I'm really digging this slow, doomy Country music - is this a thing, and can I hear more of it?

What I mean is stuff like the latest Earth album, Josh T. Pearson's 'Last Of The Country Gentlemen, that Colin Stetson cover of 'I'm So Lonelsome I Could Cry'. Not really a big country aficionado, so what else can I hear in this vein?

You could try Townes van Zandt's most desolate stuff, like "Nothing", "Rake", "Lungs", "Kathleen", maybe even "Our Mother the Mountain".

Songs;Ohia's "Ghost Tropic" should be right on. Also search Jason Molina's albums released under his own name.

Cowboy Junkies' "Trinity Sessions" is very slow, but not really doomy at all I guess.. Great album though..

Slow, doomy Country - you just described the Country Teasers. That's some cool, whacked out stuff. With dollops of Twang. They do a cool version of Stand By Your Man.

Wolfmangler

Deadboy & The Elephant Men - S/T is good, slow, doomy swamp-rock

do you really enjoy the josh t pearson album

really

oh hello thank you for making me listen to the last Earth album, this is exactly the kind of thing I want more of (I've long wanted Sunn 0))) or similar to cover Reba/Bobbie Gentry's "Fancy"), will check out the other titles mentions herein.

Anybody who liked the last two Earth albums are directed to last year's Barn Owl album Lost in the Glare.

What he said.

the czars cover album 'sorry i made you cry', slow, country-ish, john grant's voice. more dreamy than doomy though.

Barn Owl = A+ band name

The recent Zachary Cale record might fit the bill. Also, the Bry Webb solo record.

do you really enjoy the josh t pearson album

really

― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Saturday, 11 February 2012 20:59 (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have to be in the mood for it as it's extremely soporific, but yes. The bonus tracks including "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" are pretty essential.

Charlie, do you know the Lift To Experience album?

Trinity Sessions is great. Maybe Is A Woman by Lambchop? Different kind of doom.

No I haven't heard LTE yet, but I know I oughta. I remember having a dream (maybe 10 years ago now) where I bought a Lambchop album and loved it, but I didn't in real life and never heard them outside a couple of front-cover comps.

Not as slow or doomy maybe, but I've always had a mental association between JTP and William Elliot Whitmore. And any other country artist with three names prob.

In which case, LTE and Is A Woman are absolute must-haves.

Bill Callahan and Bonnie Prince Billy both fit into this category, I'd say.

Cosign.

Souled American.

got that josh t pearson album a couple months ago. thought it was decent so i picked up the LTE album and it became my favorite thing ever for a while there.

first google result for barn owl band leads to this
http://barnowlband.com/images/BarnOwlBand11.jpg
Since its inception in 1991, the band's mainstay gig has been playing for a monthly barn dance for the Central Iowa Barn Dance Association in Ames, Iowa.

Probably not doomy, but they seem cool.

Neil Young's "Dead Man" sdtk

how do you feel about roy orbison

http://www.discogs.com/Harry-Dean-Stanton-You-Dont-Miss-Your-Water/release/2751021

^^ total downer

ry cooder's soundtrack to 'paris, texas'?

i was never really a fan, but some folks really love 16 horsepower in the doomy alt-country vein?

will oldham?

emerson's old-timey custard suckin' band does some down & out bluegrass jams on 'sitting on top of the world' etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du7O8pF5ddU&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL8F05B42FECB27E22

Worth checking out (I file these under twang):

The first two Beach House albums, Marie Fisker from Copenhagen, Eilen Jewell, Daniel Lanois (esp Acadie & For the Love of Wynona), Last Town Chorus, Lorna (the UK Lorna), Hope Sandoval (and her slow features in Mazzy Star), Mojave 3, Tarnation, Trespassers William (esp Different Stars).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAypnmdiCEk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hK9LrwACU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izfo4QaqXK4

100% cosign certain country teaser tracks, watch out for the racism tho, it's "humor" but I always forget about it when rec'ing it to people and then lol I guess,

does this fit? wtvr I've been listening to it over and over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCdeTt31bV0

I don't think I was the only person I know to be disappointed by the Josh T Pearson album. Ever since falling for his charm and melodies, very late at night at ATP a few years back, for seemingly ever I was waiting for him to put those particular songs to record. He released his debut solo LP and none of them were there! None of the charm or melodies it seems either. Sad. Check out the To Hull and Back live bootleg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTNb4XP4GtE

everyone on various websites only talk about Dead Meadow as a stoner/psych band but IMO they have a definite alt-country/americana feel.

Also -- Bain Wolfkind, I can't rep for him enough. Lots of slide guitar and dark, moody telecaster.

listen to the last walkabouts album "travels in the dustland". it is slow, folkish, dark, hypnotic and additionally the female singer has got one of these great american conutry voices. check "every river will burn":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmjHAfIW8XI&feature=related

other bands which could be of interest. the psychedelic mazzy star with hope sandoval's sleepy-sexy voice, opal which was the band before. maybe low and their slow spiritual music. eleventh dream day if you like fuzzy guitars. not to forget kurt wagner's lamchop and their slow american music full of soul and love. there areloads of bands which could be called, slow, doomy country music.

Woven Hand are popular with some doom metallers

Vic Chestnutt? Maybe?

The entire album "Solitude" by The Volebeats fits this to a T. Here is a fine example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTdenHaFhFg

the MY FATHER WILL GUIDE ME UP A ROPE TO THE SKY thread being bumped made me think of this thread (not sure if it has been brought up already)

Digging that Walkabouts tune.

Jesse Sykes fits this perfectly. Also mentioned her on the women sing about death & dread thread a few days back. Two from her below. She also sang with SunnO)))/Boris on Sinking Belle - nice and doomy but not so country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlCIjOBeoCQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMd2TrUdsKc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScT9eo5cljk

There's lots to mine from the Barn Owl seam.

I'd heavily recommend Evan Caminiti's West Winds and the forthcoming Thrill Jockey LP from other member Jon Porras sounds like it will nail it too...

Recorded by Jon (otherwise known as one half of Barn Owl) at home and in his practice space, Black Mesa is a reflection on desolation and the search for light in a barren land. Recorded over the span of 10 months, each track materialized slowly over time. Black Mesa features seven composed tracks of meditative, electric guitar embellished with improvised atmospherics and white light feedback. The album follows an outlaw wanderer who ventures deep into the desert only to discover the Black Mesa, a bridge between worlds (as related to string theory or multiverse theory). Inspired by the hazy Americana of Sandy Bull, Popol Vuh, and Neil Young, Black Mesa endeavours to explore the depths of drone and ambient music.

suite thread

gene clark - "no other" is my favorite album ever some nights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9RyvUGJ5Wc

maybe this song fits the thread a little better, maybe not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2ViQXg_0bw

don't know if this quite fits... lovely tho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu8w8bqnWyU

Really cannot recommend Lambchop's Is A Woman enough, btw, Charlie.

I'll check it out :-)

Does The Castanets (circa Cathedral) count? It's kind of countryish, bleakish.

Seconding 'Is A Woman', it's so great.

thirding, "is a woman" is excellent. if you like music stripped down to the bone, it is for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW3_8Q45xM8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V2yFdNdJU0