Country music

asredastheycome said:
Always loved this. Love REMs version. The video and the sentiment are very much relevant in current Covid times.

John Prine - Hello In There

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You've clearly got good taste as well ;);)

Glad you also posted it as made me check out a live REM version which is brilliant. Didn't know they'd covered it. Suits Stipe's voice
 
I really like Midland. Really good fun. especially live. The bass player Cameron Duddy is an acomplished music video director too. Has done vids for Bruno Mars, Mark Ronson, J-Lo, OneRepublic etc

 
Always loved this from the Dead Man Walking soundtrack.................................worth tracking down some brilliant songs on it by Springsteen, Tom Waits, Eddy Vedder and more.

Steve Earle - Ellis Unit One

 
I am not a country and western fan, but enjoyed the documentaries on PBS about the development of C & W and the characters than came and went. Also the part radio played in its development. I didn't realise it took off with the Carter family (from a remote part of rural Virginia called Poor Valley in the late 1920s when it was known as hill billy music. Long Wave Radio opened it up to tens of millions of people.
 
asredastheycome said:
Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World..............................it just breaks your heart.
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I love Emmylou Harris's version of this, but then her voice has always sent shivers down me. Sung with even more feeling as it was obviously directed to her lover Gram Parsons who took his own life. I can't listen without shedding a tear.

 
pierrequiroule said:
I love Emmylou Harris's version of this, but then her voice has always sent shivers down me. Sung with even more feeling as it was obviously directed to her lover Gram Parsons who took his own life. I can't listen without shedding a tear.

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Parsons death was not suicide but accidental drug overdose. He had split from Emmylou by then and had restarted a relationship with his old high school girfriend Margaret Fisher. Although I like both version Lucinda Williams is more fragile and the better one.
 
I thought there was some dispute over Parson's death I guess only he knows. There are so many factors in determining one's preferred version of any song that you can't say one is better than another. It's a great song, period.
 
Although I've never been a huge fan of Country music, I absolutely love this track


Lead singer is actually Micky Thomas of Jefferson Starship and Starship fame
 
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