Am I late to the Zac Brown & Jamey Johnson party?

Previewing the Guitar Song online, I'm not a lot impressed... though it may grow on me still. Music can do that with me... hear it at first and not care a lot for it, then hear it some more and then get interested in it. Not usually but sometimes.

Some of Jamey's tunes makes me feel he's over embelishing things and 'trying to be too too country' with his phrasing.

I do like most of his lyrics though.

I like Steve Earl as well. Is his Jeursalem album his latest bestest? I have Guitar Town, and one with Del McCory..

Kent

I've heard of CCR and for some time now too. THX for the reminder. Dialing into some of the public radio channels around the country espeically the Americana types and it's easy to find new material, artists, songs, etc. It's tedious, but easy enough.

Hotmailjbc

Pandora lets you hear the whole CD? $8 @ mo?

Great idea if so... and thx for the other's listed here to feret out more music with

... much appreciation.

OK... I'll bite... What's "imus" ??

Not Don Imus, right?

I can see the notes on the pop hype for any rising musical entity... sad, but it's what happens on the business side. Now it becomes exponential with all the web based 'look at me, follow me around' blogs and sites.

I quit listening to pop radio routinely about eight years ago. Quit following the TV & cable music celebrity shows too.

Consequently, until I run across a thread here or at one or two other spot on the web, a friend, or most often via the "other people also liked..." links, I know absolutely nothing about new or even upcoming artists.

hence my thread here...

one has to cut down on the stress, hype, commercialism, and yellow journalism so common on todays media outlets.

I quit watching the news. Check the weather online. Sports too.

If a really big rock was headed here from outer space I wouldn't know about it until after it hit us.

Ohh... and I will now quit watching the Science channel, come to think of it.

Hotmailjbc
Great! Thanks for all of those choices. That’ll give me something to do while I wait for the temps to get back up to fiddy or there abouts so I can finish my outside projects.

>>”he's a cranky crumudgeon but that.s his act.”<<
Like Dr John said in his duet with BB King on Dueces Wild… ‘Sometimes I wonder’.

Chadnliz
Yep. I do agree.

There’s all sorts of reasons for the why’s and how comes of a band’s releases being so way less palatable or inspiring at times… it comes under my heading of “Who Knows?”.

Little Big Town a recent fav of mine got a new contract with Columbia and their latest release just seems so much more commercially oriented than anything they had previously released on their former lable. It comes off pop like and dry. No soul.. no honesty. Nothing that really reaches out and grabs you like their “The Road To Here” or “A place to Land” CDs did for me.

Paul Thorn is another long time fav indy rock & roller/Folkster…. Great act to see and usually more than entertaining…. His latest CDs IMHO again… doesn’t quite stand up to his past efforts impact and insightfulness… albeit a couple cuts off of it sure ain’t bad.

Oil well. Got some new names so thanks…. BTW… picked up some John Fogerty CDs the other day… not bad… along with The North Mississippi All Stars. Both were enjoyable at least… JF All Over Again & especially his “Blue Moon Swamp”…. NMA “Shake Hamds With Shorty”. There’s no escaping Fogerty’s sound. Having grown up with it, hearing him again doing new stuff feels both comfortable and interesting.