# Please Point Me to More Music That Sounds Like This **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-point-me-to-more-music-that-sounds-like-this/716423 "2015-03-31T16:10:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Just\_One\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/22d042/32.png) [@Just\_One\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_One_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-point-me-to-more-music-that-sounds-like-this/716423/1 "2015-03-31T16:10:12Z")
The development of my musical tastes seems to have stopped in about 1994. The last new band I discovered was Green Day. Since then, I’ve been less and less interested in new music and have spent more time looking backwards. Never really been a big deal. Fast forward to today and I’m an amateur musician who writes and records my own music in my home “studio.” I’m not much for writing lyrics or singing, so I seek out other artists to help me. In my search for collaborators I get asked two questions. **Q1: What kind of music do you do?** A: I don’t know how I would describe it. \*\*Q2: What are your influences? \*\* A: From across the internet, I can hear they eyes roll when I reply the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, and Journey. But I don’t really think what I do sounds like ant of them anyway. So I turn to you. Can you tell me what kind of label you would put on [this music](https://soundcloud.com/just-one-monkey)? And secondly, can you point me towards any modern bands that make music in this style? I tell myself I just need to dive in and go on a Spotify binge, but I can only get so far. A bit of guidance would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully I’ll be able to attract a more diverse group of collaborators and find new music to enjoy. Thank you all for your time. ---
**Author:** ![ddunn801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@ddunn801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddunn801)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-point-me-to-more-music-that-sounds-like-this/716423/2 "2015-03-31T18:47:19Z")
I would place your sound somewhere in the realm of Red Dirt / Alt-Southern Rock / Grunge, with a bias toward electric guitar. Let’s call it Southern Grunge. You have some overlap with the following artists: [ul] [li]Drive-By Truckers[/li][li]Cross Canadian Ragweed[/li][li]The Connells (circa 1994)[/li][li]Jason Boland[/li][li]Three Doors Down[/li][/ul] Song 1 has a little Yellow Ledbetter in the beginning. You definitely have 90s influence. More recent versions of this lineage might be artists such as Shovels & Rope, Dawes, and The Wild Feathers. Keep up the good work. I think your choice of drumming will have a big impact on the final feel. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-point-me-to-more-music-that-sounds-like-this/716423/3 "2015-03-31T18:56:43Z")
a dash of Black Keys. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-point-me-to-more-music-that-sounds-like-this/716423/4 "2015-03-31T20:13:12Z")
Blind Melon ---
**Author:** ![tenacious\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-point-me-to-more-music-that-sounds-like-this/716423/5 "2015-03-31T20:56:09Z")
Seconded on Drive by Truckers, 3 doors down, Dawes, and a little Black Keys. Not sure what, but something in there made me think of Audioslave. As far as classic influence, I hear Neil Young. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-point-me-to-more-music-that-sounds-like-this/716423/6 "2015-03-31T20:59:55Z")
Built to Spill ---
**Author:** ![Just\_One\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/22d042/32.png) [@Just\_One\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_One_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-point-me-to-more-music-that-sounds-like-this/716423/7 "2015-04-01T15:36:26Z")
Thanks to everyone for your replies. You’ve given me a lot to listen to. **ddunn801** , good call on Dawes and Shovels & Rope. I’m really enjoying them so far. **Trom** , thanks for pointing me towards Built to Spill I haven’t dove into Cross Canadian Ragweed or the Black Keys yet. Any particular songs I should start with? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-point-me-to-more-music-that-sounds-like-this/716423/8 "2015-04-01T17:51:36Z")
I can’t recommend **Drive-By Truckers** enough! Check out **Patrolled By Radar** and **The Jayhawks** also. And **My Morning Jacket**. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-point-me-to-more-music-that-sounds-like-this/716423/9 "2015-04-01T19:53:13Z")
Just for the hell of it, let me plug Jason Isbell, formerly of the Drive By Truckers. He’s got less of a grunge feel and more variety than DBT in my opinion, and is an excellent songwriter and performer. His last album won Americana Artist of the Year of something similar (best album, best songwriter, something like that), and he’s got a new one coming out in a couple months. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-point-me-to-more-music-that-sounds-like-this/716423/10 "2015-04-01T20:14:43Z")
Try Trailer Bride, Lucinda Williams, and Turnpike Troubadours. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-point-me-to-more-music-that-sounds-like-this/716423/11 "2015-04-03T18:03:12Z")
Neko Case the newest Conor Oberst album (upsidedown mountain) Beth Orton a dash of Clout Cult (Love and Light Chasers era) a little Damien Jurado Mark Lanegan ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-point-me-to-more-music-that-sounds-like-this/716423/12 "2015-04-03T18:44:12Z")
Not exact matches, but I’m going to expand a bit and recommend [The Sundays version of ‘Wild Horses’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiyCkSOF1pc) [Abandoned Pools-“Remedy”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIfDHO1IZa8) (I _guess_ they sound like Oasis?? But I never really listened to Oasis. I saw them open for Garbage) [Athlete-“Shake Those Windows”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C68dckT0xoU)