Metalheads Respond to Pistol Annies

holy shit i did not realize this was out

hush hush

OK hush hush is awesome

God I love these ladies

I Feel a Sin Comin On ... :o

"Don't Talk About Him, Tina" is my jam.

I really like this album!

i came back after awhile; it's worth a weekly spin still

Every time I play it I get more pleasure. Now I love it as much as the first.

the ballads are better than the rockers on the new one (maybe on the first one too). "Dear Sobriety" is the best song I think? Monroe's vocal tells the story better than the lyric; on paper the title doesn't look like it can scan, but she makes it pour.

I have an idea for Pistol Annies. I want them to cover "Running Dry" from Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. I think it would be poignant and cool to hear some country-style female voices singing that song in luxurious harmony.

saw ashley monroe live last night and she was great... did a few annies tracks and a few new cuts off the third album including one called "Dixie" that sounds like a killer single to me.

Hooray!

http://www.npr.org/2014/10/05/352770648/first-listen-angaleena-presley-american-middle-class

been looking fwd to this!

She's the last piece in the puzzle that includes Lambert, musgraves, Monroe, clark. Curious!

How I learned to start loving the thread title.

on first listen it's pretty good.

Amazingly great interview/round table here

http://www.wonderingsound.com/feature/angaleena-presley-american-middle-class-slate-creek-interview/

This is so so so so so so good.

amazing interview!

Presley: I’m judging the companies and the corporations and the government and the mines and the money and the corruption.

<3

for a while i was worried that they'd be talking to the interviewer but not to each other, i was glad (and impressed!) it became a proper conversation

we've been talking a bit about the album on the country thread - one of the albums of the year for me

I want to love it but it's not impressing me like Monroe's did; it's the arrangements.

foo fighters are trash, glad to see them sideswiped in that piece

Hubbs: What Angaleena shows in that song, I think, is a father and a daughter who are both called out in the chorus as being members of the American middle class. (“I got my education at a school they could afford/ The scholarships went to the rich and the grants went to the poor/ So I stood behind a little downtown bar/ spending money, books and gas/ to be a certified member of the work-too-much/ American middle class.”) He worked in the coal mines, she went to college — albeit in a hardscrabble way — working really hard to put herself through college and, implicitly, going to whatever college she could afford. He would’ve been born into the working class; she came of age in a time when she was called middle class. And we see how they’re both struggling, even though she now has a college degree and got out of the coal mines. The shift of the term is almost illustrated in the narrative of that song.

Presley: I agree with that. And in the chorus of the song, it’s like, “Tear this poor house down/ when you know how to build it back.” The message my parents always gave to me was, “Go out and get better than what we have.” But in reality, what happens is you go out and you get exactly what they have. You’re just the next generation.

that first album is still wondrous

The attitude in the first two thirds of this thread is depressing as hell, I gotta say. I don't know what's corny about three women who harmonize this well singing songs this sharp and sweet.

http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/miranda-lambert-promises-new-pistol-annies-album-in-2018-w495470

And she might not be moving on exclusively as a solo artist. Pistol Annies — the all-girl trio she formed with two artist friends Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley about seven years ago — might become a priority again this year. It’s a collaboration that even now, five years after their second album Annie Up, seems to come so naturally for the three singer-songwriters.

“Literally the other night I had a song that kind of just came out of the air to me, and I sent a verse and a chorus to the girls. And nobody said anything. Not, ‘Hi, how you doing,'” she recalled. “Everybody’s in different directions, which is always why Annies takes a while.

“I sent them half a song, and then within three minutes, I had a whole song. They both sent me a verse back. And I was, ‘And, we’re back.”

Lambert, Monroe and Presley aren’t promising anything specific, but they are planning to use 2018 to get some music written.

“We’re very much in the spirit of the Annies right now,” Lambert said.

http://www.cmt.com/news/1791014/whats-next-miranda-lambert/

https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/pistol-annies-reunite-on-miranda-lamberts-tour-w517472

press release:

(DALLAS, August 14, 2018) — Angaleena Presley shared the news of her pregnancy from the stage this past Saturday with the help of Pistol Annies band mates, Miranda Lambert and Ashley Monroe.

Lambert invited the Bandwagon Tour’s surprise guests, Presley and Monroe, on stage to perform, but before they dropped a note Miranda said, "Since we're at a hometown show and both of them are married to Texans, we wanted to share some big news with you. See, one of us is drinking, one of us is smoking and one of us is not taking our pill! Holler Annie's having a baby, everybody!"

ayyyy

http://www.npr.org/2018/09/27/652181978/pistol-annies-release-three-new-songs-in-preview-of-new-album-interstate-gospel?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

extremely good news. hoping to see them here in L.A., need to swipe some tix as soon as they're available.

Good album!

Man, reading the comments above was like visiting a Trumpist's Twitter feed.

New album is pretty good. Who is playing guitar, that dude is killing it.

i like this record a lot

New album is pretty good. Who is playing guitar, that dude is killing it.

― Josh in Chicago,

My first thought on hearing "Sugar Daddy."

Gonna pick this up when the vinyl comes out later this month.

Hell on Heels is so classic. I think it's weird there was a lot of criticism about the album's perceived glossiness and sheen bc it seems to me it would appeal to a lot of people who have issues with mainstream country music. The songs themselves are just a great mix of pensively sad and unabashedly outlaw.

and country music has had gloss and a sheen since the LBJ era

i can understand if people don't like certain production styles that make the music sound brittle or over-compressed but i think a lot of country production (this album included) is very warm and generous to the songs.

and separately, a lot of country music is where you want to turn if you miss hard rock chops from the '70s and '80s.

i feel bad every time this thread pops up
i do not begrudge anyone their enjoyment of this band or their personas or production choices.

it's good that pistol annies are loved by people

imo I think Pistol Annies are a synthesis of all three artists and their styles, though i think for anyone I've ever tried to gateway-drug into this corner of country I recommend Angaleena Presley's solo albums, which are exceptionally good and far more low-key in their production and their eye is cast pretty strictly on small-town issues with a POV from a blue-state type who loves living in her red state.

the new album is kinda rootsy and doesn't really have much of an audible sheen except in that it's really well-recorded and the guitar tones kick ass

(i love sheen) (but also i think this album sounds really cool)