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Guy Clark/Townes Van Zandt
Posted on 9/28/12 at 11:07 pm
Posted on 9/28/12 at 11:07 pm
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Posted on 9/28/12 at 11:14 pm to Lefty Diego
Posted on 9/29/12 at 1:15 am to Lefty Diego
TVZ is one of the greatest musicians to ever live beyond the shadow of a doubt. His lyrics reach a level few could ever touch. I hate that he lived his life like he did, but he was as brilliant an artist as was Michelangelo. He used a less appreciated medium in country, blues and folk music, but it is no less brilliant than those artists before him that chiseled their love, belief, and creativity into marble.
Posted on 9/29/12 at 1:28 am to 15sammy34
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His lyrics reach a level few could ever touch. I hate that he lived his life like he did,
Without the life he lived he would've never been the artist he was.
Great art is very seldom produced out of happiness and contentment.
I just appreciate the time he had and the art he brought to us while I hope that, in death, he recieved the peace he always sought in life.
This post was edited on 9/29/12 at 1:30 am
Posted on 9/29/12 at 1:33 am to CottonWasKing
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Great art is very seldom produced out of happiness and contentment.
One of the truest statements I've ever seen posted on this site. I'm always amazed by how few people realize this.
I understand that some people view the point of music differently than I do, but I just don't see how people can enjoy meaningless songs.
I guess I'm just more of a frick up and relate more to real music than some.
Posted on 9/29/12 at 1:35 am to CottonWasKing
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I just appreciate the time he had and the art he brought to us while I hope that, in death, he recieved the peace he always sought in life.
Well put. It just bothers me to think of the kind of pain it took to produce the kind of art he did. The man was brilliant, but spent his life fighting alcoholism and heroin addiction.
Posted on 9/29/12 at 1:39 am to 15sammy34
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I understand that some people view the point of music differently than I do, but I just don't see how people can enjoy meaningless songs. I guess I'm just more of a frick up and relate more to real music than some.
I agree completely. Which is why I think I am as drawn to the red dirt scene as much as I am and the folk scene just the same actually.
There is something about a man with guitar bearing his soul, flaws, warts, farts and all, to cigarrette and a blank piece of paper at 3 o'clock in the morning that grabs at me.
I want the music to be a struggle. It needs to make me feel something and it needs to make me believe that the singer/writer felt it too.
Posted on 9/29/12 at 1:55 am to CottonWasKing
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There is something about a man with guitar bearing his soul, flaws, warts, farts and all, to cigarrette and a blank piece of paper at 3 o'clock in the morning that grabs at me.
I want the music to be a struggle. It needs to make me feel something and it needs to make me believe that the singer/writer felt it too.
Goddamn truth. This is why I like a lot of lesser known and old country. Anyone can write a song about going to the lake and drinking beer. Hell I could knock one out in fifteen minutes that could probably be a chart topper. This is what pains me about modern country. Even the worst sell outs have legitimate songs that are obviously from a painful heart, but they never get air time. Hell, they never get released as singles to begin with. Lighting by Eric Church comes to mind immediately. It's by far his best song, and most have never even heard it.
Posted on 9/29/12 at 2:19 am to 15sammy34
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Lighting by Eric Church comes to mind immediately. It's by far his best song, and most have never even heard it.
Motherfricking FACT.
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This is what pains me about modern country
Modern country is fricking phenomenal. Now the shite on the radio is a fricking abortion but the country music being made in texas and oklahoma now is better than anything the genre has ever seen imo outside of the greats. But even then there are songs that rank right up there with the likes of TVZ, Waylon and Hank.
Turnpike Troubadours - 1968
Jason Boland - Proud Souls
Those artists immediately come to mind
Posted on 9/29/12 at 7:34 am to CottonWasKing
Diamonds and Gasoline is one of the only albums I can listen to all the way through without skipping a song. It's the only cd in my truck right now. 
Posted on 9/29/12 at 8:59 am to Lefty Diego
I wish I had a dime for every bad time but the bad times seem to always keep the change
Guy and Townes are two that I feel extremely fortunate to have stumbled upon, probably by accident. Their grief has brought me a lot of joy.
Guy and Townes are two that I feel extremely fortunate to have stumbled upon, probably by accident. Their grief has brought me a lot of joy.
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