PISS 003: Looking for the C-U-N-T in C-O-U-N-T-R-Y

This ain't Texas, there is no Beyoncé here, sorry!

Are you a little disappointed in the Beyoncé country vehicle and long for the days when the LANA DEL REY attempt will come to a gay phone, iPad or coffee/plant shop sound system near you? If you said to yourself, well yes!, then the soul searching I engaged in for you may be a temporary holdover for this craving.

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I gave COWBOY CARTER a listen through and it wasn’t that the album wasn't to my taste, I’m so glad other people can enjoy it instead, but I wasn’t possessed to get moving because of it. “Daddy Lessons” off Lemonade really did it for me. But are there albums being made that are Grammy-bait? IDK. I was just kind of longing for something that didn’t feel constructed, which is naïve, but can’t a homo be tricked into believing something isn’t just a commercial vehicle these days? Maybe I just need to smoke more…

Anyway enough of that!

With a bunch of tunes that put the cunt in country (Fist City et. al. by Loretta Lynn), some classic ladies longing for shit by Adrianne Lenker and Dolly (w/friends) and a bunch of stuff like Bedouine’s two tracks and Give it Up 2 Me by Ojerime to make you feel like a piece of silk is wrapping around you in the wind as you look off to the ocean where your husband is coming in from the sea. Also, a Hope Sandoval (A.K.A. to many as Mazzy Star) vehicle, Before He Cheats (which should’ve been on Cowboy Carpenter instead of Jolene…) and Nile Waves by The Scorpions & Saif Abu Bakr.

Because PISS believes sharing is caring, here’s the full list of all the tracks for April:

Oh I Wept, Free

Mr. Big, Free

Free Treasure, Adrianne Lenker

He Rode All the Way to Texas, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris

Before He Cheats, Carrie Underwood

I’m a Honky Tonk Girl, Loretta Lynn

Fist City, Loretta Lynn

Silver Dagger, Joan Baez

Jesse, Joan Baez

Cowboy Take Me Away, The Chicks

The Very Thought of You, Nancy Wilson

The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face, Roberta Flack

Buffalo Replaced, Mitski

Star, Mitski

Problem With It, Plains

Estate, João Gilbert

Lovers Rock, Sade

Cherish the Day, Sade

43, Florist

Furry Sings the Blues, Joni Mitchell

Song for Sharon, Joni Mitchell

Car on a Hill, Joni Mitchell

Factory, Martha Wainright

The Maker, Martha Wainright

Dida, Joan Baez

Set the Ray to Jerry, The Smashing Pumpkins

On the Low, Hope Sandoval &The Warm Inventions

Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?, Paula Cole

One of These Days, Bedouine

Dizzy, Bedouine

Nile Waves, The Scorpions & Saif Abu Bakr

Something on Your Mind, Karen Dalton

Salinas, Laura Marling

Don’t Ask Me Why, Laura Marling

Song for Our Daughter, Laura Marling

Held Down, Laura Marling

The Accident, Eli Keszler

Son of a Preacher Man, Dusty Springfield

Give it Up 2 Me, Ojerime

Little Bit of Rain, Karen Dalton

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