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[Lucky #7]

I've been off the board for a while.  Did you check out any of those country artists I suggested?  I'll put some youtube clips below. (And you really need to listen to the two Todd Snider stories at the bottom, I forgot how funny those were)


Cross Canadian Ragweed: Alabama
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFgYtVavQWQ[/youtube]

Cross Canadian Ragweed: Boys From Oklahoma
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHkklZ-YUi8&feature=related[/youtube]

Reckless Kelly: Nobody's Girl
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko2BRa5o_84[/youtube]

Cross Canadian Ragweed: Late Last Night
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv5k9r9SuE0[/youtube]

Robert Earl Keen: The Rose Hotel
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbzZp08qRw[/youtube]

Robert Earl Keen: Corpus Christi Bay
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV6HRzWQjcw[/youtube]

Robert Earl Keen: The Road Goes On Forever
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glhrczA1ru4[/youtube]

Todd Snider: A Story (He tells about as many stories as he does sing, but they're solid stories like this one)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Ei7PhtSo0[/youtube]

Todd Snider: Another Story
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ke9FhsSgZI&feature=related[/youtube]

 

[tallman]

Tod Snider and Robert Earl Keen were pretty cool, but the others are my definition of what's wrong with modern country music.....IMO.  20 something, PRS playing, tequila shooting douchebags....

 

[Lucky #7]

Those guys are more countryish than country.  A lot more rock influenced, but they get a lot of the same crowd as the other two.  I'd recommend giving them a search on YouTube as they both have some more country songs than what I posted.  They also had some that are really good but I couldn't find a good version online.

Keen and Snider are both pretty awesome.  Keen has had a lot of his songs recorded by others.  The Highwaymen recorded The Road Goes on Forever.

 

[Return of Guitlouie]

We listen to "Merry Christmas Y'all" by Robert Earl Keen even when it's not christmas at my house.  I dig Keen, but I don't really think of him as country.  Then again, when I think country, the first thing into my mind is The Carter Family.  Gram Parsons is about as "modern country" as I get.  There is very little actual country left, with communication what it is these days, so, it follows that most "country" music is way more worldly than rural.

 

[mayfly]

Todd Snider: A Story (He tells about as many stories as he does sing, but they're solid stories like this one)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Ei7PhtSo0[/youtube]

I am so covering this song!  :headbang:

 

[Finch]

Cross Canadian Ragweed is more of an indie southern rock than country, those guys have been around for a long time. I highly recommend picking up their live album Back to Tulsa, it beats the pants off their studio stuff.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Necro-post alert.

Cross Canadian Ragweed is often referred to as "CCR" prompting disappoint from the 20 somethings when you cover a real CCR song.  When I heard the band's name years ago, I thought it was just another excuse to get high type music because of the "Weed" in the name.  Their name is a combination of 3 of the members' last names: Cross, Canada, and Ragsdale.  Old news to fans, but maybe intersting to those unfamiliar.  By Cross's own admission, they are a rock band.  They are part of genre known in these parts as "Red Dirt Country," the description of ground color of the OK, TX, LA, and AR regions. 

 

[Superlizard]

I've smoked CCR (in my former days)... I ended up wanting my $10 back.

 

[Lucky #7]

Cross Canadian kind of goes back and forth, but, yeah, Cody Canada does primarily play an electric the vast majority of the time.  That said, Seventeeen, Sick and Tired, and a few others are firmly country.

 

[Patrick from Davis]

Robert Earl Keen rolls through this area a lot.  I have seen him quite a number of times.  His funny songs are really funny.  Copenhagen, Don't Turn out the Lights, Five Pound Bass, Merry Christmas from the Family (the No.2 Live dinner one is just way too much fun,) It's the Little Things, and, That Buckin' Song.  I have quite a few albums of his, and I am still missing quite a bit.  I also agree he in not what is called generally country, at least around here.  Kind of folk mixed with rock, but in a country fashion.  Guess you have to listen to it for that to make sense.  Fun stuff though.
Patrick