UGH IT DOES SOMETHING TOO ME SO GOOD. The chicks, Hank Williams, Kenny Roger, fats domico, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, big mama thornton, Nina Simone and like many more.
ok they are technically folk rock but country-adjacent in my mind!
i spent a lot of my childhood in various Yeehaw states and small towns in the US so here are some more classics i heard a bit growing up, and a few newer likes 🤠 (some are a little folk-leaning):
anything johnny cash!!!
dolly parton (duh) - 9 to 5, jolene
kacey musgraves - good ol‘ boys club, butterflies
hank williams jr - outlaw woman, family traditions
brandi carlile - raise hell
emory quinn - downtown san antone
kenny chesney - no shoes no shirt no problem
the chicks - there’s your trouble, ready to run
willie nelson - mamas don’t let your sons grow up to be cowboys, cowboys are secretly fond of other cowboys
taylor swift (sorry) - picture to burn, our song
woody guthrie - tear the fascists down !!
runaway june - buy my own drinks
maren morris - my church, circles around this town
shania twain - man i feel like a woman!, you’re still the one
darius rucker - wagon wheel
the highwomen - if she ever leaves me
john prine - your flag decal won’t get you into heaven
orville peck - dead of night, cmon baby cry
george strait - all my ex’s live in texas
country recs:
- johnny cash
- loretta lynn
- patsy cline
- willie nelson
- hank williams sr/jr
- waylon jennings
- tammy wynette
- emmylou harris
- the highwaymen
- tennessee ernie ford
- kris kristofferson bluegrass recs:
- bill monroe
- the carter family
- mother maybelle carter
- flatt and scruggs
- the stanley brothers
- ralph stanley
- old & in the way
- the osborne brothers delta/country blues recs:
- elizabeth cotten
- mississippi john hurt
- muddy waters
- blind willie johnson
- robert johnson
- mississippi fred mcdowell
- bukka white
- blind boy fuller
- son house
my faves are: johnny cash - ring of fire, a boy named sue, folsom prison blues (live version), i walk the line. roger miller - king of the road, little green apples, dang me, atta boy girl. buck owens - act naturally. patsy cline - crazy. jimmy dean - big bad john. tennessee ernie ford - sixteen tons. don gibson - oh, lonesome me. glen campbell - rhinestone cowboy, wichita lineman. charley pride - is anybody goin' to san antone? tanya tucker - delta dawn, what's your mama's name child? bobby bare - green green grass of home. david allan coe - you never even called me by my name, if this is just a game. marty robbins - el paso, big iron. tammy wynette - stand by your man.
We’re never too old, too late, too inexperienced or incapable. Nothing is embarrassing or weird. I didnt realize how much of everything I counted myself out of because of some anxiety or preconceived notion. It’s all made up, do everything and try it all. Nothing is beneath us and we are not beneath or above anything.
Really has romanticized life or at least added more value to small moments. I’m tryna “perfect days” in this bitch. Also recommend the movie perfect days it has not left my mind since I watched it a month ago.
All that you touch, you change.
All that you change, changes you.
the only lasting truth, is change.
God is change. the book has such an interesting philosophy that it explores through a sci-fi world thats also feels so close to a possible reality. it’s an interesting read makes you think and sit on a lot of excerpts.