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So you want some real ol fashoned country? Check this woman out>>>>

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Hotdam, it worked, thx CS ( the you tube embedding ).

Seems like you can always find practitioners of "real" country music in Texas. They have more respect for tradition there (from what I've seen and heard over the years.)
Who else can twang and sing these days in what George Jones was quoted as saying in another post?

Hey, that's Amber Digby!

http://www.amber-digby.com/

She's got a bunch of other good tunes posted on Youtube. Her steel player, Dicky Overbey (http://www.yellowroserecords.com/dicky.html), is a living Texas legend... What an amazing player.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJKox3E9OUo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ_Nc7h7MTY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAAH0WBkWOo

Amber's voice might not have the sheer power of LeAnn Rimes, but who does? Amber gets the job done quite nicely, and besides, her choice of repertoire and pedal steel player more than make up for everything! :cool: :wink:

Thanks for posting!

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Speaking of LeAnn ( now y'all know what I look like; I'm not my great granpappy on my Avatar. And since "TelleuteTelleme" taught me how to do this, here is 1 more .

Well, it would not let me post 2 pics, (guess I still got some learning to do)

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Who ARE these girls?

She was great so was the steel player!

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Speaking of LeAnn (now y'all know what I look like...)Okay, I was happy when you posted about Amber Digby, but now I'm officially jealous! How long were you able to go before you had to wash that hand?! :razz: :lol: :oops:

Not to hijack your thread about Amber, but I'm glad that LeAnn seems to be coming "back to her roots" so to speak with a more traditional country and gospel/soul repertoire. She never really lost me, but I'm glad she seems to have figured out who she wants to be musically.

So what kind of perfume was she wearing?! Inquiring minds what to know! :wink: :grin: :rolleyes:

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Who ARE these girls?

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The Quebe sisters are talented and amazingly professional aren't they? Dad must be a good teacher. And I want his guitar.

Good music, all.

That was some good stuff from Miss Leslie ! Thats how it should sound.The Quebe Sisters are great too, I don't believe that is their Dad that plays guitar with them, more a friend,mentor and chaperon. He's a really good picker too.

You might recognize that club where I met LeAnn if you live in Dallas. Thats the place that cuts your tie in half if you are naive enough to wear one in there. You can see them on the wall. She was just so lovely in person. That was right when "Blue" hit and she was riding here 1st national success. I had to watch out for Mama Rines, she was watching her daughter like a hawk to make sure people like me didn't get too close.:twisted:

I can't recall her perfume but her hair smelled so fresh and sexy it made me wish I was in High School again.

growing up near philly every VFW had bands playing real country like that.

now you couldn't get a gig playing real country in my area even if you paid them for it.

maybe i should move...

I don't believe that is their Dad that plays guitar with them, more a friend,mentor and chaperon. He's a really good picker too.


You are right StephenX, it's some lucky guy named Joey McKenzie.

I guess I automatically put myself in their Dad's position (without checking the facts)-if I had three lovely young talented daughters I'd want to protect them. It's a Dad thing.

Talking Gear With Joey McKenzie (http://www.gearwire.com/quebesisters-gibson.html)

Pretty good article on Joey.

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Wow! Great thread! I'm totally enjoying all this great music. Keep 'em coming!

The Quebe Sisters are amazing! I am embarrassed to admit I had never heard of them. That's music

I don't know too many bands who would want to go on stage after the Quebe Sisters... Time for the big guns!

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I enjoyed that Jay. Earl was a big fan of Maybelle...Lester and Earl did a lot of Carter Family songs. This is their version of one of my favorite Carter Family songs. Just two chords and it jumps time but the quirkyness makes it better somehow.


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Maybelle used the same lick in two other Carter family songs (Bear Creek Blues and Coal Miner Blues). Hey, it was the Depression...can't go wasting perfectly good guitar licks. Another good one was Cannonball blues, first cut in the early 30's with AP doing lead vocals and when they switched labels it was recut with Sarah and Maybelle doing the vocals.


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Maybelle does more with a C chord than anyone I can think of.

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And to keep it rolling (thanks for all vids and comments ) Here is the man who told next door neighbor Ray Stevens to "shove it" after he complained about all the smelly Nashville tourist buses ruining the neighborhood to see Webbs guitar shaped pool.

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I'll see your Webb Pierce and raise you a Faron Young...


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...and thanks for the heads up on Amber Digby.

Elihu, great upbeat Faron there!

I have a 45 rpm of his "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young". One of my treasured vinyls. He did many a classic.

Here is one that nobody else has ever sounded like vocally imho. Many can pull off a good Patsy,Loretta,Connie, etc. but I have never heard another female sound like Ms Wynette. Is that Skaggs in the background?S9J7XE-ctMU

Here is one that nobody else has ever sounded like vocally imho. Many can pull off a good Patsy,Loretta,Connie, etc. but I have never heard another female sound like Ms Wynette.


You may be right, I can't recall a Tammy Wynette sound-a-like either.


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Hey that was great! I always had a crush on Tammy ( I even named my cocker spaniel after her:lol:

More please>>>

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I loved it when Tammy demanded an apology from Hillary Clinton (and got it)

Here's a good one that doesn't get heard enough. And check out the fiddle and steel guitar breaks. :grin:


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Loretta Lynn wouldn't have stood by some jerk... :cool:

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Most of the country music around me growing up was Bluegrass ala bands like Joe Val and the Bluegrass Boys, Dry Branch Fire Squad, and the Seldom Scene. As a kid who liked the Beatles and the Stones, Bluegrass seemed like some kind of medieval torture. Now I wish I had been paying closer attention. :idea:

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Cool stuff! I'm gonna try to do the youtube box embed for the 1st time.

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I've always liked the walking bass swing/shuffle style of rhythm in country music. And I always think of this guy first.


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Loretta Lynn wouldn't have stood by some jerk... :cool:

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Are you calling George Jones a jerk?:shock:
I guess he did some jerky things in their marriage but GJ will never be a jerk in my books:lol: And, Tammy did not stand by her man eventually leaving Jones for a "better" life.

I just had to put this jerk on here.

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Cool stuff! I'm gonna try to do the youtube box embed for the 1st time.


I think Patsy has as many impersonators as Elvis sometime; but they all do a remarkable job and this one is no exception.
Saw a good one (local Va. woman) at the Henrico theater couple months ago
who also has Cline down to an art.

Dont forget Dale Watsonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0KsycgUtvQ

I am glad to see that "old country" is not dead!! This kind of music is my passion. I love to hear that old telecaster and steel guitar the best, but that bluegrass is pretty darn good, too. Anybody else got some New Old Time Country Bands that they want to share ? I'm listening, good stuff!! Thanks for the Memories!

zoppotrump tried to put up some Dale (try again) so here goes one. Saw him live a few years ago and he is carrying the torch!
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Here's a good one that doesn't get heard enough. And check out the fiddle and steel guitar breaks. :grin:


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++++ that was a new one for me

Are you calling George Jones a jerk?:shock:


She never said that song was about The Possum... :confused:
This one came out after the D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

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I loved it when Tammy demanded an apology from Hillary Clinton (and got it)

Nice, but also important to note that she was a staunch Clinton supporter and performed at Clinton fundraisers. It makes it a little less of a sexy "smackdown" story but there you go.

At least in that clip the Faron Young looks like an interesting cross-pollination between old country and Las Vagas Crooner. Though it is mostly the visuals there is some of it in the vocal delivery as well.

I think Patsy has as many impersonators as Elvis sometime; but they all do a remarkable job and this one is no exception.
Saw a good one (local Va. woman) at the Henrico theater couple months ago
who also has Cline down to an art.

Q: How many female country-western singers does it take to do a Patsy Cline song?

A: All of them, apparently.:wink:

haha, so it would seem! Here is what a Telecaster sounds like:grin:

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Dont forget Dale Watson

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I fixed your link for you. Remove the "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" part, and just put the letters after the "v=" between the Youtube Tags...

Like this, {YOUTUBE}d0KsycgUtvQ{/YOUTUBE} , but use the ] and [ brackets instead of } and {....

Lots of great stuff folks, please keep 'em coming!

In my mind I've always drawn a line of influence starting with the Delmore Brothers, then the Stanley Brothers, then the Louvin Brothers to finally the Everly Brothers. All were outstanding harmony duets that played instruments and wrote much of there own music. And that list is roughly the chronological order of their respective careers. It would be interesting to explore just how much they were aware of each other. But the Louvin Brothers were the first of these acts that I really listened to-because they were one of my Dad's favorites.


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Charlie and Ira, yeh they were some fantastic harmonizers! And if you fast forward your list, you will see the Beatles harmonies owed something to the original Louvin sound too.

This guy knows what country music is. The pedal steel player is Dave Biller, who, besides being a monster guitarist is also a excellent steel player
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Shidoin, that was really good, thx.

Alright since this post seems to be going awol soon, I have to include this b4 it does.
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Thx Elihu for that Golden Ring; it got started me on my Tammy crush again. If there was a ever a cuter,sexier (in a next door girl) vocalist in C&W I'd like to know who it was: 1 more :
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A couple of favorites...Hank Senior sings the blues. What can I say?


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Nothing is more damaging to faith than the actions of the church sometimes. Excellent StephenX...you made my day.

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you are most welcome!

[QUOTE=elihu;2713081]A couple of favorites...Hank Senior sings the blues. What can I say?


There IS nothing to say (just listen):grin:
Hank Sr was in a class all his own. I really loved his "Luke the Drifter" cuts too, and the Health & Happiness shows.

Thx Elihu for that Golden Ring; it got started me on my Tammy crush again. If there was a ever a cuter,sexier (in a next door girl) vocalist in C&W I'd like to know who it was: 1 more :


Ya Tammy was great one of the best of all time.

Tammy and Patsy are my favorites of all time.

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I've always liked this song and the story behind it.

"Working under the direction of producer Bob Ferguson, her debut single entitled "Once a Day" was released in August 1964. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart, spending eight weeks at number one on that chart, which still holds the record for the most weeks spent at number one by a female country artist. In addition, the single also became the first debut single by a female country artist to reach number one, a record that was held for over twenty five years." (Wikipedia)


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Ya Tammy was great one of the best of all time.

