You know, Country & Western!

This ain't your Dad's country music. It's your Granddad's! None of that new Nashville bullshit either. This is where you'll find what I consider the best in Country (Classic and Alt), Folk, and Americana.

 

This Week on American Routes: Hard Times and Honky Tonks: Dale Watson, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

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July 25th, 2012 ~ The sounds may seem old but the songs are not. This week on American Routes we visit with a few musicians who are known for crafting modern country music from old-time inspirations. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings share with us how they fit “an electric peg into an acoustic hole.” Then conversation with Austin’s king of the honky-tonks, Dale Watson, who literally wears his musical inspirations on his sleeve. Listen here…

I haven’t started listening yet, but it smacks of promise. With a lineup like that, how can’t it?