version, moose... I will spin it, but I just can't imagine him having the same beautiful falsetto as the David Houston version. A few more tracks that have been hitting hard recently: Sometimes You Just Can't Win - George Jones Streets of Bakersfield - Buck Owens A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins & Ray Conniff a modern one--- Believe Me - James and the Shame
nuklearmoose 06.10.23	David's version of Cowpoke is what Eddy Arnold's version of Cattle Call is. But Hank Jr. has a great version, and considering he's like 17 when that is done is also pretty neat! I honestly recommend most of his MGM catalog which is overlooked imo, and understandably so since he tried to emulate his father (really at the hands of MGM and the people who managed him growing up...) I love that George Jones track.. Another favourite of mine is Three's a Crowd and Open Pit Mine.. His Dallas Frazier cover album is solid too! I will definitely be checking out the other tracks too
PitchforkArms 06.10.23	Nuke, just so you know, you have contributed more on an individual song basis to my listening habits more than anyone in the world the last many months
Ryus 06.10.23	16 horsepower for modern goth country stylingz
DadKungFu 06.10.23	Zephaniah Ohora for a more modern Bakersfield sound
PotsyTater 06.10.23	“Need country music recs” I assure you, you do not
Ryus 06.10.23	filtered by country smh
PotsyTater 06.10.23	Filt deez
ArsMoriendi 06.10.23	It is pride month, so I once again am recommending Lavender Country by Lavender Country A hard 5. It’s political, pretty, and gay as hell
PotsyTater 06.10.23	I do stan the gay country movement tbh Still don’t like the music but it’s just so satisfying
Ryus 06.10.23	lavender country is good ye
Havey 06.10.23	hazel dickens - hard hitting songs for hard hit people
Havey 06.10.23	jimmie dale & the flatlanders
Havey 06.10.23	morgan wallen
TheAntichrist 06.10.23	do u really need country music recs tho
Havey 06.10.23	it's a top 5 genre so yes
Ryus 06.10.23	morgan wallen [2]
PotsyTater 06.10.23	“ it's a top 5 genre so yes” If we are talking umbrella genres and can somehow find a way to pare them down to electronic, country, hip hop, guitar music, and jazzicalbluesoulfunk then this technically is true. It would be number 5.
DadKungFu 06.10.23	Blues technically got its start under the umbrella term "country music" so by some wild extrapolating of musical geneology and historical terminology both Madvillain and Immolation are now designated country music
Storm In A Teacup 06.10.23	Settle down now, buckos
JohnnyoftheWell 06.10.23	harvey's contrarian leg stretching all the way to the country hopscotch square is at once a pleasure and a degrading mess to behold
Storm In A Teacup 06.10.23	Western falls under country so top 5 is definitely not a stretch. It isnt haveys fault yall are so young and inexperienced with all the music of the world.
JohnnyoftheWell 06.10.23	thanks america, next
Storm In A Teacup 06.10.23	Americana is also country you are a winner!
PotsyTater 06.10.23	@dad fortunately out of all those that I amalgamated I can afford to lose blues the most so that’s fine
PotsyTater 06.10.23	“ It isnt haveys fault yall are so young and inexperienced with all the music of the world.” Storm you know 3 genres total and all of them are white and American
Havey 06.11.23	thank you storm for bringing these philistines back to earth m/ on the other hand, you are not helping me beat the retirement age allegations
Storm In A Teacup 06.11.23	Lmao Havey it is okay dont worry the government doesnt believe in retirement anymore.
Storm In A Teacup 06.11.23	"Storm you know 3 genres total and all of them are white and American" Cope-core Post-Cope Country Coping
PitchforkArms 06.12.23	I unabashedly love this kind of music and it has very easily become one my very favorite specific genres. Plenty of dogshit country music, obviously, like every genre. But yeah people do often find it easy to throw their blinders on and dismiss it
MoM 06.12.23	[123]
Kompys2000 06.12.23	"Cope-core Post-Cope Country Coping" Lmao bodied
unclereich 06.12.23	blaze foley- sittin' by the road
PitchforkArms 06.12.23	unc - whole record or are there specific songs to get me into it?
unclereich 06.12.23	clay pigeons is his most famous song, but the whole record is pretty genius
SomeCallMeTim 06.12.23	lucinda williams - car wheels on a gravel road
JohnnyoftheWell 06.12.23	unsure who is coping hardest itt
PotsyTater 06.12.23	The answer is always the Americans
JohnnyoftheWell 06.12.23	if coping involves karening around and dealing with problems localised entirely inside your horrifically bloated inner being, then yes if it involves otherwise actually suffering then bet country is a good cope diva genre
PotsyTater 06.12.23	Well I actually suffer whenever storm tries to form cogent comments so perhaps it’s me after all
PitchforkArms 06.12.23	I'm so confused as to this approach to the country music hate. Sure, you can not be into it, but I'm sensing a bit of the cringe af internet behavior of "american = default to disliking it". Say something about the music, I guess.