Tammy and Patsy are my favorites of all time.

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Patsy's output of classics was far greater than Tammy, thus I put her #1 in my book. However, Tammy had a certain charm (looks,attitude,voice) that has never been re-captured so she is #2.
Yes those are the 2 all time greatest females in C&W. I know many would disagree, but hey, that's what opinions are for.

I've I always liked this song and the story behind it.

"Working under the direction of producer Bob Ferguson, her debut single entitled "Once a Day" was released in August 1964. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart, spending eight weeks at number one on that chart, which still holds the record for the most weeks spent at number one by a female country artist. In addition, the single also became the first debut single by a female country artist to reach number one, a record that was held for over twenty five years." (Wikipedia)


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I caught the Mart Stuart show for the 1st time last night and it's excellent!
Connie has done some great and underestimated songs over the years

I don't think it looks good for me to post so much to my OP; but this is a subject that is close to my heart so I am trying to keep this going (with a little help from my friends). At what point does it become obnoxious and uncool to try to keep a thread going?

had to add this one ( #3 Loretta)
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I don't think it looks good for me to post so much to my OP; but this is a subject that is close to my heart so I am trying to keep this going (with a little help from my friends). At what point does it become obnoxious and uncool to try to keep a thread going?Don't worry about it, I'm enjoying your posts and this thread very much. If anyone has a problem with this thread or the number of your posts in it, ask them how much money they've donated to the support the forum this week. If it's less than $50 bucks, I think you're fine... :cool: :idea: :wink:

I don't think it looks good for me to post so much to my OP; but this is a subject that is close to my heart so I am trying to keep this going (with a little help from my friends). At what point does it become obnoxious and uncool to try to keep a thread going?



Sir, don't think too much thinking about what others think.:grin:


My opinion is that there are people here from every level of experience and knowledge that can be imagined. The vets smile when we stumble onto something cool or sometimes correct us when we take a wrong turn...or simply ignore (The Thumper Doctrine). And then there are folks likely hanging on to your words more carefully than you would wish.:shock:

My story is that I came to the country party late...hated it when growing up because it was my Dad's music. I liked rock, then blues rock, then blues. Then when my Dad got sick I saw country music through new (his) eyes. I was blessed to spend a couple of months with him before he passed and gained a whole new appreciation for him and his music.

Six years ago I moved to a small (pop. 500) town. The only band in town was a country band and they needed a bass player. So I gained some on the job education and am thankful for it. Thanks for sharing your tastes.

Waltz across Texas is a standard 'round here. Isn't it odd that for all his idolizing of Jimmy Rodgers, ole Ernest Tubb doesn't sound a thing like him?


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I don't think it looks good for me to post so much to my OP; but this is a subject that is close to my heart so I am trying to keep this going (with a little help from my friends). At what point does it become obnoxious and uncool to try to keep a thread going?

had to add this one ( #3 Loretta)
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StephenX, This is why I enjoy this site . This music is so much a part of my life, that every song brings back a memory! Keep it coming!
(I'd contribute but I don't know how to do this yet.):oops:

This is not helping my guitar playing at all i have spent the last two hours with the music i grew up on. lord how i miss it.

This is not helping my guitar playing at all i have spent the last two hours with the music i grew up on. lord how i miss it.

Me too, lots of others have posted songs here that I hadn't heard b4 and loved it! I just found that RFD channel and there are some music shows from the past
that I figured were lost to eternity; but they are there! Porter Waggoner, Wilburn Bros., HeeHaw,and the "new" to me, Marty Stuart show. Great stuff for all those who like country music (not pop/rock country mind you) I know very well where to find POP, ROCK,ALT,INDIE and others and I just don't like to see the new generation duped into thinking that what they hear and see on TV/Radio is Country:!:

Good morning to all
Here is a guy who also was in a class of his own. He kept the Western part of Country&Western alive for many years:

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I've read that Tompall Glaser and his brothers were backup singers for Marty in the late 1950's.


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Hunh, never knew that (Glasers backup vocals with Marty).

Here is Stone with Porter: TWO guys who couldn't "go pop if you put a firecracker in their mouth" ~ Waylon Jennings paraphrase.

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Just found this; I never knew Hank did a version that way; I think of Tex Ritter and many others who borrowed this song; but No One could do a voice/lament like HSr.
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Good Morning fans of the old country.

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StephenX, I was going to post that tune this morning! You beat me to it. Good choice.
Charlie Pride is a for sure honky-tonk man.

StephenX, I was going to post that tune this morning! You beat me to it. Good choice.
Charlie Pride is a for sure honky-tonk man.

How ironic as they say.
I had been thinking of putting up "15 Years Ago" ;a Conway smash hit that I always thought Charley improved on, but I couldn't find it.

Here is a nice NPR write up on Patsy Cline that just came out:

Patsy Cline's career really only lasted three years — and the complete recorded output from that career lasts two hours and ten minutes — but her importance is out of proportion to those numbers. She was born Virginia Patterson Hensley in 1932 to parents living in the hills of West Virginia, and was performing as a teenager under the name Ginnie Hensley. In 1953, she married Gerald Cline, a construction worker. A year later, she signed a contract with Four Star Records, which was mostly a vehicle for recording songs from its owner's publishing house. 4 Star put out 18 songs of the 51 she cut for them, and only one charted.

The recording of "Walking After Midnight" is actually a remake of the original, which, like all her other 4 Star records, was hard-core country. These recordings were made at Owen Bradley's famous Nashville studio, Bradley's Barn, where Decca's country recordings were made. The minute her 4 Star contract expired in 1960, she signed with Decca, and Bradley saw a chance to record a great pop talent. For her first record, "I Fall To Pieces," he found a song by Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard, two of the best writers in town.

The instrumentation on "I Fall To Pieces" (which included steel guitar by Ben Keith, who later worked with Neil Young) was country, but her phrasing definitely wasn't. The song shot to No. 1 on the country charts early in 1961 and got to No. 12 on the pop charts. Bradley's intuition was correct, so he started looking for jazzier numbers from his songwriting acquaintances. A young Texan friend of Cochran's came up with one — called "Crazy" — which did even better.

Until "Crazy" hit No. 1 on the country charts and No. 9 on the pop charts, Willie Nelson was considered a bit too eccentric for Nashville's tastes, but the song established him and his career took off. Cline, though, was faced with a problem. She'd joined the Grand Ole Opry, and seems to have been a bit freaked out by her pop success. She'd originally resisted recording "Crazy," and yet her renditions of Hank Williams and Bob Wills songs sound odd because her singing style is so poppy. She found herself performing at Carnegie Hall and co-headlining the Hollywood Bowl with Johnny Cash. In 1962, she became the first female country performer to headline in Las Vegas.

By the time "So Wrong," co-written by Carl Perkins, hit the charts in the summer of 1962, she'd earned enough money to buy a nice house for herself, her husband, Charlie Dick, and her two kids. Her manager, Randy Hughes, bought a small plane so she could get around quicker and spend more time at home. Clearly a change was coming.

In March, 1963, even though Cline had the flu, they flew to Kansas City to do a benefit with a half-dozen other country stars for the family of DJ Cactus Jack Call, who'd just died in an automobile accident. After the show, she and two of the other performers, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins, got in the plane — even though Dottie West offered to drive her home.

"Don't worry about me, Hoss," she told West. "When it's my time to go, it's my time." The plane was delayed a day by bad weather, then only made it as far as Dyersburg, Tennessee. Late the next day they took off, ran into bad weather, and minutes later crashed into a hill. No one on board survived.

Patsy Cline's last sessions show a woman coming to terms with pop music, as well as a voice that was learning to navigate some tricky directions. She never had the chance to make the leap all the way, and left behind 41 songs that still hold up.

I think the article should have placed her birth in "Western Virginia", not W.VA.
I might be mistaken so I'll look it up.
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I dig Marty Stuart's new disc. Ghost Train

I haven't heard that yet but am looking forward to finding it soon, thx!

NPR should do their research better re: Patsy Cline> Born September 8, 1932, in Winchester, Virginia, she was the daughter of Sam and Hilda Patterson Hensley, a blacksmith and a seamstress.

Here is one of Bobby Bares first recordings and still one of my favorites:
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Everytime I see Marty Robbins it reminds me of this video where Merle blows Martys mind the look on Martys face says it all! hahahah

This is almost scary Merle nails his sound so close.

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Everytime I see Marty Robbins it reminds me of this video where Merle blows Martys mind the look on Martys face says it all! hahahah

This is almost scary Merle nails his sound so close.

That was so cool Dr Davis! I didn't know Merle ever did anyone but himself; he does a great Marty improv:grin:

That was so cool Dr Davis! I didn't know Merle ever did anyone but himself; he does a great Marty improv:grin:

I thought you would like that.

They are both so good.

StephenX-great choices on the Stonewall and Dottie cuts. Songs about relationships pared down to the essentials. Classic country for sure. And I haven't heard Deck of Cards since I was a kid. Since no one's done Mr. Cash yet I'll give it a go.


Mark, loved your Merle does Marty vid. Here's Johnny doing Elvis.

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And here's JR showing some big brass ones...love it when he stomps the imaginary bug.

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And finally my personal favorite. I think the premise of this song- a man chasing a woman down the Mississippi River-is brilliant. And the lyric And I heard my dream went back downstream...cavorting in Davenport... cracks me up. I never would have thought of that in a million years.:grin:

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Thats hilarious; I didn't know Johnny had a sense of humor. He always seemed so serious !


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I've always liked the tremolo guitar, the walking bass and the stops in this 1961 hit.

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n his 50 years-plus career, Van Dyke has recorded more than 500 songs, dozens of them making the charts. His record of "Walk On By" (1961) was named by Billboard magazine in 1994 as the biggest country single of all time, based on sales, plays and weeks in the charts. It stayed at number one in the U.S. country chart for 19 weeks, and in all, charted for 42 weeks, also reaching No. 5 on the pop listings. It sold more than 1.5 million copies. (Wikipedia)


And his first hit in 1956.

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easy for him to say...

