Thu, Nov 12
Nick Shoulders
Country music got sold a story about who it belongs to, and one of the more effective arguments against that story is a yodeling Arkansan with a whistle and a deep interest in where the music actually came from — Black string bands, Mexican influence, the Ozark hollers his family is from. He makes the case cheerfully rather than academically, mostly by being an extraordinary singer with a voice that does things most people cannot. The live show is funnier than the records and the between-song history lessons are short, sharp, and pointed. His audience skews young, which surprises people who assume the genre only travels backward. High desert saloon, Thursday, early door at 7:00 PM in Pioneertown. Anybody trying to work out what modern country is actually doing right now would learn more in this room than from a year of charts.
Country music got sold a story about who it belongs to, and one of the more effective arguments against that story is a yodeling Arkansan with a whistle and a deep interest in where the music actually came from — Black string bands, Mexican influence, the Ozark hollers his family is from. He makes the case cheerfully rather than academically, mostly by being an extraordinary singer with a voice that does things most people cannot. The live show is funnier than the records and the between-song history lessons are short, sharp, and pointed. His audience skews young, which surprises people who assume the genre only travels backward. High desert saloon, Thursday, early door at 7:00 PM in Pioneertown. Anybody trying to work out what modern country is actually doing right now would learn more in this room than from a year of charts.
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Country music got sold a story about who it belongs to, and one of the more effective arguments against that story is a yodeling Arkansan with a whistle and a deep interest in where the music actually came from — Black string bands, Mexican influence, the Ozark hollers his family is from. He makes the case cheerfully rather than academically, mostly by being an extraordinary singer with a voice that does things most people cannot. The live show is funnier than the records and the between-song history lessons are short, sharp, and pointed. His audience skews young, which surprises people who assume the genre only travels backward. High desert saloon, Thursday, early door at 7:00 PM in Pioneertown. Anybody trying to work out what modern country is actually doing right now would learn more in this room than from a year of charts.
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