My favorite country songs

[smccarter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xad0Qyu__cE

Country?

 

[unionrdr]

Wow! I never heard that song before. Very powerful. Thank you for sharing this song, unionrdr!,

It refers to the book of Revelation when The arc angel Gabriel blows his trumpet to signal the rightious bodies rising from the grave renewed to rejoin with their spirits in heaven at the 2nd coming. I think that's why God is going to be a lot more careful who gets "reunited" with there bodies to become whole again,as Jesus is (real name Yahushua). It's def a powerful song that says a lot about the man.

 

[501irishred]

Anything from "the gentle giant" is a classic in my book, but this is at least ONE of my favorites....
[ame]http://youtu.be/uzGx_XzxDeM[/ame]

 

[Schemy]

I dig this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p55gRcQmRUc&feature=player_detailpage

 

[501irishred]

I dig this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p55gRcQmRUc&feature=player_detailpage

I like! Never heard him before, but I'll be adding him to my "Robert Earl Keen channel" on pandora!

 

[Schemy]

I like! Never heard him before, but I'll be adding him to my "Robert Earl Keen channel" on pandora!

He's the lead singer for Lucero. That song is from an EP he did, basically music for Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. The entire EP is really good.

 

[501irishred]

He's the lead singer for Lucero. That song is from an EP he did, basically music for Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. The entire EP is really good.

Thanks, I'll check it out!

 

[Dan]

It's nice to see this thread still going. So much great music being posted thanks to you all.

 

[McBrewskie]

He's the lead singer for Lucero. That song is from an EP he did, basically music for Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. The entire EP is really good.

Lucero is good. Like them live quiet a bit.

[ame="http://youtu.be/LkhPskE0AL0"]http://youtu.be/LkhPskE0AL0[/ame]

 

[McBrewskie]

It's nice to see this thread still going. So much great music being posted thanks to you all.

Keep it moving folks. Great stuff.

 

[McBrewskie]

Mike Ness

[ame="http://youtu.be/qjwi2OELumY"]http://youtu.be/qjwi2OELumY[/ame]

http://youtu.be/U-i9yDNcWBc

[ame="http://youtu.be/tUTUkho_eDQ"]http://youtu.be/tUTUkho_eDQ[/ame]

 

[Schemy]

Lucero is good. Like them live quiet a bit.

http://youtu.be/LkhPskE0AL0

Yeah Lucero is probably my favorite band. I haven't been able to see them live as much as I would like. I did see Ben play an impromptu set at the Whitewater Tavern in Little Rock one night. That was pretty sweet. I had no idea who I had been talking with until he took the stage and started to sing, then I knew right away. Just him and his guitar, it was pretty sweet.

 

[bhaskins1]

Some good modern day real country. Sturgill Simpson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLFqsEKmXC9x9QsvI40TQh9Ic27P8_PmeJ&v=rUpH0muyR-I&feature=player_detailpage

 

[LLBeanJ]

Just stumbled across this one.

Johnny Cash 1977 Christmas Special featuring an amazing guest lineup, including a Sun Records reunion of sorts honoring Elvis, who had passed just a few months prior. It literally brought tears to my eyes.

[ame="http://youtu.be/jHuFslG6JAQ"]http://youtu.be/jHuFslG6JAQ[/ame]

 

[soccerdad]

best country band ever

 

[Dan]

Just stumbled across this one.

Johnny Cash 1977 Christmas Special featuring an amazing guest lineup, including a Sun Records reunion of sorts honoring Elvis, who had passed just a few months prior. It literally brought tears to my eyes.

http://youtu.be/jHuFslG6JAQ

Thanks for digging that up and posting LLB! They don't make 'em like that anymore.

 

[LLBeanJ]

Thanks for digging that up and posting LLB! They don't make 'em like that anymore.

They sure don't. I was thinking the same thing as I was watching it.

 

[cheesehed007]

On my current play list
[ame]http://youtu.be/2e0W_G4V83w[/ame]

 

[501irishred]

Just stumbled across this one.

Johnny Cash 1977 Christmas Special featuring an amazing guest lineup, including a Sun Records reunion of sorts honoring Elvis, who had passed just a few months prior. It literally brought tears to my eyes.

http://youtu.be/jHuFslG6JAQ

Finally got around to watching. This will go in a "keeper" file! Thanks for sharing!

 

[onetoeddogbrewery]

Sent from my iPhone

 

[onetoeddogbrewery]

Can't forget these guys, there from my neck of the woods good ol SE Texas

 

[Dan]

Can't forget these guys, there from my neck of the woods good ol SE Texas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYdvxBxHX2U&sns=em

Touches the soul that song. Family sticking together through adversity. Thank you for posting this onetoeddogbrewery.

