The Official Country Music Thread Genre • Page 167

Some unexpected amazing new this morning. New James McMurtry album June 20!

 

"Heaven Passing Through" is my favorite on the Turnpike album

Also, I listened to the Muscadine Bloodline album yesterday. Never heard them before but I loved the album

 

I like the Muscadine album from last year more (The Coastal Plain), but this is still solid. Ballad of the Blanton Brothers is a ripper.

 

Yeah its not as good as Coastal Plain. It could use a couple more up tempo songs. Kinda bogs down the listen cause the pace is just slower but the songs themselves are very good. I LOVE Chickasaw.

 

Muscadine is a great band. Have not heard the new one yet

 

The stretch of Be Here —> Heaven —> The Devil is so damn good. My favorite is one of those three.

 

Wow I've been sleeping on Sierra Ferrell. I'm starting to become a bit obsessed

 

“Dollar Bill Bar” is so fun

 

Now this is a SONG. Love the instrumentation, happy it only took him four years after the last one.

 

Oh hell yeah. His last record is still one of my 5 or so favorites of the decade, so excited for this

 

Just checking in to say that I’m obsessed with the new Turnpike. They have to be the most underrated active modern country band. Feel like they just don’t get the respect as GOATs in accolades but their discography and songwriting can go toe to toe with anyone.

this summer is going to have this album on repeat around the backyard fire pit.

 

Loving this new slick 80's rock sound Charles Kelley (from Lady A) is going for

 

Agreed. It works really well for his voice. Also, a Killers cover!

 

New Eric Church was good on a first listen. I really like the final three songs.

 

Been looking forward to this one for a while.

 

I've been seeing a lot of hype for the Kat Hasty album. After one listen, can confirm it's justified.

 

New Evan Bartels little EP out today. Get your tissues ready.

 

New McMurtry song “Sailing Away” is really really good. Like the title track too but not quite as much

 

Finally digging into this Jack Van Cleaf album and it’s pretty bulletproof songwriting. Love the stretch of “Still” to “Go Home, Danny”

 

Wow these Charles Kelley songs took me by surprise. Some real Don Henley vibes

 

What would folks in here think about a monthly or quarterly collab playlist? So many albums get posted every week that it’s impossible for me to keep up!

 

You talking just for new releases, or would old cuts be allowed too?

 

I’d prefer to focus on new music given the volume of releases, but maybe it’s better to have a group discussion on what would be most fun!

I was thinking we could have two playlists:

1) Everyone contributes to a collaborative playlist that we set parameters around. This would stick around and be updated on an ongoing basis to keep it manageable. We wouldn’t delete songs from the past week or anything, just move them down the page. Until…

2) Someone (me?) archives past songs from a certain time period (older than 3/6 months?) into an endless archive collection.