Zach Bryan has a new self-titled album. We reviewed it. Enjoy our quality music coverage and reviews on Americana Highways.
I was planning to write a little bit about this, but the folks over at Americana Highways did the work for me (and did a much better job than I would've).
https://americanahighways.org/2023/08/31/review-zach-bryan-self-titled-album/
I think I was trying to find out about a news event that had recently happened in our community (the community groups in Facebook are still a decent resource for local news) and getting the stupid app to show me a chronological timeline of the group was damned near impossible. I mean, I know it's possible to do it, but it frustrated me to no end that it was turned into a more difficult process than it needed to be.
After that, I said 'screw this place'. I know that we are all the product on Facebook, but I didn't mind surrendering to ads and all that stuff until it became a product that stopped being useful to me.
Exactly why I stopped using Facebook because it was damned near impossible to have a chronological timeline on the app.
You go away on your honeymoon for two weeks and the queer cowpokes keep cranking out amazing music! What the hell!!! That’s only a good thing, of course. Some of the songs you see today are a few weeks old, and others are piping hot. Scroll down for links to our playlists on Spotify, Tidal,
New queer country for your ears!
Jaime Wyatt Samantha Rise lazypines Phil Hermann Steve Grand
https://rainbowrodeomag.com/rainbow-ruckus-8-8-jaime-wyatt-samantha-rise-steve-grand-and-more/
#QueerCountry #Americana #AltCountry #CountryMusic #FolkMusic #IndieFolk #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic
When I heard ‘Neon Blue’ by Joshua Hedley’ when it was first released, I enjoyed the song. It reminded me of early 90s Garth Brooks. Without early 90s Garth, I don’t think I would have ever listened to the Alt Country & Americana stuff.
I didn’t look much into the album and kind of forgot about the song until recently.
The early 90s sound on the entire record is intentional. Joshua decided to make a ‘concept’ album that pondered the idea of what a new country album might sound like if country music didn’t wander into a full on pop sound in the mid to late 90s.
It intentionally sounds like Garth, Brooks & Dunn, and Alan Jackson and it reminds of sucking down $1 Coors Lights at the line dancing club with my buddies from work. I wasn’t even into country (I was into mostly metal in those days), but cheap drinks and cute country girls* are hard to resist when you’re 21. I know lots of songs from that era without listening to a minute of country radio and I do enjoy most of them. 3/fin
- Years later, I met a cute country girl at a different club. Next week, it will be our 16th anniversary.
I’ve been listening to the ‘Brushland’ playlist curated by Tyler Childers on Amazon Music (I believe the playlist is on all the major music platforms). I’ve discovered so many artists that I haven’t heard before. Wyatt Flores is one of them. Totally dig his sound.
I love what Firefish is attempting to do, but I’m much more impressed with the Ice Cubes app for Mastodon. It works really well and has that ‘twitter’ feel. I’ll be honest, the official Mastodon app just isn’t very good & I think lots of folks have had a bad experience with it. It seems like when they try a 3rd party app, their experience is much better.
One of the things that really enhanced my experience on Mastodon is following hashtags. It allows you to more or less create your own algorithm to see topics you are interested in. It also seems like the importance of hashtags isn’t relayed to new users.
I follow the #americana on Mastodon and there is a some pretty good recommendations for music that come from the hashtag. Is there any way to elegantly boost a Mastodon "toot" to a Lemmy community?
This song came up on a playlist curated by Tyler Childers. I’m glad it did. It reminded me that Colter Wall is awesome. He definitely has an authentic country & western sound that tends to be more rare these days.
Tyler Childers does it again! Great song and extraordinarily powerful video. #americana #altcountry #lgbtq
I saw Molly open up for Orville Peck last fall. She was fantastic!
Just released today.
Joshua Ray Walker does a totally fun cover of Lizzo's "Cuz I Luv You". Check it out at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quMB3P1isd0
If you haven’t listened to Adeem the Artist and dig the #country #altcountry #americana sound, please give them a listen. Adeem identifies as #NonBinary and very much speaks truth to power on racism, LGBTQ+, and other issues that plague our country.
Unfortunately, they only posted this parody on twitter, so ignore the link if you’re trying to stay away from there. #Music
https://twitter.com/AdeemTheArtist/status/1682067189451587584?s=20
When that weird ass Wagner rebellion went down a few weeks ago, I followed the #wagner, #Prigozhin, and #russia hashtags and the news was just as up to the minute as anything on Twitter was. After the rebellion fizzled out, I just unfollowed the hashtags. I also happened to find some reliable accounts to follow that were knowledgeable about that part of the world.
I’m not even sure that any of those hashtags showed up in the ‘trending tags’ part of my app, though.
So the other I was scrolling Instagram and clicked on post that showed Joe Rogan backstage at a Zach Bryan show. Being a dumdum, I looked at the comments because I wanted to get some context.
Within the first few comments, a dude called Zach a dollar store imitation of Tyler Childers. Someone responded to him that Childers was good until he went ‘woke.’ I quickly showed myself out of the comments after that.
Aside from the idea of comparing the two artists being extremely ridiculous, accusing an altcountry/Americana artist of going ‘woke’ is pretty silly. A good portion of the artists are pretty progressive.
Rhiannon Giddens shares songs and conversation with outstanding guest performers.
If you haven't caught this show on PBS and like Americana type music, do yourself a favor and give it a watch. I've discovered a few new artists that I wouldn't have otherwise and was reminded that Allison Russell is a freaking boss.
Some of my favorites so far -
Charly Lowry. I wish there was more of her music available because what I've heard is awesome. Check out the live version of "Go Wild" at Youtube.
Rissi Palmer - Her latest song, with Miko Marks, called "Still Here" over at YT.
Adia Victoria - She's simply amazing. Video for "Magnolia Blues" at YT.
Allison Russell - "Persephone" is one of my favorite tunes right now.
One of the coolest things about reddit was the more genre specific music subs that they offered. I was originally going to start an alt-country community, but I think that the umbrella for Americana type music is much larger and incorporates alt-country and much more. Hopefully we can share some cool music here.