Battle of the Country Stars

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Listening to a mixtape sent by a b uddy i am amazed by the astounding vocal talents of female country singers. So from Mother Maybelle Carter to Neko Case what do yall reckon ?

― anthony, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For some reason I am thinking this is something I need to be more learned about, especially going further back. (And ESPECIALLY because I had to listen to two chucklehead's conversation today in the rekkid store on the "authenticity" of Will Oldham. Shiver.)

― jess, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dolly! Come on, how many other singers could have a song massacred by Whitney Houston. Even the disco crap is great. (Not that 'disco' = 'crap', of course. I should've used the term 'Urban Cowboy music' - hey, it's 'countrypolitan', right?) Anyway her early stuff is indisputably great. I like Mary Ford too.

― dave q, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Patsy Cline. Duh. Oh, and Will Oldham has oodles of authenticity, which is precisely the rub.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can't lose with Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Kitty Wells & Wanda Jackson.

― fritz, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anthony, get yr queer little butt over to audiogalaxy or whatever file sharer you use and listen to some Kasey Chambers - this woman is going to be huge - one of her claims to fame is making lucinda williams cry. Other recommendations include the ever-present Emmylou, Dolly (of course), handsome famiily, lambchop and ryan adams.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lambchop and the Handsome Family have male singers, of course. Fritz's recommendations are right on the money; if you haven't heard Wanda Jackson, she'll really knock your socks off.

― Sean, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tanya Tucker was a teenage goth country queen. "Would You Lay With Me in a Field of Stone" is incredible, all her early hits are, really .

― Arthur, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

gillian welch. emmylou harris. and lots of other people who ain't on the 'o brother' soundtrack. laura cantrell is dead-on. neko case's side project with carolyn mark, the corn sisters, is as much fun live as anyone else i've seen. kelly willis.

everyone mentioned above is pretty ace, too.

― bucky wunderlick, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait WAAAAAAAIIITTTTTT...

Somebody...mentioned...Lambchop...in.. .connection...

singing

― dave q, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Holy Fuck Kasey Chambers is Fab. Know all the others though.

― anthony, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerard

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And I quite like Shelby Lynne but it might just be those hip-huggers she wears.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mary Kay Place as Loretta Hagers-"Baby Boy" and "Vitamin L". Oh how I wish I still had her Live at the Capri Lounge album . I believe Emmylou and Dolly are featured on the record.

Also, Roseanne Cash-"Seven Year Ache", the Judds-"Why Not Me".

― Arthur, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Molly O'Day -- she recorded in the 40s and 50s. Sorta like a female version of Roy Acuff. Pretty much everything I've heard of hers is good, and the very best -- "Teardrops Falling in the Snow," "Tramp on the Street," "The Drunken Driver," and "Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whiskey" (with crying baby in background) is spinetingling.

― Tom Lewis, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nine years pass...

Six mentions of Hazel Dickens on I Love Music (now seven) and two of them (now three) are from me.

RIP Hazel Dickens.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/arts/music/hazel-dickens-bluegrass-singer-dies-at-75.html

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 23 April 2011 19:20 (fifteen years ago)

A telling confusion over at Chez Times about whether HD was a "folk singer" or a "bluegrass singer". (Of course she was much more than either.)

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 23 April 2011 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/25/135704947/remembering-hazel-dickens-a-feminist-bluegrass-voice

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 April 2011 22:48 (fifteen years ago)

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