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Wyoming: 50 States of Country Music - by Donnie C. Cutler (Country Cutler blog on Substack)

Donnie C Cutler has written about independent country music in quite a few outlets but his sub stack blog is a PHENOMENAL place to learn about artists. This year he's doing a state-by-state breakdown. He started with Alabama already but looks like he's jumping around the alphabet

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Shelby Lee Lowe- Loving You Is Killing Me

one of my favorite current traditional country voices.

13h

'Four Or Five Times' MARY LEE & CAESAR'S COWBOYS (Rhythm Riot, Great Yarmouth) BOPFLIX sessions

this is an adorable Western swing band from Italy. Go look them up.

1d

Amanda Rheaume (Metis Nation)- #44

Song about the Canadian Indian residential schools genocide project

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New Ashley McBryde video is INTENSE: What If We Don't

Ashley McBryde's last couple of releases and videos hint at an intense upcoming album about trauma (?). She's probably the best of the mainstream- her songwriting is probably closer to the independent singer-songwriters than anyone else who's part of mainstream country, and her s

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Crooks And Straights (Croatia)- Red Robin

FANTASTIC neotraditional country from Croatia. They're trying to tour the US and are running some kind of gofundme to help pay their way- not surprisingly it's hard to be a country artist over there. I'll post their link in the comments.

3d

Eswatini's country music duo captures hearts • FRANCE 24 English

I've been following the African country music scene for a few years and there are american-style)for American-inspired) country music artists in most countries on the continent. Estwatini, formerly Swaziland, has several, the main one being Dusty And Stones:

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lucero - nights like these

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album recommendation- Last Pale Light In The West - Ben Nichols

Ben Nichols (from Lucero who I just posted) has an AMAZING concept album based on a Cormac McCarthy story , which sounds like seeing a movie in your head. Go check it out (and check out more about Lucero and his other collaborations too): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last

3d

Moonshine Wagon (Basque Country)- Death Came To Me

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Amy Martin - Antebellum Town

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Chapel Hart - "Welcome To Fist City" [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Chapel Hart- Welcome To Fist City

6d

Jen Titus - O Death (gothic Americana)

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Iris Marlowe - Pray to Me (gothic country)

9d

Amazing songwriting about a queer kid -Jeffrey Martin - Red Station Wagon

Jeffrey Martin is a singer-songwriter who's covered some ex Christian themes and other songs I think. This song is a phenomenal tearjerker .

9d

I Was Not A Nazi Polka- the Mitchell Trio (1956 I think, band included John Denver)

This seems a little relevant today.

9d

Bales Of Cocaine - The Reverend Horton Heat

I'm continuing with a rockabilly theme today but really this is also hillbilly bop, which was a style in the '50s that was midway between rockabilly and very silly country. Lots of people like those band have resurrected that

9d

The Yellowstone Effect - by Donnie C. Cutler

fantastic indie/alt/retro country blog - Country Cutler (and it's associated podcasts icl Country Dads)

9d

More rockabilly- incredible "documentary" from LA about women in rockabilly

During the pandemic, a bunch of the retro country and rockabilly folks got together and made several AMAZING documentary videos on Youtube called Christopher Burkhardt's Eclectic American Roots. There are several on western swing and several about rockabilly as well as lots of st

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how do we feel about rockabilly? Check out La Perra Blanco from Spain- killer guitar player. Here's Sin Amor, a slower more alt-country new song from her and JD McPherson

This gal is an amazing high energy rockabilly guitar player, but the track they just released together is more conventionally countryish. GO check out this live video for an idea of what it sounds like when she reallly lets go and rocks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf8aT7s6BN

10d

The Lowtimers- Dead Horse Blues

Goddamn this is hot

10d

Turnpike Troubadours - Gin, Smoke, Lies (Official Video)

I finally looked at the video fo Gin, Smoke, Lies after listening to it for years. What a tense and creepy story.

10d

Sterling Drake Acoustic Session | Real Country Live podcast (Nikki Cohn-Boyd on youtube)

This YouTube video features an acoustic session with Sterling Drake, a rising star in real country and western music. The session includes a live talk show and performance, exploring Drake's musical roots, influences, songwriting process, and advocacy for ranchers and land conservation. The video also showcases a stripped-down performance of his debut LP, The Shape I'm In.

10d

Shitfaced Assholes- a Playlist Not Suitable For Work - YouTube

A collection of country and Americana musical wit, not suitable for work.

10d

Otis Gibbs podcast- - Tami Neilson on Willie Nelson's Outlaw Tour

11d

Shawn James- Through The Valley

One of the most incredible voices in Americana wrote this song that blew up thanks to being featured in The Last Of Us.

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Bottle Rockets- Thousand Dollar Car

A Thousand Dollar Car's Gonna Let You Down More Than It's ever gonna get you around

10d

Cole Chaney - In the Shadow of the Mountain (Official Music Video)

One of my favorite releases this last year was Cole Chaney's "grunge country" Shadow Of The Mountain . I love the rock sound mixed with the fiddle-driven riffs. I personally don't hear all that much grunge in it but the term seems to have stuck. Check out the whole album if you g

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Ramona and the Holy Smokes - Esta Herida

oh man, this band's debut album is SO FUCKING GOOD. They're a killer Bakersfield Sound sort of band out of Virginia, who sometimes do Texano stuff as well as honky tonk. Fantastic high energy stuff with smart songwriting.