NationStates Jolt Archive

Although I'm primarily METAL, every now and then I like to jam some different tunes! I'm particularly interested in two (2) genres! What are some ass kickin' blues tunes and what are some good ol' boy, shit kickin' country tunes (actually, you can suggest country love songs, too)?

Matisyahu's new album "youth"

well...

65DOS
Broken Social scene
Oceansize
Mogwai
Biffy Clyro
the Young Knives
Sigur Ros
Modjo (been listening to that allot nowadays)
The Fratellis
Haddaway (:D )
the yeah yeah yeahs
Aquabats

that’s what’s I've been listening to as of late so feel free to pick at the bands pockets with your vile P2P theft!

Hmm have we had this thread before

If I Had My Way I'd Tear this Building Down Blind Willie Johnson. I got it on a compilation and I used to listen to it really loud while building prints as a projectionist as a sort of, "It's too early for you motherfuckers to be bothering me" song, then someone lit me up to that guy again later and I realised I liked a lot of his stuff.

You can find a recording of it in the public domain at archive.org, here. (http://www.archive.org/details/Building).

It's some nice, dirty blues recorded on bad equipment from a gruff voiced man on a beat up guitar with almost unintelligible lyrics. I fucking love it.

EDIT: I was reading the notes on the archive page and realized that it's more unintellegable than I knew-I didn't know it was about Samson and Deliliah or that the Grateful Dead had done that song later on. I haven't heard the Dead version, but I'm sure I'd prefer Blind Willie's frog voice version. The other songs they have on there by Blind Willie are totally worth it, too. Motherless Children Have Hard Times smokes.