• mojo_raisin@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Went to a show w/ a friend, didn’t know what I was getting into. Billy Strings had me dancing my ass off and I mostly don’t like country music. It’s all about when they they’re just jamming, it’s incredible.

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      6 months ago

      Billy strings is hella talented.

      It’s somewhere on the bluegrass<>country spectrum I wouldn’t really call it country music.

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          6 months ago

          Technically true but nowadays someone will say they like or don’t like country it could mean almost anything lol. But when it comes up I presume modern pop country.

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        6 months ago

        It’s definitely not the first thing people will think of when you say “country”, but it goes hard and definitely has more rural/smalltown/backwoods roots so I think it counts as a subset of country

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      6 months ago

      I love the jamming too! The grateful dead/jerry garcia started out with a more bluegrass sound, which apparently is what the jammy nature of their music was inspired by. See the hart valley drifters

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        6 months ago

        Ya I love the Dead, especially when they play the trippy less structured (my old Deadhead friend says it’s called “space”)

        See the hart valley drifters

        I like it! This is Jerry pre-Dead?

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          I think so, I found them from reading something about the history of the dead