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Originally Posted by Wallypop
Just to start, I've really been listening to a lot of Paul Brandt, Marty Robbins, Longshot, and Randy Travis again. I think there are many Canadian artists who are very underappreciated worldwide, as I'm sure there are many regional American artists who are the same way.
Paul Brandt is excellent, IMO.
I'm also a big fan of country music, mostly the old stuff and a select few "90s country," which is probably pretty darn country compared to the pop country that's on country stations today. I'm not really a fan of the vast majority of modern pop country, but there are a select few songs that I find entertaining.
A few years back I was really into "Texas" country. A couple of tracks:
Pat Green- Carry On
Not to sound too much like a country music hipster (which probably doesn't exist), but Pat Green's stuff was excellent until he sold out. He remade the above song after
this one became a hit, and made it worse. Replaced the fiddle intro with a generic guitar lick, replaced "bull****" with "BS", and "come down to Texas" with "come down to my place." I guess Texas is a little too out there.
Cross Canadian Ragweed- Boys from Oklahoma
The Texas country folks don't mind the marijuana, as this song shows.
Roger Creager- The Everclear Song
Hayes Carll- She Left Me for Jesus
Charlie Robison- My Hometown
I'd link these too if I had more time, but the older Texas country/folk guys are on the top of my list of all-time greats, including Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, Robert Earl Keen, Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, and John Prine.