“Country” music died a long time ago. For the reason you’re pointing out. IMO the new “country” vibe is coming from the Sturgills, Tylers, and Colters out there and even that shit is being pumped to mainstream. So much so that Sturgill won’t even tour currently.

Take a normal "happy" sounding progression and drop one of the chords by a half-step

It takes weeks to get the finger strength, dexterity, and positioning to make chords sound good. Practice every day.

I’m a leftie who plays right-handed, it hasn’t been a problem for me.

martymusic has a good channel for that too. I've been playing for a few years now and that's where I started. legitimate music classes can help I'm sure but that's pricy and it's certainly not impossible to play self taught. (source: am self taught. probably not as good as i could be because of it, but i have bigger issues than guitar lessons rn lol)

That’s like, your opinion man. You’re allowed to have it but you’re also wrong lol

Disposable Heroes- Metallica

Some great classics already posted here but a few more current artists: Karl Denson / Greyboy Allstars, Cory Wong, Galactic

and me...

Same with me and Sublime. They were played the fuck out if you liked to party back in the day.

if it's mostly muting it's probably just something that'll go away with practice as you gain strength/get more used to the positioning. the size of the guitar will affect it some (i play a half size because I'm just generally a small person lol) but even then once you're used to it it won't be that much of a difference. maybe look up some exercises for it if you want to speed things up rather than just playing until it works.

I live in a small town in NE PA and the free music scene at the pubs around me is fire. Like blues, jam rock, bluegrass and jazz.

Looks like it

Saw them with Lettuce this year! I really like the soul side of Tower as I was not as familiar with their stuff.

Heat Waves - Glass Animals

Had this on repeat the summer of 2020 after discovering it on a Reddit thread lmao, immediately knew it had the potential to be massive the second I heard it.

Lol wut?

Lettuce!

because it's goated 💪

That one dead center is the best album ever and I still listen to most of it at least once a week

Pop rock

You gonna disrespect lil Stevie wonder like that??

Power chords. Learn those and you can play 90%of all rock songs ever.

Audioslave.

Lmao I said the same thing

With a little help from my friends Joe Cocker

I always just thought of it as Houston Rap, kind of its own thing. Swishahouse, UGK, all chopped & screwed, etc.