Looking for some country or blues hybrid albums

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Albums that mix country or blues with rock or punk, etc.

Examples:

Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South (truthfully, most of their stuff)
Gram Parsons - GP/Grievious Angel
Pussy Galore - Live: In the Red
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

In general, I'd like to stay away from the big classic rock names (Lynyrd Skynyrd) unless it's a truly exceptional combination, such as on Exile on Main Street.

― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Sunday, 14 May 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Jim Dickinson - Dixie Fried

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 14 May 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Skynyrd is truly exceptional.

Seems like there was a CD that collected Jason and the Scorchers' "Fervor" EP (great) and "Lost and Found" LP (not bad).

And to go along with the Dickinson, Alex Chilton's "Like Flies on Sherbert [sic]."

I could also make a case for Love Sculpture here, I think.

And Jon Spencer: "Orange" or "Now I Got Worry."

And you might try James Blood Ulmer, particularly "Odyssey."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 14 May 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

gun club
concrete blonde
lots of that billy childish/holly golightly/dan melchior/headcoats/headcoatees/delmonas stuff
mr airplane man

― gear (gear), Sunday, 14 May 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

Heh, I was just about to start a topic asking for stuff similar to GRAM PARSONS, so feel free to address that specifically (anyone who feels so inclined). I don't like pure country too often but I like music that's 3 parts country and one part rock, if that makes sense.

― bob george (Lee is Free), Sunday, 14 May 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

You did start a topic asking for stuff similar to GRAM PARSONS. We're all posting on it right now.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 14 May 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

Mekons - Fear & Whiskey
Wilco - Being There
Oblivians - Play 9 Songs w/ Mr. Quintron (Punk-Gospel)
Compulsive Gamblers - Crystal Gazing, Luck Amazing
Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Maybe one of those Whiskeytown records??
And another from the Dickinson camp: No. Ms. Allstars - Shake Hands w/ Shorty
And while I have a hard time stomaching most tribute albums, the Parsons one (Return of the Grievous Angel) is really pretty good.

― Will (will), Sunday, 14 May 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

_You did start a topic asking for stuff similar to GRAM PARSONS. We're all posting on it right now._

Err...what?

― bob george (Lee is Free), Sunday, 14 May 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

That Junior Kimbrough tribute album 'Sunday Night' is surprisingly good, and kind of fits yr requirements.

Doug Willard and Gene Clark were better than Gram Parsons, quite probably.

― snotty moore, Monday, 15 May 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

4 or 5 Skynyrd albums >>>

Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South (truthfully, most of their stuff)
Gram Parsons - GP/Grievious Angel
Pussy Galore - Live: In the Red
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

― xhuxk, Monday, 15 May 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

(Actually, Dirty South is by far the best DBT album, so any Skynyrd LP that's better than that is better than all the other DBT LPS too.)

Anyway, you can find a few hundred other suggestions here:

Rolling Country 2006 Thread

― xhuxk, Monday, 15 May 2006 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

Shit! I meant *Southern Rock Opera* is DBT's best album by far, not *Dirty South.* (To find a Skynyrd LP worse than *Dirty South*, you have to wait until the ones they made *after* the plane crash.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 15 May 2006 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

(Whereas, for "worse than *Southern Rock Opera*", *First And...Last* and *One More From the Road* would probably qualify, maybe even *Nuthin' Fancy* on a bad day; hard to say, that'd be a close call.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 15 May 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

(okay, maybe *Gimme Back My Bullets* too, who knows.)

Honestly, though, if you like country and blues mixed with rock, check that rolling country thread, and the '05 one too. There's tons.

― xhuxk, Monday, 15 May 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

And okay, it's possible that only THREE Skynyrd LPs are better than *Exile on Main Street,* if you want to get technical. But still.

― xhuxk, Monday, 15 May 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like to stay away from the big classic rock names (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

Oh, then you'll be wanting the stubbornly mediocre bands like Grinderswitch. Right up your alley.

You'll want to stay away from any CCR, too, and vacuum up more of those Pussy Galore-like elpees. This thread is the equiv of asking a community of vegans what cut of steak you should get for grilling tonight.

― George 'the Animal' Steele, Monday, 15 May 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

How should I cook my steak?

