The Country Music Thread, 8th Style...

Tyler Childers...I'm a sucker for good country/blue grass fiddle and lyrics about cocaine.

 

Yep

 

Seen him three times. Do it.

 

Robert Earl retiring from performing live in September, says he wants to quit the road while he still loves the grind, can't argue with that.

I'll have to get another show or two in.

 

Corpus Christi Bay is still one of my favorites

 

Civic Auditorium is a shit venue for a place designed for live music, but Jinks freaking hammered it.

That said, it would take the Turnpike Troubadours for me to go to another show there. Sound booth is stage left rather than in the back so its a ton of reverb and poor quality.

As someone who tries to catch 40 touring shows a year (we're double income, grown kids so its a good hobby) please keep this is mind :

Nobody is going to watch the 75 minute shaky video you took of a concert, but should you absolutely need to make one, please turn your screen brightness all the way down. And the flash is useless 200' away.

 

I saw Childers & Sturgill in there and it was terrible. Childers wasn’t too bad but the sound was so bad for Sturgill we left. Idk why they book concerts in that crap hole

 

I was there last night. Great show.

 

Anybody seen Bob Dylan recently and have a take on if he's still worth going to see? Regardless of the type of performance he's putting on these days, there's a long list of absolute legends I had chances to see before they passed and didn't do it. I know I'll regret it if I let that list get any bigger because it doesn't feel like there will ever be more like them (John Prine, BB King, Ralph Stanley just off the top of my head where I decided I was too busy or didn't want to pay for the ticket day of).

 

The better half sent me a thing that said "Ragweed crawled so Turnpike could fly".

100% accurate. The "napster generation" that found good music rather than eating what was in the bowl.

 

American Aquarium in Asheville Thursday, end Flatland is there Friday. Boss lady said I should stay and go too the fly fishing museum and hunt Civil War graves.

Basically I get to do all the things she tolerates me freaking out over for a few days.

 

I love AA. Still haven’t made it to one of their shows but I need to.

 

So which AA album should I start with

 

Burn. Flicker. Die.

Then Lamentations. Then all the rest.

 

They're an amazing live act, BJ never has an off night

 

Kind of a less-depressing Drive-By Truckers

 

Perhaps. The post sobriety albums are a bit more ....not sure introspective is the word. The solo album Rockingham is just great, sad yet hopeful

 

I mainly meant the sound. The guy’s voice is reminiscent of Cooley I think at times

 

Corb is amazing