Thx, I always remember him around the time when Patsy was doing She's Got You and Brenda Lee coming on strong.
I have 2 great youtube vids (I wanted to post) that has embedding disabled. Whats with that?
so hear is a morning wake up call from "Tater"

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Jimmie Dickens is 88? :shock::grin:

My next choice is best known as a songwriter but Cindy Walker was a singer and dancer too. Born in a small town in Texas, she grew up writing poetry and singing locally. But her big break was like a Cinderella story.

In 1940, Walker, at the age of twenty-two, accompanied her parents on a business trip to Los Angeles, California. As they were driving down Sunset Boulevard she asked her father to stop the car near the Bing Crosby Enterprises building. Walker later recalled: "I had decided that if I ever got to Hollywood, I was going to try to show Bing Crosby a song I had written for him called 'Lone Star Trail'". Her father said "You're crazy, girl", but nonetheless stopped the car. Walker went inside the building to pitch her song and emerged shortly afterward to ask her mother to play the piano for her. Bing Crosby’s brother Larry Crosby had agreed to listen to the song; Walker sang “Lone Star Trail” to him, accompanied by her mother. Larry Crosby was impressed and aware that his brother was looking for a new Western song to record. The next day Cindy played guitar and sang “Lone Star Trail” for Bing Crosby at Paramount Studios (where he was making a movie). Crosby arranged for her to record a demo with Dave Kapp of Decca Records, who was also impressed and offered her a recording contract. "Lone Star Trail" was recorded and became a top-ten hit for Bing Crosby. (Wikipedia).

Cindy Walker has written songs for Bob Wills, Eddy Arnold, Webb Pierce, Ernest Tubb, Gene Autry, Hank Snow and the list goes on. Willie Nelson has even recorded an album of Cindy Walker songs. She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997.

Here's a couple of no-account pickers doing Bubbles in my Beer.
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And my favorite Cindy Walker song as done by Ray.
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I wish there was a radio station somewhere that still played the kind of music that's in this thread... :cool:

And now for your listening and You-tubing enjoyment, Wayne "The Train" Hancock:

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Oh, those pickers are certainly no count!:grin:

Did anyone pick up on the "3 Cigarettes in an Ashtray" that I placed on Patsy's memorial? They say they are taking donations to make a real memorial. As Willie said and I am paraphrasing here > If she was from Texas we would have built a shrine for her.


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George Jones - White Lightnin'
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Johnny Horton - Honky Tonk Man
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Hank Williams - Honky Tonkin'
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Tennessee Ernie Ford and June Carter
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Ah, you picked some good ones there!
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Hello Walls

thought maybe someone would like this:

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Jay, I enjoyed the Wayne Hancock songs-shades of Hank Senior indeed. That straight (lap) steel sound reminded me of a gentleman who used to play steel with us. He had a double neck Fender from 1948-just a big piece of ash with 3 metal legs that screwed into the bottom. Thanks for introducing me to this fine songwriter.

My next choice is Jim Ed Brown's Pop a Top from 1967. This song is fun to play because of the way it vacillates between the IV and the V chord-keeps you on your toes. And it's the first song I ever heard with the phrase "fool on a stool" used later by Johnny Bush and others.

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Jim and his sister started singing locally in Arkansas and earned a spot on Tennessee Ernie Fords Radio show with this clever little ditty (1954).

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That corny song reminds me of riding around in one of my dad's $100.00 pickups as a kid. He'd butcher that song and I'd be looking out the window thinking WTF? And the Brown's biggest hit was Three Bells from 1959.

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A lifetime in two minutes fifty five seconds.

yes sir, you really got me on the 3 Bells. I recall that song like it was yesterday!
That 's why music is like a time machine; I felt like I was in Ohio catching lightning bugs in a mason jar and playing kick the can; no one had to even think of locking their doors........

OK, who likes the Kendalls? Oprah would have this father/daughter duo locked away in Max security if they were on the charts right now:

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And a "LIVE" encore >

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Pees me off that I can not do "Hillbilly Heaven" by Tex (embedding disiabled). Has anyone heard Texas Bill Strength parody called "Hillbilly Hades"
What a classic that one is.

Stone River Boys

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Good to see you back; I not Bob You Are!
Great steel guitar, loved it.

Those Stone River Boys have a good sound...serious twang on those Danelectro's.


What makes a good breakup song? Who describes that moment, that point of realization where you realize it's over better that George Jones? In this song he reminisces over the little things, desperately trying to soften the blow of the closing door signaling the end. Great melody, great lyrics and that pathos-laden voice.


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And Alan ain't no slouch either. :wink: But all the vids of George by himself on this song were just so distracting. You get the idea.

Can't argue with that one.

Well, it might be nearly dangimpossible to find Bill doing Hillbilly Hades on U-Tube
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And Alan ain't no slouch either. :wink: You get the idea.

Agreed, Alan first turned me on with his "Midnight in Montgomery" waaay back in the days when this forum stuff was called BB (bulletin Board) and I had an internet friend who actually made and sent me every tomb rubbing of Hanks.

How many of us can find the time or inspiration to do something like that in these days of economic distress? Well, we all just have to be positive about life.

G'day mates!
I don't think we can ever run out of great country from the past. Not that I don't have respect for those few young'uns keeping it alive; but the Nintedo gen has taken over

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shhet, I did not mean to place an ad here.
There is some funny stuff there though. But check out Jeannie doing Satin Sheets; one of the all time best-favorites that country ever produced!:grin:

Ok bobunot ( ya know I was kidding?):lol:

well another round of applause for the (shhhhh jerk)
And by the way that is so cool to see Stubbs doing intros for Marty.

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How many of us can find the time or inspiration to do something like that in these days of economic distress? Well, we all just have to be positive about life.

Everybody Struggle!... :cool:

Stone River Boys - The Struggle
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Talk about a rhythm player; that cat is almost like Steve Cropper ( and that is one of the best compliments one can get!).
I just saw some of RFD again and Porter did a version of Luke the Drifter doing "Be Careful of Stones that You Throw". That song sums up the "Thumper Rule"

Talk about a rhythm player; that cat is almost like Steve Cropper ( and that is one of the best compliments one can get!)


That's Dave Gonzalez he's a monster musician... :cool:

Paladins - Powershake
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Hacienda Brothers - What's Wrong With Right
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You might be from a "handbasket" but I can tell (maybe) that U R from Tejas:lol:
That song from Hacienda Bros. knocked me of my a$$.
I still can get into a little surf music so that opening was good too. I mean if the Hound loves Dick Dale, what's a mortal like me to complain?:mrgreen:

My Dad was a roughneck in west Texas when I was little. I spent my teenage years in Dallas. Moved to Colorado in 82.

I like my Country, Blues, and Rock N' Roll all mixed up on the same plate... :grin:

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A lot of the older so-called "traditional country" artists don't care for him. If I knew him personally, I'm not sure I'd care for him much, but there's no doubt in my mind that Hank III has the genuine stuff bubbling up from his soul.

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A couple of those HW3 were pretty good, I have to admit:lol:

Just found this on youtube. An internet friend from Memphis first turned me onto this around '92. It can be very difficult to locate, even though it was in a Bill Murray film. Written by Leon Payne.
The eerie thing about this song is how nonchalant Kittel delivers the vocal of such a gruesome story. If you ain't heard it, you are in for a surprise !

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I know we discussed this a year or so ago, but Eddie Noack did the original recording of Leon Payne's Psycho.

Here's my favorite Eddie Noack tune.

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Now that was a great Noack tune !

I just don't think his version of "Psycho" even comes close to Kittels.

Great thread! I recently discovered Hank Snow, his songwriting and singing really blow me away. Here's "Hello Love", a masterpeice and a really beautiful song IMO.

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Now we're back on track.

Southern Culture on the Skids=Old Fashioned Country? nah...

Dedicated to Ibobunot and his three successful divorces.


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growing up near philly every VFW had bands playing real country like that.

now you couldn't get a gig playing real country in my area even if you paid them for it.

maybe i should move...

The band I play with here in Oklahoma still plays stuff like that and we get gigs. Although its not your normal venues but we do get paying gigs. Our next one is for the local electric coop annual meeting and they pay pretty good. Of coarse when the band has a name like "The 3S Playboys" its a given what kinda music you play. I just play what I love and there are still enough real cowboys to get some work

Now we're back on track.

Southern Culture on the Skids=Old Fashioned Country? nah...


I didn't say it was classic Country it's like Country, Blues, and Rock N' Roll gumbo... :grin:

Another old time Houston artist. This was from the early 50s.

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I didn't say it was classic Country it's like Country, Blues, and Rock N' Roll gumbo... :grin:

This is a thread about old fashioned country, but it's all good. :grin:

Born in Texas and raised in Arkansas, Lefty Frizzell was singing on the radio by the age of twelve. Moving back to Dallas, Lefty worked the oilfields of east Texas by day and the honkytonks by night. His big break came when record producer Don Law (the same guy who recorded Robert Johnson) heard him sing at a club in Big Spring. By 1950 Lefty was on the Opry, in 1951 he toured with Hank as one of the "Kings of the Honkytonks."

Lefty was the first country singer to get four songs on Billboards top ten at the same time with this song being number one in October 1951.

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And here's a short clip of Lefty on TV in 1958-I wish it was longer.

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Other hits included Long Black Veil in 1959, Saginaw, Michigan in 1964 and this one in 1965.

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When asked about his voice, Lefty said:
"When I sing, to me every word had a feeling about it. I had to linger, had to hold it. I didn't want to let go of it. I want to hold one word through a whole line of melody, to linger with it all the way down. I didn't want to let go of that no more than I wanted to let go of the woman I loved. I didn't want to lose it."

Great new /old additions!

I was looking for some Oney Wheeler but couldn't find the right one; I came across these 2 hillbillys, and the note says thats Oney playing dobro.

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I hope this is not considered "religion". Note these guys exceptional harmonies.

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I opened a youtube account so I can post stuff I can't find there like this one. Why does the photo only stay on for 5 seconds and goes blank?

I opened a youtube account so I can post stuff I can't find there like this one. Why does the photo only stay on for 5 seconds and goes blank?



I know very little about it, but you do have to match the photo timeline to the music timeline.

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Great new /old additions!I was looking for some Oney Wheeler but couldn't find the right one; I came across these 2 hillbillys, and the note says thats Oney playing dobro.

