Vinyl Me Please Country

I mean I can get some of the hate for 90s country. The Alan Jackson record though is not that far removed from say Honky Tonk Heroes. It is bar music about booze and women. It rocks and there isn’t much sheen (admittedly I Climbed the Wall might as well be a contemporary adult hit from the day)

If we were talking Trace Adkins Honkytonk Badankadonk I’d agree about the yuck of pop and r&b crossover nonsense.
 
Lee Newman said:
I mean I can get some of the hate for 90s country. The Alan Jackson record though is not that far removed from say Honky Tonk Heroes. It is bar music about booze and women. It rocks and there isn’t much sheen (admittedly I Climbed the Wall might as well be a contemporary adult hit from the day)

If we were talking Trace Adkins Honkytonk Badankadonk I’d agree about the yuck of pop and r&b crossover nonsense.
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I relistened to the Alan Jackson and removed from the scene it came out in, it is in the tradition of honky tonk/outlaw country and was rather enjoyable. I thought I was going to be out, but upon relisten I am in.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Yeah, I associate that stuff more with 2000s mainstream country (a period I am less keen on). 90s County, especially the early decade stuff; was way more traditional sounding.
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I mean it is 2000s, but it always feels like people are talking about 2000s stuff when they talk about 90s country. 2000s was the onset of Bro country and lead to fuckers like Morgan Wallen
 
Lee Newman said:
I mean it is 2000s, but it always feels like people are talking about 2000s stuff when they talk about 90s country. 2000s was the onset of Bro country and lead to fuckers like Morgan Wallen
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Yeah, it feels like at some point mainstream country decided to really lean into the dorky suburban dad (and the women who love them) portion of their audience. The Bro country, is kind the unfortunate offshoot of 90s Country kinda like how Nirvana begat Bush and Bush begat Creed and Creed begat Nickelback.

Nashville took something that was fun and exciting and eventually turned it into dorky dad music and it’s hard to shake that association. I think bands like Midland and Joshua Hedley’s new album have helped illuminate some of the music from that era in a positive light. Lots of those 90s albums are all too often lumped in with the truly terrible stuff much of it would influence.
 
Lee Newman said:
It’s not a fat possum record from the first decade of the century?
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For an acoustic live recorded in bar, my 2016 Fat Possum copy pressed in coke bottle blue sounds pretty good. That being said, I would not be surprised if VMP sounds heavenly…or is crackly and distorted. I am gonna wait for the reviews to see if it’s worthwhile.
 
Alright, i keep reading/hearing how great Dwight Yoakam is, but I’ve never heard anything by him. I always lumped him into the 90s country that I really don’t care for, but it seems that categorization is wrong. Any of you fine people have a recommendation for a good starting point?
 
The early 2000s country really leaned into the USA, USA stuff after 911. I was listening to a lot of it at the time because I was in the Army at the time and that's what you listened to. I'll never forget going to a Rascal Flatts/Toby Keith concert in VA Beach late summer 2002. When he sang, Put a Boot in Your Ass, my buddy turned to me and with the most dejected look says, "MFer, we're going to war".
 
Sonicpharmacist said:
Alright, i keep reading/hearing how great Dwight Yoakam is, but I’ve never heard anything by him. I always lumped him into the 90s country that I really don’t care for, but it seems that categorization is wrong. Any of you fine people have a recommendation for a good starting point?
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Buenos Noches, This Time, and my favorite: If there was a Way. All great albums.
 
Sonicpharmacist said:
Alright, i keep reading/hearing how great Dwight Yoakam is, but I’ve never heard anything by him. I always lumped him into the 90s country that I really don’t care for, but it seems that categorization is wrong. Any of you fine people have a recommendation for a good starting point?
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All of his first five albums are great, I think of him as the bridge between 70s/80s and 90s country.
 
keylime_5 said:
I do, it’s all pressed at RTI
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Sonicpharmacist said:
Alright, i keep reading/hearing how great Dwight Yoakam is, but I’ve never heard anything by him. I always lumped him into the 90s country that I really don’t care for, but it seems that categorization is wrong. Any of you fine people have a recommendation for a good starting point?
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Plumcrazyfx said:
Buenos Noches, This Time, and my favorite: If there was a Way. All great albums.
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Guitars, Cadillacs, etc, etc, Hillbilly Deluxe and 3 Pears also.
 
Sonicpharmacist said:
Alright, i keep reading/hearing how great Dwight Yoakam is, but I’ve never heard anything by him. I always lumped him into the 90s country that I really don’t care for, but it seems that categorization is wrong. Any of you fine people have a recommendation for a good starting point?
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Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. and Hillbilly DeLuxe are IMO his best. It’s very twangy Traditional Bakersfield Sound. You gotta respect a dude who would go open for X and other punk bands.

His debut was released in 1986 which is an awesome year for Country music. You get Dwight, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett , and Randy Travis debut albums that year, these albums would help spark a Neo-Traditional movement for the late 80s early 90s.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. and Hillbilly DeLuxe are IMO his best. It’s very twangy Traditional Bakersfield Sound. You gotta respect a dude who would go open for X and other punk bands.

His debut was released in 1986 which is an awesome year for Country music. You get Dwight, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett , and Randy Travis debut albums that year, these albums would help spark a Neo-Traditional movement for the late 80s early 90s.
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I would also like to add a bit of a weird one but my first Dwight albums was an odd CD release entitled “dwightyoakamacoustic.net” it was styled to look like a burned CD…

The album is kinda an acoustic greatest hits album and was much more my speed in the early 00s when I was not yet completely sold on super twangy Country.
 
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