2024-25 Roster Thread #2: Midseasonnar

[Magua]

Don’t tell me what to do, Captain Tiger Pants.

Don’t even talk to that country music lover, Graph Guy.

 

[Lord Defect]

Let’s rehash all time HFFlyers shitshows.

What’s everyone’s opinion on country music?

Now someone else go.

Stroll down memory lane.

Outlaw country and older is alright. Anything 80ish or newer is hot trash.

 

[trostol]

ya got Roy and Chet there just marvelling at his playing

 

[deadhead]

Outlaw country and older is alright. Anything 80ish or newer is hot trash.

Pretty much except for the chick (opps, not PC) singer/songwriters.
There's a lot of good talent but they can't get on Nashville airways, no room with all the mediocre hat groups.

Though my country tastes are skewed anyway, the Dead introduced me to Merle Haggard (Mama Tried) Johnny Cash (Big River) and George Strait (The Race Is On). Marty Robbins (El Paso) I already knew growing up in the 60s. Then I got turned on the Viva Terlingua (Jerry Jeff Walker), Willie Nelson (Red Headed Stranger) and the Texas Outlaws (Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys). Then it was Graham Parsons (who started the career of EmmyLou Harris) Gilded Palace of Sin and The Return of the Grievous Angel. Finally, moving to Austin, the Flatlanders and The Best of Joe Ely (otherwise known as Joe Ely sings the Butch Hancock songbook).

Rodney Crowell and Johnny's little girl can hang out at my house, Rosanne not only was a star in her younger days, but grew up to be a heck of a singer/songwriter, check out Black Cadillac. Mary Chapin Carpenter started as country but moved on, another great songwriter. And of course, living in Texas in the 1980s, them A&M boys, Lyle Lovett (Joshua Judges Ruth) and Robert Earl Keen (The Road Goes On Forever). Don't know if you'd call him country, but Townes Van Zandt was special, got to see him at the Cactus Cafe (Pancho and Lefty). If you want to really get into weird Texas, Terry Allen, Lubbock on Everything, my favorite Allen song:



The Drive-By Truckers (Southern Rock Opera) and Jason Isbell ain't country but they are fun.

 

[FlyerNutter]

Outlaw country and older is alright. Anything 80ish or newer is hot trash.

Stapleton has a lovely voice, scarecrow in the garden is more old school country than some of the pop stuff.

Set in Stone, the acoustic version by Travis Tritt is lovely.

Coyotes by Don Edwards, with a bonfire/nice cigar in the summer is a beaut of a time.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

Listen, I know you’re not one to back down, but we have done this for 1000 pages over the years. That’s experience talking. You will never get what you want out of this conversation from him because it’s in bad faith. There’s a lot of people with whom you can get worthwhile debate. I mean that as a gesture of goodwill.

post of the century...

 

[trostol]

 

[Lord Defect]

Stapleton has a lovely voice, scarecrow in the garden is more old school country than some of the pop stuff.

Set in Stone, the acoustic version by Travis Tritt is lovely.

Coyotes by Don Edwards, with a bonfire/nice cigar in the summer is a beaut of a time.

I do have Stapleton’s station on preset in my truck.
I just started to casually listen to the genre after finding out I can have something like 20 presets, but ran out of stations to preset.

Without listening to this, these guys seem like the exact four people I would least want to have a conversation with.

 

[deadhead]

How about these guys?