Music Recs Round You Show Me Yours

[icepixie]

It's about time for another music recs post. However, I have a problem: I haven't heard much new that's good lately. :(

Instead, I'm asking you to rec music to me! What do you like? What have you been listening to of late? Links are great, but just names and titles are good too. Lay 'em on me.

(...Okay, I lied about having nothing. Possibly I've rec'ed her before, but if I haven't, try out Lucy Kaplansky, especially these two: This Is Home, Ten Year Night.)

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[icepixie]

I also figured it was time I acted like I was a New Jersey resident or they'd kick me out!

*snerk* That he's from New Jersey/strongly identified with the state is pretty much the only thing I know about Springsteen.

I think we're basically in agreement on country. FWIW, I tend to put Alabama in the same category as Brooks & Dunn and the others I mentioned as exemplifying the style I hate in my first comment. I think my dichotomy might fall apart when we get to people who were around before the late 1980s, because I just don't know much about various country musics before then. (Like, I would probably have to agree that Willie Nelson and Hank Willians, Jr., are not in that category of pop-with-country-veneer, but I still can't stand them either.)

Oooh, okay, for once in my life the Country Music Hall of Fame has been useful: on their list of country styles, I tend to find "Country Rock," "Alternative Country," and "Singer/Songwriter" worthwhile, and dislike everything else, with an especial hate for "New Country." That was basically what I was trying to explain earlier, I think. :)

Red Dirt Girl is my favorite Emmylou Harris song, of those I've heard (and it's not a long list; I should check out more of her stuff, though man, she's produced a thousand songs). She's not someone I'd want on a desert island or anything, but I like what I've heard.