StephenX, I think that's Josh Graves playing dobro on Foggy Mountain Breakdown. But here's one of Onie's hits that coincidently Lefty took to #8 on the country charts in 1954.

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Dave W-I enjoyed that Jimmie and Johnny tune...especially the guitar break.

I think that's Josh Graves playing dobro on Foggy Mountain Breakdown. But here's one of Onie's hits that coincidently Lefty took to #8 on the country charts in 1954. I just went by the notes; nice comparison with Oney and Lefty.

Dave W-I enjoyed that Jimmie and Johnny tune...especially the guitar break.[/QUOTE] ME TOO!

I played around some more with youtube and here is the improved version of Hillbilly Hades:

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I just spent the last 2 hours nunning this thread down along with some of the stuff on those youtube slides...just incredible. Be nice if there was a radio station that played such a variety and choice of tunes...great way to start out the day...

I played around some more with youtube and here is the improved version of Hillbilly Hades:

...and it was George Jones coming down for another box of chalk! :lol::lol::lol:

StephenX, I have never heard that before. Great cut, keep 'em coming.

I just spent the last 2 hours nunning this thread down along with some of the stuff on those youtube slides...just incredible. Be nice if there was a radio station that played such a variety and choice of tunes...great way to start out the day...

Happy you are enjoying mr salivas!

Here is a Skeeter double header:
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Jimmy Bryant and possibly Speedy West

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Cool thread SX. I'm subscribing.

I'll see your Jimmy Bryant and raise you Merle Travis...:wink:

Merle's guitar playing style was developed out of a native tradition of finger-picking in Western Kentucky. Among its early practitioners was the black country blues guitarist Arnold Shultz. Shultz taught his style to several local musicians, including Kennedy Jones, who passed it on to other guitarists, notably Mose Rager, a part-time barber and coal miner, and Ike Everly, the father of The Everly Brothers. Their thumb and index finger picking method created a solo style that blended lead lines picked by the finger and rhythmic bass patterns picked or strummed by the thumbpick. This technique captivated many guitarists in the region and provided the main inspiration to the young Travis. (Wikipedia)

One of my favorite songs by Merle was this 1947 hit he wrote for Tex Williams. This song is not only credited with saving Tex's waning career but also became the first million selling disc for Capital Records.

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Out of sync I know, but just a great song...upbeat, clever lyrics and a great platform for hot pickin'. This next cut is a "soundie" Merle did in 1951. Apparently that's what they called a music video created for a visual jukebox then. And check out Merle's guitar-a Paul Bigsby creation with a familiar looking headstock.

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Even the rhythm guitar gets a solo...yeah! And I have to include Merle's classic Nine Pound Hammer. I believe this guitar is a D-28 with a Paul Bigsby neck.

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That song was first released on Merle's album Folk Songs from the Hills (Capital 1947) which also included Sixteen Tons and Dark as a Dungeon. It was re-released by Capital in 1957 and 1963. Bear family records did a remastered reissue in 1993 and Capital remastered it themselves for another release in 1996. Pretty good for a country boy. And here's a vid of Merle cuttin' up with a group of admirers. I've read that Merle suffered from stage fright but you could never tell it here.

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Elihu, I think you won that hand!
Iv'e been a fan of Merle's a long while, and just love his playing. That was cool the way that guy started pickin' on Merles guitar while Travis kept on chording; and who:wink: is that sweetheart of the rodeo on the left?

Here is a SoCal legend ( I'm pretty sure Speedy West is on this one ):

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I just spent the last 2 hours nunning this thread down along with some of the stuff on those youtube slides...just incredible. Be nice if there was a radio station that played such a variety and choice of tunes...great way to start out the day...

Well, you can get two hours a week of it: Ken Hippler's Good 'N Country (http://www.kfai.org/goodncountry) on KFAI in the Twin Cities. If you can't catch it live 3-5 Saturday afternoon, the shows are archived online for 2 weeks. Check out some of his recent playlists.

Now I'm not normally a fan of strings in country music-unless it's George Jones' He stopped loving her today but this song has an interesting story. Written by Darrell McCall, a childhood friend of Donny Young (later Johnny Paycheck), the story I got from someone who knew Darrell was that the song wasn't finished-it only had two verses and a chorus. Yet Hank Jr. cut it anyway and it went to #1 for two weeks in July of 1972. Good melody and good lyrics-who needs a third verse?

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Speaking of Amber Digby and Dicky Overbey....

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Check out Buck's solo...


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If you can't catch it live 3-5 Saturday afternoon, the shows are archived online for 2 weeks. Check out some of his recent playlists.

I will do that too. I was gonna mention that there are still some radio stations that devote at least a small portion of their programming to oldies.

Just found this list of internet radio that plays ol fashioned country>>>>

Listening to these Internet Radio Stations works better if you have a fast connection, such as DSL or Cable Modem. They require either MS Media Player, RealAudio Player, or MP3 Player (links to download are available on the sites.) Also, sometimes one player program will work better than the other on any one site, if they offer both that is. The quality of the sound will vary from time to time, depending upon 'net traffic and other technical issues. There are tons of choices and more every day. I've tried to list a few that might be of interest to you. The 'broadcast' stations generally have the poorest sound quality and commercials, but may have greater local interest.

Links manually checked June 16, 2007. [speed of achieved connection] Note: None of the Live365 stations worked for me today, maybe it's my computer, maybe temporary glitch on their end. Let me know if you also have problems.
Last Update August 17, 2008.

Listed in alphbetical order
Key:
WMA = Windows Media Audio
RA = RealAudio
bps = bits per second.
podcast = RSS feed and MP3
syndicated program = only broadcast on radio, satellite, or TV.
directory = site containing links to audio shows and sources.
• Acoustic Café international radio showcase for new acoustic music. Each week, they air two hours of some of the best singer-songwriters in the business, including rare acoustic cuts, classic tracks, plus exclusive, live in-studio interviews and performances each week. Click their logo and follow the links to this week's program [ (embedded player) 20kbps]]
• American Routes Each week, Nick Spitzer covers vast musical and cultural ground on American Routes, a public radio program based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hear blues and jazz, roots rock and soul, Cajun and country, zydeco and Tejano... and beyond. Plus stories and conversations with musicians and everyday people, known and unknown. Explore the roots of popular music and popular roots music... on American Routes, from Public Radio International. [music is a syndicated program, but you can listen to any of their archived programs; RA 32kbps.]
• Bluegrass & Old Time Music Streaming Audio Sites DIRECTORY: Select the desired day and then click on the icon of the desired audio player if there is more than one choice. The listings here are presumed to be correct and are always subject to changes in programming without notice. [directory]
• Barren River Breakdown at WKYU-FM every Sunday at 12 Noon E.T. will give you the best of Alternative & Vintage Country, Blues, Folk and of course plenty of Bluegrass…American Music with Roots. [mp3 stream, 24kbps]
• Bluegrass Breakdown broadcast on Nashville Public Radio live on Saturday's at 8pm. Archived programs available on the site. [uses .pls files which open with RA; 32k, 64k, or 128kpbs.]
• Bluegrass Country Here to bring you the best in traditional and contemporary bluegrass. They've been hosting these shows for years and now they bring the best of bluegrass to a worldwide audience. Windows Media Player requires the Abacast plug-in[WMA 20k bps] or you can click on the MP3 menu button to use Live365 stream at up to 128k bps, requires proprietary free player download.
• Constant Country KRS is a live365.com station from Edgewater, NJ. playing Today's Best Country and Yesterday's Favorites. [56k bps]
• Cowboy Cultural Society Radio - "No great social upheaval or revolutionary insights ... love [of] the music and poetry and the spirit of the cowboy and ... is not going to be what is considered strictly traditional western music, I wanna have more fun than that," sez Laura Ellen. [MP3 and RA, 24k - 128kbps]
• KBEC Classic Country - Broadcasting on 1390 AM from Ellis County Texas with local news, sports and human interest stories. Featured programs include the Coffee Cup and the Flea Market (which is a real on-the-air flea market.) "We're hometown radio at its best!" [WMA 63kbps]
• KCLW Classic Country - Broadcasting on 900 AM from Hamilton in Central Texas. Award winning classic country western station. Streaming 24hrs/daily. Named Radio Station of the Year by Academy of Western Artists, featured on ABC World News Tonight, cover stories in Texas Monthly magazine, Texas magazine and other publications. [32kpbs mms]
• KHYI Americana Country - Broadcasting on 95.3 FM -- Howe, Plano, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas [embedded WarpRadio browser, 20k bps]
• KPIG Freeform Radio - Broadcasting on 107.5 FM -- Freedom, California. Requires free subscription.
• Kulak's Woodshed in North Hollywood California is a live acoustic music, singer songwriter listening room and pioneering multi-camera webcast recording studio. A Labor of Love created by Paul Kulak in November, 1999 operated by volunteers and funded by audience donations. A Live (7 nights a week), [Windows Media 56k, 128k, 256k, or 500k] - 24/7 Webcast (video with audio) or view the many archived performances.
• KVRL Country Radio - "Revolution FM" broadcasting 94.3 in Kerrville, TX. Listener Request Line: 830-792-5785 [32kbps live stream.]
• Live365.com - Country Channels - DIRECTORY: More than 76 country "stations" to choose from... classic hillbilly to bikerbar to top40. A feller could lose a lot of time checking out all the variety on here. [various, requires free registration, or pay-premium subscription.]
• KUT-FM - 90.5 FM - Austin & KUTX 90.1 FM - San Angelo.
Folkways (Saturdays 10 - 3pm) lead listeners along a musical path that winds through the Texas Hill Country to the Blue Ridge Mountains, to the Scottish Highlands, and beyond.
Live Set (Saturdays 3 - 4pm) has been presenting a in-studio live music program featuring mostly local, Austin musicians and their bands.

