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countryst
There's a review of the rerelease of Exile on this country website (which, full disclosure, I help promote):
http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=4499
I'm curious: are any of you Stones fans also country fans? If so, what bands?
I don't know if everyone is already worn out about Exile around these parts, but if not, I'd also be interested in hearing what you thought of the new tracks.
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Gazza
Link doesnt work, mate.
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Keefan
I love old school country. Hank Williams Sr., Johnny Cash, George Jones, and Buck Owens are my favorite country singers. I love pickers like Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, Grady Martin Clarence White, Don Rich, Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant, etc.
I don't listen to much new country, but I'm a big Hank Williams III fan (love the cd 'Straight To Hell'!) I don't have any use at all for Hank Jr. though, I think his music is too stock and conventional.
I also really love the cd Van Lear Rose by Loretta Lynn. What a great listen.
I was born and raised in Atlanta...seems like a lot of southern rock 'n' rollers start playing country and bluegrass after they hit 40...I'll never quit playing rock and the blues, but I love to make my guitar twang and whine like a pedal steel.
Seems like a lot of 'country music' these days is just watered down rock 'n' roll played by guys in cowboy hats. To play country guys, move your fingers three frets down! Yer supposed to be playing the pentatonic major scale, not the pentatonic minor!
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edit: oh yeah, the Carter Family too (good call ROCKMAN)
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countryst
There's a review of the rerelease of Exile on this country website (which, full disclosure, I help promote):
http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=4499
I'm curious: are any of you Stones fans also country fans? If so, what bands?
I don't know if everyone is already worn out about Exile around these parts, but if not, I'd also be interested in hearing what you thought of the new tracks.
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71Tele
... More contemporary: Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings...what comes out the Nashville machine now is not country. It's just kind of a commercial pop with country cliches. Don't get me started...
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Orbit
...I also find it interesting that the Stones are often the subject of unusual covers from the genre - Nanci Griffith did a GREAT cover of No Expectations...