JohnnyoftheWell 06.12.23	maybe you do need country after all pots
PitchforkArms 06.12.23	"Well I actually suffer whenever storm tries to form cogent comments so perhaps it’s me after all" fuck lol - spit out my drink a bit, sorry storm
JohnnyoftheWell 06.12.23	"I'm so confused as to this approach to the country music hate...Say something about the music, I guess" 1) absurdly presumptuous of you to expect people derailing a country music thread to talk about country music 2) you are also accusing said people of talking about country music, which is the arguably worse offence 3) do you you rly want a multi-para barrage correlating general star n stripes cornballs with specific country music cornballs um do you
PotsyTater 06.12.23	Shitposting aside Americana and bluegrass are ok and I lowkey fucks with patsy cline
Ryus 06.12.23	country rules dw pitchfork c/ c/ c/
SomeCallMeTim 06.12.23	ween - live in toronto this album might actually kill pots its so over the top
Ryus 06.12.23	i assume ur familiar with gram parsons right
JohnnyoftheWell 06.12.23	bluegrass is good and all the country posers on this site are too busy sniffing outlaw farts to rep it
PitchforkArms 06.12.23	1) fuck - good point 2) fuck again - yeah 3) no, but I'm sure it could be very easily done up lol - but I think there's a lot more (or really a lot less) going on in most of the country music being referenced in this list and thread. The stars&stripes lameness is def what causes people to dismiss most of the genre as a whole, tho.
PitchforkArms 06.12.23	Bluegrass shreds. I'll rep that every day. @Pots - Patsy is the fuckin bomb. @Ryus - Parsons is sultry af. tbh, though, I prefer the more stipped down and homely stuffs. He's got that sprawling, beautiful, and sorta sexy sound goin on.
PotsyTater 06.12.23	“ bluegrass is good and all the country posers on this site are too busy sniffing outlaw farts to rep it” That’s the problem, the average “I like country” sayer is not, in fact, referring to any of the tolerable derivatives of the genre.
PotsyTater 06.12.23	I kinda feel like people saying “I like edm” without a word further in elaboration gives me a similar approximation of the capacity of one’s cognitive faculties
SomeCallMeTim 06.12.23	gotta give the rym genre breakdown
dbizzles 06.12.23	A lot of the country I like didn't put out albums because they are old as fuck and they just did singles lol. George Jones, Roy Acuff, Bob Wills, Charlie Pride, the Louvin Brothers, Left Frizell, Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, Kris Kristofferson, Ernest Tubb, Tom T. Hall, Ray Price, Johnny Paycheck, and of course Waylon, Merle, and Willie are worth your time. Almost my entire point of reference for getting into country was the podcast Cocaine and Rhinestones pulling out my memories of childhood with my grandpa. Would recommend. EDIT: didn't think twice about whether I recommended any duplicates from your list or the comments, sorry.
PotsyTater 06.12.23	But if you said to me “I like country” and then before I could purse my lips into a “fffffffuuck off” you gently pressed your pointer finger against them and said “oh no honey, I like that GAY shit” I would probably fucks with you pretty quick
dbizzles 06.12.23	lmao
PitchforkArms 06.12.23	@pots - Honestly, most of the super old whiny twangy shit is just about as gay as you can get without actually being the part. @dbiz - definitely know what you're saying. Same situation with nearly all of my favorite old jazz vocalists. It was just an era of every artist going family-style on the same songs that someone else wrote...
unclereich 06.12.23	"But if you said to me “I like country” and then before I could purse my lips into a “fffffffuuck off” you gently pressed your pointer finger against them and said “oh no honey, I like that GAY shit” I would probably fucks with you pretty quick" that's because besides "that gay shit" modern country is by all accounts the last bastion of the bud light/target boycotters musical identity. I love country music but my enjoyment lies entirely in the pre 90s before it was taken over by those who made it a monolith like garth brooks. when people ask if I like country I always say "yea Johnny cash and his contemporaries"
PotsyTater 06.12.23	Good take
sneakers 06.12.23	that kid who sang what I dooOooOOooOOOoo in walmart from a few years back
unclereich 06.12.23	he actually became honey harper, pretty crazy
PitchforkArms 06.12.23	@unc - well said
MoM 06.12.23	[2] I like some modern country, but there’s a lot of grain of salt shit to go with it. I blame 9/11
dbizzles 06.12.23	'It was just an era of every artist going family-style on the same songs that someone else wrote...' Yes. Shit was annoying as hell to get into. Greatest Hits collections were a god-send, but I also just hate exploring music like that.
PotsyTater 06.12.23	Do people outside of North America listen to country?
Kompys2000 06.12.23	Idk why they would really
PotsyTater 06.12.23	Like is there country radio in the uk lmao
PotsyTater 06.12.23	And if no then to what extent do they not listen to country? Do Brits even care about Johnny cash?
