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


Having recently discovered a few ‘new to me’ performers, I thought to enter them here and see of these if anyone can suggest other similarly related musicians, song writers, or bands, performing now.

Those I have run across and liked enough to buy a few of their individual CDs are Jamey Johnson “That Lonesome Song”… Zac Brown Band “The Foundation” & “You Get What You Give”… Reina Collins “Austin to Boston” & “Saltwater Soul”.

Each of these are IMHO related and separate. Gems in their own rights. All completely enjoyable and satisfying.

I’m most curious to find out other bands akin to the Zac Brown, ‘roadhouse’ genre, that are as accomplished and as tight a sound as ZBB has to offer…. ZBB is definitely on time and unquestionably professional with their sound and abilities..

Thanks

Suggestions…???
blindjim
kedoades
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You may want to check out a band called Cross Canadian Ragweed, they are a hard rockin' country band, also Randy Rogers band is good, there are many country rock alt. bands out there that are not in the Nashville seen that are really good. Nice to see that some folks like country on this site, it does not seem to get much love around here, I am always looking for some new talent in this catagory, Kent
blindjim OP
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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
571 posts
 
slaid cleves, ryan bingham, gurf morlix, ray wylie hubbard and others. there is alot of really good americana artists out there. dave alvin [ of x and the blasters] is one of my favorites. ccr just announced they were off the road for a while after 10 plus years. their music is great. i just found a band named centro-matic. really good stuff. btw,,don imus has some really good artists on his show. and good authors. he's a cranky crumudgeon but that.s his act.
kedoades
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Also, as far as the Randy Rogers Band, I just got the new cd and was not overly impressed, alot more pop and soft than there earlier work
audiofeil
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Imus had the Old 97's on yesterday and Hayes Carll today.

Don't understand the old guy's fascination with Hayes Carll either. Average voice. Poor lyricist. Boring.

Above and beyond that he performed a song from an upcoming album and it was a complete ripoff of Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues. Almost riff for riff and chord for chord.
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