Public Radio - many of our public radio stations offer free streaming services. In Austin this is the always excellent KUT-FM Support your local public radio station and enjoy guilt-free such quality programs such as Prarie Home Companion, American Routes, and many more.
• Mountain Stage is a two-hour radio show recorded before a live audience in Charleston, WV. Now in its 20th year, the show has established a long tradition of featuring national and international acts in almost every style of music. The television version of Mountain Stage is an outgrowth of the radio show which features many - but not all - of the same guests. [syndicated program, no Internet audio]
• Radio Free Tunes - Radio Free Tunes is part of a family of internet radio stations that feature independent artists. Select a player from any of the many genre's such as blues, country, or folk alternative. [broadband and dial-up connections]
• Shufflemania - A free Live365 Station programmed by traditional country music lovers right here in central Texas. "Country Shufflemania" combines modern-day music by Justin Trevino, Bobby Flores, Jake Hooker, and others with the classic shuffles of yesteryear by Ray Price, Johnny Bush, etc. Also, Country Shufflemania kinda leans toward Texas music including some Western Swing and (of course) good ol' shuffles. [up to 64kbps]
• Texas Online Radio - We're not your usual online radio station, and we're not limited to Texas Artists! We support the growth and promotion of new musical and visual artists everywhere! [mp3 file-based psuedostreaming audio 180k bps]
• Texas Rebel Radio is KFAN-FM broadcasting via the airwaves and real-time on the Internet. Based in Fredricksburg, Texas, this station was the most listened to radio station on the Internet last year. They mix it up with Texas Triple-A, too. [WMA 31kbps]
• Third Coast Music Network - a.k.a. KSYM San Antonio [broadband]
• Twang City - Internet American Roots Music station. [high quality 128kbps MP3 streams for both WindowsMedia and .pls] Now using LoudCity streaming to facilitate royalty payments - excellent quality audio.
• WDVR - FM The largest Americana station in the North East - Broadcasting from Delaware Township, NJ at 89.7 & 91.9 MHz. Americana, Bluegrass, Traditional Country, Folk, Celtic, Big Band, A Cappella, Blues, Jazz and fun stuff. [WMA 20k bps]
• WDVX-FM "East Tennessee's Own ...is a grass roots radio station broadcasting from a fourteen-foot camper in Clinton, Tennessee. WDVX plays bluegrass, Americana, classic and alternative country, western swing, blues, old time and traditional mountain music, Celtic, and folk. Then we throw in a little roots music from other parts of the world as well as some good old rock and roll. WDVX also features area storytellers and provides local and regional musicians an outlet for their talents. WDVX is a and educational opportunities for the East Tennessee Region."[WMA 20kbps or mp3]
• WRVK-AM Mt. Vernon Renfro Valley, Kentucky. Features an old fashioned "Homefolks Radio" format of traditional and classic country, and selected new country.
• WoodSongs - Old Time Radio Hour is a weekly, live audience celebration of America's oldest musical artform. They web cast on Monday evenings or you can listen to their archives of past shows. [very good quality. Now offering 56k or 300kpbs audio, also offering video, or mp3.]
• Yahoo LAUNCHcast Radio Country Stations - Classic Country, Americana, Country and Soft Country are free stations; 1970s, '80s, '90s, Greatest Hits, and Vintage Country are subscription stations. Uses proprietary player applet that automatically detects Internet connection speed. Highest quality audio is reserved for subscribers.

Some fine, fine new additions there!

Here's mine for today...... I believe he once said he would not have a drink until the hostages were freed in Iran (hahaha)

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Good choices on the John Anderson/Johnny Paycheck vids Dave W.

My next choice is Freddie Hart's The Keys in the Mailbox from 1960. Written by the great Harlan Howard and recorded by Buck, Conway and others but I like this version best. Freddie's best known for 1971's Easy Loving :neutral: but he has an interesting history. He was born to a sharecroppers family with 14 brothers and sisters, quit school at 12, joined the Marines at 15 and served in WWII on Guam and Iwo Jima. :shock: He started writing songs for other artists in the mid 1950's and signed with Columbia in 1959.


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Vernon Dalhart - Wreck of the Old '97
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Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel No 1
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The Carter Family - Wildwood Flower
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Arthur Smith - Guitar Boogie
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Johnny Barfield - Boogie Woogie
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Now you're talking my language. Here's an early Carter Family song with Sara sounding young and fresh (before she smoked her voice down a step or two).

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And this one gets sung at our house a lot since we have a horse named Dixie. You can really hear that woody ring of Maybelle's L5.

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And here's June talking about A.P. and the old days.

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Whew, you guys are gettin hot here! Paycheck:lol: never saw him look so young!
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ps. Had to change my avatar. Family objected to me using my Great Grandpa:roll:

Here is a cover of The Merle Travis song "Dark as a Dungeon by Mark Linkus(Sparklehorse) who passed away from a self inflicted gunshot wound this past year. The effect of the recording is amazing and sounds like something pulled from buried timebox-

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That was beautifully creepy, telesalivas! lots of dark mood to that version.
Musicians and the Big "S"; that could be a whole new thread: Mel Street, Jimmy Donally, and so many who took their own lives.

I'm gonna have to lighten things up after that. I may get blasted for posting this, but we all have a guilty pleasure or two and "Please Mr Please" is one of mine. Heck she even took crap from country fans in 1975 for doing this.
WARNING: You don't Have to Watch if you don't want to.:lol:

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well now that I've scared everyone away:mrgreen:

Lets hear it for Bobby and Bob

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[QUOTE=Lerb21;2738273]Speaking of Amber Digby and Dicky Overbey....

DangYa Lerb, as if I couldn't get enough Amber. This is a show I would have loved to been in the front row to see.

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According to Ambers site, Overby was elected into the National Steel Guitar Hall of Fame last weekend!

That was beautifully creepy, telesalivas! lots of dark mood to that version.
Musicians and the Big "S"; that could be a whole new thread: Mel Street, Jimmy Donally, and so many who took their own lives.

That's the beauty of a good song. You can reinterpret it to pull different shades of meanings out. But nix on "musicians and the big S". When I was young we used to have "Dead Jim Night" and play Doors songs and Croce and think we were clever. Now it's just :sad: 'cause life is truely a gift.

If Ms. John is your guilty pleasure then here's mine.

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Another cover of an Old Country tune:

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[QUOTE=elihu;2741486]That's the beauty of a good song. You can reinterpret it to pull different shades of meanings out. But nix on "musicians and the big S". life is truely a gift.

If Ms. John is your guilty pleasure then here's mine.]


Suzy Boguss is wonderful, hardly in the same guilty class as ONJ. She used to be on Ralph Emerys show often, and she's a charmer. "Please Mr Please" is the only song by ONJ that I ever liked. I wish someone like Amber Digby would re-work that tune with pedal steel/fiddles/ and a Tele. It would be a smash hit!
As far as the big "S"; I agree this is no place to dwell over something that is never too far from an artists mind.

Hawkshaw Hawkins
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Floyd Tillman (with Hank Garland)
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Cowboy Copas
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Keith Whitley
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Chris Gaffney:
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Cool song and some nice pickin'.

Mudd...some great tunes. I had forgot all about that Cowboy Copas song...just the kind of quirky song I like. I'm sure you know the story of how him and Hawkshaw and Patsy Cline crashed in a small airplane in 1963. There were no survivors. The day the music died part II.:sad:


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Hawk's biggest hit, released three days before the crash. It spent four weeks at number one.

[expletive deleted] elihu. HH sure put a lot of lonesome into that. Excellent.

[QUOTE=elihu;2742234] I'm sure you know the . Even Hawkshaw's wife Jean Shepherd (who was pregnant with their second boy) was on that plane. Their were no survivors. The day the music died part II.:sad:

Elihu, you know you are one of my main men here and I hate to correct folks....but; when you mentioned Jean dying on the plane, I had never heard that b4 and I've seen her on the opry for years and years after the crash. So, I looked it up:

"in 1960, Shepard married fellow Opry star Hawkshaw Hawkins, who she had met on Ozark Jubilee. He died three years later in the plane crash that killed Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas. In 2006, Shepard celebrated 50 years as a member of the Opry and is the longest-living female member of the Opry to date"
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Some excellent choices y'all. I had been thinking about Hawk and Cowboy and was soon going to put some up, but ya beat me to it:grin:

Try this one:

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How 'bout one from Nova Scotia native Hank Snow.

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Coooool, I always think of Hank as a singer but he could play some great guitar too! I'm looking for his "Brand on My Heart" but haven't found it yet. Thx.

Here are 2 vids for the pickers:

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Elihu, you know you are one of my main men here and I hate to correct folks....but; when you mentioned Jean dying on the plane, I had never heard that b4 and I've seen her on the opry for years and years after the crash. So, I looked it up:

"in 1960, Shepard married fellow Opry star Hawkshaw Hawkins, who she had met on Ozark Jubilee. He died three years later in the plane crash that killed Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas. In 2006, Shepard celebrated 50 years as a member of the Opry and is the longest-living female member of the Opry to date.

You are right and I was wrong. Brain fart? But please go ahead and correct me. Because that's one of the things I'm here for-to learn. By the way, there's one more name in that saga. Billy Walker was another Texas boy who got signed to Capital after Hank Thompson vouched for him. Billy was performing at that show in Kansas City and got called back to Nashville. So Hawk gave Billy his airline ticket and took his place later on the small plane with Patsy and Cowboy Copas. Think I got that right.

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And my favorite by Walker. This would fit perfectly on Marty's Gunfighter Ballads.
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And gary...enjoyed that Hank Snow rendition of Tammy. That MC would barely let Hank talk. Funny stuff.

Elihu, I didn't know that about Walker. Eeerie!. Now thats sorta like how Waylon Jennings managed to avoid going down in the cornfield along with Buddy.

I though Tammy was a perfect choice too; I always and to this day consider Debbie Reynolds song among my favorites. I still have my original 45rpm I bought when I was 8 y.o. Not many things from ones young days (materially) does one hold on to over the years.

I still can't get enough Amber. Did I mention I have OCD?

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Here is one of the members of hillbilly hades that doesn't get much play:

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Wynn Stewart
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Webb Pierce
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How 'bout one from Nova Scotia native Hank Snow.

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Sooo pretty. I would have never thought of Tammy as an instrumental.

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Wynn Stewart's Playboy is a masterpiece!


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Yeah, Playboy is a good one. But Mudd, we've already posted that Webb Pierce cut back on page one. If you would have gotten here on time you'd know that. :wink:
Guys, there is so much good music here that it's a little overwhelming. I feel like I'm not giving every song the attention it deserves. It's like being a little hungry on a cruise liner-there's too much to digest.