PotsyTater 06.12.23	How do the Brit’s feel about Rina sawayama making a country song
JohnnyoftheWell 06.12.23	"Do Brits even care about Johnny cash?" Johnny Cash has sizable brit cred (arguably more than the rest of country combined), and Rina got the rules of the BRIT awards changed to break borders so she's now also allowed to do whatever tf she likes with other nations' simpy folk musics
Kompys2000 06.12.23	I've really grown to love the performance aspect of country, I think the way old school Nashville made technical showcases so entertaining and accessible to middle America was really special https://youtu.be/xlrcNtH5pu8 https://youtu.be/Ta4535Y8xYE https://youtu.be/T610KFOSNHw https://youtu.be/x2M_J16z9sk
Ryus 06.12.23	glen campbell
Ryus 06.12.23	i like everything but rap and country actually haha
PotsyTater 06.12.23	“ cash?" Johnny Cash has sizable brit cred (arguably more than the rest of country combined” That’s what I would have figured “ Rina got the rules of the BRIT awards changed to break borders so she's now also allowed to do whatever tf she likes with other nations' simpy folk musics” Oh Damn y’all really simp for her that’s super embarrassing
JohnnyoftheWell 06.12.23	if accidentally on purpose making country a nationless genre is what it takes to make rina an icon, you know she'll go there
PotsyTater 06.12.23	She will never be an icon
MoM 06.12.23	[2] Country Without Borders, though
DadKungFu 06.12.23	99% of the time when euros attempt country it’s some flabby, louche gothic 16 Horsepower wannabe thing no thanks
Ryus 06.12.23	thats cultural appropriation
DadKungFu 06.12.23	Or mekons mekons rule
SomeCallMeTim 06.12.23	nickelback - get rollin
JohnnyoftheWell 06.12.23	"She will never be an icon" The Icon starring rina sawayama and johnny depp i am ready you are ready
dbizzles 06.13.23	'Do people outside of North America listen to country?' I know it's popular in Canada, but that's neighboring country. I could've sworn I read/someone told me that it was big in, like, Switzerland or something lol. I can't find anything to back that up.
DadKungFu 06.13.23	16 Horsepower and Wovenhand both have a big following in Greece for some reason
Storm In A Teacup 06.13.23	Probably folk country as in First Aid Kit Emmylou Harris
Storm In A Teacup 06.13.23	@dbizzles
PotsyTater 06.13.23	@dbizz Canada is a part of North America my friend lol
ArsMoriendi 06.13.23	I knew and English guy who was super into bro-country and pop punk Had a Wonder Years tattoo and would play Wagon Wheel by Darius Rucker too much
Feather 06.13.23	My short list: Ruston Kelly Jason Isbell Colter Wall Zach Bryan Tyler Childers
oWhoadYo 06.13.23	Drive By Truckers, Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams, Uncle Tupelo, Jason Isbell, Son Volt, Sturgill Simpson, William Tyler, Jackson C Frank
PitchforkArms 06.13.23	I'm sure there is a bit of international overlap into country music with some of the super rustic and homely modern folk music in Scandinavia, but probably not much of dipping into the trve americana rebel western country type shit. Cash was a punk af gruff country crooner, he seems like he would be the one to internationally transcend a little bit since there is a bit more out-of-genre appeal that people could glom onto
dbizzles 06.13.23	lol potsy, I thought I read USA. Typical American.
PotsyTater 06.13.23	Hahahah
nuklearmoose 06.14.23	There is or was likely a time when classic country was fairly popular in Europe or UK at least, bc a lot of reissue labels reissued albums either in compilations (2 in 1 or 4 in 2 albums) like RealGone Music or BGO, etc.. quite a few bootleg transcription albums or comps too from Switzerland haha
nuklearmoose 06.14.23	Stetson label in UK also reissued a lot of classic country records in the 80s/90s. Not sure if they still do today
nuklearmoose 06.14.23	Oh yeah, also had Bear Family Records from Germany which specialized in old rockabilly/classic country catalogs as well as compilations
Donchivo 06.14.23	too much work to scroll thorugh and see if he was recommended already. Please do yourself a favor and try out some Lead Belly. He was the OG, playing early Blues and Country from the 1910s onwards, writing a lot of classics that later became famous when played by country, rock and blues artists throughout a lot of the 20th century.
bigweinerdon 06.14.23	90’s Brooks and Dunn
SomeCallMeTim 06.14.23	meat puppets
Storm In A Teacup 06.14.23	In the big rock candy mountains Theres a land thats fair and bright Where the handouts grown on bushes And you sleep outside every night
PitchforkArms 06.18.23	@Donchivo I’m a huge Lead Belly guy. The OGest of OGs.
protokute 07.13.23	for all the country boys here, i definitely recommend you guys to check the recently released album from Marty Stuart (and His Fabulous Superlatives) - Altitude full of that fat twang and jangle that i love.