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Sin Agog
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Re: Country & Western Challenge
Sep 26, 2015, 13:03
I recommend you listen to this old show of mine for some of the older, more ethereal country strains, before it became bedraggled, besmirched and benighted by bumper sticker-sporting creationists. Actually, there were probably a fair few of those types around back then, too, but believing in the divine is often a boon in creating divine music. I always felt that the boiler room of the U.S. could be found down in the basement of the south. Those cats seem to have a line to the id the Yankees up north are arguably too heady and self-conscious to access. https://archive.org/details/75Simon-EarlyCountryMusic

Steve-O's list is bang-on, by the way. Marty Robbins is one of the more engaging storytellers in music (maybe second to Jake Thackray), and catchy as hell. Western Swing is a pretty wonderful genre. Take all the joyful revelry of Fats Waller and the like, play it on country instruments, and you have thee perfect musik. Plus they used gee-tarr distortion before The Kinks or the Beatles were even born: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxq2WmrE7cE

I wanted to do one on freaky psychedelic country, peopled by the likes of Henry Flynt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LstLpd_iVWA) and the kind of crazy one-offs you find on series like Twisted Tales From the Vinyl Wasteland like Exorcism, but I never got around to it.
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