AMERICANA | Traditional Roots & Blues (only)

F.U.B.A.R. said:
Fuckin love that shit...
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The Appalachian Mountains have / had some of the most raw music ever recorded. I watched a video today with some rapper all done up in that classic "black rapper" look if you know what I'm on about. Anyway he was giving huge praise on Townes Van Zandt's song "Marie" & Townes is more well known singer / guitar player in "Outlaw Country" & when it comes to old time Appalachia Banjo players they're even less known sadly. In my view the music is the most raw stuff out there, it's all songs about broken hearts, poverty, living a rural life etc.
That music is way more gritty than any Grime for example & in Grime how many fake what they are on about I find it comical & actually laugh at most of it.

I honestly can't take rap stars & their kind seriously & when I see folks trying to go on about this tough urban life I find living on a homestead way more hard, no electric, collecting water from a well, raising animals etc, can you imagine Stormzy for example upto his elbow trying to pull out a baby sheep covered in blood, sheep vagina slime, poop etc for 10 hours?

The life these people sing of is way more tough than 99.9% of music today. Some idiot teenagers think having a Glock & drinking champagne is so cool & tough, I find a 12 gauge shotgun loaded with .00 buckshot & a copper still filled with moonshine far more attractive.

@mal3volent 😉👍

Check this @F.U.B.A.R.
 
Fine example here.

Guy goes out, gets totally drunk, shoots a woman dead at random, cops come he runs off & goes on the run, gets caught & goes to trial, is found guilty & does 40 years in jail.

I've never heard any Grime, Drill or rap song like that. The Folk & classic American stuff like this is all about murder, suicide, terrible cops, living a hard life, alcohol & illegal drug use all set to a really nice & easy going banjo. If you didn't listen to the words you wouldn't know how dark and tragic the song is!!!!

 
This is another I LOVE @F.U.B.A.R. & I'm sure @mal3volent knows it.

Young girl falls in love with a young chap, he treats her like total shit, her heart is broken so she goes home, does a suicide note then hangs herself, dad finds her corpse & cuts her down.

I mean FFS that's about as brutal as life can get. Lost love, heart break, depression, suicide, then you got rap stars in the USA & Grime over here going on about their shit estate, it's a total shithole but they make a huge deal over their social housing area, call women horrific names, brag how tough they are etc.......it's a fucking joke.

Someone should do a reality tv series where we take UK MC's & drop 'em off on a homestead in Alaska in January or the Appalachia in the middle of summer & see how they survive. I give them 3 days at the most. Honestly these people on these songs are a different species to my kind of human.

 
mal3volent said:
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Damn!!!!!

Heard that song done 1001 different ways but I never heard it like that. The photos add an extra punch to it in my opinion as you know they ain't staged etc.

All stuff these days in music videos are hired cars, hired models or escorts who eat dick when the footage is shot, this is Real Life & Proper music. If that doesn't turn you over in an emotional way you are dead.
 
I respect Clifton sssooo much, he takes the old stuff & brings it into the present day BUT still keeps it legit & real.

The version of "Oh Death" I first heard (I'm on about lyrics as these old songs tend to change from county to county, same with the old blues)


 
Zopiclone bandit said:
Damn!!!!!

Heard that song done 1001 different ways but I never heard it like that. The photos add an extra punch to it in my opinion as you know they ain't staged etc.

All stuff these days in music videos are hired cars, hired models or escorts who eat dick when the footage is shot, this is Real Life & Proper music. If that doesn't turn you over in an emotional way you are dead.
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it's one my grandpa used to sing all the time. Ralph stanley did it best IMO.
 
First time I ever heard a Mississippi Fred McDowell track decades ago, his still my favourite blues player of all time & my 2nd favourite slide player Blind WilliecJohnsin is #1 if anyone cares.

 
The White Buffalo, or Jake Smith. How y'all got 6 pages in without him is beyond me.

Oh Darlin' Darlin' What Have I Done?


Love Song #1


The Whistler
 
Okay help me out. I am seriously falling in love with slow blues music.

No piano. I dislike piano. But you know really deep and emotional and... blues. What is out there? Anything "legendary" or artists considered to have icon status? Male or female vocalist or just instrumental, does not matter. Old music, new music, i don't care. I need this stuff these days. I don't download torrents or anything, so something from youtube maybe?
 
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