C/W music Audiogon members

Better late than never -- count me in. This is real roots music. Funny -- bad C&W is known for its wretched, perfumy excess. But one thing I love about good C&W is the discipline and good decision-making (when to play, when not to) of its musicians. Plus, I admire country because it takes a special breed of musician to take on the pedal steel guitar, a complex and finicky beast of an instrument. Some great voices have been mentioned already. I'd add Kitty Wells and Mel Tillis. Ernest Tubbs, Ray Price... there's lots.

C&W deserves documentary treatment, like jazz got (though maybe not 10 sessions worth --- sooooiiieee!). Great characters with hardscrabble backgrounds, lots of regional variety, etc. One fascinating period that I was able to observe a bit was when artists like the Byrds, Dylan and the Dead introduced a whole generation of hipsters and hippies to C&W. Man, all that long hair under cowboy hats... and I'm just talking about Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. I remember seeing Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen and Asleep At The Wheel doing a gig together before either had cut an album. Not your Daddy's Oldsmobile. But no, I did not inhale. Where's my Nudie suit?

is an excellent recording on CD. In fact, highly recommended on a web page so I bought it. It is excellent!

Check-out the CDs from ' Sixteen Horsepwer-Low estate and Sackcloth'n'ashes. Actually this falls under Gothic C/W , but music is very good and great recording too.

Should read as ' Sixteen Horsepower'