• Submit Date: 7/21/2003
  • Format: CD
  • Category: Country

The Bones of Country Music Lie Beneath The Tires of Nashville

Artist Song
The Waco Brothers  Death of Country Music 
Robbie Fulks  Fuck This Town 
Jason and the Scorchers  Lost Highway 
Beachwood Sparks  The Sun Surrounds Me 
Wiskey Biscuit  Santa Ana River Delta Blues 
Whiskeytown   Blank Generation 
Old 97s  Timebomb 
Steve Earle  I Ain't Ever Satisfied 
Waylon Jennings  Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way? 
BR5-49  Sweet Sweet Girl 
Guy Clark  Homegrown Tomatoes 
Bad Livers  Shufflin' to Memphis 
Holy Modal Rounders  Fishing Blues 
Bob Dylan and the Band  Apple Suckling Tree 
Roy Acuff  Night Train to Memphis 
The V-Roys  Guess I Know I'm Right 
The Gourds  When the Money Comes Rolling In 
Terry Allen  Lubbock Woman 
Reckless Kelly  Black and White 
Robert Earl Keen  Corpus Christi Bay 

Comment:

My idea was to make a two disc alt-country set, one disc upbeat (this one) and one slower and more sad. I wanted it to be a more in-depth look at the genre though, so I disqualified anything by Uncle Tupelp, Son Volt, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, the Jayhawks and Gillian Welch. I also didn't include any Joe Pernice or Ryan Adams-penned tunes, though I did include them singing other people's songs. And I did include Bob Dylan, you know, because not many people know him. Thanks to Mo Twang! for track 11 and Rob Hart for track 15. The title is a bastardized line from the opening track.

Feedback:

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Mo Twang!
Date: 7/21/2003
Great picks!
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Bob Swartzlander
Date: 7/21/2003
Great mix of the old and new! Glad to see a "country" mix....
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Franklin Onn1
Date: 7/21/2003
Nice choices! Good to see Terry Allen, the Basement Tapes, & the Holy Modals represented. That's one of my favorite RE Keen songs.
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Texas-Gal
Date: 7/21/2003
Yay to big Texas-scene favorites Reckless Kelly (one of my very faves!), REKeen, Steve Earle and the Gourds. Props for dependable standards Old 97's and Whiskeytown. And bonus for Waylon!
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McDonald12
Date: 7/21/2003
This looks great. I especially love the jason and the scorchers and Dylan tunes.
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Adam Bristor
Date: 7/21/2003
Thanks all. And I wasn't really paying attention during my notes. Obviously this wouldn't all be considered "alt-country", but you know what I mean. I ended up drifting away from the specific 90s movement. Anyhow, look for volume 2 in the next few days.
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greaseball1
Date: 7/22/2003
This looks really great. And it's a damn shame what's happened to Nashville.
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Rob Conroy1
Date: 7/22/2003
GREAT. When we trade, toss this one on the pile.
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Nirmala-B
Date: 7/22/2003
this is great.
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The Misfit
Date: 7/22/2003
Excellent!
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joey de vivre
Date: 7/22/2003
Yeah! this is the way Hank done it!
or would have done it if he were doing it today . . .
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Media Vixen: Radio Sally
Date: 10/22/2003
Very very nice! Trade time again?