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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