Vinyl Me Please Country

Hemotep said:
If you were thinking of Billy Ray Cyrus, then yes hard agree that it's terrible. But Garth Brooks is a great guitar player and The Thunder Rolls sounds so GD good on vinyl from that cheap boxset he put out that it's tough not to crank it.
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TBH I don't think he ever made it in the uk, the only time you used to see country was in a local news segment on the growing popularity of line dancing driven by Bill ray and Garth (they always played Bill Ray Cyrus). I think Bill Ray Cyrus broke any chance off any country music being aired for a few decades.
 
Hemotep said:
Yep. My wife keeps trying. She made me listen to a Toby Keith song about him spying on his ex after a divorce last week that was painful on the ears and she loves that Alan Jackson Chattahoochee song and plays it regularly (which isn't nearly as bad). I think she's like @TenderLovingKiller® and likes most of the 90s stuff other than the nationalistic swill that started to dominate in the 00s because she grew up with it, but it's still a tough sell for me because I've disliked it since I was a kid. I do admit I've come to enjoy a lot more Reba songs, Bobbie Gentry, and I've come to appreciate more Garth Brooks too because of my wife. She's also gotten me to expand a very little bit beyond Willie and Johnny, who I've always loved, to some Waylon and Merle. But alt-country is really the only genre in that realm that I really enjoy.
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90s commercial country seemed to be broken up into halves. The first being dominated by Garth and the hat acts, and the second by female artists (Shania, Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill) The odd thing that my favorite of the first was primarily female (Patty Loveless, Mary Chapin Carpenter).

The 2nd half held no appeal to me. I heard "Trace" by Son Volt and never went back except for Yoakam and Gary Allan.
 
My wishlist for 2023 Country Track:
  1. George Jones - The Grand Tour
  2. Joe Ely - Honky Tonk Masquerade
  3. Drive By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
  4. Old Crow Medicine Show - Literally any album
  5. Johnny Cash - American Recordings or At San Quentin
  6. Steve Earle - Guitar Town
  7. Dolly/Emmylou/Linda - Trio
 
Andy said:
What there's two of them 🤣
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Oh, you are in for a treat…

Mylie’s Pop was hot shit for about 6 months in 1992. This song was so popular it was played on non-country radio stations at the time. Pre-Hannah Montana, Billy Ray disappeared for most of the rest of the decade until popping up randomly on a small role in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.
 
keylime_5 said:
My wishlist for 2023 Country Track:
  1. George Jones - The Grand Tour
  2. Joe Ely - Honky Tonk Masquerade
  3. Drive By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
  4. Old Crow Medicine Show - Literally any album
  5. Johnny Cash - American Recordings or At San Quentin
  6. Steve Earle - Guitar Town
  7. Dolly/Emmylou/Linda - Trio
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I’ve already got really nice copies of Joe Ely, Steve Earl and Trio; lots of 80s Country seems to be fairly easy to find cheap and in very good condition copies. I have a copy of Southern Rock Opera as well but I think, like many Lost Highway albums (that label was sooooo good) it could definitely use a repress. Wouldn’t mind a George Jones or OCMS release though.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Oh, you are in for a treat…

Mylie’s Pop was hot shit for about 6 months in 1992. This song was so popular it was played on non-country radio stations at the time. Pre-Hannah Montana, Billy Ray disappeared for most of the rest of the decade until popping up randomly on a small role in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.
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My grandpa's second wife loved this dude and had a framed picture of him on the mantel above her non functional fireplace. She was a weird lady who had plastic wrapping everything in her house, from the furniture to the lamp shades. Hated going there as a kid. Smelled of dogs and cabbage.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Oh, you are in for a treat…

Mylie’s Pop was hot shit for about 6 months in 1992. This song was so popular it was played on non-country radio stations at the time. Pre-Hannah Montana, Billy Ray disappeared for most of the rest of the decade until popping up randomly on a small role in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.
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Billy Ray tossing around Justin Theroux is always hilarious to me.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I have a copy of Southern Rock Opera as well but I think, like many Lost Highway albums (that label was sooooo good) it could definitely use a repress.
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I haven't looked at my copy in awhile (it's an original Lost Highway from when they found a few boxes in storage around 2007 or so) but I think it's also missing a song (albeit the one by the guy who isn't Cooley or Hood), so it'd at least be nice to get a proper reissue, although as I type, that might also require blowing it out to 3LPs
 
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