Danceable country music

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I'm DJing this party and while I have a fair amount of old school country (Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Faron Young, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, some others) and various modern Bloodshot Records-types on hand, I'm not sure I have a lot that will make people dance. People are expecting tears-in-your-beer country stuff, but maybe some danceable stuff as well.

I prefer to find some old vinyl if possible, I'm trying to stay away from CDs.

The theme of this party is, er, "Space Cowboy". So it will eventually segueway into Ladytron/Junior Boys/Streets/etc. So actually, any suggestions of Cut Copy-type dance shit that I might not have heard would be great as well.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

line dancing, dude.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm thinking stuff like "Sweet Home Alabama", though I know Skynrd aren't "country", according to most.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you only looking for "old" country music?

― buck van smack (Buck Van Smack), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

motherfuckin' "achy breaky heart" works every time. "friends in low places" is good too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

wonder if those are available on vinyl...

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I'M HERE FOR THE PARTY!!!!!!!!!

― disappear into my loins (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

George Jones, "White Lightning"
The Mavericks, "The Losing Side Of Me"

― buck van smack (Buck Van Smack), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Anything Hank Jr too

― buck van smack (Buck Van Smack), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

If you really want to be old school country, try the Texas swingin' Bob Wills, "Big Balls In Cow Town"

― buck van smack (Buck Van Smack), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Space Cowboy is the theme, so you can't do any better than George Jones' "High-Tech Redneck"

― buck van smack (Buck Van Smack), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Please don't play "Strokin'" or "Swingin'".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

REDNEX!

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

yes!

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

'We're All Gonna Die Someday' by Kasey Chambers. Big hit with the teenagers in my hometown, and it always got the folks up on the dancefloor at closing time at my local pub.

How about 'Copperhead Road'?

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Waylon n Willie 'Mr shuck n Jive'
Genuine 'pony'

― lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Dolly 9-5. (or her work on the best little whorehouse in texas)

― Anthony Easton, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

oak ridge boys - elvira !!!!!!!!

― charleston charge (chaki), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Get your hands on the two 'Country Got Soul' comps asap - v nice country / soul crossover stuff

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"Take Me Back To Tulsa" Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys
"Pistol Packin'Mama" Al Dexter & his Troopers
"Oklahoma Stomp" Spade Cooley
"Buckaroo" Buck Owens
"Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time" Mickey Gilley
"Spiders & Snakes" Jim Stafford

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

George Jones - "If I Don't Love You," "What Am I Worth" (fast); "A Girl I Used to Know," "Mr. Fool" (slow)

Hank Thompson - "How Cold Hearted Can You Get" (fast)

Hank Williams - "Move it On Over" (fast)

Hardrock Gunter - "Gonna Dance All Night" (fast)

Harry Carter - "Jump Baby Jump" (fast)

Lefty Frizzell - "If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time" (fast)

Little Jimmy Dickens - "Sleepin' at the Foot of the Bed" (fast)

Louvin' Brothers - "When I Stop Dreaming" (slow waltz); "Cash on the Barrelhead" (fast)

Miller Sisters - "Some Day You Will Pay" (fast)

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Tex Williams: Smoke, Smoke, Smoke; Sweet Little Boogalie; Let's Go Rockabilly
Pee Wee King: Plantation Boogie; Chew Tobacco Rag
Porter Wagoner: Company's Coming
Bob Wills: I Ain't Got Nobody
Webb Pierce: Shanghai'd
Lavern Shirley: Dix-a-Billy
Hank Williams - Move It On Over (requisite classic)
Bobby Lile - This Love
Van Brothers - Servant of Love
Sunshine Boys - Gonna Get Tight
Roy Hogsed - Rag Mop

I've got this in mp3 format, ripped from vinyl. Let me know if you're interested.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry - didn't notice Hank had been listed once. Just proves that it's worth it.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Much of the Texas Swing of Bob WIllis is later covered by " Asleep at the Wheel".I'm sure there is vinyl if you search but as big time Grammy winners it is all on CD.

