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Texas Red Dirt
Posted on 1/4/16 at 7:04 pm
Posted on 1/4/16 at 7:04 pm
Somebody please tell me why nobody i encounter in Louisiana knows what red dirt country music is? I grew up in Oklahoma and Texas and it's all we know. Is this real or am i just coming into contact with the wrong people? Do all/most people here really not even know what it is?
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Posted on 1/4/16 at 7:15 pm to OkieOnDaBayou
Don't say "Red Dirt". Say "Robert Earl Keen". If that stumps them then anything else you say will stump them.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 7:18 pm to OkieOnDaBayou
I initially think of Ryan Bingham when I think of that style of music.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 7:24 pm to 12Pence
so can anyone tell me why Louisiana folk don't know or even like this genre of music? It's so good I put my Louisiana girlfriend on it and she's hooked now.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 8:28 pm to OkieOnDaBayou
It's really only popular in Texas
Posted on 1/4/16 at 8:39 pm to OkieOnDaBayou
Wait until the board's resident Red Dirt guru, Rickety Cricket, sees this thread. He'll learn you some country.
Posted on 1/4/16 at 8:49 pm to greenwave
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It's really only popular in Texas
REK, Robison, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Reckless Kelly, McMurtry, etc. were all very popular when I was in school in Alabama. I always thought it was pretty big among SEC types.
Post college, add Bingham, Turnpike and the like. I work with a bunch of guys who went to Georgia Tech, UGA, UVA, etc. and all of us listen to Keen and such.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 2:27 am to OkieOnDaBayou
Keen and Ragweed had solid turnouts in LC several years ago. Bowen at Contraband was desolate aside from our big group.
We've carpooled groups to Reckless Kelly, Randy Rogers, Fowler, etc.
Pretty solid little following here, at least amongst my circle. It's died out a bit with club music taking over. Relegated to backyard fires and fish fries for the most part. Shame after Keen and Ragweed pulled the crowds they did - at least by LC standards.
We've carpooled groups to Reckless Kelly, Randy Rogers, Fowler, etc.
Pretty solid little following here, at least amongst my circle. It's died out a bit with club music taking over. Relegated to backyard fires and fish fries for the most part. Shame after Keen and Ragweed pulled the crowds they did - at least by LC standards.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 8:38 am to OkieOnDaBayou
It's not as popular as it is in Texas/Oklahoma for obvious reasons, but it's still pretty popular amongst people who seek out other music than what is on the radio.
You're just not talking to the right people.
You're just not talking to the right people.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 9:46 am to Pettifogger
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REK, Robison, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Reckless Kelly, McMurtry, etc. were all very popular when I was in school in Alabama. I always thought it was pretty big among SEC types.
It is but it seems like most of LSU students and Florida for that matter were outliers than the typical Bama, OM, State, Auburn, UGA, Tenn, ark students musical taste. Or that's how it was when I was in school.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 10:17 am to Cdawg
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It is but it seems like most of LSU students and Florida for that matter were outliers than the typical Bama, OM, State, Auburn, UGA, Tenn, ark students musical taste. Or that's how it was when I was in school.
Agreed, although I figured LSU may break that mold due to proximity. Maybe not.
When I was in grad school at UGA, we regularly had Keen, Bingham, etc. come through, usually with very good crowds.
Being in Atlanta we get most of them fairly often. REK comes twice a year usually, with additional stops sometimes in Athens, Augusta, etc. Wish Turnpike would get this way more often.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 10:47 am to Pettifogger
For LSU the varsity just off campus has had a lot of red dirt/Texas country bands come through in the past couple years. Off the top of my head I went to Robert Earl Keen, Turnpike, Willie Nelson, Josh Abbott, Stoney LaRue, Wade Bowen, Cody Canada, Randy Rogers, Kevin Fowler, Roger Creager, Casey Donahew, Pat Green and I'm sure several others I just can't think of right now just in the past 7 years (I moved to BR 7 years ago). Many of those bands have been several times too.
Most the time these shows are very crowded also.
Most the time these shows are very crowded also.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 10:51 am to OkieOnDaBayou
Speak for yourself, lots of Louisiana folks are keen on Red Dirt. I love up in Mecca and most of my friends and kin only listen to it. Stoney Larue, Bo Chevy, Wade Bowen, Houston James, Easton Corbin, Dallas Jones, Jason Boland, Brantley Ford, the list goes on.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 4:05 pm to Rickety Cricket
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Easton Corbin
Lol wut?
Posted on 1/5/16 at 4:29 pm to OkieOnDaBayou
quote:Because it's not really a genre.
so can anyone tell me why Louisiana folk don't know or even like this genre of music?
Posted on 1/5/16 at 4:32 pm to OkieOnDaBayou
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I grew up in Oklahoma and Texas and it's all we know.
Yall should branch out.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 5:43 pm to tilco
You have some kind of problem with Easton?
Posted on 1/6/16 at 9:52 pm to AlxTgr
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Because it's not really a genre.
Basically.
It's more of a loosely defined group of artists/groups who happen to be (usually) from the same region (more southwest than "the south") rather than any real recurring musical stylings/characteristics of those groups. I'd say certain songs from a lot of artists fall into "red dirt" but it basically ends there.
Posted on 1/7/16 at 12:05 am to AmosMosesAndTwins
Can I join your Lake Charles coalition? 
Myself and Mrs. SW love red dirt country. We saw randy Rogers and Wade Bowen last time they played the varsity and we're seeing stoney larue in Beaumont in a couple of weeks.
Myself and Mrs. SW love red dirt country. We saw randy Rogers and Wade Bowen last time they played the varsity and we're seeing stoney larue in Beaumont in a couple of weeks. 
Posted on 1/7/16 at 12:19 am to OkieOnDaBayou
You're talking to the wrong people. The girls at Hot Topic aren't gonna know anything about TX/Red Dirt country
quote:I saw him at this bar in Houston, and it was basically him up there with a guitar playing half of his music, and half random crowd requests. Pretty awesome to see. Got drunk as frick on his bus with him after the show
stoney larue in Beaumont in a couple of weeks.
This post was edited on 1/7/16 at 12:23 am
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