Happy Wednesday! Western Wednesday, this Wednesday and every Wednesday!

Western swing, Out West, Wild West, songs about Texas, artists from out West, cowboys, even the sounds of spaghetti western... sometimes we'll post Canadian western artists, sometimes Native American country artists from the western states (that's a whole subgenre of country music by the way), cowboy poetry, Red Dirt artists, and much more

Other weekly themes on this sub:

Blue Monday, every monday: bluegrass, country blues, and blue in general. A little rockabilly.

Honky Tonk Saturday: what it says on the tin, honky tonk country music and a little Bakersfield Sound.

Click on the flair (the colored tags above some posts) to see past posts with the same themes.

Holy shit…. The whole album is awesome (very different though), but this song sounds so great to my musical ear. I don’t know that his voice is everyone’s cup of tea though…

I love this song by Parker McCollum and obviously it’s a breakup song but wtf do these lyrics mean? I don’t understand

I received an invite to CMA Country Forward in Nashville in November. I’ve attended a CMA event in the past, but the invite specifically had my name. There is very little info online and I do plan on reaching out to CMA about it. Wanted to see if anyone here has attended, if it’s beneficial, or just an event to drum up membership?

Down from Dover, Apple Jack, and Mountain angel are my picks.

Paige Lewis - When the World Gets Heavy

Colby T. Helms - One for the Losers

Beau Jennings - Sings Tom Petty

Sorrel Nation - Creeping Thyme

Sam Burchfield - Every Season

Pug Johnson - From a Beaumont Bar

Joanne Shaw Taylor - The Trouble With Love

Roc Helton - Pain Longs For Me

Shane Pendergast - Jack Pine

Owen Temple - Closer, Says Love

Emily McLoud - Where I Am Today

Rayland Baxter - True Violet

Chris Gantry - Worth Every Nail

Grey DeLisle - Don’t Turn Around

W.D. Miller - Child Of The Kindly South

JP Harris - Shaving a Dead Man

Dasher the Band - Grandpa Clocks and Gravestones

Marshall Crenshaw - The Bootleg Sounds of Marshall Crenshaw

Abigail Rose - Paisley

Andrew McArthur - Antique Power

Country Risque - As The Crow Flies

Jade Jackson - Jadine

Ben Jarrell and the Night Sights - Self-Titled

The Fretliners - When The Kettle Sings

Evan Nicole Bell - Evan

Jake Rebman - The Waitin’ Rounders

Matt Lang - Ain’t That Bad

Ali Tod - Self-Titled

Josh Rouse - Museums and Women

Exile - Look Out, Heart

Bernie Taupin - The Sea Has No Mercy

Redd & The Paper Flowers - Dead Little Thing

Max Bien Kahn - Baby Green

Kendall Street Company - Yodeling Astroman

Megan and Shane - The Tourist

Gordie Tentrees - Dandelion Blue

Peter Autio - Country, Soul, and Rock N’ Roll

Kacy Lee Anderson - Hello, I'm Irrelevant

Sean Tobin - Banshee River

Big Fancy & The Shiddy Cowboys - Crushing Weight Of Bad Mistakes

Wooten Hill - How Did We Get Here

Chancey Williams - Thirsty and Blue

William Prince - Live at Massey Hall

Lamplight - Lick the Spoon, Let it Soften

Caroline Rose - Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall

Buck Owens - At The Mint: Buck Owens Live In Vegas

Brothers Osborne - Watertown

Sadurn - The Underworld

Dave Martin - Donegal Tweed & Cowboy Chords

Jimmy Webb - Yours ForThe Talking: The Found Songs of Jimmy Webb

LOCASH - Chris & Preston

Muireann Bradley - Blackwood Pew (EP)

AJ Lee & Blue Summit - Matterhorn (EP)

The Sean Shiff Project - No (Country for Old) Kings (EP)

Rusty Jam - Self-Titled (EP)

The Creekers - Little Man (EP)

Jack Barksdale - Battleground (EP)

Brandon Jane - Stolen Horses (EP)

Matthew Barber - The World Is A Buble (EP)

Fanny Lumsden - By The River (EP)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5vHV1RmHrXdU1XYVmtHze2?si=2kaxviBJQgqKioYRmIrQtQ

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGI_6DH6_3sM&si=EVcfySV4gF-v9gyX

... Mondays around here might also include old time music and or rockabilly. Maybe even songs about blue, the color, or blue, the emotion...

Please make separate standalone posts for songs you want to share!

(I locked the comments because people will see your contribution better if it's not lost in the comments of this announcement)

Happy Sunday! Did you find something new to listen to? Did you go to a show? Tell us about your week, and country music, or whatever's on your mind!

Another cool song with Mexican flair. I decided to listen to this album after the review from a day or two ago.

My great grandmother had the biggest crush on him, she never liked photos of herself but her brothers blew this up for her to open in front the family for Christmas, she was blushing bad bad

Hi all, I came across this songwriter from the UK recently and think he is a breath of fresh air for authentic old skool Country. I thought id share here incase anyone else enjoy it.

Does anyone know who this man is

Which country artists pull the biggest crowds? Asking because Zach Bryan announced a pretty big 2027 tour and he seems like the type of artist people like to see live.

Pretty well known voice actress putting out some pretty great country…

Honkytonk is the original sound of electric country, the sound you associate with Hank Williams and early George Jones and Ernest Tubb and the sound that influenced a lot of neotraditional 1990's country such as Alan Jackson and of course the honky tonk man, Dwight Yoakam.

It was characterized by heavy dancing rhythm that goes well with the two step, and usually steel guitar and fiddle along with twangy electric guitar and a unique twangy vocal style that was developed to cut across the sound at a loud bar of drunks with a bad sound system in the early days.

It's developed over the years including some recent evolution. Some of the Texas dancehall bands have an even more exaggerated beat and singing style now than you would have heard in neotraditional 1990s country or the 1950's original. Tracking down the history of who influenced whom is really fun if you're into that kind of country music history hobby.

We'll be posting (mostly modern) honky tonkers every Saturday for your edification! Click on the 'honky tonk' flair tag to see other tracks and discussions we've posted here in the past.

Here's some reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honky-tonk

here's a playlist of old classic honkytonk through the ages: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL679_2jmbaFHAFebq3szErCvTD0CNyZdt

here's the same thing according to Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0NfjMqrzcGKVsbYZmhf4Md