These are the best! A friend of mine in Austin sent me a copy of last year's and he said they sell out almost immediately. As Sybil noted, these are all in-studio performances and sound great. A lot of artists you normally wouldn't be exposed to are on compilations like these. Definitely worth checking out if you're into the harder edge side of country and folk music.
As for alt-country, I've gotten into this genre a lot lately. Worth checking out are the Jayhawks, Son Volt/Uncle Tupelo/Jay Farrar, and a multitude of others. I jsut picked up an issue of the magazine "No Depression" and likewise is worth at least a strum through in your local Borders. Talks a lot about country and bluegrass music from this century. Mark NP-Grateful Dead, They Love Each Other > From: "Sybil Skelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Sybil Skelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:38:05 -0600 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Ryan Adams/Alt country > > Since Kate asked about this subject, I'm including the text of an email I > received on another music list I belong to. This recommendation sounds like > a pretty good cross section of "alt country" type artists. I was thinking of > checking it out myself as a kind of intro - I keep hearing this term > alt.country, and even though I am a native Texan, I'm not sure what it > really means. > > Sybil (who still thinks Jerry Jeff Walker is alternative) > > > "KGRS is a wonderful radio station in Austin, TX, that plays a wide > variety of music in the alt.country/roots rock/folk/etc. genres. Each > year, it releases a limited number of CDs featuring live in-studio > performances. Proceeds go to charity. I have a few of the CDs from > past years and can tell you they are phenomenal. This year's track > list looks equally promising. The 2-CD set has 37 songs on it--and is > a real deal at $20. See ordering instructions at > http://buymusichere.com/cgi-bin/waterloo.storefront > and click on KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 9. Orders ship the week of November > 23. > > Here's the track list: > Track List > 1 Reasons Why - Nickel Creek > 2 South Nashville Blues - Steve Earle > 3 Tear Stained Eye - Kasey Chambers > 4 The Consequences Of Falling - k.d. lang > 5 Youngblood - Rickie Lee Jones > 6 Good Morning Miss Brown - Taj Mahal > 7 Leavin' - Shelby Lynne > 8 Come On Back - Keb' Mo' > 9 Raglan Road - The Chieftains with Joan Osborne > 10 In The Garden - Double Trouble with Lisa Tingle > 11 I Know Love Is All I Need - Rodney Crowell > 12 Drop Down Mama - North Mississippi All Stars > 13 Never Is A Moment - Jimmy LaFave > 14 Big Blue Sea - Bob Schneider > 15 One Good Year - Slaid Cleaves > 16 Wave - Alejandro Escovedo > 17 King Of The Hill - Bruce Hornsby > 1 Homeless Child - The Holmes Brothers > 2 1962 - Michael Fracasso with Patty Griffin > 3 Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way - Damon Bramblett > 4 Life On A Chain - Pete Yorn > 5 Blue - Lucinda Williams > 6 That's Love - The Resentments > 7 To Be Young (is to be sad, is to be high) - Ryan Adams > 8 Not A Drop Of Rain - Robert Earl Keen > 9 I Am The Light Of This World - Jorma Kaukonen > 10 Buzz Fledderjohn - John Hammond > 11 I Saw Nick Drake - Robyn Hitchcock > 12 Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way - Willie Nelson > 13 I'm So Open - Cowboy Junkies > 14 Please Forgive Me - David Gray > 15 Linger - Jonatha Brooke > 16 It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go - Nanci Griffith > 17 Hard Times In Babylon - Eliza Gilkyson > 18 Three Days Straight - Ray Wylie Hubbard > 19 Willin' - Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett of Little Feat > 20 My Old Friend - John Hiatt with Sonny Landreth > CD > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
