Country/folk music.

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[Neil]

Originally Posted by Dougella

That's a really good one, I guess it doesn't matter where people are from they can still sing country really well!

I don’t think people realise how influential country music has been down the years to musicians round the world. Here’s a version of Islands in the Stream as performed by Tomeu Penya and Adriana Ceballos in 1994, sung in Mallorcan a Catalan dialect spoken on the Balearic Islands.

[Neil]

Scotland’s alternative national anthem?

[neilm]

Originally Posted by Neil

Scotland’s alternative national anthem?

Well anything is an improvement on 'Flower of Scotland' or 'Scotland the Brave' I guess

[Neil]

Originally Posted by neilm

Well anything is an improvement on 'Flower of Scotland' or 'Scotland the Brave' I guess

Freedom Come All Ye makes a reference to Scotland the Brave....nae mair, nae mair! I wonder if the lyrics to FCAY are a bit too left of centre, but I guess in Scotland that’s a positive! Thumbs up to Flower of Scotland but Scotland The Brave just doesn’t cut it for me. The other alternative national anthem for me would be Scots Wha Hae.

[Mr. Nobody]

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[Mr. Nobody]

The legend that was, John Martyn

this was always my favourite, an amazing, innovative guitarist.

[Dougella]

^ He reminds me a lot of James Taylor.

[Dougella]

[Dougella]

^^ I think maybe because love and heartbreak are some of the most intense emotions we all feel. But in terms of folk there's always been songs about loss and work and struggle and beauty etc.

[Rocket Spud]

A bit of a stretch perhaps but...

Some fairly heavy, surprising hints of country in this, compared to the original.

[Mole58]

The Carter Family - Buddies In the saddle

Considered to be the first family of Country.
The first Country Music stars.

[Mole58]

Jimmie Rodgers - Waiting For a Train

Version from more my generation. Boz Scaggs, ex The Steve Miller Band.

[Dougella]

Originally Posted by Mole58

This is still one of my favourites.

[Mole58]

^ Cool. I love more or less everything they do. I saw it suggested in one of the comments that Darwin, one of the Fossils, must have perfect pitch. The girls have brought songs by younger female Country artists to the table, if you wanted to check one or two out.

[Dougella]

^ Their harmonies are just spot on.

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[Mole58]

Texas Swing -

Asleep At The Wheel - 'Miles and Miles of Texas & Get Your Kicks on Route 66'

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[Mole58]

^ Cool song.

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[Mole58]

Soundtrack by Johnny Cash. 'Motorbike racing was the game.' Robert Redford at his physical peak, bare chested for half the film, and quirky Michael J Pollard grimaces and tics his way through. With a whiff of the counterculture.

[Stepford]

Originally Posted by Mole58

Soundtrack by Johnny Cash. 'Motorbike racing was the game.' Robert Redford at his physical peak, bare chested for half the film, and quirky Michael J Pollard grimaces and tics his way through. With a whiff of the counterculture.

Cheers

[Mole58]

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Saw these guys at a music festival at the weekend awesome!