The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #68012 Message #2069137
Posted By: Scoville
05-Jun-07 - 11:16 AM
Thread Name: Guilty Pleasures - Rock and Roll
Subject: RE: Guilty Pleasures - Rock and Roll
All right, I'll come clean, but I won't apologize. If I listened to folk all the time, I might run the risk of getting burned out on it, and that would be a bad thing. I'm a pretty simple person but I've got a few more moods than just "folk".
I've still got a few contradance, Chieftains, and folk-revival [pop-folk] albums, and the Golden Ring/New Golden Ring set. Other than that, mixed in with my growing collection of blues, Cajun, roots country, and old-time fiddle you'll find:
Pop & rock Buddy Holly & the Crickets Everly Brothers (four CD's worth) Del Shannon Colin Gilmore: Jimmie Dale's son and a major Buddy Holly obsessor. I think this is what Buddy would have sounded like had he been a Gen X-er. Ricky Nelson the Band Allman Brothers Creedence Clearwater Revival the Eagles Battlefield Band: Folk and rock! Little Richard Fats Domino and I once owned an entire cassette tape of the Shirelles. Yikes.
Nashville country Randy Travis (sorry, but the man does great country gospel)
"Americana", whatever that means Gillian Welch Cowboy Junkies: Good stuff for depressed college students. Son Volt: Also good stuff for depressed college students. Skid Mountain Boys: [See above] Old Crow Medicine Show (well, one CD. I don't actually like them that much( the Devil Makes Three: Old-time noir.
Swing/Jazz Hot Club of Cow Town Scott Biram: blues/country/punk amalgam. When he's in the mood, he does this Woody Guthrie-channeling thing that is almost scary. I listened to him a lot when I hated my job. the Weary Boys: loud, sloppy, retro-country. Wayne Hancock: the master of rockabilly revival. I mostly go to watch his lead guitarist, Eddie Biebel, but the whole show is good.
Texas & alt-country Townes Van Zandt Steve Earle Robert Earl Keen Lyle Lovett (as close as I get to 'easy listening') Lucinda Williams