Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)

Orville Peck was a special guest on a Luck Festival live-stream early on during the quarantine.

He announced he was gonna play "Cowboys Are Frequently Fond of Each Other" by Willie Nelson and said "I can really relate to this song...because I'm...<long pause>...a Cowboy".

Hilarious...beautiful timing...and was an excellent rendition.

*narrator voice 'If you didn't know Orville is gay'.
 
For the country crowd, what is everyone’s wishlist for the first year of Vinyl Me, Pardner? Off the top of my head, here’s mine...
Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie
Alison Krauss - Now That I’ve Found You
Dwight Yoakam - Gone
Gillian Welch - Revival
Johnny Cash - American Recordings
Dixie Chicks - Home
Waylon Jennings - Dreaming my Dreams
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
Lyle Lovett - Pontiac
Bob Wills & Texas Playboys - For the Last Time
....then finish the year with back to back:
Trisha Yearwood - self titled
Garth Brooks - No Fences
 
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Tys1 said:
Pretty sure the majority of us respect and even like country.... we just think storf’s affinity for bro-country is pathetic.
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What exactly is Bro country I never heard the term before here. Is it the country songs like Florida Georgia Line and the party/beer drinking songs?
Cheesefry said:
For the country crowd, what is everyone’s wishlist for the first year of Vinyl Me, Pardner? Off the top of my head, here’s mine...
Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie
Alison Krauss - Now That I’ve Found You
Dwight Yoakam - Gone
Gillian Welch - Revival
Johnny Cash - American Recordings
Dixie Chicks - Home
Waylon Jennings - Dreaming my Dreams
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
Lyle Lovett - Pontiac
Bob Wills & Texas Playboys - For the Last Time
....then finish the year with back to back:
Trisha Yearwood - self titled
Garth Brooks - No Fences
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Learn to Live by Darius Rucker. I should probably reserve this for the confessions thread but ever since I had a kid that song It won’t be like this for long makes me ugly cry every time I hear it, and I’m really not a crier but that one just hits me hard.
 
Cheesefry said:
For the country crowd, what is everyone’s wishlist for the first year of Vinyl Me, Pardner? Off the top of my head, here’s mine...
Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie
Alison Krauss - Now That I’ve Found You
Dwight Yoakam - Gone
Gillian Welch - Revival
Johnny Cash - American Recordings
Dixie Chicks - Home
Waylon Jennings - Dreaming my Dreams
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
Lyle Lovett - Pontiac
Bob Wills & Texas Playboys - For the Last Time
....then finish the year with back to back:
Trisha Yearwood - self titled
Garth Brooks - No Fences
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This is a solid list, I have a few of these. I would throw some more 80’s and 90’s Country on there. If They we’re gonna do a Whiskeytown album which is probably unlikely due to Ryan Adams “unpleasantness” I would prefer Pneumonia. Some others that would be rad...
Lambchop - How I Quit Smoking
Roger Miller - Roger and Out
Merle Haggard - Swinging Doors and Barstools
Jerry Reed - Nashville Underground
Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson
Bill Monroe - Bean Blossom
Doug Sham - Doug Sham and Band
Billy Joe Shaver Old Five and Dimers Like Me
Jerry Jeff Walker - Viva Terlingua
George Jones - The Grand Tour
David Allan Coe - Once Upon a Rhyme
Hank Thompson - A Six Pack To Go
Asleep At The Wheel - Texas Gold
George Strait - Strait From The Heart
Ricky Skaggs - Country Boy
John Anderson - All The People Are Talkin’
Randy Travis - Storm of Life
Vern Gosdin - Chiseled In Stone
Keith Whitley - Don’t Close Your Eyes
Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
Clint Black - Killin’ Time
Junior Brown - 12 Shades of Brown
Brooks & Dunn - Brand New Man
Alan Jackson - A Lot About Living...
Joe Diffie - Honky Tonk Attitude
Joe Ely - Live Shots
Wayne Hancock - Thunderstorms and Neon Signs
Tracy Lawrence - Time Marches On
Old 97s - Fight Songs
Dolly Parton - The Grass Is Blue
The Word - The Word
Bobby Bare Jr. - Young Criminals Starvation League
Kelly Pickler - 100 Proof
Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen - Hold My Beer...
Parker McCullum - Probably Wrong
Zach Bryan - Elisabeth
 
Rahawk2 said:
What exactly is Bro country I never heard the term before here. Is it the country songs like Florida Georgia Line and the party/beer drinking songs?
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This is pretty accurate. Very Pop Country most of the songs are about having a good time. Light on the twang, usually showing a more modern R&B Influence maybe even even some electronics and Hip-hop elements. Sam Hunt, Thomas Rhett, etc...
 
Cheesefry said:
For the country crowd, what is everyone’s wishlist for the first year of Vinyl Me, Pardner? Off the top of my head, here’s mine...
Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie
Alison Krauss - Now That I’ve Found You
Dwight Yoakam - Gone
Gillian Welch - Revival
Johnny Cash - American Recordings
Dixie Chicks - Home
Waylon Jennings - Dreaming my Dreams
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
Lyle Lovett - Pontiac
Bob Wills & Texas Playboys - For the Last Time
....then finish the year with back to back:
Trisha Yearwood - self titled
Garth Brooks - No Fences
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Honky Tonk Heroes
 
Ok, mostly lurking lately, but I just gotta say... Y'all checked out the new Courtney Marie Andrews album? Talk about blurring the lines between country and folk, and her voice is just incredible. I'm probably late to the party as I hadn't even heard of her until last week when someone in this thread mentioned that the VMP version of her new album was almost out of stock (but it looks like they have restocked it or something).

