WTF happened to Country Music?

Been really heavy on McMurtry lately and I don’t know if there’s any other song that’s more lyrically vivid.

 

Saw him last night and tried to get him to play it but it was a short set

 

Was he solo? how long of a set?

 

With the band and Betty Soo opening. It was only about an hour and a half which is about half of what I’ve seen him do before.

 

You shouted requests at him like he was a jukebox?

 

No I talked to him like he was a friend

 

im not sure ive ever even seen someone shout at a jukebox
I dont think thats how jukeboxes work

 

you shoot the jukebox

 

It played a sad song that made me cry

 

When people say country doesn’t have good lyrics I always hit them with:

“wreckless discharge of a gun
That’s what the officers are claiming
Bubba hollered out ‘wreckless, hell!
I hit just where I was aiming”

that’s a legitimately great lyric

 

I asked Jason Isbell to play Hurricanes and Hand grenades later that night while playing him in a game of pool before the show. I don't remember how he told me exactly, it was very polite and not rude, but it was clear I should never ask for a song I wanted to hear to be played. It seemed to be an unwritten rule I was unaware of at the time.

 

Last night in Charleston, SC

 

Missed that Willi Carlisle released an album last week. An absolute banger



Fuck yes at the spoken word track at the end

 

Anyone that hasnt listened to his older albums should definitely do that.

 

new single from Lost Dog Street Band and Taylor McCall released a good one

 

This is good.

 

Name may have changed, but Moonpies/Silverada still putting out heat.

 

New Rachel Baiman w/ Pony Bradshaw

 

i was excited to see this come up today.

 

Love it

Still not sure on the new band name
Mostly for personal reasons, like when I wanna pull up their music on a streaming service I can't pull up both at the same time

 

Red solo cup was a crime against humanity. Good riddance.

 

I got to see him perform live on the 4th of July at the Greenbrier golf classic about 10 years ago. He put on a hell of a show. RIP

 

One less Trump vote

 

His early 90s stuff was so good

 

Probably deserves it's own thread. Guy was a legendarily ignorant and obnoxious person. Rest in piss.

 

That's a banger of a line from Waylon.

 

biden should campaign on taking down one of the architects of 9/11

 

Shane Smith dropped another single. 3 weeks until the album.

 

Staind cover hell yes

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/...-toby-keith-tribute-the-late-show-1234963052/

 

If y’all listen to Outlaw Country on Sirius XM, Mojo Nixon died of a cardiac event on the Outlaw Cruise.

 

Immediately thought of that Krstofferson story when I saw big tobe died.

 

Had never heard of them before, but pretty good little EP.

 

Dunno if you’d classify it as country or whatever, but new Hurray For The Riff Raff is excellent.

 

they were on a song with Esther Rose that i like

 

New Kelsey Waldon album coming in June

 

Seeing Cole Chaney Friday. Pumped - full band.

 

Saw him last night and it was great show. Feeling old at work this morning after a Tuesday night concert though.

 

They are playing in two shows near me and I might be out of town both nights. really hate to miss that. anyways, i am going to take the opportunity to post another one of her songs

 

If her Decatur show was a week earlier I'd be able to go. I'm loving everything I'm hearing from the new album. These lyrics are great.

Now I carry a name from the people they slaughtered
So I live in the middle, not son nor daughter
Just a horse in a battle I don't care to win
My soul's like a well for the anger of man

 

How was attendance? I'm predicting less than 100 Friday night in Columbia

 

I would say close to 100 people. It was a Tuesday night so that probably didn’t help attendance. When Abby Hamilton opened we were the only non bartenders in there for the first few songs. I felt bad for her because everyone was on the patio watching the Kentucky basketball game.

We saw Tommy Prine last year in the same venue and there was maybe 20 people. Vincent Neil Emerson last year maybe had 150 people there.

 

Today is the last day we have to exist without Shane Smith and the Saints new album and I think that’s a really beautiful thing that it’s our last day of waiting.

 

This was great, thanks