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parma_violets

Americaphilia Part 1 - Country Music

Jul 13, 2006 20:36

I know a lot of people on my flist aren't great country music fans, and I've attributed this in the past to the fact that many of them live in America, and have to put up with the less savoury sides of the country scene (line-dancing, Toby Keith, those endless right-wing screeds by Charlie Daniels), and I live in Britain where I can pick and choose ( Read more... )

todd snider, shelby lynne, radio, dolly parton, country music, lucinda williams, americaphilia, laura cantrell, johnny cash, john peel, gram parsons, neko case

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cpt_buggernuts July 13 2006, 20:30:31 UTC

Ooh. Neko Case. I went out and got hold of a ton of her stuff after somehow ending up with "If you knew what I knew" on the Volkeshüffler (I still don't know how. I don't rememeber downloading it, and had in fact never heard of her prior to listening to it). She's fab.

Shelby Lynne is likewise aces.

The Arlenes album 'Going to California' was also quite good.

parma_violets July 16 2006, 11:23:42 UTC

Shelby Lynne is my favourite, I think. Really, really spiffing stuff. And reportedly one of them gays. And she's so tiny!

I shall look into the Arlenes.

pink_sweater_uk July 14 2006, 13:39:28 UTC

Hey! I don't know just how noxiously right-wing Charlie Daniels and his Band may be, but surely The Devil Went Down To Georgia deserves some affection, at least?

parma_violets July 16 2006, 11:24:32 UTC

Oh, certainly! No matter how many bollocksy 'open letters' he may write about the importance of the flag, and how them Islams think ya wrap it round yer head, hyuk hyuk hyuk, that is still a brilliant song.

nina_ds July 17 2006, 03:29:18 UTC

I couldn't resist commenting...

I can completely dismiss the whole of Richard Wagner because he was a pompous jerk, an anti-Semite, and a proto-fascist (okay, and I don't like the music because it, too, is authoritarian). But I don't think it's possible to let go of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia".

I say this as a Southern (American) liberal and a classical musician by trade.

parma_violets July 18 2006, 08:18:15 UTC

Are you a member of christophereccleston.info? I ask this on nothing more than a hunch.

I'm usually fairly good at separating the opinions of the artist from the art. The exceptions, I suppose, would be Mel Gibson and Vincent Gallo, and there I think my knowledge of their political beliefs intensified and already-present dislike, rather than sparked it.

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