Written for his daughter. Beautiful and absolutely heartbreaking

I struggle to make it over here - spend a ton of time on twitter and youtube - but saw the threads around us aquarium and early americana. anyway, if you guys haven't heard it already, you guys should check out my buddy Drew Gibson's new album, Burning Horses. Drew is absolutely the most underrated artist i know of. His pedal steel player, Dave Hadley, is fire too. Give it a spin and let me know what you think. For any Northern VA people, he's playing in Fairfax on 11/17. Super excited to see these songs with a full band. And then i've got Sturgill Monday. Can't wait.

Surprised no one has assembled this but I dug around and could not find anything comprehensive. SetlistFM and Bandsintown have sporadic dates, but they are by no means complete.

Hey folks, my name is Anthony, and I run a YouTube channel called GemsOnVHS for the past 10+ years or something, focused broadly on "folk" music.

I'm thinking of making a video on this wave of Americana popularity and its roots in the 2010s. If Zach Bryan and Beyonce making a country album are the zenith of the wave, who do y'all see as the earliest adopters and pivotal moments? What got you into the movement?

EDIT: Holy shit. Thanks for the comments folks. When I wrote this I was really just churning an idea that popped into my head. I did not write with much clarity, but let me explain a bit.

Of course I could start literally at the beginning of recorded music, if I wanted to. Culture is a continuous stream, it does not begin anywhere, rather evolves over time often with no clear stop or start. Also, whether you consider Zach Bryan or Beyonce "country" or "americana" etc is largely irrelevant in this discussion; rather it's objective fact that they are some of the largest artists in the world and trying to do their versions of something that is in some way "country" facing.

The Billboard charts, however uninteresting they may be to anyone, show us some really interesting information at the moment. "Country" is in. Hip hop, rap, pop and rock are all out. Number one after number one, and from some very untraditional artists. It's interesting! It feels like so many disparate avenues of "Americana" music all converged to form some sort of giant circus tent of a genre.

Anyway, i'm reading all the comments, thank you again, cheers!

Posted on here a few weeks back and asked how American Aquarium was as a live band and if they were worth seeing. Saw them last night on in Boise. AMAZING! From start to finish, so much energy. And BJ's storytelling between songs added a whole extra layer to it all. So worth it.

Welcome to the weekly r/AltCountry/ Promote Your Band thread.

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These were the actual nominees. As I'm sure you've seen, there's been plenty of controversy surrounding these choices along the lines of "are some of these really country music" and if so "are they the best country music of the past year?"

Country Album:
Cowboy Carter – Beyoncé
F-1 Trillion – Post Malone
Deeper Well – Kacey Musgraves
Higher – Chris Stapleton
Whirlwind – Lainey Wilson

Country Song:
“The Architect” — Kacey Musgraves
“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” — Shaboozey
“I Am Not Okay” — Jelly Roll
“I Had Some Help” — Post Malone Feat. Morgan Wallen
“Texas Hold ‘Em” — Beyoncé

If you were a Grammy voter, what would have been your 5 choices for Album of the year and song of the year?