Americana Highways - New Zach Bryan review
Zach Bryan has a new self-titled album. We reviewed it. Enjoy our quality music coverage and reviews on Americana Highways.
I was planning to write a little bit about this, but the folks over at Americana Highways did the work for me (and did a much better job than I would've).
https://americanahighways.org/2023/08/31/review-zach-bryan-self-titled-album/
I think I was trying to find out about a news event that had recently happened in our community (the community groups in Facebook are still a decent resource for local news) and getting the stupid app to show me a chronological timeline of the group was damned near impossible. I mean, I know it's possible to do it, but it frustrated me to no end that it was turned into a more difficult process than it needed to be.
After that, I said 'screw this place'. I know that we are all the product on Facebook, but I didn't mind surrendering to ads and all that stuff until it became a product that stopped being useful to me.
Exactly why I stopped using Facebook because it was damned near impossible to have a chronological timeline on the app.
Jason Isbell played a show at Wolf Trap w/SG Goodman opening. We were there to photograph and review. Enjoy our quality music coverage.
Rainbow Ruckus 8/8: Jaime Wyatt, Samantha Rise, Steve Grand, and More! - Rainbow Rodeo
New queer country for your ears!
Jaime Wyatt Samantha Rise lazypines Phil Hermann Steve Grand
https://rainbowrodeomag.com/rainbow-ruckus-8-8-jaime-wyatt-samantha-rise-steve-grand-and-more/
#QueerCountry #Americana #AltCountry #CountryMusic #FolkMusic #IndieFolk #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic
“Neon Blue” by Joshua Hedley
When I heard ‘Neon Blue’ by Joshua Hedley’ when it was first released, I enjoyed the song. It reminded me of early 90s Garth Brooks. Without early 90s Garth, I don’t think I would have ever listened to the Alt Country & Americana stuff.
I didn’t look much into the album and kind of forgot about the song until recently.
The early 90s sound on the entire record is intentional. Joshua decided to make a ‘concept’ album that pondered the idea of what a new country album might sound like if country music didn’t wander into a full on pop sound in the mid to late 90s.
It intentionally sounds like Garth, Brooks & Dunn, and Alan Jackson and it reminds of sucking down $1 Coors Lights at the line dancing club with my buddies from work. I wasn’t even into country (I was into mostly metal in those days), but cheap drinks and cute country girls* are hard to resist when you’re 21. I know lots of songs from that era without listening to a minute of country radio and I do enjoy most of them. 3/fin
- Years later, I met a cute country girl at a different club. Next week, it will be our 16th anniversary.
Wyatt Flores - Holes (Official Visualizer)
I’ve been listening to the ‘Brushland’ playlist curated by Tyler Childers on Amazon Music (I believe the playlist is on all the major music platforms). I’ve discovered so many artists that I haven’t heard before. Wyatt Flores is one of them. Totally dig his sound.
I love what Firefish is attempting to do, but I’m much more impressed with the Ice Cubes app for Mastodon. It works really well and has that ‘twitter’ feel. I’ll be honest, the official Mastodon app just isn’t very good & I think lots of folks have had a bad experience with it. It seems like when they try a 3rd party app, their experience is much better.
One of the things that really enhanced my experience on Mastodon is following hashtags. It allows you to more or less create your own algorithm to see topics you are interested in. It also seems like the importance of hashtags isn’t relayed to new users.
Boosting Mastodon Posts to Lemmy
I follow the #americana on Mastodon and there is a some pretty good recommendations for music that come from the hashtag. Is there any way to elegantly boost a Mastodon "toot" to a Lemmy community?
Colter Wall: Evangelina
This song came up on a playlist curated by Tyler Childers. I’m glad it did. It reminded me that Colter Wall is awesome. He definitely has an authentic country & western sound that tends to be more rare these days.
‘Tyler Childers has thought a lot about what it means to be an ally. "Even if you have the privilege of walking through this world unfazed, it's more important than ever to stand with and for and up for things, to be vocal," the grassroots country star said during a recent long conversation.‘
https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2023-07-27/tyler-childers-is-back-and-taking-chances
Tyler Childers - In Your Love (Official Video)
Tyler Childers does it again! Great song and extraordinarily powerful video. #americana #altcountry #lgbtq
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - Next Rodeo (Official Video)
I saw Molly open up for Orville Peck last fall. She was fantastic!
The Dodgers are in agreement on a deal in which they would acquire shortstop Amed Rosario from the Guardians, pending a review of medical records, a source told MLB.com's Mark Feinsand. The clubs have not confirmed the news. Rosario, 27, is slashing .265/.306/.369 with 40 RBIs, 19 doubles and three
Huh.