StephenX-regarding that Marvin Rainwater song Mr. Blues-that song is surreal. I hear that in a Quentin Tarantino movie soundtrack. And I like it.

Who the heck is Eddie Noack? Very interesting songs-not the usual subject matter for country songs to say the least. Brother Steve I'll ask you-gimme some background-at least a framework or skeleton to hang my impressions on. Or just tell me why you like a certain song. Otherwise I feel we're communicating at each other rather than with each other.

And regarding Hank Snow's guitar prowess-I'd forgot that he could really pick until these vids.

Now here's a song from 1968 that I remember listening to on a transister radio under my pillow...you know, when you're supposed to be asleep? I hear lots of references to the troubled times of that year. As a kid, you don't pay these things no mind. As an adult...

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Who the heck is Eddie Noack? Very interesting songs-not the usual subject matter for country songs to say the least. Brother Steve I'll ask you-gimme some background-at least a framework or skeleton to hang my impressions on. Or just tell me why you like a certain song. Otherwise I feel we're communicating at each other rather than with each other.



Eddie Noack was a Houston-born and raised singer/songwriter, one of my favorites. He had a long association with Pappy Daily, wrote a number of hits for others (like "Flowers For Mama" for George Jones). Most of his own releases were traditional honky-tonk type songs. As a singer he wasn't well known outside of the Houston to San Antonio area. He eventually moved to Nashville to concentrate more on writing but drank himself to death before he was 50.

Here's one of my favorites from Eddie. I'll have to upload the original T'n'T version to YouTube when I get some time.

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Smoky Dawson and His Rocky Canyon Boys
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Lee Kernaghan - Boys From the Bush
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Guys, there is so much good music here that it's a little overwhelming. I feel like I'm not giving every song the attention it deserves. It's like being a little hungry on a cruise liner-there's too much to digest.

I agree

Who the heck is Eddie Noack?
Dave W filled us in nicely on that (thx)

Brother Steve I'll ask you-gimme some background-at least a framework or skeleton to hang my impressions on. Or just tell me why you like a certain song. Otherwise I feel we're communicating at each other rather than with each other.

Absolutely, there is not a song I have posted yet that I could not have added some commentary, and that should be done. I guess I just got the impression that I was being too "active" here already and didn't want to come across as
a wiseass (which to many, I think I do anyway)

From now on I will do that, and let the chips fall where they may

IBOB, that was some interesting yodeling to say the least! Billabongs? So he's singing about Australia rather than Arizona?

Elihu, I'll backtrack a bit for you. I first heard Jack Kittell (Psycho) from an awesome guy in Memphis that was part of a tape trading group of posters on *Prodigy ( an internet bulletin board popular around '92-95 ). We had a small but dedicated music clique there, and we would send tapes to each other of music we liked. That was b4 how easy MP3 made it to do so. I must have 100 tapes from I-friends that sent some fabulous stuff. One of my favorite things was to have people tape their local radio stations so I could play them in my van and pretend I was somewhere else. Thats how I discovered the Hound and we still communicate to this day ( No one know their music better than Hound ). Anyway....I tried the infant search engines to find out about Kittel (that's also how I found out about Eddie Noack) and got nowhere; it was as if he never existed and it was only in the past month that I finally tracked down what little info there is on this guy. This is from youtube and as far as I know, you will find nothing else on Jack K:
"In memory of my cousin - Jack Kittel. The story of "Psycho" and singer Jack Kittel begins in 1973 in Muskegon, Mi. It was there that Jack recorded the song written in the late '50s by Leon Payne, a blind San Antonio street singer whose more conventional works have been performed by the likes of Elvis and Johnny Cash.
At first, radio stations wouldn't play the newly pressed record , judging the lyrics too controversial. Then a Grand Rapids disc jockey gave it some air time on an "underground" show - and "Psycho" became an instant hit. On Sept, 28 , 1996 , Jack, who was living with his family in New Era, Mi., died at the age of 49 when his Jeep was struck by another vehicle and less than two months later, his rendition of "Psycho" surfaced in the movie "Larger Than Life" starring Bill Murray who inherited an elephant."

Cool, hunh? I will run some commentary on all future posts.

I guess I just got the impression that I was being too "active" here already and didn't want to come across as
a wiseass (which to many, I think I do anyway)
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My impression is that the commentary gives you some context to hang the factoids on. "Too active" and "wiseass?" Nah. It just takes a while to get to know people. But you gotta put it out there else you'll never know, ya know? See, all I know are the hits. You've done some digging.

Australian country...cool Ibobunot. And thanks for the info Dave W.

It was 1961, and right before the Dizzy Dean baseball game when I first found the Wilburn Bros. Loretta swept my heart away while my brother went outdoors to wait on the game (he didn’t like country!). I however, enjoyed that half hour more than the ballgame. These are two of her earlier recordings on the Zero label (1 might be Decca).

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Now that was good...loose and exciting studio mix...sounded like everyone was having a good time. Sounds like it was recorded live and they overdubbed Loretta's harmony vocals later.

Loretta has always struck me as a lady of integrity in that if she didn't believe in a song she wouldn't do it-sort of like this lady.

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And I just wanted to add this because That's All it Took was the song Graham used to audition Emmylou...

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She passed with flying colors.

Doggoned if I didn't miss that Webb Pierce clip; should've assumed that one would get posted...:mrgreen:

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Mel Tillis
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Elihu,
I love ELH, but am not so fond of GP. I know many will disagree with me but I think his talent was waaaay lesser than his influence on the Byrds, ELH, and country/rock in general. I have his first 2 solo LP's on vinyl (someone must want them) and have not played them in 34 years.
Mudd, that was a good triple threat, especially the Mel Tillis cut!

This next song is by a guy I consider the finest writer in music (any kind); I have always considered him country since I first heard him in 1972. I don't think most people think of him as a country artist; but he is one of the best.

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Elihu,
I love ELH, but am not so fond of GP. I know many will disagree with me but I think his talent was waaaay lesser than his influence on the Byrds, ELH, and country/rock in general.

I understand. I too have ambivalent feelings about Graham. So much of what I know about him I don't like. But the thing that saves him for me is my impression that he was as big of a fan of the music as we are. And as far as that John Prine cut...:lol::lol::lol: John Prine is so good he spans genres-like Neil Young. That was really great.

Since it's Sunday here's a good arrangement of a country gospel song by the Rev. Josiah Kelley Alwood. Some good flatpicking inside.

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Mudd I too enjoyed that Mel cut-that shuffle/walking bass rhythm defines honkytonk for me. And This Old House is a gospel classic.

Loretta, John Prine, Gram Parsons, etc. etc., etc....hard to beat...I've enjoyed this thread.

Jason Eady - Wishful Drinking
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Eilen Jewell - Rain Roll In
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Sarah Borges - Daniel Lee
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I wish I had a voice like his!

Eilen Jewell - Rain Roll In

I'm glad to see Threadgills is still there, wasn't sure. She's great and that Gretsch cat played some tasty licks


Sarah Borges - Daniel Lee

I'm in love again:grin: awesome!

That Gretsch cat was good-loved the tremolo-but I thought Jason Eady's guitar player had more control and finesse. Ibobunot-I'm convinced you're one of the Youtube gurus-you pull up more obscure, arcane and interesting music...:grin:

How about some more duets? Here's this thread's common denominator Amber Digby doing a Jack Clement song that Dolly and Porter made famous.
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I really like their blend.

And I thought this was real interesting. I knew that Hank courted Anita for a short while and you can really tell it here.
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... It was there that Jack recorded the song written in the late '50s by Leon Payne, a blind San Antonio street singer whose more conventional works have been performed by the likes of Elvis and Johnny Cash.

To correct Jack's biographer: Leon Payne was not a street singer by any stretch. He was a well-established songwriter (I Love You Because, Lost Highway, They'll Never Take Her Love From Me and many others) and had a band that played the Houston and San Antonio areas regularly for years. He released many singles and a few albums.

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Carl Butler sings Hank:

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Carl sings his biggest hit:

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Wynn Stewart and Buck Owens both sang this song back in the 60's after Harlan Howard wrote it, and Rodney Crowell took it to #1 in the 80's.

Thought I'd share this too. Here's my favorite Buck Owens Tribute Band doing the song.

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Wow, I really like all those new posts! Keep 'em coming.

Here is a guy I'm sure you will all like (at least the subject matter anyhow)

Lattie passed away this past June. I think he was 84.

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^^^ I can't speak for everyone. I sure liked that.

Comic relief from a genius songwriter...


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Lattie was cool StephenX...and Above and Beyond is a great song. I really liked Don't Let Me Cross Over too.

Ibobunot-I'm convinced you're one of the Youtube gurus-you pull up more obscure, arcane and interesting music...:grin:


I don't look for obscure music it's just music I like... :smile:

Yeah, I know. I figure you've just been looking for a long time so what comes out is rather obscure. Thanks for taking the time.


My favorite Roger Miller song-describes a huge situation with just a few words and a good melody. Sorry, no twang.

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Another great wave of good stuff! I'm really happy to see the contributions picking up ( I don't want to do this alone:grin:)


Here is an encore by the late,great Lattie Moore >>>

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That Gretsch cat was good-loved the tremolo-but I thought Jason Eady's guitar player had more control and finesse.

"Gretsch cat" is Jerry Miller... :cool:

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Eilen Jewell - Shakin' All Over
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The Fly-Rite Boys + Jerry Miller
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The Gretsch cat is not the same Jerry Miller who played for Moby Grape, is it?
He's dam good! And Eilen was really sexy in Shakin..... Another Gretsch cat with some very tasty stuff > I love when someone uses tremolo and a whammy bar effectively and he sure does. Good stuff

I guess I should use "Bigsby" for a Gretsch (not a whammy bar:oops:)

The Gretsch cat is not the same Jerry Miller who played for Moby Grape, is it?

No this Jerry Miller is based in Boston.

Thanks for introducing me to Jerry Miller Bob. I admit he's good but the echo he prefers is just not my thing-too nervous sounding or something. I didn't like it when Les Paul did it either but that's just me. I like people who phrase more like a horn or vocal...take a breath once in a while. Shaking All Over was my favorite. He does support a singer real well. Thanks again.

