Country Music thread - Sometime a man's gotta drink, shoot his ex-wife's new beau, or just rant about the good ol' days

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I’m surprised there hasn’t been a mention of Zach Bryan, Koe Wetzel or Bailey Zimmerman yet.

One of my favorite country albums is probably Same Trailer Different Park by Kacey Musgraves. Country music tends to romanticize the small town life, but this album is more depressing and overall realistic of what small town life is like.

Here’s my older (and older-ish) country recommendations:
 
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I hate Kacey Musgraves.

Yeah, she's pretty, she sings well, she writes well, but her writing is fucking degenerate and her message is garbage. If that's the kind of shit I wanted to listen to, I wouldn't be listening to country music. I'll take the more optimistic and "less realistic" small town messaging, thank you.
 
Just your average low down wholesome country song from the 60s that will give you nightmares
 
Probably posting baby's first album to modern country, but I seem to live in a world where Sturgill Simpson's Metamodern Sounds in Country & Western isn't well played or even mentioned. First 10/10 record I've heard in a long while. It's got that real early 70s psychedelic country sound, ala Gram Parsons/Flying Burrito Brothers, down to a tee


Also this thread is a nightmare to load, would be nice if a mod could spoiler the endless list of youtube links (which don't even work)
 
Been listening to mostly country, folk, western, bluegrass, etc. as of late so I figured I'd dump a couple of the artists I've been enjoying here.

Tyler Childers - Lots of great songs from him, great instrumentals to it too. Live on Red Barn Radio I & II are great if you end up enjoying his music.
Feathered Indians
Coal
All Your'n
Nose On The Grindstone
Follow You to Virgie

Colter Wall - Great country and western singer with some amazing vocals. Can listen through all his albums in entirity.
Sleeping on the Blacktop
The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie
Kate McCannon
Cover of Marty Robbins' Big Iron
Johnny Boy's Bones

Corb Lund - Another fantastic artist which iirc great sneeder Jersh has played on stream, has a lot of great music outside the scope of the usual type of country music. Horse Solider is by far his best album if I had to pick one.
Horse Soldier
Student Visas
Bible on the Dash
Out on a Win
Hard on Equipment
Cows Around

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The Red Clay Strays - Pretty Christian Country band but I really enjoy it, the vocals kinda reminded me of The Band which I always loved listening to. Some of their more popular songs are a bit less religious but God Does and Sunshine are pretty blunt about it but still good too.
Wondering Why
I Just Want to Be Loved
I'm Still Fine

Turnpike Troubadours - Been listening to them for a while but just has really hit the spot. They have some great lyrics, espically to some of the songs from Cat in the Rain which has to be my favorite album by far.
Good Lord Lorrie
Bird Hunters
The Rut
Lucille

Red Shahan - Has some great songs that mix it up with some more mellow, funk, or classic rock mixxed into the songs. Some of the funk mixed in kinda reminds me of Childers.
Idle Hands
Men & Coyotes
Culberson County
 
Here are a few ive been listening to lately..

Clay Walker
Need a Bar Sometime

A Little While (ft Ryan Upchurch)


Walyon Jennings
Ladies Love Outlaws


Merle Haggard
Sing Me Back Home


The Charlie Daniels Band
Simple Man
 
I've become a massive gate keeper for country music in recent years. Here are some of the things I've come to realize:
Take whatever song you want. Remove the vocals and listen to the music alone. Does it sound like it could be a hip hop beat? Yes? Then it's not country. So that's pretty much all of what you hear on country radio.
Is there any rapping? Yes? Then not country. I'm sick of faggots like Upchurch and Adam Calhoun and those breed of "country" rappers making nigger music and slapping a country larp over the top of it because they know they'd get their asses kicked if they hung out with the actual crowd they emulate. Upchurch can't sing either but at the very least he has some awareness and appreciation of actual country music. Sure maybe behind the scenes he might be a country guy, but his music barely is country. He just likes to name drop and start internet drama. Currently he's at an all time war with Calhoun, Jelly Roll, Struggle Jennings, and other "country" rappers which pretty much just sounds like a slap fight over who's the biggest wannabe nigger.
I don't consider country rap to be country at all.
While I'm on the subject, Jelly Roll has to be one of the biggest (in more than one way) fucking posers in country music at this time. He started his career by making woe-is-me I'm a former junkie drug addict/dealer who admittedly, I used to like a lot of his old rap. I liked him, Lil Wyte, and Haystak before I just grew out of it. I started hearing it for the whining it was especially with Jelly's "Therapeutic Music" he was pumping out left right and center. I think he's been reading his youtube comments about "you saved my life! I would have died if I hadn't found your music!" and actually believes himself to be some kind of Jesus Christ type savior. Jelly Roll paved the way for fucking Post Malone of all people to make a country album. I'll take Luke fucking Bryan's pop country shit over these face tatted self righteous niggers any day.
F-1 Trillion is the sixth studio album by American rapper and singer Post Malone. It was released through Mercury and Republic Records on August 16, 2024. The album marks Malone's transition to country music and features guest appearances from Tim McGraw, Hank Williams Jr., Morgan Wallen, Blake Shelton, Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley, Luke Combs, Lainey Wilson, Jelly Roll, Ernest, Sierra Ferrell, Chris Stapleton, Hardy, and Billy Strings
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The fact that Hank Jr. is on it is fucking depressing to me. No one else on there really surprises me, except maybe Tim McGraw but his music also has been shit for a long time. I absolutely fucking hated "Humble and Kind".

The only country rappers that I'll give a line of credit to Danny Boone from Rehab (the singer of the Bartender Song/Sittin At A Bar) and Colt Ford off the top of my head, and that's because they seem to make the actual country part of the music the top priority while the rapping is a secondary instead of Upchurch and the like that are hip hop first and foremost and tag the country aspect as an afterthought. It's music for teenagers that latched on to the country identity but don't actually like country music.
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And for the record, I don't hate the song itself, it's just stupid as fuck to consider this country.
Now for actual country my favorites are Chris Ledoux, Cody Johnson, Jason Bolland and the Stragglers, Luke Kaufman, Casey Donahew, Joe Nichols, and Chris Knight off the top of my head
If you want the more "obvious" picks, all the Hanks (even IV has grown on me after not caring for him) George Straight, David Allan Coe, and Merle Haggard. I don't mind Johnny Cash but not really my cup of tea, Waylon is a bit hit or miss for me, never heard much of Kris Kristofferson to really have an opinion, and I actually just never cared for Willie Nelson though I do recognize him as one of the "greats". Also love everything I've heard by John Anderson. Seminole Wind and Straight Tequila Night are undeniable classics.
Also I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith, I grew up on their music. I couldn't stand Red Solo Cup though.

Alt country/country adjacent
Hank III is my shit, even his punk and metal are great. Ghoultown, Murder by Death, Pinebox Boys, the Goddamn Gallows, Drag the River, and Unknown Hinson are also great acts.

If you want to include southern rock then Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd (pre plane crash), .38 Special, and Rebel Son. I'm sure there are others I'm just not thinking of and I've typed enough for this post.
 
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