I'm sure that the person complaining about him "going woke" was referring to that. Like I said, complaining about artists in this genre being progressive or liberal leaning is like complaining that water is wet.
Totally love this. 90s #altrock is still one of my favorite genres. I saw Sugar Ray in the late 90s on a college arena tour (what happened to those?) and they were so much heavier than I expected them to be.
Joshua Ray Walker "Cuz I Luv You" (Official Audio)
Joshua Ray Walker does a totally fun cover of Lizzo's "Cuz I Luv You". Check it out at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quMB3P1isd0
Adeem the Artist parodies ‘Try That in a Small Town’
If you haven’t listened to Adeem the Artist and dig the #country #altcountry #americana sound, please give them a listen. Adeem identifies as #NonBinary and very much speaks truth to power on racism, LGBTQ+, and other issues that plague our country.
Unfortunately, they only posted this parody on twitter, so ignore the link if you’re trying to stay away from there. #Music
https://twitter.com/AdeemTheArtist/status/1682067189451587584?s=20
When that weird ass Wagner rebellion went down a few weeks ago, I followed the #wagner, #Prigozhin, and #russia hashtags and the news was just as up to the minute as anything on Twitter was. After the rebellion fizzled out, I just unfollowed the hashtags. I also happened to find some reliable accounts to follow that were knowledgeable about that part of the world.
I’m not even sure that any of those hashtags showed up in the ‘trending tags’ part of my app, though.
I graduated from high school in 1995. The community I grew up in was incredibly diverse. It was a decent sized city (100k+) and we had about 3,000 students the year I graduated.
That summer, we went to rural Idaho for a family reunion. It was probably the first time in my life that I visited a place that was exclusively white. I’m a white dude myself, but like I said, grew up in a diverse community.
The lack of diversity was a giant culture shock to me. I was in a small community with a population that was about half the size of the school I had just graduated from.
I regret to inform you that Tyler Childers has gone woke! (/s)
So the other I was scrolling Instagram and clicked on post that showed Joe Rogan backstage at a Zach Bryan show. Being a dumdum, I looked at the comments because I wanted to get some context.
Within the first few comments, a dude called Zach a dollar store imitation of Tyler Childers. Someone responded to him that Childers was good until he went ‘woke.’ I quickly showed myself out of the comments after that.
Aside from the idea of comparing the two artists being extremely ridiculous, accusing an altcountry/Americana artist of going ‘woke’ is pretty silly. A good portion of the artists are pretty progressive.
New Americana Music Community
Americana (also known as American roots music) is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States, specifically those sounds that are emerged from the Southern United States such as folk, gospel, blues, cou...
Americana is new community to discuss all things Americana Music.
Especially when you know the back story. Her step father was an abusive shitbag and she ran away from home at 15.
Nightflyer is really good, too.
I can only speak for my 2 GF kids, but they’ve tried other brands and Schar is still their favorite.
New Americana Community
Americana (also known as American roots music) is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States, specifically those sounds that are emerged from the Southern United States such as folk, gospel, blues, cou...
One of the things that I miss about Reddit is some of the more "niche" genre music communities. In the last couple of years, I've really gotten into Alt Country and Americana. Anyhow, check out the new community at !americana[email protected]
Rhiannon Giddens shares songs and conversation with outstanding guest performers.
If you haven't caught this show on PBS and like Americana type music, do yourself a favor and give it a watch. I've discovered a few new artists that I wouldn't have otherwise and was reminded that Allison Russell is a freaking boss.
Some of my favorites so far -
Charly Lowry. I wish there was more of her music available because what I've heard is awesome. Check out the live version of "Go Wild" at Youtube.
Rissi Palmer - Her latest song, with Miko Marks, called "Still Here" over at YT.
Adia Victoria - She's simply amazing. Video for "Magnolia Blues" at YT.
Allison Russell - "Persephone" is one of my favorite tunes right now.
I think the really fun things with Americana is that it is such a wide ranging genre that there is a ton material to discover.
Years and years ago, I used Mint on an underpowered notebook and it worked well, but Mint kind of got bloated and I wasn’t a huge fan of it at the end.
I played around with a couple of other distros that I can’t remember at the moment on other older PCs. I think I just googled ‘good linux distro for old pcs’ and (whatever) they were did the trick for my kids.
Welcome to Americana!
One of the coolest things about reddit was the more genre specific music subs that they offered. I was originally going to start an alt-country community, but I think that the umbrella for Americana type music is much larger and incorporates alt-country and much more. Hopefully we can share some cool music here.
You can do the whole ‘add to home screen’ and it sort of functions like an app in iOS.
Some of the NSFW subs, but more stuff like /altcountry (and similar genre music) and the gardening subs.