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9/29/06: Roger Waters performing Dark Side Of the Moon He had a crack band and it was a pretty amazing show.

Just like Uncle Tupelo's No Depression, right? They just named a magazine about the subject and the whole damn movement after that raucous motha of a record.

I never thought that I was a fan, until I took a trip through Nashville with my family back when I was in college. We hit the Opry and Ricky was on the ticket with Kentucky Thunder and he hit the stage with a vengeance. Started with an acoustic set and put on the most virtuosic display of flatpicking that I've ever seen. He followed that up by tearing it up with mandolin and banjo. And then he came back later for an electric set, when he showed that he could give James Burton more than just a run for his money. Good stuff.

John Doe - Meet John Doe The Boo Radleys - C'mon Kids The Shins - Oh, Inverted World Def Leppard - Yeah!

Brian Eno - Another Green World Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) Brian Eno - Before & After Science

Hell, this board is pretty-well focused on the whole "alt-country" thing, no? Any fans of Kasey around here? My wife adores her, and we are going to see her next month. How is she live? The new stuff -- duets with her husband Shane -- sounds pretty good. Whaddya think and stuff?

Jimmy Smith - Root Down - Live! Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister The Jam - Direction Reaction Creation (disc 1) Bobby Fuller - The Best Of the Bobby Fuller Four Eleventh Dream Day - Zeroes and Ones

No. It's all about Train a Comin'.

It's the attitude. The approach. And the influence. Johnny and Willie were not playing by the rules, they just happened to sell enough records that it was tolerated within the mainstream. And as far as admitting that I like country music, I'll tell everyone that I know. I love country music. The best of it is some of the best pure American songwriting that there is. Period. I suppose that some other Nashville hitmakers like Dwight Yoakam or even Dolly Parton could be thrown under the "Alt" banner. For me, I think it means a strict adherence to following your muse, no matter what Nashville

My list (as if you care); in vaguely chronological order: The Byrds - Sweetheart Of the Rodeo Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison Gram Parsons - GP Willie Nelson - The Red-Headed Stranger Emmylou Harris - Pieces Of the Sky Lyle Lovett - Pontiac Uncle Tupelo - No Depression Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall Son Volt - Trace Steve Earle - Train a' Comin' No, no Wilco albums, because their first album wasn't very notable as an album, in general, let alone an essential Alt-country album. And their subsequent albums were something else altogether. And, as far that the list at the link... just... no.

Steve Ison - The Stars Are Never Really Distant Belleveille - My Friends Are My Estate Bongwater - Double Bummer Stiff Records Box Set, Disc 2

Sounds like you and I had the same experience with Lou. Of course, that is not to diminish the fact that I met Wendy at the exact same time that I met Louie.

I've pimped this record before, but... Joe Pisapia - Daydreams

The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic The Band - Music From Big Pink Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On Blur - Blur Tenpole Tudor - Best Of: Swords Of a Thousand Men

I'm starting to think that the Cubs actually are gonna do it this year. Goddamn Cubs. Break my heart time after time. And, I'm worried about Ronnie Santo. I'm not so sure that HE can take that kind of heartbreak again if they don't win it all.

Okay, I listened to this and I like him a lot. Something like a young(er), hipster Randy Newman, maybe?

You love us? Or you mock us? Either way... thanks! I'll post my obscurities now. Paper Airplane Pilots -- Friends and labelmates: Classic Power Pop Trakan: Friends and labelmates: Dark folk rock; Think M. Ward and Frank Black The Flavor Channel: The band that inspired this thread. I was really into them back in the 90's. The Smiths meet Sun Ra and Roy Orbison I'll come up with more later. And I'll check out your links when I'm not blocked by the firewall at work.

He said that it was pretty pointless. After all, if you know of and love a band that nobody else has ever heard of, once you share it with anybody else, then they know it, too. So, why be so snobby about it? Very true. So, in the interest of reducing the snobbery of the board and the world in general, would you like to share with the class a couple of very obscure bands that you love? Local heroes? Friends' bands (that are actually great) and whatnot... So, I suppose it's an excercise in snobbery, at the same time that it's an excercise to reduce the snobbery out there. But hell, it'll b

Yeah I did that, but I like to get more personal-type reflections and such. That's why I post on places like this in the first place. to you too!

Bob Elliott - Late Afternoon Sun Fiona Apple - When the Pawn... Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Ultimate Collection Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

A good read and Bono comes off as very charming, actually.

Tell me a bit about this record. (And forgive me if you already did, because I'm not gonna comb through 8 pages of posts just to find the one album.) Sounds like?...

Figggerd that I'd knock down that door for all the rest of the folks here!

Pretty much a dick move just jumping up and playing with you uninvited. Hell, even when I am invited to sit in with someone, I double-check to make sure that it's what they really want. It's not my gig. And your set wasn't his gig. And getting pissed when you told him to piss off? You did the right thing. It can only get better now.