Ambient Western
Description
Big Sky chill, Bootgaze, deep thought cowboy, high lonesome, stagecoach radio
Quickstats
Playlist Length
0 days, 19 hours, 59 minutes
Playlist Followers
4935
Source
Discovered On, Reddit
Playlist Last Updated
August 24, 2023
Mood
Mixed Mood
Track Popularity Rating
Deep
Style
Instrumental
Average Release Decade
2010s
Main Genre:
Mixed
Reddit Info
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First, but not quite ambient is Earth. Earth is a lot of things: stoner, drone, country, post-rock, ambient. Perfect. Earth had two distinct periods, both good. Early Earth was just heavy drone doom meal. Later (2005 onward) adds country, ambient, and post-rock elements. *The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull* is the best expression of art in music form that I've ever heard. *Hibernaculum* is wonderful country drone. --- My second recommendation is SUSS. I really enjoy SUSS and wish there was more. I keep listening notes: * SUSS - Ghost Box (Expanded). Perfect for the background of anything. * SUSS - High Line. I am 100% on board with this ambient country. The lonsome sounds of a country instrumentation stretch to feel like an empty railroad track. It's brilliant. * SUSS - Promise. I could listen to this forever. * SUSS - Night Suite. EP. Excellent. --- Chuck Johnson is an excellent steel guitar player who also leans ambient. * Chuck Johnson - Balsams. I tried to search for steel guitar ambient signings earlier tonight. That search just gave me pedals. This is the album I wanted. It's perfect. * Chuck Johnson - Velvet Arc. This reminds me of the country aspects of Earth. It's wonderful. * Chuck Johnson - Crows in the Basilica. Ambient county. Wonderfully crafted pieces for single guitar. Genius. * Golden Retriever, Chuck Johnson - Rain Shadow. Ambient trumpet must be exhausting. It's a pleasure to listen to. --- Then I went down a crazy rabbit hole started by this [Post-Country, Bootgaze, and Ambient-Americana](<https://claecceity.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/post-country-bootgaze-and-ambient-americana/>) article. I also finished a [15 hr Spotify playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0RO0GaJCJSw5Gc9M52S4El) by listening to the full album for all the songs. The description was ambient western, country ambient, high lonesome, bootgaze, asleep in the hayloft, western big sky chillout, deep thought. * [x] Elkhorn. Post-bluegrass. Rely like the idea of post-rock and Americana, but I really don't remember much about this album. * [x] A Small, Good Thing - Slim Westerns, Vol II. Close, but not quite what I want. The singing jarred me. * Friends of Dean Martinez * [ ] Friends of Dean Martinez - Random Harvest. * [ ] Friends of Dean Martinez - Lost Horizon * [x] Jay Ungar, Molly Mason - Waltzing with You. OST. For Cows On The Hill. Just a lovely soundtrack all around. Traditional songs with ambient pieces. * [x] Bill Frisell - Disfarmer. For "Disfarmer theme". This is somehow traditional and sexy. (2009) * Steven R. Smith * [ ] Steven R. Smith - Dust on Coils * [x] Steven R. Smith - Tableland. This was good. * [ ] Powder River * [x] Ry Cooder - Music by Ry Cooder. For Paris, TX. OST. I had trouble finding the full Paris, TX soundtrack. This is a compilation of soundtrack, uh, tracks. He seems to be an enigma. But the music, especially the slide, is mournful and fantastic. It's varied as you'd expect for different projects, but shares DNA. * Calexico * [x] Calexico - The Black Light. For Glowing Heart Of The World. Spanish and Hispanic fuel alternative rock. It would be unfortunate if someone called this post-mariachi. * [ ] Calexico - Humano (Instrumental) * [ ] Calexico - When Only The Ashes Are Left * [ ] Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Proposition. OST * [x] Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Assassination