Rolling Country 2020

Maren Morris “The Bones” hit #1 on country charts.

Totally recommend KBST's daily lunchtime all-requests show, Call-in Cafe.

Streaming now: https://streamdb5web.securenetsystems.net/v5/KBST

Willie is joining Luck Reunion for Luck Presents: ‘Til Further Notice, a free live streaming event taking the place of what would’ve been this year’s Reunion taking place in Luck, TX. This is a hard time for our industry and fellow artists, so we’re banding together to give the fans a show and rally support around our community - all from our respective quarantine locations. Join us today, March 19 from 6-11 PM Central for a concert to fit the times. You can access the stream via http://luckreunion.com/tilfurthernotice and https://www.twitch.tv/luckreunion #tilfurthernotice #stayhome https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/web-view?a=HyyMmC&c=JHTXpz&r=qkGsFkJ&g=HnFx3Z&k=97faa58695796ebf0b4e6e5e97d74243&m=NJnjbc

Katie Pruitt starting now

SCHEDULE
*SUBJECT TO CHANGE

6:15 PM - Ida Mae
6:25 PM - Nikki Lane
6:35 PM - Thomas Csorba
6:50 PM - Tami Neilson
7:00 PM - Lucinda Williams
7:15 PM - Devon Gilfillian
7:25 PM - Ian Ferguson
7:35 PM - Katie Pruitt
8:00 PM - David Ramirez
8:10 PM - Paul Cauthen
8:20 PM - Randy Houser
8:30 PM - Lucius
8:40 PM - Tré Burt
8:50 PM - Early James
9:15 PM - Margo Price & Jeremy Ivey
9:30 PM - Kurt Vile
9:40 PM - Sunny War
9:50 PM - Paul Simon & Edie Brickell
10:10 PM - Jewel
10:50 PM - Nathaniel Rateliff
11:15 PM - Willie Nelson, Lukas Nelson , and Micah Nelson

Hosted By: Ray Benson

Holy Crap, I instantly heard why you guys are swept away by Pruitt, gotta get the album.

Will also have to check more David Ramirez: gearshifting (solo acoustic) melodies, strong vox wothout oversinging, deft twangy vibrato, reminds me of Steve Young, but a little mellower, Chris Smither maybe?

Ramirez is gonna be on the ACL benefit tomorrow too.

https://www.acl-radio.com/acl-stands-with-austin/

Thanks, will check that too: 8 pm Central. Listening to station stream now.

does that Willie livestream live anywhere accessible now? I'd like to send it to my mother-in-law

Maybe at least some of it somewhere. Also liked brief isolation set by Pau Cauthen: very Southern voice x Elton John Lennon piano, then Randy Houser, even more Southern, like he was gonna quaver but too thick an accent, but was agreeable enough for another setette (think he's known more as a writer?) Computer crashed and I went back to medicare.gov. Next night checked the xpost ACL benefit for a while: David Ramirez got really sub-Dylan mumblecore on verses, better on choruses (another Dylanette effect, come to think of it). But, based on the Luck's Reunion performances, will still check his albums (on spotify, anyway).

Oh yeah, a couple of Lynn Anderson reissues, Sony Legacy press release here:
https://mailchi.mp/2911/legacy-recordings-re-releases-lynn-andersons-classic-albums-cry-and-listen-to-a-country-song-to-all-digital-providers?e=2d74d5e1e7

Just saw this---if you can't see it, it's Sunny Sweeney livestreaming tonight, 7 Central, on facebook and instagram: http://sunnysweeney.com/livefromquarantine/

http://sunnysweeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Web-Home-1024x683.png

Also sunnysweeney.live/youtube

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/grand-ole-opry-vince-gill-marty-stuart-brad-paisley-970267/

I missed this stream. Read good things about it

I saw a photo. They social distanced on stage!

I don't really know where to post this because it's not really country, but damn if this ain't the best album I've heard this year: https://danielromano.bandcamp.com/album/visions-of-the-higher-dream

I mean, it's definitely country in parts.