This guy I could listen to all day.

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unhurried, relaxed...yet brilliant.

This guy I could listen to all day.



Yes, of course! Virginias own Cliff Gallup. The second best Blue Cap:lol:

The "original" Crazy Arms was excellent; I don't like it when studios re-record a song to make it "better"; like guesses, the first one is usually right.
Enjoyed that Carl Butler post too, I don't hear him very often.

Here is a woman who sacrificed her career to be Mrs Carl Smith, and a stay at home mom.

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This is one of the earliest recordings of Emmylou Harris. Recorded at the Red Fox Inn sometime in 1973 where she played a regular 2 nights a week, before being "discovered" by Gram Parsons.

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This guy used to sit in on occassion with ELH at the Red Fox and man he was GOOD!

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I suppose it's more bluegrass than country - I downloaded Doc & Merle Watson's Black Mountain Rag album a couple of weeks ago and I was just listening to Take Me Out To The Ballgame. Unholy frijoles - when they go off into the improv - unbelievable (IMO). :grin:

I couldn't find a vid though. :sad:

This guy used to sit in on occassion with ELH at the Red Fox and man he was GOOD!
Really nice - rapidly approaching perfect. Cool.

Another recent download - this time I found a vid

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just want to show my love for jerry miller as well, FWIW eilen jewel just put out an album of loretta lynn covers featuring said guitar player-

just want to show my love for jerry miller as well, FWIW eilen jewel just put out an album of loretta lynn covers featuring said guitar player-

I bet Amber is not too happy about that:grin:

Nice Merle/Maphis! TGF, if you can't find a vid,you can make one to go along with any song using Win Movie Maker and Youtube. That's what I did with the ELH song.

Butcher Holler: A Tribute To Loretta Lynn

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Eilen Jewell - Sweet Rose
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The Sacred Shakers + Eilen Jewell
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Gene Watson! That's who this thread was missing. Thanks Dave W.

Watson was born in Palestine, Texas, in 1943 and began his music career in the early 1970s, performing in local clubs at night while working in a Houston auto body shop during the day. He only recorded for a few small, regional record labels until 1974, when Capitol Records picked up his album Love in the Hot Afternoon and released it nationally. (Wikipedia)

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And I put Ray Flacke up there with Albert Lee...his solo on Highway 40 Blues with Ricky Skaggs (Highways and Heartaches 1982) is as good as it gets. I wonder what he's doing now?

I enjoyed that Travis/Maphis song TGFMike.

Did someone mention Albert Lee? Well he's growing gray hair now but at least he still has a lot of it; and a beautiful daughter too:

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Here is a GREAT song. Performance is from LiveSet on KUT Austin, Texas.

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and here is another take on the song (He wrote this, not Jerry Jeff)

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And here here is what He feels like ( The Thumper Rule in action )

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I made my own video! Thanks StephenX -

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Chris Wall - I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight
Really nice.

I made my own video!

As good as anything I've seen or heard. Good job! The improv kills.

I'm a huge Doc fan. No one picks cleaner. He seems like a great human being as well as a great musician. And I love Merle's picking on this one. Note how relaxed they are-I think all the greats are like that. Playing=breathing.


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A friend recorded 4 CD's of Doc for me and it was all I listened to for three months. It includes some live recordings of him and Merle Travis that are just outstanding. They play songs like Kinfolk in Carolina, Bye Bye Bluebells and Cannonball Rag plus a great version of San Antonio Rose. If I had three thumbs I'd put 'em all up.

Really nice.

Excellent TGFMIKE!
Take me out to the ballgame djangoized is a good'n.
Stephen Grapelli too?

I'm going to shift gears here a bit. I don't think of this as Ol Fashioned Country but it's done by an obscure Florida band from the 70's who played trad country along with all the other variations in musical taste that a house band has to come up with. I'm sure we are all familiar with that. Anyway, I think the Coasters first came up with this riff, and I know Little Charlie and the Nitecats used it on the hilarious "Clothes Line". This is Johnny Noles & the Pretenders.\

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and Elihu, you mentioned comedy and I think even this band. The video is horrible, but the lyrics are funny. I have a nice audio of this but no vid to go with it yet.
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All of the following have been recorded within the past ten years (roughly).

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Every single one of these, with the exception of "Flowers" has a walking bassline. All are shuffles. All are dripping with Pedal Steel, Fiddle, and Telecaster.

and Elihu, you mentioned comedy and I think even this band. The video is horrible, but the lyrics are funny. I have a nice audio of this but no vid to go with it yet.

I wonder if the Lounge Lizards wrote that around 1999? It reminds me of that Hillary Swank film Boys don't Cry where a young girl dressed up as a boy and is eventually murdered-based on a true story that I think took place in Nebraska.:neutral: I like their song I want to ride in the car Hank died in better.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWbuwDjN5RE

And I grew up with Cheech and Chong's version of Framed.:smile:

Do you remember when we talked about being able to pull out different shades of meaning with great songs? Here's a good example. This song is just broad enough with it's lyrics to be very inclusive yet narrow enough to sound like the singer is making a personal statement. So it works in different ways depending on the singer. This version's meaning is totally different from the original.

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Lerb...whadaya trying to do, pull me into the 21st century? :lol: The last band I played in considered Carl Perkins new. Thanks for the Brad clips-I'll check them out.

Elihu, come on Lerbs got a point:grin: There is some great new music in the tradition being made in the 21st century as many posts on this thread attest to; it's just difficult to find, except for Paisley and Marty. I'm pretty sure Cornhusker" was written in the 80's, but you are right: it was like a premonition.
If you are gonna husk "corn" in Nebraska, you better be a farmer or a football fan. Lerb, I just woke up so haven't listened to all the Brad yet, but from the moment I heard Whisky Lullaby, I knew a new star had been born. That song strikes as a timeless country classic, and it is.

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I just watched this "live" for the 1st time and I'm also struck by what a beauty Alison turned into! I have videos I took of her when she was around 14 and she was a chubby,plain,pimple faced little girl with a heart of Gold. I may send her those tapes and ask for a ransom not to ever release them:mrgreen:

and a weeper from the "funny man". So out of character for Roger.

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and a weeper from the "funny man". So out of character for Roger.
What a beautiful little song. And what a great voice.

This is ol fashioned, even if it just came out this year -

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I was just listening to this from their album by the same name

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I do not mean to make light of handicaps, but it sure seems like blind people have an advantage (Charles,Hiland,Doc,Healy,McTell, etc.) Great Pickin'.

Ok, I now make good on my threat: Truck Drivin' Songs !:twisted:

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Ok, I now make good on my threat: Truck Drivin' Songs !:twisted:
Please, sir, I want some more.

Hank Thompson
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Jimmie Davis
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OK, you asked for it:twisted:

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This one's kinda long but it's good, and from one of the early hippie/country bands that I bet don't get play anywhere.

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A little more Brad...

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Mandy Marie and the Cool Hand Lukes - White Line Fever
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Bill Kirchen is playing on this one.

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That's some excellent Kirchen !

This is the only artist I can think of who I loved as a kid and re-discovered when I was 21. He was pretty much boycotted with a ruined R&R career after he married his 14 y.o. cousin. Imagine a star doing that these days. He was armed ,inebriated, and dangerous. They broke the mold when God created Jerry Lee. It wasn't until he began his country career in earnest that his career was revived.

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“Here was a guy who didn't just embrace the rock 'n' roll lifestyle -- he wrote the how-to guide. In his prime, the piano-pounding singer, aka "The Killer," was the very picture of wild-eyed abandon, a hellion with great hair, a voice to match and two blurs for hands. After years of life in the fast lane, however, the situation appeared grim when he wound up in a Memphis, Tenn., hospital in 1981 with a hemorrhaging stomach ulcer. While family and friends prayed for him, Lewis sent for his pals Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson."I flew in there to see him, but John was afraid of him," Kristofferson recalls. "Only thing I ever saw John afraid of!
"Jerry Lee said he was finished with drinking and he was only gonna do gospel songs."A few months later, Lewis was on the road again. Before a show in New Jersey, as Kristofferson looked on, Lewis downed a bottle of whiskey and warmed up with Jimmie Rodgers and Al Jolson oldies. So much for Lewis' vow to mend his ways.” ~ Cleveland Newspaper

Commander Cody, Mandy and Bill K. That's some nice truckin'.

I remember reading an interview with Ritchie Blackmore where he said that Jerry Lee scared him to death. So Johnny wasn't the only one. This vid has no guitar till 7:00 minute mark but he rocks then. Pretty intense for 1963. Strictly for history's sake...



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Whoa, what a great version of "You Win Again" !!!!
I know that was the flip side to one of his big hits (I have it on 45) but I can't remember which one.
I guess ol Jerry Lee scared a lot of folks in his day.
He is one of the three musicians that I can't figure out how he is still alive, the other two? George Jones and Keith Richards.

Mandy, nice version of White Line Fever. So you got your band doing the Iggy thing:lol:

How about some nice flatpicking? I remember this guy from the Johnny Cash show but he has also recorded with Baez, Dylan, Kristofferson and I believe he was on the O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack. I hear a whole lot of Maybelle in his style so I believe that qualifies him as Ol Fashioned Country. That old Martin is one of the fattest-sounding acoustic guitars I've heard.


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How about some nice flatpicking?Very nice indeed.

Norman Blake= one of the best. A lucky friend of mine in Chattanooga took personal guitar lessons from Norman.
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"1954 saw Charline touring with the RCA's Country and Western Caravan with the Davis Sisters, Hank Snow, Chet Atkins and Hawkshaw Hawkins. The Caravan travelled between April 26th and May 9th throughout the southern and Midwestern United States playing Charlotte, Mobile, Oklahoma City or Tulsa. On the Little Rock show, RCA sent a recording engineer who taped the show later issued on RCA EPB 3220. Here Charline sang "Anything Can Happen" and "I'm Having a Party by Myself" backed by Chet Atkins, Bob Moore and Bud Isaac. The whole show was re-issued, in 1988, on LP by Bear Family records (BFX 15276). With a colour jacket and wonderful pictures and inner notes that LP is a must for the Country music fans." from Garys Old Country


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Maybe some more acoustic music? When Gillian Welch's debut Revival came out in 1996 I thought that except for a couple of songs, it sounded like it was sixty years old. And I mean that in a good, authentic way. I like people who do their homework and then take the sound somewhere else. Gillian has a plain singing style which points to the songs and that's good because she's an excellent songwriter. Her partner David Rawlings is one of those few whose chops and tone (1935 Epiphone archtop) make him recognizable with just a few notes. Some live vids...


