*Country Music -- Your thoughts?*

[64Guitars]

"PFFT! You Was Gone!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIw9waVI-m8


"Gloom, Despair and Agony On Me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1okb5EIo1nw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5ob9B9yD4

[Burtog]

Found this on YT, I love this song!

What a great performance!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKZjja37_sw

great tune
love that guitar-looks like a gibson or a gretsh -cant tell from that angle

any thoughts?

mmmm..........dunno, could be a Hofner?

Check this one out, he's using a 'micro-frets' (maybe signature model) on this one. I had one of these a couple of years back and sold it. D'oh.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4XR8CtlJO0

[Gritter]

Good times...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N-YSj24KrQ

[Kevin Mammoth]

I love this one, I used to strum this on acoustic a bit - I learnt it when I was travelling in Canada:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--tnXLXGKLU

Some other suggestions:

Stones - (Dead Flowers, Sweet Virginia, Dear Doctor - I think Gram may have had a hand in some of them) - and of course the Man in Black  - (Folsom Prison Blues, The Night Hank Williams Came to Town).

Happy jamming! 

[guitarron]

those micr

Found this on YT, I love this song!

What a great performance!

great tune
love that guitar-looks like a gibson or a gretsh -cant tell from that angle

any thoughts?

mmmm..........dunno, could be a Hofner?

Check this one out, he's using a 'micro-frets' (maybe signature model) on this one. I had one of these a couple of years back and sold it. D'oh.

microfrets were pretty cool

[IanR]

Try Lucinda Williams

two great tracks of hers:

1. Real live bleeding fingers
2. Can't let go

I've seen her live a couple of times - great!

Ian

[Vanncad]

Anything by Conway Twitty.
I've got the Silver Anniversary Collection on my IPod, and it gets played alot.

"Far Away Eyes" by the Stones is a solid tune as well.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVEdYYMlOJ4

My band played this one, and it goes over a ton at bars! 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPWHfrU3PSQ

P.S. - Thanks for the Statler Bros vid. My mom played that one a lot when I was a kid.

[Gritter]

Easy to play and so much fun to sing!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7M3EEHYkJ0

[Simon M]

My 2 cents.  I love lots of country music from Hank and Johnny to Lucinda Williams.  I have a real love of some of the new singer songwriters on the alt country scene at the moment.  There are a couple of great Youtube channels Music Fog & TXMusic that are among my most watched channels.  The thing I like about country music is it is all about the song.  If you can sing it with just an acoustic guitar, and it still tells a story, then the songwriter has done their job.  Too many of todays' songs are just abstract, which has its place, but I guess the songs that really connect with me are the story songs with some meaning to them and nobody seems to be writing them at the moment apart from so-called country songwriters.  So I say bring em on.

As an example here is a video from MusicFog I just saw before reading this thread.  I think it illustartes what my red wine addled mind is trying to say much better than these stubby fingers ever can.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwDPlNVuCko



Hope you enjoy I have found many great songs here. Sorry for the length of the post but songwriting is something I really could talk about all night if given the chance.

Keep Rocking

Simon