And other parts, not.

The isolated Opry set made me v drowsy (as Vince Gill in particular usually does), but this should be a wake-up call---if it doesn't show, it's BRANDI CARLILE, of the so-far healthy lungs, livestreaming during ACM presentation (which may be all livestreams) April 5:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUCp57jUcAAzc6j?format=jpg&name=medium

Joe Diffie, a Grammy Award-winning country music hitmaker, died Sunday from coronavirus complications. He was 61. https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/2936782001 And Jackson Browne has tested positive.

John Prine's bad off with it too.

Fuck. I love Joe Diffie. Prine too, for that matter (everybody does, I guess).

I am so sad about Joe Diffie. 8yo crüt was a big fan

Kalie Shorr released an amazing album last year---now she says she got c-19 while in quarantine (tho did go for groceries):

@kalieshorr
Despite being quarantined (except for a handful of trips for groceries) for three weeks, I managed to contract COVID 19. I'm feeling significantly better, but it's proof how dangerous and contagious this is. It's endlessly frustrating to see people not taking this seriously.

This McBryde album is loud. I'm impressed.

Wow...came out last year, but Koe Wetzel's "Ragweed" coulda been commercial alternative top 10 circa 1993

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMkAkfPWEA0

That aforementioned AMC livestream fest w Brandi Carlile and many others is tonight:

What is ‘ACM Presents: Our Country’ about?
According to the official CBS website: ACM Presents: Our Country will feature intimate conversations and at-home acoustic performances with top artists, along with clips of their favorite moments from the Academy of Country Music Awards’ 55-year history. Stars will appear from their homes via video chat to share heartfelt thoughts and perform acoustic versions of country hits.

Among the performers at the event will be Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Kane Brown and John Legend, Luke Bryan, Brandi Carlile, Eric Church, Luke Combs, Sheryl Crow, Florida Georgia Line, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Tim McGraw, Old Dominion, Brad Paisley and Darius Rucker, Thomas Rhett, Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, Shania Twain, Carrie Underwood, and Keith Urban.
Thanks nj.com, more incl various ways to watch w links to same:
https://www.nj.com/tv/2020/04/how-to-watch-acm-presents-our-country-concert-live-stream-guide-start-time-schedule.html

Think I might skip most of the acoustic at-home etc.; a little bit goes a long way.
But here's one more, re that Steve Earle project upthread (saw it too late for the Fecebook stream, but will be rerun and maybe posted somewhere):
Steve Earle is set to perform a special live stream this Sunday, April 5th beginning at 3pm Eastern via his Official Facebook page as well as the Sirius XM Outlaw Country Official Facebook page as well. The solo performance will commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion that killed twenty-nine men in West Virginia on April 5th, 2010, making it one of the worst mining disasters in American history. The audio from the live stream will also air via Earle’s weekly Hardcore Troubadour radio show on SiriusXM Outlaw Country, Channel 60, next week (premiering April 11th at 9pm Eastern).

Earle’s live stream performance will feature the songs he wrote for and performed in Coal Country, a new play with music based on the disaster written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jenson and directed by Jessica Blank. Opening on March 3rd to critical acclaim at The Public Theater in New York City, the production was postponed after two weeks due to COVID-19.

announcement from Michael Timmins---seems like it should go on a Rolling thread for recurring exposure:

... we have some new music for you to listen to and hopefully provide you with a small distraction. It's a set of songs that we've been working on for the past year and which we were set to launch when our worlds turned upside down. The plan was to release a very limited edition, audiophile double-album made up of a re-mastered, re-cut version of All That Reckoning along with a second disc that contains the new music, Ghosts. We have the test pressings and they sound beautiful. But, as you all know, logistics are difficult right now, so we are delaying the release of the vinyl (there will be no CD) until the world returns to something resembling normal.

In the meantime we have decided to release the new music on streaming sites everywhere. It's an intense set of songs, but that's probably not a surprise to you....read on if you are interested in the genesis of Ghosts.