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Charlene Arthur-great torchy style singer. Thanks StephenX, never heard of her before. Sorry, I was posting mine the same time you posted this and then the kids woke up.:wink:

Actually I play more acoustic than I do electric, so to keep this going AND add another famous genre (Train Songs) to the mix, here is Tony Rice:

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Excellent StephenX...now I've got to add my favorite Tony Rice vids. The mandolin player ain't too bad either.


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Who's that Skaggs guy? He's a show off:wink:

I have been trying for years to find the version of "I'll Take the Blame" that he did with ELH harmonizing. It was on one of his earlier LP's, but I can't recall the name and I can't locate it. He has recorded that a couple times, but the one with Emmylou is a stroke of genius.

Hey, anyone who gets ELH to sing with them is a genius because she makes everyone sound good. Even Graham Parsons.:wink: Remember that scene from O Brother Where Art Thou? These 3 recreate those harmonies effortlessly.


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[QUOTE=elihu;2758473]Hey, anyone who gets ELH to sing with them is a genius because she makes everyone sound good.

A truer statement has never been made. I think she is the best harmony singer in the world. To wit the duets with: John Prine, Steve Earle, George Jones, and particularly that crazy harmony she does with Iris Dement on Mama's Opry.

I tried to post this yesterday but youtube removed it saying I had violated the copyright:roll: Today they put it back on my library, so here it is.

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Haha, guess they fooled me! Thats weird because I just played it on youtube and it worked:rolleyes:

Who's that Skaggs guy? He's a show off:wink:

I have been trying for years to find the version of "I'll Take the Blame" that he did with ELH harmonizing. It was on one of his earlier LP's, but I can't recall the name and I can't locate it. He has recorded that a couple times, but the one with Emmylou is a stroke of genius.

That's the earlier version, it's on the Sweet Temptation album. He was still in Emmylou's band then.

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And speaking of great harmonizing, here's Bill Phillips with Ruby Wright. Bill's recorded version had a then-unknown Dolly Parton singing harmony (she co-wrote the song).

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Sadly, Bill and Ruby are both gone. Bill passed away last month, Ruby last year.

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When they get to the harmony parts, it sounds like a Dolly Parton song.

Here's some more "newer" stuff

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Gary has another one called "I'm The One" off his Smoke Rings In The Dark Album, but I can't find it. It's a great arrangment, plenty of pedal steel, shuffle beat, solid lyrics.

In lieu of that, here's another one of my Gary Allan favorites, this one being more a Country-Rock deal.

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Now here's a few from my personal favorite Ray Scott.

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That's the earlier version, it's on the Sweet Temptation album. He was still in Emmylou's band then.

Thanks, I will go find it now

And speaking of great harmonizing, here's Bill Phillips with Ruby Wright. Bill's recorded version had a then-unknown Dolly Parton singing harmony (she co-wrote the song).

That was real good! Was she Kitty Wells' daughter? Does anyone else think a Fender headstock looks out of place on an acoustic guitar?

Sadly, Bill and Ruby are both gone. Bill passed away last month, Ruby last year.

Sad to hear that

[QUOTE=Lerb21;2758900]Here's some more "newer" stuff
Now here's a few from my personal favorite Ray Scott.

Lerb, Gary's voice and intonation is too much reminiscent of Garth for my tastes. I did love the Ray Scott material though:grin: Never heard him before; nice deep voice is what I like.

He mentioned Waylon so here goes; sorry for the ads (but at least Audrina Partridge is on it)
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and for an abrupt transition to really ol country try this one out

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“After Hank Williams died on January 1, 1953, Jimmie recorded a series of country songs in the manner of Hank Williams for the Decca label. He even used Hank's band on a lot of the sessions. He also cut some sides for Starday and Dot. Later, his friend in Nashville, Vic McAlpin, called and said he had a possible recording deal for Jimmie with Roulette Records. By this time Rockabilly was coming into full swing and hardly any label wanted a country singer on their roster. Jimmie had gotten an idea for a song called "Rio de Rosa" when he was in San Antonio during the war. In 1957 he recorded this rockabilly song for Roulette and it was a big hit in several markets including Memphis where Carl Perkins heard it and covered it on a Columbia album shortly after Jimmie's version was released.
Jimmie and Vic McAlpin also wrote "I've Got a Rocket in My Pocket." To some, this might seem like a dirty song, but Jimmie insists that it was just a nonsense thing. It is still a standard and was recently used in the sound track of the movie, "the Right Stuff." The reason Vic McAlpin and Jimmie decided to use the pseudonym "Jimmie Lloyd" when recording for Roulette Records was that Jimmie knew that country fans are loyal and maybe would not forgive him for singing rock and roll if they knew it was really him singing. Hardly any of his country fans knew that Jimmie Lloyd was in reality, Jimmie Logsdon.” Courtesy of Rusty York.

My band opened for Gene Watson 3 times in the 80's.
Great singer, great band!

That was beautifully creepy, telesalivas! lots of dark mood to that version.
Musicians and the Big "S"; that could be a whole new thread: Mel Street, Jimmy Donally, and so many who took their own lives.

I'm gonna have to lighten things up after that. I may get blasted for posting this, but we all have a guilty pleasure or two and "Please Mr Please" is one of mine. Heck she even took crap from country fans in 1975 for doing this.
WARNING: You don't Have to Watch if you don't want to.:lol:

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SMOKIN....BABY SMOKIN!!!!!!!!!....:lol:

My band opened for Gene Watson 3 times in the 80's.
Great singer, great band!

100% in agreement

Smoker? Yeh when ONJ stands up with the mini:grin:

Here's another smokin country singer (again, Can't get enough! )

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Bill Phillips & Ruby Wright-Put It Off Until Tomorrow

When they get to the harmony parts, it sounds like a Dolly Parton song.

Dolly and her uncle Bill Owens wrote the song and cut a demo. The story goes that Bill Phillips chose her for the harmony part because he loved her voice on the demo.

@ StephenX: Ruby was the daughter of Kitty Wells and Johnnie Wright. She and Bill toured with Kitty and Johnnie for years and were regulars on their syndicated TV show.

Thinking of your witty country titles thread, Ruby had a single in the late 60s called Billy Broke My Heart At Walgreen's (And I Cried All The Way To Sears).

And now, let's combine country harmonizing, witty titles and acoustic guitars with Fender headstocks.

The full name of the song is Seven Days of Crying (Makes One Weak). :grin:

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Thinking of your witty country titles thread, Ruby had a single in the late 60s called Billy Broke My Heart At Walgreen's (And I Cried All The Way To Sears).

Oh, I've got to hear that! Post it please.
Loved the Harden Trio (even with the acoustic Fender headstock:grin:)
That cutie on the left looks just like the piano teacher I had when I was 14.
She used to sit on the bench with me and rub her legs up against mine while teaching; I didn't learn a thing about piano but I did learn how embarrasing it is to wear tight corduroys to piano lessons:twisted:

The full name of the song is Seven Days of Crying (Makes One Weak). :grin :lol:

Dave W...(or anybody) do you remember this song?
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My father had an album with this song being the title track but it was with different singers. I remember that they did a great version but I can't remember the artist's names to save my life. A painfully honest song to be sure.

@StephenX: I'll see if I can find someone who has it.

@elihu: Porter and Dolly had an album called Just Between The Two Of Us, but it was several years after the Merle and Bonnie single. I also have an album cut of it from Roy Drusky & Priscilla Mitchell which also was several years before Porter and Dolly, but after the Merle/Bonnie single.

Dave W you got me thinking about that Witty Title thread again. We barely scratched the surface on that one. I just remembered another while reminiscing about my piano tutor: "I'm having Daydreams, about Night things, in the Middle of the Afternoon" (maybe that wasn't the title, but I think those were the lines):grin:

Here is one that was a big hit in early 60's. I got this from youtube and there were several comments that the guy who made the vid got the title wrong. I'm sure it was "King" and not "Queen" as well.

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and another from the same time period

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I also have an album cut of it from Roy Drusky & Priscilla Mitchell which also was several years before Porter and Dolly, but after the Merle/Bonnie single.

That's it. :grin: I had done a search on Liz Anderson songs but just couldn't find it. But I didn't realize she had written Lonesome Fugitive. Have you heard Roy Buchanan's version? The guitar work is interesting-especially the fills.

StephenX-Isn't Daydreams about night things a Ronnie Milsap song? And regarding Jack to a King I think I like Ricky Van Shelton's remake better, but it's a great song. And the Johnnie Wright song is excellent.

A couple of Roy Buchanan vids...some twang to get ya going this morning.
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Elihu
I never knew Roy played with Merle. Look how young they both are too!
There are some here who don't like Roy's playing:roll: They think his harmonics is just a bunch of noise. Not me baby, I love that stuff. In fact I am going to find a vid I have of Roy advertising the Fritz Bros guitars. There is so much "harmonics" playing on there that it will sizzle your brain.

100% in agreement

Smoker? Yeh when ONJ stands up with the mini:grin:

Here's another smokin country singer (again, Can't get enough! )

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Yeah Amber is one of my favorites...have worked with her some...she really is the real deal...she just did the Opry I think for the first time, about 2 months ago...maybe a little less

Yeah Amber is one of my favorites...have worked with her some...she really is the real deal...she just did the Opry I think for the first time, about 2 months ago...maybe a little less

Picker, you are the lucky one! I just hope she visits us poor folks on the East Coast soon.

Elihu, yes that was a Ronnie Milsap song. I don't know about RVS version but whatever happened to him? He did some pretty straight forward country and hails from VA. Aways back when I posted that Tommy Hannum "Speed 'n West" vid, the announcer says he played for RVS for 20 years.