of Jesse James... Pretty good, chill western soundtrack with just a bit of tension.. * [ ] The Ferdy Mayne * [ ] Hnry Flwr * [ ] Mojave 3 * [ ] Eric Tingstal * Japancakes * [ ] Japancakes - Always Stuck with Leaving * Tulsa Drone. Post-rock band lead by a dulcimer player. * [x] Tulsa Drone - No Wake. More movement than I expected from a band named drone. There's a lot of drone also. It does interesting stuff. This is post-rock country I was looking for. * [ ] Tulsa Drone - Songs from a Mean Season. * [ ] The Corespondents * [ ] Halfway (Australian band) * [ ] lowercase noises * [ ] Bruce Kaphan - Slider * [ ] Ztom Motoyama * [ ] Eerie Gaits * [ ] Buck Young - Proud Trash Sound (avant-garde) * [ ] Buck Young - Buck II: Where Do You Want It? (avant-garde) * [ ] Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Last Chance For Love * [ ] U.S. CHRISTMAS - Gallows Humor * [ ] T.G. Olson - III * [ ] NATE HALL - Night Theme * [ ] Ease Them Pistols - "Green Fairy Boogie" (Live at Scoot Inn 08/16/13) * [ ] Into The Wild Soundtrack - Devil Slayer * Wovenhand. They opened for TOOL. I didn't like this guy's other stuff (David Eugene Edwards, 16 Horsepower). * [ ] Wovenhand - Blush Music. For Cripplegate (Standing on Glass) * [x] Wovenhand - Woven Hand. I like this ok, but his pretention shows through. * [x] Snow Beard - Old Burn. For Day of the Crow (Ambient / Guitar / Country). Long, drawn out guitar post-rock. Reminds me of Earth a bit. He needs a good drummer. * [ ] Elliott Smith - Kiwi Maddog 20/20 (from Roman Candle) * [ ] Volebeats, Maggot Brain * [ ] Viva Las Vegas-El Rio Llamado Orbigo * [ ] Pelt "Sunflower River Blues" * [ ] Oiseaux-Tempête - Ouroboros * [ ] Will Csorba & James Trimble - Common Street Train Song * [ ] Clapham Junction * [ ] Ambient Desert Music: Western Music, Relaxing Instrumental Music * [x] Nick Shillace - Landscape and People. Excellent acoustic guitar work with atmosphere and ambiance. * [x] Western Skies Motel - Settlers. Amazing ambient, post-rock acoustic guitar. * Lanterna. * [x] Lanterna - Lanterna. Somehow western ambient and distinctly 90s. Not bad. * [x] Lanterna - Desert Ocean. The description is post-rock with spaghetti western ambience, but to much on the drums to be ambient. This fits nicely in the post-country idea. (moved from western ambient list) * Pan-American * [x] Pan-American - Cloud Room, Glad Room. Chill groove, laid back even with drums. * [x] Pan-American - Quiet City. Nice timbre on everything creates a nice atmosphere. * [x] Singleton - Cash and Carrie. Ambient post-rock covers of Johnny Cash and Carrie Underwood songs. Wait, what? * [x] Canadian not Canadian, Singleton, Tim Phillips - Transmission from Whiskey Gap. Single. Neat guitar ambiance with atmospheric spoken word transmission. * [x] David Sylvain, Holgar Czukay - Plight & Premonition Flux & Mutability. This drones nicely. * [x] Craig Leon - Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music vol 2: The Canon. It's nice. But I can't help think he's just messing around. * [x] Date Palms - The Dusted Sessions. Very nice ambient made with country instrumentation. I'd listen to more Date Palms. * [x] The Outlaw Guitar - Western Guitar Solos: Relaxing Ambient Desert Music. Well, the title is accurate. This is more country than I really want. It's the poignant guitar solo they put in the bridge of that sad divorce ballad while the subject of the song drives away. That, for a whole album. I'm the only person to have ever scrobbled this. * [ ] Federale - All the Colours of the Dark. * [x] Bruce Langthorne - The Hidden Hand (ost). Good, but short, western soundtrack. Legend: * [x] - listened * [ ] - future listening
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Reddit Username
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Reddit Timestamp
11/18/21 11:48
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