'80's Torch and Twang - Disc 4 and 5

     I know my memory isn’t what it used to be, especially when it comes to events more than 35 years ago (and people’s memories are always selective).  Still, I am pretty confident that back in the ’80s, music aficionado types (i.e. college djs – especially White college djs) often described their musical tastes as some variation of “I like everything except country and metal”.  Sometimes, rap would also be lumped in there as well.    

            But, still, it seems like there was a lot more leeway for bands, including punk bands, back then to indulge their rootsy inclinations and release a couple of twangy songs on an album or even an entire record of roots music.  I’m sure there must have been some backlash from fans and I’m also guessing that fans were more likely to indulge, and enjoy, “countrified” music more when it didn’t have the trappings of mainstream country music.  Plus, there was no social media for people to complain – or hear complaints – about such things.  Still, the complaints I remember hearing seem to focus much more on bands selling out.

                Hope people like the 4^th and 5^th installments.  And since the Minutemen grace the artwork on Disc 5, it's worth noting that D. Boon listened pretty much exclusively to country music as a youngster.  If I recall correctly, Buck Owens was a particular favorite.

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Disc 4

Angel From Montgomery	John Prine
Baby Out Of Jail	The Knitters
I'm Still Dreaming, Now I'm Yours	The Jayhawks
Wild Bill Jones	Alison Krauss & Union Station
Animal Husbandry	Hickoids
Like An Outlaw (For You)	Social Distortion
Spinning	Fetchin Bones
Lottery Brazil	Souled American
Wearing the Robes of Bible Black	Giant Sand
Get Your Feet Out Of My Shoes	The Boothill Foot-Tappers
Sound of the Rain	Rank And File
Paradise Of Lies	The Stars Of Heaven
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville	R.E.M.
Love At The Five & Dime	Nanci Griffith
Do You Believe Me Now	Vern Gosdin
Misguided Angel	Cowboy Junkies
One More Goodnight Kiss	Greg Brown
I Spent My Last $10.00 (On Birth Control and Beer)	Two Nice Girls

Disc 5

Wreck Of The Tammy Anne	Stompin' Tom Connors
So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)	Sweethearts Of The Rodeo
Mister Love	Re Winkler, Anne Harvey & Ree Van Vleck
Blind Love	Tom Waits
The Partner Nobody Chose	Guy Clark
Girls Night Out	The Judds
Time for Me to Fly	Dolly Parton
Big Lizard [Explicit]	The Dead Milkmen
Corona	Minutemen
Whitewater	Béla Fleck
I'm Only Human	Dave Edmunds
One Time One Night	Los Lobos
Straight A's In Love	Peter Shelley
Hayride to Hell	The Hoodoo Gurus
The Old Man Down The Road	John Fogerty
Love Is	Emmylou Harris
Want You By My Side	Darden Smith
The Road Goes On Forever	Robert Earl Keen, Jr.