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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
hotmailjbc
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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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chadnliz
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Imus has a "aquired" taste in music IMO, his music is like Scotch.......there is no half way liking it.
blindjim OP
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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.
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