Lucinda Williams - West

[AllenLowe]

I don't like Lucinda W - a little narcississtic for my taste - (sorry, I have no idea how to spell that word) -

I wish alt country was truly alt, and not just the same old country stuff dressed up in shiny digital clothing - I'm thinking, like, Kelly Harrell meets Johnny Cash meets Frank Hutchison meets Bo Diddley meets Air meets Eric Dolphy meets Howling Wolf meets me -

Edited December 15, 2007 by AllenLowe

[Alexander]

I don't like Lucinda W - a little narcississtic for my taste - (sorry, I have no idea how to spell that word) -

I wish alt country was truly alt, and not just the same old country stuff dressed up in shiny digital clothing - I'm thinking, like, Kelly Harrell meets Johnny Cash meets Frank Hutchison meets Bo Diddley meets Air meets Eric Dolphy meets Howling Wolf meets me -

?uestlove of the Roots once quipped that "alternative hip hop" is a euphemisim for "black people won't touch your albums." "Alt country" seems to be a euphemisim for "country music that won't get played on country music radio."

[Van Basten II]

I don't think the artists had anything to do with the label alt country, it's writers who coined the term to differenciate them from the mainstream country acts.

[AllenLowe]

that's probably true - my complaint is that they have not re-evaluated basic musical techniques and approaches - it's the same for a lot of Indie rockers who don't grasp that to re-define a form - rock, country, jazz etc - you have to grapple with the elements of that form - songs, music, lyrics, scales, song form, et all - and re-do them somehow. This has been done, but rarely, to my taste, in an interesting way.

[Van Basten II]

In some case, maybe the more appropriate term would be Country revivalists, because they seem to try to carry the old tradition instead of creating a new form of music.