For me if I had to pick a good contender it would be the UK version of The Office.
I know many tend to debate how Ricky Gervais really fell off and how he repugnantly acts like a whiny centrist edgelord but me personally IMO I actually don’t think he was ever funny not even a little.
His big break through television was just so painful to sit through it’s so charismatically boring the characters are completely generic at best (notably Tim) or straight up insufferably unlikable at worst (especially the protagonist David FUCKING Brent) and most importantly the humour is just embarrassing.
Always seemed like The Thick Of It but without the nuisance tongue in cheek and charming satire.
Would you be so kind as to share a few of those artists?
See, I caught my ex listening to country yesterday, and I know she’s just doing it because her new gf is into country, and it sounded like your aforementioned Nashville schlock. I figure if she’s going to force herself to listen to country to impress her gf, least I can do is suggest some real country artists.
Johnny Cash for sure but a modern example is Sera Cahoone. Give her Couch Song a listen.
Another great is Lucero. Fucking amazing country rock! The album Nobody’s Darlings is one of my absolute favorites.
Neko Case is always amazing.
Ben Nichols, the lead singer of Lucero, has an album based on Blood Meridian call The Last Pale Light in the West that is absolutely phenomenal as well.
Hell yeah, its always in my playlists. Really captures each of the characters in Blood Meridian very well
I am here for you! There is so much good country music, what they play on the radio is mostly shit. But like with every other sort of music, what’s good is good.
Jason Isbell
Hayes Carll
Tyler Childers
Joshua Ray Walker
Charlie Crockett
Sturgill Simpson
The gay cowboy with the deep voice - Orville Peck
And a few I heard on the Saving Country Music top 25 this year and liked:
Charlie Marie, Mack Geiger, Sam Platts
If they are ladies into ladies - Kacey Musgraves, Waxahatchee, the supergroup album The Highwomen, and all of the members, Charlie Marie has such a voice.
AFA radio guys, Alan Jackson, Allison Krause, Lyle Lovett are good.
ETA - since this whole conversation came from some racist rant - there is a straight line from country to R&B and you can hear it in Charley Crockett’s music, Leon Bridges, Carolina Chocolate Drops. Music is all related. You can always find a path from one style to any other style but almost all those paths were laid down by black people first, at least here in the US.