New Ken Burns documentary on Country Music

I heard it was when he was working construction waiting for his music career to take off, waiting for a deal to be finalized - he told a friend "this killing time is killing me" boom.

 

But he sings, "drinking myself blind ..."

The chorus:

This killin' time is killin' me
Drinking myself blind thinkin' I won't see
Not if I cross that line and they bury me
Well I just might find I'll be killin' time for eternity

 

No love for alt-country or Americana from the '90s or people like Sturgill Simpson and Jason Isbell? To me those acts are what posters are looking for in country music compared to what is today's top country acts. And those are all people who grew up with classic rock, including that shitty Southern rock, and '80s pop music but created

 

Don't leave me hanging. "Created" ... what?

 

Sorry. Created country that was more traditional musically and lyrically. They just didn't continue down the Southern rock path or put a pop sound on it. I guess it was more a Gram Parsons path.

 

I love Americana. When I was little my mother fed me a diet of records based in folk and American music, from Civil War songs (both sides) to "John Henry", cowboy songs and the like. I was listening to Americana long before there was a term for it, from Gram Parsons/Burritos to The Dead's "American Beauty" and "Workingman's Dead" to The Band. In a general sense there is a thread of genuine country music running through it, whether Nashville thinks so or not.

 

"GP" is almost all "traditional" country. "Grievous Angel" is country, but more 1973 country pop, and a much better album. The GP tracks on Sweetheart are more "countryfied" (for the lack of a better term) than the Roger McGuinn ones that made the studio-released album. Lot's of good stuff on the "Sleepless Nights" compilation album, and on a Burrito's CD called "The Collection," which is almost all covers of country from the 1950s and 1960s.

Yes, I am a big GP fan.

 

Satan makes you listen to Florida Georgia Line.