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 15 May 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

country -punk : THE JOHNNYS - oz band from 80's - recently reformed

also :
GUADANACAL DIARY
and ROLLING STONES - BEGGARS BANQUET is more bluesy/country than EXILE

― grapple (grapple), Monday, 15 May 2006 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

Concrete Blonde?!

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 15 May 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

Yo, wait a mint: I heard this record once called "Led Zeppelin."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 15 May 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Grapple, what was the first Johnnys record called? I remember that.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 15 May 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

Are You Ready For The Country? Waylon Jennings

The Best of Billy Swan Billy Swan

Honky Tonk Masquerade Joe Ely

Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers Favorites Commander Cody & his Los Planet Airmen

Hank Williams Jr & Friends Hank Williams Jr

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

don't miss Safe at Home by the International Submarine Band for Parsons stuff, especially the one with bonus track "knee deep in the blues"(amazon)

also Okie by JJ Cale

― spectra (spectra), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://store.acousticsounds.com/images/as60gif/ACOL-18.jpg

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 15 May 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hundreds and hundreds of bands mix country or blues with rock or punk. Really, it's kind of hard to find country, blues, rock, or punk artists active in the last, say, 30 years that don't. THAT would be an interesting thread!

But I don't want to be snarky. On the assumption that this is a bona fide question:

On the alt-country side (one of the possible definitions of "alt-country" being pretty much "artists now in their 30s who like Gram Parsons and also punk"): Whiskeytown (expectially Stranger's Almanac), Ryan Adams (especially Heartbreaker and Gold), Uncle Tupelo, Shelby Lynne, Alison Moorer, Neko Case, Gillian Welch, The Jayhawks, Blood Oranges, Cheri Knight, Kelly Willis, Bruce Robison, Pernice Brothers, Lambchop . . . And pre-alters like Jerry Jeff Walker, Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, Poco, Linda Ronstadt, Lone Justice, Lucinda Williams, Beausoleil (and anyone else with the word "zydeco" in their name), Cowboy Junkies . . . And anything that Emmylou Harris has ever done, since she essentially embodies the Parsons legacy.

Coming from blues: North Mississippi Allstars (mainly Shake Hands With Shorty), White Stripes, Jon Spencer, The Kills . . .

Coming from punk/garage rock: X, The Cramps, The Replacements, Verbena, Kings of Leon . . .

― Vornado, Monday, 15 May 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Continuing in Vornado's mien: Robbie Fulks, Johnny Dowd.

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Flesheaters "A minute to pray a second to die"
Sir Douglas Quintet "Mendocino"
My 2 cents.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I gotta say that I'm not sure where the "rock" is in most of the alt-country stuff people have nominated, but hey, maybe that's just me. Either way, along those lines, here's another thread worth perusing:

No Depression Top 40 of 2005

― xhuxk, Monday, 15 May 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, he didn't say "looking for records that mix indie-rock with folk." (But I'm just being a crank, and should obviously shut up.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 15 May 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Imani Coppola, especially "Legend of a Cowgirl," although I think she's gotten away from that kind of sound over the last few years.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 15 May 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Imani's myspace page - http://www.myspace.com/imanicoppola

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 15 May 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, he didn't say "looking for records that mix indie-rock with folk." (But I'm just being a crank, and should obviously shut up.)

-- xhuxk (xedd...), May 15th, 2006. (later)

One man's rock is another man's roll.

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Monday, 15 May 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

One man's stone is another man's putty.

― George 'the Animal' Steele, Monday, 15 May 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

What?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 15 May 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

He ain't heavy, he's my putty. The Black Crowes.

― George 'the Animal' Steele, Monday, 15 May 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

The best synthesis of rock, blooze & country?

― pj (Henry), Monday, 15 May 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

You said no big names, so I guess that excludes THE BYRDS: 'Sweetheart Of The Rodeo'
, FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS: Gilded Palace Of Sin; DYLAN: Nashville Skyline, NEIL YOUNG: 'Comes A Time', etc.

how about (seems like Jason & The Scorchers get mentioned more than these guys for some reason) -

RANK AND FILE: 'Sundown' & 'Long Gone Dead' (finally reissued i believe; both are good--I dig the second more)

Also:
BEAT FARMERS
DIVINE HORSEMEN/CHRIS D.
BLOOD ON THE SADDLE
TEX AND THE HORSEHEADS
LONE JUSTICE
SCREAMING SIRENS/ROSIE FLORES

― Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

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