This may not be an offshoot you're interested in pursuing, but the first type of song that came to my mind was the '90s white-boy attempted-rap list song: something like Drops of Jupiter, or One Week, or Short Skirt/Long Jacket. The more obvious forebears for those are rap and alternative rock, but I wonder if you can't trace a little influence back to the Subterranean Homesick Blues amalgamation of forms. I feel like there are some Mountain Goats songs that you could describe with the blues and beat parts of your requests as well, though Darnielle tends to prefer endstopped lines too much to really be blues patter.
Ok, now that I've got that out of my head I will see if any better answers come to mind. I'll be chewing on this!
My musical analysis skills are somewhere in the range of poor to nil, but I'm not bad at the looks-like/sounds-like game. Does "Down in Mississippi (Up to No Good)" fit the bill? Jennifer Nettles on lead gives you another female artist.
My first thought was Orville Peck's "Any Turn." Although to me this is clearly more influenced by Garth's "Ain't Going Down..." So, Dylan once removed?
SHB always a favourite and introduced in an idiosyncratic way to the unsuspecting youth of Britain in 1982 by Jools Holland and pals, including Stewart Copeland of The Police, during an episode of the anarchic cult comedy The Young Ones which often had a 2-3 minute musical interlude. Never made it onto the DVD releases of the show as BBC refused to stump up the royalty fee to include it. Just watched for first time in ages - Ou sont les neiges d’Antan
This may not be an offshoot you're interested in pursuing, but the first type of song that came to my mind was the '90s white-boy attempted-rap list song: something like Drops of Jupiter, or One Week, or Short Skirt/Long Jacket. The more obvious forebears for those are rap and alternative rock, but I wonder if you can't trace a little influence back to the Subterranean Homesick Blues amalgamation of forms. I feel like there are some Mountain Goats songs that you could describe with the blues and beat parts of your requests as well, though Darnielle tends to prefer endstopped lines too much to really be blues patter.
Ok, now that I've got that out of my head I will see if any better answers come to mind. I'll be chewing on this!
My musical analysis skills are somewhere in the range of poor to nil, but I'm not bad at the looks-like/sounds-like game. Does "Down in Mississippi (Up to No Good)" fit the bill? Jennifer Nettles on lead gives you another female artist.
My first thought was Orville Peck's "Any Turn." Although to me this is clearly more influenced by Garth's "Ain't Going Down..." So, Dylan once removed?
A couple of Ian Noe songs, maybe? Burning Down the Prairie and Pine Grove (Madhouse). Both on the River Fools & Mountain Saints album.
Only now does it occur to me that Noe has absorbed quite a bit of Dylan influence.
I mean, my favorite song of his is Ballad of a Retired Man. How did I not make the connection?
I was going to suggest "I've Been Everywhere" but it turns out that it predates SHB.
SHB always a favourite and introduced in an idiosyncratic way to the unsuspecting youth of Britain in 1982 by Jools Holland and pals, including Stewart Copeland of The Police, during an episode of the anarchic cult comedy The Young Ones which often had a 2-3 minute musical interlude. Never made it onto the DVD releases of the show as BBC refused to stump up the royalty fee to include it. Just watched for first time in ages - Ou sont les neiges d’Antan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGCA0Sejw_U