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MrModernRock escreveu:
I'm not surprised by the Robert Plant and Krauss love, although I haven't run into very many people who have had a lot of good things to say about the album.
Duo/Group of the year, though, still think it should have been DBT. But I'm obviously biased. I'll be seeing them on Saturday with another Duo/Group of the year nominee: Avett Brothers.
New artists, really couldn't have gone wrong with any of them. My pick would have been The Steeldrivers because that album has blown me away. The Mike Farris album is on here to listen to, by the way. I suggest giving it some plays. I liked what I heard from it a lot, just haven't picked it up yet.
I'm happy with song of the year, though. That Hayes Carll track is instant classic, IMO. -
ACKthehack escreveu:
Hayes Carll rocks.
Sounds like from some coverage the Americana folks who do this were a bit too smitten by the godness of Robert Plant.
I found the album frankly to be a decent Allison Krauss CD with Plant doing vocals on lots of tracks. Neat, novel but not that special.
Way to go Hayes Carll maybe ol Ryan Bingham will get some attention. -
koemer escreveu:
For me as a musical sexist, americana is not a women's genre. When you ask me what i think about the winners... Women should stay with soul and jazz, not with blues. I just dont like it. It simply does not reach me. But thats just my dumb opinion. Therefor i would prefer to see Steve and Townes (the young fella) up there. I wonder if we will ever see Hank III on that stage. But i think thats a tragic family issue there. -
ACKthehack escreveu:
Man between Gillian Welch and Allison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.
I don't get your opinion on women in Americana at all and those are just three examples. -
koemer escreveu:
Just wanted to provoke a little bit. I simply prefer male voices by far.
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MrModernRock escreveu:
I don't get how one could say women's vocals are any less Americana than men's vocals. Neko Case is about as complete of a package as any Americana vocalist - male or female.
Trying to distance female vocalists from the blues by keeping them in soul and jazz is even more laughable considering how much all three of those relate to one another. The division lines between them are probably the blurriest of any combination of genres, so pigeonholing female vocalist into only two of the three is more or less impossible to do. I don't see how anybody could listen to Bessie Smith, Etta James, Billie Holiday, etc and conclude that female vocalists don't belong in the blues genre.
As for Hank III, I don't think we'll ever see him up on the Americana stage for two reasons. First reason is that his father is too busy bending over and opening up to Nashville and pandering to them to keep that pseduo-"outlaw" image going and III tries to keep as far away from his father as possible. Secondly, Hank III is a walking contradiction. His music itself is as much a part of Americana as his grandfathers, but I think his antics distances himself quite a bit. -
jcshepard escreveu:
Dropping in for a moment... I've sampled the Avett's on some videos, like their sound but haven't read up on them.
re: Hank III. The man in the musician in the boy may emerge one day, if he doesn't succeed in following his granddad to an early grave. He's a genius, and a dufus, all wrapped into one. The only thing consistent is he doesn't play well with others.
re: Women in Americana. I've seen the exact opposite charge, that Americana is watered down by the over-educated women singer-songwriters--the Emmylous and Gillians and such that have studied the music but never really lived it. I've heard it said that Americana is just country music for people who know how to read...
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