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Western-themed music

Postby dowoshek » Thu Nov 11, 2010 5:34 pm

Hi guys,
I have a question for music lovers... are there any around? :) Because I am, but I listen mostly to jazz and classical. I'm searching for a good western-climate sounds. I'm totally new in the subject, never listened to country or even around. It doesn't have to be country-kind but there's probably not much more to mention than Morricone outside of it. I've just got one album into my hands: Cowboy Real by Tom Russell:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/cowboy-real-r97002
It has several interesting moments but it's too nostalgic... you know... "wild west was great but it's gone" every 3 lines ;) I'm looking for something more optimistic and energetic, something more like Deadwood less like Bonanza ;) American-born interlocutors desired :)
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PS: Forget about Morricone in this subject :)
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Postby Juaro Juarez » Thu Nov 11, 2010 5:45 pm

Harmo back? :)
If yes, wb and join Jeux once! :D
For Western/Good Music i'd tell you to search on Youtube for " Captain Beefheart" Funny stuff :D
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Postby Twig » Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:34 pm

Nice thread Dowoshek i too am interestedand enjoy music with a western or "desert" sound to it and have used some time trying to find it. I like the western sounding movie music but there is also a lot of really cool desert rock. Probably pretty hard to pit many of these into genres . I think where you and me clash is that i like the more dark, desperate and eccentric stuff ;)

Ony of my favorite albums of all time would be Calexico - Black light. Check it out i think you would enjoy it. More up-beat rock with big mariachi/morricone influences. Solid album from front to back and mostly instrumental with a few tracks with vocals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfidKiHSlbw

beautiful song from the group that made the music for the game read dead redemption. This is much more atmospheric and downtempo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM51mf0advc

I'll go on a spree and post some links to different stuff that may or may not be what you are looking for but you can check it out for yourself :)

Murder by Death (worth taking a look at all the albums)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lblwsR2m ... re=related

Slim Cessnas Auto Club
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJm2yEQo4aU

Jay Munly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW93ocCO-sM

Giant Sand (varies a bit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD8afF9cr6c

Sons of Perdition (doom filled country :p)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL9pye8pmgA

Lonesome Wyatt & Rachel Brooke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO1jYmHaUis

Those Poor Bastards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO0tKB7W ... re=related

Luis Bacalov (definately up there with Morricone)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSgLbSxpTSI

Drive by Truckers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_GdEjMv1Ms

O'death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRaiPCFTw-0

Ramblin Ambassadors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjcuW4CLv0Y

Mariachi El Bronx (punk band goes mariachi)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP-tKytD5Rk

Those are some that came to my mind and most probably not what you were looking for but i got carried away :D Some of the links i chose pretty randomly not really going for a personal favorite or anything. I have albums from most of those and i could probably upload if you are interested.

Long post already but could you recommend some classical music? I dont know much except i can't get enough of Vivaldis Winter. I usually like the beautiful but dramatic/sad stuff but other than vivaldi i've only listened to some mahler and some asian composers i found from movies which isn't that much classical anyway :)
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Postby dowoshek » Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:02 pm

I think I was far from being clear while creating the subject. Here's why: in Poland the english word 'western' is used only with wild west connotations... so speaking about western music i thought exclusively about wild west sounds in fact. So the kind of music: you hear you think about wild west (or rather its pop-culture stereotype). And this is probably only around country-kind - that's why I hoped American guys will help because who the hell is listening to country outside America? ;)

I'll check your suggestions Twig, thanks (Slim Cessnas sounds interesting so far). About classical - I'll try to write sth on private.

And Juaro... I was asking about music not theatre or cabaret :lol: Just joking ;) I'm still around playing SG, but I was banned at Jeux for cheating and have to fake Dago on Rawhide recently 8) <-- it's a joke too :twisted:
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Postby Twig » Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:31 pm

Yeah. Some of them might not sound so western but they are still some kind of americana music and i find the themes to be pretty western/desert whatever. But as far as the western sound goes Calexico- black light album definately hits the spot for me.

And Juaro, i also like some of the weird cabaret/circus music. I think you might enjoy this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52EMfcZa ... re=related :D
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Postby Juaro Juarez » Fri Nov 12, 2010 10:54 pm

Ye, sounds funny :D
The singer kinda has the voice of the chanteur( French!) :D) of The levellers :D
and harmo... your humor is strange :D
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Postby dowoshek » Sat Nov 13, 2010 10:56 am

Looks like I have to find some good country-music forum. No guitars-armed cowboys around here :roll:
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Postby Twig » Sat Nov 13, 2010 3:50 pm

I think you were pretty vague with what you were looking for. Western or western climate sounds does not automatically translate to country music. Theres a lot more to it :)
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Postby Mart Duggan » Sun Nov 14, 2010 4:48 pm

If you are looking for authentic music representing the American West, I would start with the Sons of the Pioneers. Their music was used in over 150 movies, primarily westerns. They still perform, albeit with members different than the original group, which included TV star Roy Rogers.

One of my favorite western-themed albums is the soundtrack from the movie "Paint Your Wagon" with Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin. (Home of NoNameCity).

A google search for western song collection should turn up lots of old cowboy songs. Country music and Western music are often lumped together, but there are differences. For example, "Coal Miner's Daughter" is country; "Rawhide" is western.

"Ghost Riders in the Sky" was recently voted best western song of all time. Link:

http://www.westernwriters.org/news.htm
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Postby ChainLightnin' » Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:32 pm

Good post by Duggan! The themes from most of the classic "spagetti westerns" are also available on CD. (For example: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Bad-Ugly-E ... m_h__3_img). This isn't grass-roots western like Sons of the Pioneers, but it has certainly become a western halmark! :D
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Postby dowoshek » Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:43 am

Thanks for your post Mart. "Paint Your Wagon" is actually the kind of suggestion i hoped to see in this topic. This is even much more because I didn't expect seeing Eastwood signing in musical :P BTW, Juaro, you must check it out - it's like old-fashioned Cpt Beefheart ;)

Mart Duggan wrote:If you are looking for authentic music representing the American West, I would start with the Sons of the Pioneers.

I guess I'm not - they are too 'pure', i'm rather interested in more modern arrangements.

And TBH, I'm not planning some kind of thorough research - there're lots of information in the web but to sieve the interesting would last ages. And I just need few good titles to put on my shelf and listen from time to time.
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