Rough Trade Shops: Country 01

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Just thought you might like to pick this comp to pieces/laud it to the heavens...

Tracklisting (Not final, more to be added...)

CD1
Giant Sand - Wearing The Robes Of Bible Black
The Replacements - Take Me Down To The Hospital
Wannabe Texans - I Cut Myself
American Music Club - Gary's Song
Meat Puppets - Lost
Violent Femmes - Country Death Song
Lincoln '65 - Jellyfish
Geraldine Fibbers - Fancy
The Broken Family Band - Devil In The Details
Boiled In Lead - Tapedecks All Over Hell
Rainer And Das Combo - Life Is Fine
Handsome Family - When That Helicopter Comes
Richard Buckner - Lil Wallet Picture
Freakwater - South Of Cincinnati
Lucinda Williams - Night's Too Long
Gun Club - Ghost On The Highway
Songs:Ohia - Come Back To Your Man
Calexico - Crooked Road And The Briar
Uncle Tupelo - Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
Dream Syndicate - Blind Willie McTell

CD2
Golden Smog - Until You Came Along
X - Riding With Mary
The Rockingbirds - Drifting
True West - Ain't No Hangman
Chickasaw Mudd Puppies - Nightime (Ain't Got No Eyes)
The Mekons - Lost Highway
Whiskeytown - Houses On The Hill
Steve Earle & The Dukes - Billy Austin
Camper Van Beethoven - Good Guys And Bad Guys
Original Harmony Creek Ridge Dippers - Give My Heart To You
Ella Guru - Strugglin' Horse In Hollywood
Jim White - Brownsville
Green On Red - Hair Of The Dog
28th Day - This Train
Tarnation - Lonely Lights
Dave Alvin - Border Radio
Lullaby For The Working Class - Spreading The Evening Sky With
Crows
The Gourds - Gin And Juice
Souled American - Feel Better
Carla Bozulich (with Willie Nelson) - Can I Sleep In Your Arms?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I'd like some education here - I've not heard of 75% of this...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay! to the inclusion of Songs:Ohio, Souled American and Richard Bruckner. But surely Neko Case and Gillian Welch are glaring omissions here? (unless they couldn't license them.)

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, I just read there's more to be added. But nonetheless either should at the TOP of the list.

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

very pleased with the inclusion of AMC's Gary's Song. My personal theme song.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't wait for this. Quite a few bands I keep seeing in second hand racks (Souled American; Boiled In Lead) so might be making a few purchases subsequently.

Neko Case - great obv, but I guess she's not really a pioneer of anything in the same way that say Uncle Tupelo might be thought to be. So with a lot of the CDs given up to people who've come along in the last couple of years, it makes sense in that respect to leave her out.

Compare to: Further Beyond Nashville (Manteca, 2002)

Disc 1:
01   Screen Door (Uncle Tupelo)
02   The Family Who Prays (The Louvin Brothers)
03   It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (Kitty Wells)
04   Bright Sunny South (Alison Krauss & Union Station (feat. Dan Tyminski))
05   Jole Blon (Roy Acuff)
06   Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
07   Station Blues (Otha Turner & The Afrosippi Allstars Feat. The Rising Star Fife And Drum Band)
08   Be On My Way (The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers)
09   Rank Stranger (Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys)
10   Sundrops (Kristin Hersh)
11   Oh Lord Are You In Need? (Palace Brothers)
12   You Win Again (Jerry Lee Lewis)
13   I'm Movin' On (Hank Snow)
14   The Letter That Johnny Walker Read (Asleep At The Wheel)
15   Act Naturally (Buck Owens)
16   Darling Companion (Lovin' Spoonful)
17   Good Hearted Woman (Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson)
18   Not The Tremblin' Kind (Laura Cantrell)
19   I'd Be Ahead If I Could Quit While I'm Behind (Bobby Womack)
20   Me And Bobby McGhee (Janis Joplin)
Disc 2:
01   I'll Fly Away (The Word)
02   Went To See The Gypsy (Bob Dylan)
03   That's How Much I Need Your Love (Chuck Prophet)
04   Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone (Charley Pride)
05   It's Such A Small World (Rodney Crowell & Rosanne Cash)
06   Ballad Of Cable Hogue (Calexico)
07   I Gotta Know (Wanda Jackson)
08   Undone (Robert Earl Keen)
09   Malaque (Los Lobos)
10   Harm's Way (The Waco Brothers)
11   Roughest Neck Around (The Corb Lund Band)
12   Looking Foward To Seeing You (Golden Smog)
13   Up With People (Zero Seven Remix) (Lambchop)
14   Cocaine (Killed My Community) (Alabama 3)
15   Tepache Jam (Nortec Collective / Terrestre)
16   Bully Jones (Allison Moorer)

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh no.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"Neko Case - great obv, but I guess she's not really a pioneer of anything in the same way that say Uncle Tupelo might be thought to be. So with a lot of the CDs given up to people who've come along in the last couple of years, it makes sense in that respect to leave her out."

Might the same not be said of Calexico?

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

she's not really a pioneer of anything

who said anything about pioneers? i'd have thought a comp like this is simply trying to paint a picture of the current landscape - thus, Neko is conspicuous by her absence.

(then again, as I said I don't even know who most of these people are, so I guess I'm chopped liver...)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

GIN AND MOTHERFUCKING JUICE!!!!!!!!!!

Best... Cover... EVER!!!

I am SO on this bitch.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

big yay for including lullaby for the working class. i saw them with songs: ohia maybe 8 years ago and fell in love.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I think, like the rock'n'roll and post-punk ones, the compilers are trying to strike a balance between the, um, pioneers of this type of thing; people who've come through in the last couple of years; and lost obscurities that deserve another airing (eg Lullaby, who did indeed do some splendid stuff). That's what I've gleaned from it anyway. Which isn't to say that Neko *shouldn't* be on there, clearly. The influences that Calexico bring to the table, on the other hand, set them apart from most of the other bands on that compilation, but I fear this line of argument might get too petty to continue.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

oh dear

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

no gillian welch?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

no bubba sparxxx?

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

no eagles?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I was really hoping this was all a hoax, but there it was in the shops today...

― Jeff W (zebedee), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Why hoping? This seems like the album that will cause me to buy more albums that any other this year.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

this is like the dry cleaned south

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

WHERE'S TOBY KEITH?

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

that said this is probably better than it has any right to be

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The song about Dr Dre and his bitches is total classic! It's track one on one of the condensed promo versions.

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

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Rough Trade Shops: Country 01 - Out 27th October