****

In July of 2018 we released our album All That Reckoning. Two months later our mother died and we realized that there was more reckoning still to come. Ghosts is the result of that realization; a suite of songs revolving around grief, pain, fear, anxiety, beauty; a set of songs examining the complexity of emotions that subsume us after losing a parent. We were writing and creating these songs while we were touring ATR and as they took shape it became clear to us that they belonged as part of, or at least as an addendum to, the songs that make up All That Reckoning. They deal with the ultimate reckoning, the reckoning that comes with the death of a loved one and the reassessing that one goes through as one tries to process such a loss.

The concept behind this project was to present it as a two disc vinyl-album set. All That Reckoning and Ghosts work best as two bodies of work, reflecting off of each other, but you know what they say about the best laid plans of men....so in the meantime enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. You can stream Ghosts here (the music is being added to more streaming sites every day):
stream
https://cowboyjunkies.lnk.to/Ghosts

sam hunt album... thoughts? i pretty much love it

Farm Aid, the non-profit organization whose mission is to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America, and AXS TV, the premier U.S. cable channel for music programming, presents a special broadcast of At Home With Farm Aid, featuring performances by acclaimed artists and Farm Aid Board Members Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews, on Saturday, April 11, starting at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

The hour-long live event reunites Farm Aid president Willie Nelson, joined by his sons Lukas and Micah, with fellow music legends and Farm Aid board members Mellencamp, Young, and Matthews for an intimate performance to raise funds and awareness for farmers impacted by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The unique concert captures the quartet as they each tune in from their own homes and studios to deliver an unforgettable night of music that viewers will not want to miss. At Home With Farm Aid airs as part of AXS TV's new "@Home And Social" initiative-an ongoing series giving artists a platform to broadcast live performances from their homes and studios directly to their fans, with proceeds supporting those in need as a result of the coronavirus. Viewers can enjoy the simulcast on AXS TV and at https://www.farmaid.org/, as well as across the Network's various social media platforms.
...Additionally, viewers can relive powerhouse performances from Nelson, Mellencamp, Young, Matthews and more when AXS TV presents The Best Of Farm Aid 2019 on Sunday, April 12, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. The two-and-a-half-hour special compiles footage from AXS TV's live broadcast of the 2019 festival, giving viewers the best seat in the house for hit-packed sets from Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Tanya Tucker, Margo Price, Yola and Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real, among others, as well as Bonnie Raitt's previously-unaired performance of "Devil Got My Woman"-seen now for the first time on television.
http://www.axs.tv/ https://www.farmaid.org/

Tyler Mahan Coe
@TylerMahanCoe
· Apr 7
How has there never been a tribute comp from women artists to Merle, called Girl Haggard?
Show this thread

Margo Price
@MissMargoPrice
Okay, when this is all over, I want to start this cover band. I’ll play drums and sing. The line up is all ladies and we only play Merle Haggard songs. GIRL HAGGARD. Who’s in?

Margo Price
@MissMargoPrice
·Apr 7
This is obviously a joke y’all Face with tears of joy but maybe we’ll play *one* show

(Also says there will be a new Margo album out this summer.)

Yeah, it got bumped from May(?). Sturgill produced. I started a thread for her that didn't take off: The Margo Price c/d

X-post — I want to hear the Sam Hunt album but haven’t gotten to it yet

i like it a lot! "young once" is my shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3KT-2fBIZo

honestly reading about it, i feel like the hip hop narrative is pretty overplayed. just think it's a really good modern country record w/ some slight affectations

I have really, really enjoyed Aubrie Sellers' album from this year.

aubrie's record features steve earle and is pretty psychy and has a lot of surprising touches, like a squealing theremin on one song, and one song starts off with a legitimate scream. it's very kacey though aside from that

Tre Burt is folk and not country but it's Prine-adjacent so I'm putting it here
https://treburtmusic.bandcamp.com/album/caught-it-from-the-rye

i like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L9obo3cuas

Realized while listening to "2016" that Sam Hunt's voice has quite a bit of Richard Buckner in it.

