Song of the Day: Whiskeytown - Lo-Fi Tennessee Mountain Angel

I'll end NC week with one of my favorites - Whiskeytown.  While I have plenty more NC bands for a future installment, I can never feature enough Ryan Adams songs on my blog.

Picking a Whiskeytown song is next to impossible - do I go with something more on the Country side of the spectrum, or more Rock?  Or do I go straight to the Pop stuff?  I'm tempted to go Rock, as the more Rock-oriented songs are what got me into Whiskeytown in the first place.  However, this song, from their debut LP Faithless Street, epitomizes what the band is about - namely, the vocal interplay between Ryan and Caitlin Cary.  Her harmonizing completely makes this song, and I would give anything to hear them on stage together.  Curses to me for missing it the first time around.

Song of the Day: The Byrds - You Don't Miss Your Water

This is alt-country ground zero. Once I started listening to Wilco and Whiskeytown, I started getting into the bands they were influenced by, like The Flying Burrito Brothers. The Gram Parsons (and Chris Hillman*) connection begat this album by The Byrds.

While everybody and their brother knows the early Byrds songs - probably a Dylan cover, "Turn! Turn! Turn!" or "Eight Miles High" - the songs from Sweetheart of the Radio are not exactly classic rock staples. Which is a shame, because this is a great album from start to finish. I had a hard time picking one to play, but this one has the great Byrds harmonies their known for, as well as some serious country twang.

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* I was 99% sure that Chris Hillman was in both groups, but I verified it by going to allmusic.com, which I frequently reference. If there is a better music reference site on the web, I will be surprised (but delighted if you'd tell me what it is).