Wilco haven't sounded like sparse Poco since 1998, though I wish they still did.

That makes you an idiot.

This doesn't offend me as a man, it offends me as someone who values critical thinking skills. That said, all these bands are terrible so who cares?

The show hasn't been the same since they left Chicago and I guess this puts the nail in the coffin of them ever returning (despite saying they would if the TV show didn't work out).

Was it just a suburban Cleveland thing for all 90s teens to dress horribly and be straight edge & into shitty hardcore bands or was that pretty much everywhere? The Bayers are eastsiders & I was a westsider but Jonah looks like every "punk" kid I went to high school with.

Chococat FTW

Wasn't Cory Branan's album a 2014 release?

Some of my favorites from the loosely culled genre of American Roots Music this year, ranked roughly in order:

You are correct. I withdraw my objection.

Except he's from Georgia.

Right, because racism only exists in the South.

This show would sound better if it was about a guy who did television animation and later landed a side gig as a pedal steel guitar player in a seminal country rock band circa 1968.

I don't really see the difference, myself.

What I was trying to say is that Whole Foods & Monsanto are not comparable entities, but don't let that stop you.

Whole Foods margin is very high for the grocery sector.

My wife and I were listening to this one morning when our daughter was first learning to walk and we both teared up watching her toddle around, so proud of herself, while this song played.

People forget that she was covering alot of those artists (Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, Lowell George) way before they became household names. It's a shame that she came of age at the exact time when so much emphasis was being placed on original material. Up until the 70s, artists that wrote their own material were…

She did record at Muscle Shoals and while I wouldn't call her Southern Rock per se, I think at the time she was making those early records, things were still nebulous enough to say that she was part of the nexus that became Southern rock.

Clearly the later Southern rock bands (MTB, Skynyrd) were listening to the Stones and absorbing their influence, but that stuff was already in their DNA from growing up listening to the stuff that the Stones discovered & appropriated later.

This is why folks like Raymer can posit something so ludicrous as the Stones inventing Southern rock. Songs like "Brown Sugar" fit their cartoonish understanding of Southern culture far more than the nuanced takes by The Band ("The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down") or The Allman Brothers ("Revival", "Blue Sky")