Mr. Shife's February Frenzy Day 7

Sorry I didn't provide additional details about my shed cleaning Saturday.
After I formatted the playlist to make it blog worthy, I was just ready to hit publish and come back to fight another day.
Well, today is that day.
I spent about 6 hours cleaning out the shed. 
I also had to make a few trips to a local place to donate a bunch of stuff because there was a lot of stuff in that shed. 

According to my phone, I had almost 14,000 steps which is more than 5 miles.
It was a long day but the weather was nice and I had lots of music to keep me on task.
Let's talk about the music.
Most of the songs are from artists you would consider alt-country. 
Except for Seether and The Pretty Reckless.
They are more hard rock.
I think the best way to describe alt-country is a combo of George Strait and the Kings of Leon. 

This is Whiskey Myers. They are considered alt-country. 

Please note they are wearing shirts with sleeves. This will make more sense in a moment.

I don't know if that helps but it makes perfect sense to me. 
It's country music but they incorporate influences from such genres as rock, folk music, blues and punk.
They aren't mainstream, they are more original and they usually wear sleeves on their shirts. 

This is a photo of mainstream Country stars, Florida-Georgia Line

To each their own, I am old and I like what I like and most of the country music I hear these days sounds like hot garbage. 
My musical tastes started when I was a little dude as I would listen to Casey Kasem's top 40 show and see what perked up my ear buds.
In junior high, I started listening to metal then by the time high school rolled around I was into hair metal.
In the military, I discovered bands like The Replacements and went down the alternative music rabbit hole until I went to college and got into the grunge scene with bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
Post college has been a little bit of this and that but my favorite bands from the past few years have been Roger Clyne and The Peacemakers, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Gaslight Anthem and Whiskey Myers. 
These guys are definitely not mainstream but at their core they are a rock-n-roll band with different influences and that is what makes me happy. 

Hope that helps.

Enjoy your Sunday.

If you just scrolled to the bottom because this post is rather long, the big takeaway is that I like bands that wear shirt sleeves. 

I will try and do better tomorrow. 

I will persevere. I will keep moving forward. I will be the stream.