Audiophile level country (genre)

[JSmith]

ran out of beer

JSmith

 

[Induna]

Johny Cash American Thunder V is a pretty haunting album even though he could barely sing. Is a song made country if it is sung by a lifetime country artist but was written by Gordon Lightfoot? You tell me.

Hank Williams seemed to be in a perpetual creative fever. I particularly like some of his solo guitar recordings such as I Can't Escape from You. But who can resist Take This Message to My Mother or The Angel of Death or A Tramp On the Street? Then there are the quirky, genre bending spoken songs by his alter ego, Luke the Drifter, such as Men With Broken Hearts or A Picture From Life's Other Side which embody pathos and the dignity of the despised. They are all old so I guess they are not HiFi, but the music sure comes through. But, hey, I like Los Tres Ases, too, and Flor de Azalea by Los Panchos and El Jinete by Jorge Negrete. Is it country if the cowboy is Mexican?

 

[Multicore]

Sierra Hull is great, but it's bluegrass/Americana, not country. Likewise Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, Crooked Still, I'm With Her, Nickel Creek...

I thought that in the Venn diagram of genres bluegrass, Americana, and bluegrass/Americana were all full-contained subsets of country.

 

[Multicore]

Earls of Leicester​

There are three albums on Rounder, one of them called Live At The CMA Theater In The Country Music Hall Of Fame, perhaps that's permissible but I suspect they will nevertheless be denounced as bluegrass and or Americana.

Iiuc they use an unusual microphone technique that's well illustrated in this lovely video

 

[SIY]

I thought that in the Venn diagram of genres bluegrass, Americana, and bluegrass/Americana were all full-contained subsets of country.

I don’t see it that way, but no question the lines are blurry.

 

[RayDunzl]

I've got a Junior Brown CD collection that I listen through on occasion.

I can't fault the quality of the recordings.

I kinda enjoy his half-parody of the Texas/Western/Country genres.

 

[pjug]

I don’t see it that way, but no question the lines are blurry.

I love the blurry lines. The Byrds, Gram and Emmylou, Doug Sahm, etc. Charley Crockett is one of my favorite country guys, but I like when he goes into the blur with R&B. On this one maybe he went all the way through the blur.

And I also like no blurry line:

 

[MRC01]

Earls of Leicester

If that doesn't put a big smile on your face, I don't know what will

 

[Chr1]

Reckon you could class The Band as Country too.
My two faves "Willin'" and "The Weight" certainly could be...

 

[pjug]

Reckon you could class The Band as Country too.
My two faves "Willin'" and "The Weight" certainly could be...

More so than the soulless rock with a twang like Toby Keith and such sh*t.