Also " Almost Blue" by Elvis Costello. His foray in country , and he rocks out on a few vey good songs and tracks. Then leve 'em crying with his version of " A Good Year For The Roses"

― Brian Cruickshank, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

well, when i dj, i almost always bring k-tel's '70s *rowdy country* and *more rowdy country* comps, for the jerry reed (she got the goldmine and i got the shaft, though he's got even funkier stuff out there), tg sheppard (war is hell on the homefront too), hank jr (all my rowdy friends have settled down), lacy j dalton (wild turkey like you), etc., cuts. also, you can't go wrong with late '70s david allen coe, or that first bellamy brothers greatest hits album, or most *anything* by kt oslin, or "ashes to ashes" or "somebody's knockin'" (donna summer "i feel love" rhythm!!) by terri gibbs, or "romeo" by dolly parton (a pretty blatant en vogue/tlc rip if you wanna hear it that way), john conlee "she can't say that anymore", maybe moe and joe "where's the dress" for the culture club angle, the first few john anderson albums, etc. maybe "islands in the stream," too? or some of the lionel richie/commodores countrys-soul crossover stuff (or swamp dogg or oc smith or other country-soul guys). and yeah, that doesn't even take into account western swing, rockabilly, the boogie woogie stuff that came between western swing and rockabilly, the old timey white blues stuff from before western swing, square dances, hog calls, reels, jigs, waltzes, schottisches, and whatnot...

― chuck, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

oh shit, and go find a copy of the skat bros album, for "life at the outpost" (give your love to a cowboy man, he's gonna love you hard as he can), throw in buffalo bill by indeep, buffalo gals by malcolm mclaren, buffalo stance by neneh cherry, okay maybe not, but you get the idea....four or five versions of "the mexican," and then "western gangster town" by trickeration, for sure. shoot em up, bang bang, shoot 'em up, riiiiiiiiiide. save a horse, ride a cowboy. get on your pony and ride. yeah, definitely throw in lee dorsey...

― chuck, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Country Funk?

― Tito JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Still play my vinyl LIVE SHOTS (Joe Ely Band, with Natalie Maines' dad LLoyson steel, showing Skynyrd's guitar army how it's done). Good for pogo,semi-jitterbug, hammerhead, etc. Some wild moments with Doug Sahm, esp on eccentric vinyl: the MENDOCINO version of "She's ABout A Mover," "Baby It Just Don't Matter" (birth of country metal?);ROUGH EDGES' "Doin' It Too Hard"(is this where John Cale got the Tex-Mex passage on "Sister Ray"?) His Texas Tornadoes started in the late vinyl era, didn't they, Chuck? Don't know if there might be some Rednek or GrooveGrass Boyz (feat. Bootsy Collins usually, except on on remix of *original* "Rocky Top," a big hit at Vols games a few years ago). Probably some 12" singles somewhere for both acts (ditto fro Dolly Parton, Leeann Rimes mixes).

― don, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

don, are you and chuck buddies? you always seem to end up in the same threads

― Tito JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

gram prasons - "I Can't Dance"

― Clay (cws), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Can Help" Billy Swan
"I Love My Rancho Grande" Freddy Fender
"Get Into Reggae Cowboy" Bellamy Brothers (Chuck OTM)

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

That would be "Natalie Maines' dad Lloyd" on steel in prev post. Tito, Chuck and I used to perform as the Bellamy Brothers (we leased the name for a while, but were too far behind/ahead of their/our time[s])

― don, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, bring your copy of that vinyl Gary Stewart best-of, too; whole thing is great, but "Flat Time Natural Born Good Timin Man" or whatever it's called might be most danceable. Also, bring some of the faster, more swinging Merle Haggard stuff. And "Watergate Blues" by Tom T Hall (his '70s update of Charlie Poole's or was it Dock Boggs's' "White House Blues" -- *always* gets a great reaction)

― Chuck Bellamy, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Cornelius - 'Thank You For The Music'
Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - 'Uncle Chicken's Drag-Rag'

And Bubba Sparxxx.

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Box Tops, Tony Joe White, Eddie Hinton, for that down home, blue-eyed, blue-jean-jacket boogie (The Rolling Stones' NOW, for that matter, one of their twangiest evah overall[s], with "Down Home Girl," etc. Don't know if it survived the latests re-mastering, but the mono vinyl still kills). xpost Tom T, his "Harper Valley PTA" tight as a b too, and xpost "I Can't Dance," how's his original of that?

― don, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

don, mustache and mullet or beard and mullet?

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200/drp000/p046/p04654a6k0b.jpg

― Tito JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Beard, but Chuck's got th' hat (dang it)

― don, Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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