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Pleasant Morning Drive Music

Posted almost 6 years ago
So I have an ever expanding digital music collection that needs listening to, dangerously exceeding all known capacity thanks to a re-released addiction to tunes. I never thought I would be happy with a long commute, but it affords me the opportunity to listen to an album or two a day, though usually the selections are based on everyone's posted recommendations, so I don't feel right in rehash-Mogging their pre-Mogged subjects. Today I feel like I can break some ground, though.

This morning's listening selection was Little Heart's Ease from the Canadian alt-country group, Royal City. I don't normally go for biblical references in my music, but the overall effect was good enough for me to let it play, and I was happy. It's not the kind of album I would tell people to run out and buy, but I'd gladly play it at a social setting and let others soak it in for a while. I like that it wasn't entirely polished, and it was downright sloppy at parts, and it while it didn't stand out, the songs reminded me of good, downtempo, alt-country tunes, filled with some of the beauty that can only be expressed by the brokenhearted. As most reviewers have seen it, this isn't even the band's best album, so I think I'll check out their first two albums next.

If I catch a good album on the way home, I might even pull a double post today.

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Comments (3)

  1. max
    max says sounds good, i've been looking for some new alt-country, more in the style of tarkio, but i guess, since i'm new to the genre, i should start broadening my alt-country horizons...got any other good alt-country rec's?
    Permalink posted 08/04/2006
  2. jschweiss
    jschweiss says Max,

    Thanks for the Tarkio hint - I hadn't looked them up yet and liked what I heard. As far as other alt-country recs, it's such a hard genre to pinpoint, but the classic bands are Whiskeytown, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Wilco, The Jayhawks, and a few others I can't think of off hand. I prefer the Old 97s the most, but they are much more uptempo overall in comparison to Tarkio.

    I might need to cry for help on this one.

    Permalink posted 08/04/2006
  3. Jess Horrible
    Jess Horrible says downtempo alt-country, sounds perfect for me. i will check this out. shanks!
    Permalink posted 08/04/2006

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