Country Music

[Professor Knowall]

Enjoyed Jake Vaadeland tonight. He is getting some credit, show was sold out. Which was a bit annoying, hard to keep up the booze level at he bar and see the artist at the same time. But on the other hand a good thing obviously.

Anyone coming from a place called Cut Knife would have a lot going for them. Like his sound

 

[revo333]

Enjoyed Morgan Wallens latest album a lot.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Not sure why it looks like this, but plays correctly and looks like it should.

 

[Monocle]

Just a few months on from his son’s untimely death, in a fog of heartbreak after losing Justin

I was so sad, actually I was super pissed and disappointed when Justin Townes Earle, died of his fentanyl-laced cocaine addiction.

He had an unbelievable grasp on the musical blend of music that encapsulated that mix: of country, soul, blues and how he captured Appalachian music to its core.

For the record I though Justin was extremely talented, I happen to be very fond of these songs of his:

Harlem River Blues
Look The Other Way
Halfway to Jackson
(Cant believe he was only 15 when he wrote Halfway To Jackson - check out the lyrics, man a 15 year old should not be able to or be put in a situation whereby they can craft ( through experience ), such pros, from real life experience at only 15.

And my favourite.

Maybe a Moment

I though he was trending in a high trajectory and believed that it was only a matter of time that he himself had a "Copperhead Road' song that he was to write and share with us all.

Sadly he never came back from that dangerous rabbit hole that his father often visited, and somehow managed to escape with life still intact, Justin was not so lucky.

I got and still am a very angry, that I never got to hear the best of his musical talent, as DRUGS, claimed another life way too soon.

 

[THE A5]

I was so sad, actually I was super pissed and disappointed when Justin Townes Earle, died of his fentanyl-laced cocaine addiction.

He had an unbelievable grasp on the musical blend of music that encapsulated that mix: of country, soul, blues and how he captured Appalachian music to its core.

For the record I though Justin was extremely talented, I happen to be very fond of these songs of his:

Harlem River Blues
Look The Other Way
Halfway to Jackson
(Cant believe he was only 15 when he wrote Halfway To Jackson - check out the lyrics, man a 15 year old should not be able to or be put in a situation whereby they can craft ( through experience ), such pros, from real life experience at only 15.

And my favourite.

Maybe a Moment

I though he was trending in a high trajectory and believed that it was only a matter of time that he himself had a "Copperhead Road' song that he was to write and share with us all.

Sadly he never came back from that dangerous rabbit hole that his father often visited, and somehow managed to escape with life still intact, Justin was not so lucky.

I got and still am a very angry, that I never got to hear the best of his musical talent, as DRUGS, claimed another life way too soon.

There’s an old interview of him talking about drugs and it’s chilling now cause he talks about how drugs now unlike when he was in his 20’s are being cut with shit like fent and how he feels sorry for kids etc.

 

[Simpledon]

Looking forward to this. Not sure if/when streaming here

New Docuseries Explores Outlaw Country Music History, Featuring Interviews From 17 Artists Who Have Since Passed Away

'They Called Us Outlaws', an expansive docuseries exploring the history of outlaw country music, will premiere at the 2026 SXSW Festival.

americansongwriter.com

 

[Catfish Alley]

I saw Hardy a couple of weeks ago. Was a good show. He got out into the crowd and seemed pretty humble. Has a few big hits and switched pretty easily to his original hard rock.

 

[Professor Knowall]

I was so sad, actually I was super pissed and disappointed when Justin Townes Earle, died of his fentanyl-laced cocaine addiction.

He had an unbelievable grasp on the musical blend of music that encapsulated that mix: of country, soul, blues and how he captured Appalachian music to its core.

For the record I though Justin was extremely talented, I happen to be very fond of these songs of his:

Harlem River Blues
Look The Other Way
Halfway to Jackson
(Cant believe he was only 15 when he wrote Halfway To Jackson - check out the lyrics, man a 15 year old should not be able to or be put in a situation whereby they can craft ( through experience ), such pros, from real life experience at only 15.

And my favourite.

Maybe a Moment

I though he was trending in a high trajectory and believed that it was only a matter of time that he himself had a "Copperhead Road' song that he was to write and share with us all.

Sadly he never came back from that dangerous rabbit hole that his father often visited, and somehow managed to escape with life still intact, Justin was not so lucky.

I got and still am a very angry, that I never got to hear the best of his musical talent, as DRUGS, claimed another life way too soon.

Absolutely - his passing was such a waste and a great loss to music. He seemed to have inherited both the best of Steve Earle's and Townes Van Zandt's abilities and sensibilities - but also their vices.

In the Steve Earle history bit, I actually, in a stream of consciousness sort of way that I often zone into, wrote up quite a bit on Justin, only to cut it in the end for being off the primary topic and too long. Here's one segment from a 2011 interview, when he was living in NYC, that underscores your point - "He had an unbelievable grasp on the musical blend of music that encapsulated that mix: of country, soul, blues and how he captured Appalachian music to its core." -
"... Justin classifies his genre as Southern American rather than Americana or, God forbid, alt-country - “It’s either country or it ain’t,” he once told an interviewer). “What I always attempt to do on my records is to cover the South because we own all popular forms of music. They’re all inherently ours, because we created them all. (Okay, hip-hop, New York’s got that.) But we’ve got string music from the hills of North Carolina and Virginia and eastern Tennessee that moves over to bluegrass in Kentucky, country music in Nashville, blues in the Delta and all over the South, jazz in New Orleans, and like Levon Helm said in The Last Waltz, this all slides to Memphis and becomes rock ’n’ roll. So they’re all ours. It’s just all about my roots.”