Help Classify these songs…

| June 7, 2010

OK, this grew out of my previous post, and it seems that jonn may be AWOL again today, and lord knows I am the comic relief on this blog. So, help me to classify these three songs. They are my current favorites, which is saying a LOT for a guy whose top 3 bands are Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys and the Young Dubliners. Anyway, my specific question is this, I have heard all of them on Country Music stations at one point or another, and I only listen to Country when I am being held hostage and/or Caro is driving the car. (He who has their hands at 10 and 2 controls the radio, so sayeth the Burean of Motor Vehicles as stated by their disciple, my Child Bride.) Anywhoo, are these songs country?

Anyway, in no particular order I give you Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Old Crow Medicine Show and Kid Rock. I’m guessing they are some form of “Bluegrass” or something, but I don’t really know what that label means. I’m told I listen to “Ska” music, but I just thought it was pissed off Irish folks.

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Jonn Lilyea

Four posts and I “may be AWOL”? If I am AWOL, I guess I’m doing it wrong.

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TSO

No, I just saw that they were all early morning ones, which sometimes heralds your disappearance for the day,

BTW- Friday June 18th, I will be coming near your new home, lunch?

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Jonn Lilyea

Sure. Whereabouts? The Roadkill Cafe?

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Tpatcher

The “Clap Your Hands” track would be considered more of an upbeat delta blues track than country. If you like it you might would like Eric Sardinas who plays a very similar style. They guy is a fabulous slide guitar player:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja4z7swTO0E

The Old Crow Medicine Show song I would consider bluegrass, which is a sub-genre of country. “All Summer Long” is just “Sweet Home Alabama” with different lyrics and a slightly different melody, which is southern blues/rock.

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TSO

Good stuff Tpatch. I like that.

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FXCOfire

Old Crowe Medicine Show is more along the lines of bluegrass. Saw them in Richmond a couple of years back… It is amazing as my first exposure to this band was at a bar know for tattoos, PBR and insane variations in music

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S6R

TPatch says it all. There’s a lot of overlap between Country and Delta Blues, essentially most Southern music has similar ancestry with Country and Bluegrass.

It aint exactly Kenny Chesney, but if you look back at more traditional Country there’s a lot of common ground.

Also-Kid Rock has cited numerous times the influence that Southern Rock and Country in the form of folks like Hank Williams (Sr. and Jr.) have had on his music.

All Summer Long is perfectly timed and a good example of the Kid from Michigan’s cross genre music.

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VTWoody

I believe I’m responsible for the OCMS recomendation. For that reason I have no problem telling you about Mumford and Sons, Little Lion Man

http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&client=mv-google&hl=en&v=AbgYHUeYEPU&fulldescription=1

Let me know what you think.

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TSO

VT Woody, added to the rotation, good stuff bud.

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InspectorAsshole

Good songs. Haven’t gotten to Kid Rock yet but color me impressed. Wonder if rockabilly has as much going on?

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Old Tanker

I don’t much about classifying these songs but I do know a thing or 3 about lazy northern Michigan summertimes….they are never to be forgotten…. 🙂

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StPatrick

From Nashville with love – the 1st two songs qualify as country, or would have before it became a bunch of soft-rock feminist crap (thanks to Robbie Fulks for the description; he’s a local songwriter who used the phrase in his song “F___ This Town”). Real country tends to include lots of influences from bluegrass (which #2 is not) to blues, early rock like Jerry Lee Lewis, and black gospel / hymnals.

The 3rd song is impressive in that the talentless hack Kid Rock manages to rip off “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Werewolves of London” in the same song.

Try some Robert Earl Keen on sometime – if you like the rootsy stuff, he’s real good. Jerry Jeff Walker is fun too.

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Smorgasbord

Today’s country music ain’t the same as the ORIGINAL “tear jerking” country music. One easy way to tell if a song is REAL country music is to play the song backwards. If you get off booze, get your job back, get your pickup back, your wife and your dog come back to you, then it is a REAL country song.

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Da Goddess

The Reverend and Old Crow both fall under the roots/Americana banner very nicely, with Reverend Peyton garnering a blues designation as well. Rev does give one helluva cross between Delta and hill country blues, but there’s just enough going on that to classify this in only one of either category would be a grave injustice.

Kid Rock, well, call it whatever you want, but it’ll still be alt. country, the latest craze sweeping the nation. (It’s better than Britney, that’s for damn sure)

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