Red Mosquito

Posted: **Fri September 04, 2015 1:30 am**

You can listen to these two guys exclusively and it'd be all you need:

Posted: **Fri September 04, 2015 1:32 am**

And this guy deserves a mention as the best writer going today:

Posted: **Fri September 04, 2015 1:43 am**

One of my favs.

Posted: **Fri September 04, 2015 7:21 am**

Posted: **Fri September 04, 2015 8:00 am**

So keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your...tail.

Catch you on the flip-flop. I'm gone, bye-byeee.

Posted: **Fri September 04, 2015 9:05 am**

ah yes the late 70s obsession with trucking was a windfall for me.

Posted: **Fri September 04, 2015 7:17 pm**

BigRedLedbetter wrote:I second Charlie Pride

John Prine is great too.

This whole album is fantastic!

Lucinda

Posted: **Fri September 04, 2015 7:36 pm**

Jessica Fletcher wrote:And this guy deserves a mention as the best writer going today:

Posted: **Sat September 05, 2015 4:45 pm**

BurtReynolds wrote:
Jessica Fletcher wrote:And this guy deserves a mention as the best writer going today:

Glad you dig. Daniel Romano's last two records are absolute perfection and a case study in all that was good coming out of Nashville '65-'70. And he's virtually unknown.

Posted: **Sun September 06, 2015 2:41 am**

even though Doug abandoned me, i'm glad I made this thread because it reminded me of this one.

Posted: **Wed September 09, 2015 3:07 pm**

If anyone is into old country done by a new artists, this guy gets it:

JP Harris & the Tough Choices

I saw them play a little club show last month and they were fantastic.

Posted: **Wed September 09, 2015 5:53 pm**

went and saw merle haggard and kris kristofferson on monday. they played their set together, alternating every other couple songs or so. merle's band would lightly back kristofferson when he was singing, but for the most part his songs got to shine through on their own. merle's 'mama tried' was probably the highlight of the night. these guys are in their late 70s, but they're still special performers.

sturgill simpson opened and i came away very impressed. he was the perfect compliment to the old guys. worth checking out if you get a chance.

both haggard and kristofferson have played bonnaroo (separately), and kristofferson's set is one of my favorites i've ever seen. the heat index was in the 100s, he was up there solo, sweating through his shirt by the second song, he had to tune his guitar every other song because of the heat/humidity, and he powered through a 90 minute set playing 25 some odd songs. it was wonderful.