/cmg/ - Country Music General : Texas edition

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/cmg/ - Country Music General : Texas edition

Welcome to /cmg/ y'all, Anon Babble's home for the greatest genre of music on the planet: country music.

Please use this thread to discuss country music and all of its related genres, including bluegrass, jamgrass, outlaw country, Red Dirt country, country-rock, folk, alternative country, and many more.

Lostgrass Archive (obscure bluegrass & country rips)

pastebin.com/1vamLC3W
youtube.com/@LostgrassArchive

/cmg/ Essential Album Charts (in progress) / What Is Country Music?

imgur.com/a/cmg-rINi8oK

YourLast.fmlistening charts are highly encouraged!

Feel free to drop any recommendations below, no matter the subgenre (but please do attach subgenres to it!). I am in the long and intermittent process of compiling updated recommendation charts, so your contributions will be very appreciated.

What have y'all been spinning lately?

Appalachia is pure

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The underground king of /cmg/? I think so

em you

We'll take what we can get

Unless the recorder of that is lurking and wants to re-record it with proper mew

wanna make a country band

in the South

but ackshually too far South and ended up in Spic land so NO COUNTRY ONLY REGGAETON LOL

I hate where I live

retvrn to tradition

Thing is I'm in Florida anon
Cubans don't have the Mexicano Western music

Where at in Florida?

Anon last thread wanted a modern country chart, so I made one.

Hell yeah brother. This is good stuff, adding it to the imgur folder.

youtube.com/watch?v=Me0sZBWMHEw

thats actually colters worst

Couple things about your bluegrass chart. Doc Watson I wouldn't put in the bluegrass category (at least that album I wouldnt) even though he's adjacent to that music and does have some flatpicking songs, I would make a separate entry for traditional folk/old time music and put him there, then maybe throw in people like Roscoe Holcomb, Dock Boggs, Ola Belle Reed, Clarence Ashley, Wade Ward as well.

Well it's my favorite, so there.

Who?
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Fixed, believe it or not I do not talk to people who mention 4chins boards aloud so I hadn't heard power word Anon Babble spoken
That was me, but you got some perfect albums on here, absolutely nailed it with Turnpike, the Zachs, CWC, Stu, Staples, Childers, and Whiskey Myers. I'd argue Billy Strings' Highway Prayers album belongs here more than Home. I need to give some of the others a listen before I critique further, but I do feel Cherie by Theo Lawrence belongs because holy fuck whoever posted him in the last thread that album is bangin. I also might try to make a case for Sierra Ferrell and Charley Crockett making it onto here because they are some of the biggest players recently and deservedly so. The Colter album I think is the right pick, its a goodun.

I'd love some more examples of mexicano western music. The instruments of the mariachi like the trumpet and accordion sound amazing

Dying at 172 after 5 days isn't too bad. At least it shows that this general could have some staying power.

Still listening through everything but I also note a distinct lack of Red Clay Strays on there. Top row is all keepers, I think Lainey might be on the chopping block
We're growing rapidly, its good to see

I didn't think country music had that many listeners here. Perhaps the presence of /cmg/ is opening new listeners' minds to country music?

Yeah, I forgot all about Charlie Crockett. The chart as it stands is just a mix of personal favs and well-liked successes, and for artists I'm not really deeply familiar with like Strings I didn't think too hard about the selection. I'll update as recs come in.

Charlie

inb4 turboautist

Goes to show how much I forgot about him lel. I really should into him more.

UPDATED OP PASTEBIN (use for next thread when this thread expires):
pastebin.com/Zuns5qeC

I think "Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?" by Tyler Childers is a modern classic. It's a 3-side album of variations of 7 church hymns and old country/folk covers. The first side has church organs and a gospel feel, while the second side has a more funk-driven sound with loud horns and strings.

The third side, though, TC and his team completely flip the script and create a countrified trip-hop album out of the songs they had created.

It's a masterpiece, and it doesn't get NEARLY enough recognition. TC and the Food Stamps at their finest.

ITS CHARLEY CROCKETT WITH AN EY LIKE PRIDE AND TWO T'S LIKE DAVY. Check out Man From Waco
I've always wanted a space to sperg about country but I also just think culturally we're becoming more proud about it again, its getting a lot more widespread attention and without as much of a stigma.

*8 on each side of the album, my bad. My point still stands though, it's a masterpiece.

It's funny cause I grew up in a country-loving family. Always listened to 90s country in the truck or van with them. Toby Keith, Garth, Alan Jackson, Tracy Lawrence, you know all the guys.

I hated it as a kid but as a teenager started to "secretly" like it again because it wasn't cool to vocally like country music. It was still in that post 9/11 mindset in the 2010s.

Feels like after 2016 everything switched, and alternative country started to become cool to like, and it's only grown since then so that now alt country is a major sound in the industry.

I'm just glad I can proudly say I love country music now without feeling like I have to hide it.

we're becoming more proud about it again, its getting a lot more widespread attention and without as much of a stigma.

That's a good point and something country fans need to be more appreciative of. Historically "good" country thrives when the genre has broad popularity, not when it's niche and closed off. When sales sag Nashville gets more desperate to cross over into pop, but when rootsier country is allowed to succeed on its own terms it makes the industry as a whole more supportive. This cycle played out in the 80s and 90s and it's playing out again right now. In the early 90s country music and culture was cool and neotraditional sounds permeated even the most mainstream hits, and now the pendulum is swinging back again and regular people are rediscovering how cool it can be again, and rootsy sounds are coming back into vogue even among the big stars.

Is anyone else having problems with RYM?

Every time I try to load a specific chart, such as "Greatest Country Songs of the 1950s", it defaults to the "Greatest Albums of All Time" chart. This has rendered the site virtually worthless. Is this a bug? or something worse?

(AN: I posted this in the last thread, but it was the last post, so nobody had the chance to reply.)

youtube.com/watch?v=4QIZE708gJ4

Comfy

That's pretty much exactly the same experience I had, except I was one of those guys that would constantly shit on modern country and would parrot the "Wrong generation" bullshit, until my brother showed me Billy Strings and proved that if you think music of your time is bad, its because you aren't looking hard enough. Now finding good modern country is something I'm really passionate about, and supporting artists of our own time
I'm really happy about the roots sound coming more into fashion. I feel Chris Stapleton really shot it into the spotlight, and with the advent of Zach Top I think we're in the midst of a real country renaissance

I'm just glad we have a comfy general to hang out in

I leave /cmg/ open most of the time

A country larp album by Ringo Starr had no business being this good.
youtube.com/watch?v=KdbO8ynNZac

I'm just south of Boca Raton

He wrote "Don't Pass Me By" which has a little bit of country sound in it so it made sense

Boca Raton

Jelly, I'm stuck in my landlocked shithole state

Anon if I go any further south I may as well be in a Hispanic country

At least you get to look at a bunch of Latina ass all the time. Count your blessings, papi.

I like pale white women

You would love Appalachia

pale white women

could actually start a country band

Sounds good to me