That Sam Hunt “Young Once” song does not have the hiphop signifiers he has been labeled with. Just modern country that utilizes the formula in a good way.

The Caylee Hammack one is a tad more traditional but still formula country that works.

Just started watching the xpost farmaid special: Willie and his boys in a limber set-down set--pick it, Paw!

Oops, looks like they're fixing to continue or rerun on axs.tv----meanwhile https://pitchfork.com/news/sturgill-simpson-tests-positive-for-covid-19/

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9358004/coronavirus-complicates-nashville-fragile-studio-business

dunno why ilx won't let me post youtubes on chrome, trying firefox
If you can't see this, it's one of my fave later Rosanne tracks, "Biloxi," written by Jesse Winchester:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDhV5SscEgc

https://www.cavenders.com/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-Cavenders-Library/default/dw4e4f8b8e/images/image-promotions/Farming%20Singing%20Horizontal%20copy.jpg

A VIRTUAL CONCERT
BENEFITTING TEXAS FFA FOUNDATION
SATURDAY, APRIL 25 AT 7PM
100% of proceeds will benefit the Texas FFA Foundation.
Streaming on Billy Bob's Texas Facebook Page

The full lineup of performances will be announced throughout the week, beginning Tuesday, April 14 at 10 AM on Billy Bob’s Texas Instagram stories - @billybobstexas. All of the performers are proud to call the great state of Texas their home and several of them have a personal history and connection with the FFA.

Performances by:
Aaron Watson
Casey Donahew
Cleto Cordero of Flatland
Cody Johnson
Jack Ingram
Josh Abbott
Kevin Fowler
Koe Wetzel
Mike Ryan
Neal McCoy
Parker McCollum
Pat Green
Randy Rogers
Tracy Byrd
Wade Bowen
William Clark Green

more info here: https://mailchi.mp/2911/billy-bobs-texas-cavenders-announce-lineup-for-virtual-concert-april-25th?e=2d74d5e1e7

Well now, Smithsonian Folkways has acquired the Western Jubilee label---sampler here incl. Peter Rowan & Don Edwards, Norman & Nancy Blake, also Don & Norman and each in other configs and solo, plus Katy Moffat, Tom Morell, Sons of the San Joaquin. Michael Martin Murphy, many more:
https://smithsonianfolkways.bandcamp.com/album/take-me-back-to-the-range-selections-from-western-jubilee-recording-company.
Note on left side this page: links to other recent Smithsonian Folkways releases...

Hadn't seen this good thread 'til recently:
Keith Whitley

Finally listed to Expectations, and duh hear even more of what y'all were carrying on about Pruitt than I did via the brief livestream mentioned above, with even more of the same qualities. As with her Rounder labelmate Caroline Spence, there's the sheen, not too slick, of cohesive, flexible small-group sound (wiki lists lots more instruments than I consciously heard: all about the total effect, yet with no sense of blur or poderosa). It's centered, but there's always room for her to wheel around and hit a note over the plate, when that's called for. She (maybe) never goes arena, even in my headphones, though certainly loud enough. There's an increasing sense of (not straining but) striving, traveling the layers of self-and-other-realization, through the releases and tensions of credible relationship realness (best video : "Loving Her, " with Pride Day Parade x one KP, thankful and thoughtful and thinking some more in the backyard, joined then by gf).
So, this is compatible with shelter-in-place sociability, streaming bonding, and with Chely Wright's Lifted Off The Ground, re a new, true, btw gay, country pop mainstream---well, country pop mainstream for Rounder, but that kind of accessibility, anyway.
The grand finale even conjures Golden Age of CMT--not in video, but no need for that: not with audio evocations of slow-dancing couples in cowboy hats, lit by flaming Zippos of appreciation---yes, the good kind of arena---but, it does go on awhile, and I hope she doesn't develop some of Rufus Wainwright's tendency to longwindedness--just bccause they can both hold notes for---quite awhile---doesn't mean they should do it all that often.