If Alabama started seeing superstar Dem candidates run for state and local office, how many election cycles would it take to see them get elected? I have no idea, but with at least a minimal effort the answer will be never. We have an average of voter turnout rate of around 49%, while R to D spendi...

What you say is true, of course, but don't Republicans do the same with deep blue states? Couldn't a tried and true Republican be mad that their party writes off Hawaii or Oregon or California as a lost cause? Maybe, even if that is true so what? I'll let the right-wingers worry about that. In the ...

"Many liberals feel the national Democratic Party has abandoned them — although Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala D. Harris recently campaigned in the state." I would definitely agree that the national party has abandoned us. And before Kamala Harris was here, Bernie Sanders came here at least...

Copied and pasted from the Facebook thread: Yes, our state government is bought and paid for by sacks of shit and it's actively oppressive towards women, LGBTQ, minorities and the poor. But "liberals" who write off all Alabamians because of the government are just as bad from my perspective, and als...

No Rolling Thunder content, but I found this interesting (and really surprising) Here's how popular every Dylan song is on Spotify Does Spotify pay as much as a penny per play? If so, those numbers add up incredibly fast. I don't think any streaming service even comes close to a penny per play.

I wonder if this prompted the epic rant befor Gravity's Gone at the 5/11 Tractor Tavern show...

No Rolling Thunder content, but I found this interesting (and really surprising)

Here's how popular every Dylan song is on Spotify

"Rebellions come in many forms and barbecue is not a verb"

If I were a neuroscientist I would want to study Cooley's brain. He's clearly operating on a higher level of consciousness than the rest of us.

I'll respond to your other points later (I wore myself out on that last post, lol) but you mentioned Brother Jukebox, and I was wondering if you ever heard the original? I first heard it a couple years back and it blows away Chesnut's version. A primo country-rock nugget. GVUTBZAm79o Keith's ain't h...

I might as well have been president of the Garth Brooks hater fan club for most of my life. He was second concert (I think) in my pre-kindergarten days; could've been first but I think that was Alabama's June Jam which my parents used to attend every year (my first concert I remember was Billy Ray C...

Man what a thread! This is like the 3dd of old. I'm surprised at you, Smitty. Some of the absences being absences while Garth Brooks is included. :? :D Like him or not, he certainly earned his spot and it'd be disingenous to leave him out of the conversation. He owes as much to KISS and Billy Joel ...

I do wonder if the whole project would've worked better if there had at least been a moratorium/gag order on fact-checking (or at least publicizing which parts were made up) by those who had advance screenings. It's a lot more effective as a film if you go into it blind (and would been more a mindfu...

It's subtitled "a Bob Dylan story", so the fictional parts are kind of appropriate. I get that totally. I just don't see any point other than pranking for the sake of pranking. To me the fictional parts added nothing at all, other than leading people like me to ask what was the point I read that th...

The Jayhawks came out of the Twin City's hardcore scene, the same as Uncle Tupelo. :? The Jayhawks might've been from that scene, but UT were a Belleville, IL/St. Louis based band. Their worlds eventually collided, but, to my knowledge, UT did not emerge from the Twin City's hardcore scene. You're ...

No mention of Joe Ely? Not that he's the GOAT but he's definitely worthy of the list, based on the names being thrown around. I put him in the category with Guy, TVZ, etc and tried to focus on the mainstream C&W industry. I'm not sure where those guys fit. You beat me to it. I have basically the sa...

The Jayhawks came out of the Twin City's hardcore scene, the same as Uncle Tupelo. Sounding punk isn't a prerequisite for alt.country, but I doubt you'll find any literature on alt.country that doesn't include a punk sensibility as one of it's defining traits. That's what the "alt" represents, no di...

We should just consolidate all setlists into one thread.

It's subtitled "a Bob Dylan story", so the fictional parts are kind of appropriate.

Even if you extend the alt.country label to the birth of country-rock in the 60's (I consider it late on the continuum - country rock>cowpunk/Paisley underground>alt.country), Wild Horses ain't the first anything. It's a perfect song but not at all groundbreaking or original. The Byrds, ISB, Burrit...

bovine knievel wrote:No mention of Joe Ely? Not that he's the GOAT but he's definitely worthy of the list, based on the names being thrown around.

I put him in the category with Guy, TVZ, etc and tried to focus on the mainstream C&W industry. I'm not sure where those guys fit.

The only way it could be better is if it were done western-swing style...

This was on the follow-up to the album containing "I'm a White Boy". Wtf was up with that?

Not to relive old glories, but I think I came out on top of that one. In the ghetto ftw! I also was the only one with American Trilogy in my list, so yeah. 8-) If we're counting Western swing, then Asleep at the Wheel, Spade Cooley and Milton Brown have to be added too. Sorry Mick & Waylon, but no.

Oh man, I guess this thread took place during your hiatus, wwcd
http://threedimesdown.com/forum/viewtop ... vis#p53007

Also not sure I feel quite the same way 9 years later

Mel Tillis? Vern Gosdin? We keep adding to the list like we are, before you knowing we’ll be debating Billy “Crash” Craddock and Mel Street How could I forget the Voice?!? He's from my neck of the woods, too. The Gosdins have a place in the country rock HOF as well. Just don't make me defend Mac Da...

I've heard that before about Nanci Griffith, although she's wrote some great songs: "Gulf Coast Highway", "Love at the Five & Dime" although I prefer Kathy Mattea's version. Kathy Mattea is underrated as shit and always covered great writers: Nanci, Suzanna Clark (Come from the heart), Gillian Welch...

Ah, also conflicted regarding Freddy Fender, Johnny Rodriguez, Tompall Glaser and Jessi Colter. I love "Love in the Hot Afternoon" :D and "Farewell Party". I have a strong dislike (and share your vibe of creepiness)of Conway, so he stays out, in spite of him being everyone's grandma's favorite sing...

Bluegrass =/= country music, but yes Bill & Ralph Stanley no doubt more umm primitive?rural? than some of the more urban-cowboyish picks on my list, but I think as far as country as a genre goes, the glossier ones deserve a spot. Edit: but fuck, there's Ricky Skaggs and Alison Krauss on there, so id...

Ah, also conflicted regarding Freddy Fender, Johnny Rodriguez, Tompall Glaser and Jessi Colter. I love "Love in the Hot Afternoon" :D and "Farewell Party". I have a strong dislike (and share your vibe of creepiness)of Conway, so he stays out, in spite of him being everyone's grandma's favorite singer.

Ouch, Reeves was an oversight. Gene Watson, John Conlee, the Judd's, Connie Smith, Oak Ridge Boys, Alabama and Earl Thomas Conley crossed my mind but ultimately were nahs (although Alabama & ORB probably deserve it for the sheer number of hits). Looking over it again I should probably add Rodney Cro...

Even if you extend the alt.country label to the birth of country-rock in the 60's (I consider it late on the continuum - country rock>cowpunk/Paisley underground>alt.country), Wild Horses ain't the first anything. It's a perfect song but not at all groundbreaking or original. The Byrds, ISB, Burrit...