She has a really great set on KEXP from a couple years ago as well:
 
WheatPopsicle said:
Ok, mostly lurking lately, but I just gotta say... Y'all checked out the new Courtney Marie Andrews album? Talk about blurring the lines between country and folk, and her voice is just incredible. I'm probably late to the party as I hadn't even heard of her until last week when someone in this thread mentioned that the VMP version of her new album was almost out of stock (but it looks like they have restocked it or something).

She has a really great set on KEXP from a couple years ago as well:
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I'm late to the party 🥳 too. I knew of her but never really bothered to check her out until last week when her new album dropped, in part due to this forum, and also because of the general positive reviews on aggregated sites like Metacritic and AOTY. Nevertheless you're right Old Flowers 💐 is a very good 👍country-folk singer-songwriter album and I may just have to pick it up now.
 
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Hollywood said:
In order to be a successful track, Vinyl Me, Pardner should include all of these sub-genres of country music and more...bluegrass, country-rock, americana, country-folk, alt-country, country-blues, western, singer-songwriter, outlaw, honky-tonk, roots, hillbilly etc. 🤠🐎
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100%. That will keep it fresh and would appeal to even country haters (who many will likely come around)
 
This is a great discussion, educational on all fronts, and I love the different tastes and viewpoints that you all bring. I’m a pretty stereotypical country listener in a lot of ways.

I grew up on grunge and then punk then indie. I started to branch to alt-country (uncle Tupelo, whiskeytown, Jayhawks, etc.) and eventually outlaw/classic country (Johnny Cash, Willie, Waylon, and Townes). I still struggle a bit with stuff that’s too twangy or pop-country, but my tastes are an ever changing work-in-progress.

Anyway, all I really wanted to add was this quote from Tyler Childers. He won some Americana Award and it pissed him off. He considers himself a country artist and thinks the labels don’t do the genre justice, which I think is probably true. In my younger (slightly) more pretentious days, I was the type to write off all “country” but would listen to Americana.

“It was at the Ryman which is the Mother Church of Country Music and they’re holding the Americana Awards which I feel is a big hindrance in maintaining more true-to-roots country music. And everybody always talks about the state of country music and puts down commercial country and [says] ‘somethings gotta be done’ and ‘we need to be elevating artists that are doing more traditional country’ but then were not calling those artists country artists, they’re getting put into this Americana thing. It is what it is, and I don’t really know how to define what Americana is. We’re our own thing, it’s a new time, and I don’t know what it’s called but I’ve been calling it country, you know? I think a lot of times it’s kind of become just a costume.” -Childers
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mgp said:
This is a great discussion, educational on all fronts, and I love the different tastes and viewpoints that you all bring. I’m a pretty stereotypical country listener in a lot of ways.

I grew up on grunge and then punk then indie. I started to branch to alt-country (uncle Tupelo, whiskeytown, Jayhawks, etc.) and eventually outlaw/classic country (Johnny Cash, Willie, Waylon, and Townes). I still struggle a bit with stuff that’s too twangy or pop-country, but my tastes are an ever changing work-in-progress.

Anyway, all I really wanted to add was this quote from Tyler Childers. He won some Americana Award and it pissed him off. He considers himself a country artist and thinks the labels don’t do the genre justice, which I think is probably true. In my younger (slightly) more pretentious days, I was the type to write off all “country” but would listen to Americana.
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Love this and Childers. I work with someone who “doesnt like modern country” and when I brought up Tyler Childer he said he “considers him Americana”.

It’s essentially a way to put any country artists they like into the Americana category instead of admitting that Country music is great.
 
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wynn72 said:
Love this and Childers. I work with someone who “doesnt like modern country” and when I brought up Tyler Childer he said he “considers him Americana”.

It’s essentially a way to put any country artists they like into the Americana category instead of admitting that Country music is great.
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Can someone explain what Americana is supposed to mean? I see that term thrown around, but I don't get what kind of music/ethos it is supposed to stand for
 
agutierrezb said:
Can someone explain what Americana is supposed to mean? I see that term thrown around, but I don't get what kind of music/ethos it is supposed to stand for
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Its essentially music that is formed and influenced from the many different types of American Roots styled musics. Its pretty much the same thing as country except it is often played with a full band, more contemporary in style, and alot of the time with a more rock than twangy sound. Think Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, Lucinda Williams, Rhiannon Giddens, etc.

Its really, in my eyes, just one of the prevalent modern styles of Country music but it’s for some reason separated by people who don’t like mainstream Country music.
 
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Can someone explain what Americana is supposed to mean? I see that term thrown around, but I don't get what kind of music/ethos it is supposed to stand for
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Per All Music Guide...
Much like its next of kin (alternative country-rock), Americana developed during the 1990s as a roots-oriented reaction to the slick commercial sounds that dominated mainstream country during the decade. But while alternative country-rock developed out of punk, alternative rock, and country itself, Americana sprung from less raw and edgy source material. In fact, much of what fell under the Americana umbrella was in fact a revival of dormant country styles, including Western swing and rockabilly. Though considered an alternative radio format, Americana did not break with country tradition; instead, it embraced it -- something, ironically enough, that the music hitting the Nashville charts throughout the era did not do.

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Americana Music Style Overview | AllMusic

Find Americana Albums, Artists and Songs, and Hand-Picked Top Americana Music on AllMusic
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It’s interesting that so many country artists feel the need to dress the role, i.e. cowboy hat and boots. Many of them probably never rode or saddled a horse.

The “uniform” isn’t unique to country, look at your metal bands and hip-hop artists.
 
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