what’s in your cd player?
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Originally posted by bonnee:
I have to confess to resisting an urge to comment on your choices of alt.country. They tend towards the New Traditionalists, to paraphrase Devo.
Yeah, I’m not gonna argue with that. Fair assessment. Though I’ll argue that Wilco aren’t really bearers of any particular flame. I have been in a trad. kind of mood as of late, but that’s just this week or so, ‘cuz I’ve been on a big Gram Parsons kick. About a month ago, it was all Sun Ra, Parliament/Funkadelic and Ennio Morricone (an odd bag, to say the least). But anyway, as to Ryan Adams, I can totally understand where you’re coming from. It’s just that I’ve been a fan of Whiskeytown from way back (and always thought that they were a lot more sylistically diverse than most people gave them credit for), and thought that Ryan’s first solo album [i]Heartbreaker[/i] was one of the best “this relationship’s gone all to Hell” records since Dylan’s [i]Blood on the Tracks[/i]. Couldn’t get into [i]Gold[/i] really at all until I heard some of the tracks from it done live, separated from the 70’s rock production of the album, and with a really tight backing band (the album has too much of a “solo artist with studio musicians” feel to it for my tastes, but the musicians he’s been touring with really gel together nicely). But I’ll give 16 HP another shot. I think I’ve only listened to their second album ([i]Low Estate?[/i] I think that’s the title?) and wasn’t that blown away by it, but it’s been a while. I was just curious as to your Gun Club comparison as I’d had them on rotation a week or two ago.
–Aleck