I am a huge fan of the (Dixie) Chicks, there is something about their sound that really resonates with me. I stopped listening to most contemporary country hit music when it moved into the "bro country" sound maybe 15 years ago. Although there a lot of new great songs out there, like Lizzie No's "The Heartbreak Store" or Jett Holden's "Backwood Proclamation."
FWIW, one of my favorite Chicks songs is "Voice Inside My Head" which sounds a lot like the best country rock song Linda Ronstadt never recorded.
A great read, and touching exchange between the two of and, oh man, I really want to recommend more folk-country songs (I'm not really a County fan but came to the genre through singer-songwiters like Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark and really love some of the songwriting and storytelling in country music).
Just to throw one out there, this is a song I was obsessed with for a while last year). Gretchen Peters (a great songwriter herself) released an album of covers of Mickey Newbury songs (who? You ask. Good question, I'd heard his name but didn't know many of his songs. You don't need to know his version to appreciate her recording).
In one interview she says, "There was something in his songs that deeply resonated with me . . . that a 19 year old hippie chick from Boulder would find something in this redneck from Houston singing Country music, which I had never really heard until my late teens. Obviously if that happens there's some deeper connection going on."
The title song for the album is, "The Night You Wrote That Song" It isn't a story; it's weird, sometimes tricky to understand and, I think, superb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Punabc8yEWk
Thanks, and I realized that I was typing a little too quickly to pull my thoughts together. Part of why I recommend that specific song is that it is (a) very good, (b) clearly folk/country and fairly different from the Chick's and (c) that the story behind the song is one of music creating a connection across a gap of generations and gender.
I am a huge fan of the (Dixie) Chicks, there is something about their sound that really resonates with me. I stopped listening to most contemporary country hit music when it moved into the "bro country" sound maybe 15 years ago. Although there a lot of new great songs out there, like Lizzie No's "The Heartbreak Store" or Jett Holden's "Backwood Proclamation."
FWIW, one of my favorite Chicks songs is "Voice Inside My Head" which sounds a lot like the best country rock song Linda Ronstadt never recorded.
Thanks! I’ll give it a spin.
The Knitters are so damn good! Sarah Shook and The Disarmers, Lydia Loveless, Scud Mountain Boys, Milk Carton Kids; all great folk/country stuff.
Agree! And thanks for the great recommendations.
A great read, and touching exchange between the two of and, oh man, I really want to recommend more folk-country songs (I'm not really a County fan but came to the genre through singer-songwiters like Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark and really love some of the songwriting and storytelling in country music).
Just to throw one out there, this is a song I was obsessed with for a while last year). Gretchen Peters (a great songwriter herself) released an album of covers of Mickey Newbury songs (who? You ask. Good question, I'd heard his name but didn't know many of his songs. You don't need to know his version to appreciate her recording).
In one interview she says, "There was something in his songs that deeply resonated with me . . . that a 19 year old hippie chick from Boulder would find something in this redneck from Houston singing Country music, which I had never really heard until my late teens. Obviously if that happens there's some deeper connection going on."
The title song for the album is, "The Night You Wrote That Song" It isn't a story; it's weird, sometimes tricky to understand and, I think, superb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Punabc8yEWk
Amazing! I’ll check it out. And thanks for the kind words.
Thanks, and I realized that I was typing a little too quickly to pull my thoughts together. Part of why I recommend that specific song is that it is (a) very good, (b) clearly folk/country and fairly different from the Chick's and (c) that the story behind the song is one of music creating a connection across a gap of generations and gender.