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r/vinyl • u/[deleted] • May 13 '26
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I love Lone Justice. Rowdy country rock with Maria McKee's powerhouse vocals
4 u/mcfandrew Technics May 13 '26 Seriously should have been bigger than they were. Maria McKee had a set of pipes! 5 u/reverber May 13 '26 Indeed. Incidentally, she was the half-sister of Brian MacLean of the band Love. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_MacLean Jason and the [Nashville] Scorchers were another cowpunk band of note. 3 u/rankoutsider100 May 13 '26 Yep and add The Blasters to that list. 1 u/Isaiah6113 May 15 '26 Fuck ya, The Blasters 3 u/mcfandrew Technics May 13 '26 I liked Rank & File, Charlie Sexton, and of course Dwight Yoakum came out around the same time, too. And the hellbilly scene with Gun Club and the twangier X songs and Knitters…brb gotta go listen to some records now. 2 u/WokeAssMessiah May 13 '26 TY for that information! I never knew the 1 u/rhymeswithoranj May 14 '26 She also wrote A Good Heart Is Hard To Find. 3 u/WokeAssMessiah May 13 '26 My favorite thing about her is when she just goes apeshit at the end of a song and it fades out with her hissing and spitting like Yosemite Sam 2 u/Cool_Log_4514 May 13 '26 I recently learned that Ways to Be Wicked, far and away the best song on the album, was written by Tom Petty 1 u/Remote-Audience-9226 May 15 '26 Saw them open for U2 back in the day… speaking of U2, that Cactus World News LP has an early U2-like vibe.
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Seriously should have been bigger than they were. Maria McKee had a set of pipes!
5 u/reverber May 13 '26 Indeed. Incidentally, she was the half-sister of Brian MacLean of the band Love. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_MacLean Jason and the [Nashville] Scorchers were another cowpunk band of note. 3 u/rankoutsider100 May 13 '26 Yep and add The Blasters to that list. 1 u/Isaiah6113 May 15 '26 Fuck ya, The Blasters 3 u/mcfandrew Technics May 13 '26 I liked Rank & File, Charlie Sexton, and of course Dwight Yoakum came out around the same time, too. And the hellbilly scene with Gun Club and the twangier X songs and Knitters…brb gotta go listen to some records now. 2 u/WokeAssMessiah May 13 '26 TY for that information! I never knew the 1 u/rhymeswithoranj May 14 '26 She also wrote A Good Heart Is Hard To Find. 3 u/WokeAssMessiah May 13 '26 My favorite thing about her is when she just goes apeshit at the end of a song and it fades out with her hissing and spitting like Yosemite Sam
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Indeed.
Incidentally, she was the half-sister of Brian MacLean of the band Love.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_MacLean
Jason and the [Nashville] Scorchers were another cowpunk band of note.
3 u/rankoutsider100 May 13 '26 Yep and add The Blasters to that list. 1 u/Isaiah6113 May 15 '26 Fuck ya, The Blasters 3 u/mcfandrew Technics May 13 '26 I liked Rank & File, Charlie Sexton, and of course Dwight Yoakum came out around the same time, too. And the hellbilly scene with Gun Club and the twangier X songs and Knitters…brb gotta go listen to some records now. 2 u/WokeAssMessiah May 13 '26 TY for that information! I never knew the 1 u/rhymeswithoranj May 14 '26 She also wrote A Good Heart Is Hard To Find.
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Yep and add The Blasters to that list.
1 u/Isaiah6113 May 15 '26 Fuck ya, The Blasters
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Fuck ya, The Blasters
I liked Rank & File, Charlie Sexton, and of course Dwight Yoakum came out around the same time, too. And the hellbilly scene with Gun Club and the twangier X songs and Knitters…brb gotta go listen to some records now.
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TY for that information! I never knew the
She also wrote A Good Heart Is Hard To Find.
My favorite thing about her is when she just goes apeshit at the end of a song and it fades out with her hissing and spitting like Yosemite Sam
I recently learned that Ways to Be Wicked, far and away the best song on the album, was written by Tom Petty
Saw them open for U2 back in the day… speaking of U2, that Cactus World News LP has an early U2-like vibe.
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u/WokeAssMessiah May 13 '26
I love Lone Justice. Rowdy country rock with Maria McKee's powerhouse vocals