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Since my dude @roo_44 was kind enough to mention me on a ‘Folks you followed on Twitter & now Masto’, I figured I’d throw another new #americana #altcountry suggestion.
When I heard ‘Neon Blue’ by Joshua Hedley’ when it was first released, I enjoyed the song. It reminded me of early 90s Garth Brooks. Without early 90s Garth, I don’t think I would have ever listened to the Alt Country & Americana stuff. 1/?
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mwmB8zkdTLENDKj2Qa5WwBv31j84tlpY0
@roo_44 I didn’t look much into the album and kind of forgot about the song until recently.
The early 90s sound on the entire record is intentional. Joshua decided to make a ‘concept’ album that pondered the idea of what a new country album might sound like if country music didn’t wander into a full on pop sound in the mid to late 90s.
It intentionally sounds like Garth, Brooks & Dunn, and Alan Jackson. 2/?
@roo_44 It reminds of sucking down $1 Coors Lights at the line dancing club with my buddies from work. I wasn’t even into country (I was into mostly metal in those days), but cheap drinks and cute country girls* are hard to resist when you’re 21. I know lots of songs from that era without listening to a minute of country radio and I do enjoy most of them. 3/fin
* Years later, I met a cute country girl at a different club. Next week, it will be our 16th anniversary.
@raddude12
Congratulations!
The first two that comes to my mind was time period was This Time by Dwight Yoakam and the rockier Brooklyn Side by Bottle Rockets and if one of my favorites Chris Whitley’s bluesy 1st & 4th in that period ( big fan of the two between that went a much harder direction)