 

[littletommy]

 

[unionrdr]

Not exactly country,but old blues from Slim Harpo;

 

[unionrdr]

And another one by Elmore James;

 

[Dan]

unionrdr

If by chance I ever get out to Sheffield; sure would like to have a few beers, maybe brew one together. That be okay with you?

 

[Melana]

I love old blues!

 

[unionrdr]

unionrdr

If by chance I ever get out to Sheffield; sure would like to have a few beers, maybe brew one together. That be okay with you?

Yeah,that'd be cool. Gotta brew some more beers after I get the car fixed. Only so much $$ to go around. Wanna brew some more of my hybrid lager. Maybe get the record player goin so you can hear an original copy of Hot Rod Lincoln Drags Again from 1961. The old blues & old motown,etc are either old records or remastered CD's. My wife even has some old Dusty Springfield.

 

[McBrewskie]

 

[Dan]

Love that song McB - Great choice!

I was going to comment that I liked the original version by "CCR" better, but thought maybe I ought to check out if they actually were the original song writers and players..

Nope!

going to quote Wiki a bit.

"Midnight Special" is a traditional folk song thought to have originated among prisoners in the American South.[1] The title comes from the refrain which refers to the passenger train Midnight Special and its "ever-loving light" (sometimes "ever-living light").

Lyrics appearing in the song were first recorded in print by Howard Odum in 1905

The song was first commercially recorded on the OKeh label in 1926 as "Pistol Pete's Midnight Special" by Dave "Pistol Pete" Cutrell

In 1934 Huddie William "Lead Belly" Ledbetter recorded a version of the song at Angola Prison for John and Alan Lomax, who mistakenly attributed it to him as the author.

The song, as popularized by Ledbetter, has many parallel lines to other prison songs. ... Many of the lines appear in prison work songs

Folk/bluegrass musicians Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper had a top 5 country hit with the song in 1959 as "Big Midnight Special".

Lead Belly, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Odetta, The Kingston Trio, Pete Seeger, The Beatles, Burl Ives, Big Joe Turner, Bobby Darin, Cisco Houston, Mungo Jerry, Van Morrison, Little Richard, Buckwheat Zydeco, Otis Rush, The Spencer Davis Group, Lonnie Donegan, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, & Creedence Clearwater Revival among others, have recorded the song.

Gotta admit, I had no idea this song has been around so long and sung by so many folks.

The version you posted above is awesome. Beforer you posted that, I have never heard the song from anybody other than CCR. Kind of sad to find out they didn't come up with the song, but eff me.. These guys sing it pretty darn well too.

 

[McBrewskie]

Love that song McB - Great choice!

I was going to comment that I liked the original version by "CCR" better, but thought maybe I ought to check out if they actually were the original song writers and players..

Nope!

going to quote Wiki a bit.















Gotta admit, I had no idea this song has been around so long and sung by so many folks.

The version you posted above is awesome. Beforer you posted that, I have never heard the song from anybody other than CCR. Kind of sad to find out they didn't come up with the song, but eff me.. These guys sing it pretty darn well too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T00eJSQimIk

I didn't know it wasn't a CCR song either, thanks for posting the origins of the song. CCR's version is amazing. Just found that guy Willie Watson above. Saw a video of him performing with Gillian Welch. He's good.

 

[mohawk]

John Prine, sweet revenge

 

[gillsrob]

Just a little clip from the George jones show, Merle haggard singing Footlights

 

[unionrdr]

Ran into this one on Beerforums.com a lil bit ago. I said this to my superintendent the day I retired,after near 31 years...

 

[littletommy]

Saw this guy last night at French Lick springs here in Indiana, big snowstorm earlier in the day, and this dude tore it UP! Here's a slower one.

 

[littletommy]

Here's another great one from John

 

[gillsrob]

Its long, with a 6 minute or so introduction/story, but a great video if you have time

 

[McBrewskie]

Blues is country is blues. Solomon Burke doing a country classic.

[ame="http://youtu.be/zUP3PIw6LKM"]http://youtu.be/zUP3PIw6LKM[/ame]

 

[McBrewskie]

For you fellas who jump into the country music thread, if you're not on Devil Makes Three yet, you should be. New Album is great. Couple cuts, the album has more fiddle and banjo in it.

[ame="http://youtu.be/cf0KYQWeBZ0"]http://youtu.be/cf0KYQWeBZ0[/ame]

http://youtu.be/84PWOG8i-dE

 

[unionrdr]

Another thread reminded me of this one from a long time ago during my time in redneck joints after work at night;