Subj : Country-Rock
To   : Rich Lockyer
From : Martin Ridgley
Date : Fri Sep 22 2000 11:05 am

  Hey Rich,

-=> Rich Lockyer wrote to Paul Lawson <=-
 RL> Ever notice how modern country sounds like early (really, ANY)
 RL> Eagles?  They do have a country "feel" to them, but in their
 RL> early years, they certainly weren't "country".. no cat-torture
 RL> slide guitars, no "I lost my wife and my truck and my beer"...

   Yeah.  Contemporary country music is definitely closer to country-
 rock, than 'real' country.  In most cases though, I find the
 contemporary stuff to be too formulaic and boring - both lyrically
 and musically.

   There *are* a few country-rock bands around though, who are doing
 things with a bit more sense of adventure.  Wilco is probably one of
 the better known.  Off the top of my head, I also like The Jayhawks,
 Blue Rodeo, Lucinda Williams, Kennedy-Rose, Son Volt, and the
 recently disbanded Blue Shadows, to name a few more.

   If anyone else here has heard any good country-rock recently that
 falls somewhere outside of the current Nashville mold, I'm interested
 in hearing about it.  Always looking for good, new music.  ;-)

    Martin
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