My favorite country songs

[Dan]

CW,

Thank you for the great post!

I'm going to ramble so if it doesn't make sense, it's not suppose to And my rambling might go into race division which I have never understood !I think I started rambling before that sentence was finished.)

I like the way you combined great music from blacks and whites. Everything you posted was magnificent.

I really wish we all could All just get along, values and traits not divided by the color of another.

I don't get the race card thing. Not at all. People are people, that's it.

WOW. Where the Hel! did that come from?

 

[Ceedubya]

I see no black man, I see no white man, I see no brown man... I see a man!

well said Dan, couldn't agree more, rambling and all

And speaking of breaking racial barriers, I can't believe I haven't posted this one yet, Charlie is from my hometown of Helena Montana!!

 

[Dan]

I'm going to be real honest here. I didn't know Charley Pride was a black man. Always assumed from his voice and country western music he was white.

That is so terrible of me. I don't think of myself as a racist. But maybe I am. My world just opened up a little more today.

I think (and could be wrong) this is the first Charley Pride posted here.

Please post more if you can.

 

[Ceedubya]

I'm going to be real honest here. I didn't know Charley Pride was a black man. Always assumed from his voice and country western music he was white.

That is so terrible of me. I don't think of myself as a racist. But maybe I am. My world just opened up a little more today.

I think (and could be wrong) this is the first Charley Pride posted here.

Please post more if you can.

most people who never saw Charley Pride thought that. I can only imagine what those old southern rednecks back in the day were thinking when they went to see him for the first time and he walked out on stage! haha!!

I am kind of ashamed of not posting it sooner, my dad was a huge Charley Pride fan.

Here he is covering I'll fly away a gospel song, another big influence on country.

 

[Dan]

Call this narcissistic or whatever.

Going to post a poem I wrote on my day off, about brewing and HBT. The more I read it the more I like it.

If you think I'm feeling a bit insecure and need re-assurance you are correct.

I read it to my wife and she fell asleep.


Today is my day off. I need to mow the yard and do laundry
but here I am again posting quite on the contrary..

I don’t know why because I’m quite a newbie
Felt like writing a poem that was a little bit groovy,
About making brew with a good bit of cheer
Specific gravities close and really clear beer

I love a great beer when I come here to mellow
I seek out kinship and friendship with really cool fellows
This inspiring site from TxBrew is a great place to come to
Especially when life feels like it’s about to give up on you

There is a lot to be said on the Home Brew Talk Thread
Like Old school brewers who post recipes right out of their head
Youngling brewers like me who recently picked up this hobby
Find comfort in postings from Yooper, Revvy and Bobby

Many builders and ingenious brew rig enthusiast on here
Unselfishly speak wisdom they share for less than a beer
I’ve made a few “imaginary friends” on this home brewing site
And sometimes find my self reading and posting late into the night

The DIY threads are especially awesome
And help homebrewer’s build’s come in to full blossom
I’ve tried a few recipes some posted here
And have to say the ones from BierMuncher
are certainly dear

Homebrewing is a passion that runs deep in our blood
We make brew with natural ingredients, not from some from crud
I believe my humble attempt with poetic rhyming is about to run out
It was fun for awhile maybe now time for a stout

So now it is your turn to keep this thing going
Add a verse or two, keep this poem growing

(EDIT 1, from Passedpawn)

Boy works hard, end of his work day,
Another boy down the lost highway,
He gets some grub, something to chew on,
then it's time to get his brew on.

The paths not clear, it never is,
but homebrew boy, he knows his biz
Mash and boil, lauter and chill,
Pitch and wait and keg and fill!
__________________
Cheers!

 

[Ceedubya]

put some chords behind it and record it!

 

[Ceedubya]

while I'm paying homage to genres of music gotta throw in some bluegrass..... and by that I mean real bluegrass, not the stuff that passes as such today. There was a time when music was real, gritty, and from the heart.

Love the Louvin Brothers, we just lost Charlie a few months back.



the father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe


and of course, another SHB video, along with Possessed by Paul James. This is from the movie the Folk Singer, a definite watch.

 

[Dan]

Thanks CW. I have to go for now. talkk to you later

 

[Dan]

This next post is very long. It's about Johnny Cash. His children play a part in it as well as the people who knew him.

It's about and hour long. Understand if you don't watch the entire video

"I'm the Man in BlacK"

 

[Ceedubya]

a couple of folk songs and singers, another big influence on a lot of country.

Pete Seeger with Johnny Cash, a long one but worth a watch



tired of SHB yet? good, me neither. Here he is covering Woody Guthrie. This one is a standard at his shows, or at least all the ones I have been to.


I have a better video of that one, somewhere... should find it.

 

[jgln]

I'm going to be real honest here. I didn't know Charley Pride was a black man. Always assumed from his voice and country western music he was white.

That is so terrible of me. I don't think of myself as a racist. But maybe I am. My world just opened up a little more today.

I think (and could be wrong) this is the first Charley Pride posted here.

Please post more if you can.

Because you assumed he was white?? What if you assumed he was black??

I work with people over the phone for years but have never even seen a picture of them but yet I have a mental image of what I think they would look like. 99% of the time I am wrong but does that make it wrong..of course not. That is silly IMO you think that. But let's not turn this thread into a debate over that...back to the music.

 

[jgln]

My name is Dan for real. What is yours?

"I Still Miss Someone"

Definitely thoughts in my heart.


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

Jim

 

[Dan]

Jim,

Thank you. You're right of course. Thanks for getting keeping this thread on track after I started throwing it off the rails. Thank you friend. -Dan

I think I posted this song earlier but this thread is getting so long don't feel like going back to check cause some of the pages take a very long time to load up. This next song popped into my head even if it isn't country, after Jim's posts.

 

[Dan]

I like almost all the "old country songs" and was raised on Merle Haggard, Oak Ridge Boys and Hank Williams Jr. I am not a huge fan of country music, especially modern country. I am also not a huge fan of Rap music. However the two combined into what I call "Crap" can be pretty entertaining... Just give it a try before running me out of town...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymy3bfC0i_U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSlArizRI-E



and my personal favorite, also about home brew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQYYVF6DXS8

Love it

 

[Dan]

I went back over this thread for ideas and saw you are a Johnny Cash fan. Well this is one of my favorite Kottke albums called "Great Big Boy" a rare album where he plays with a band. Not as much a feature of his guitar work as his singing and songwriting. Anyway, back to Johhny Cash, the last song on the album is a cover.

All songs by Leo Kottke except as noted.

"Running Up the Stairs" – 3:16
"The Other Day (near Santa Cruz)" – 2:55
"Great Big Boy" – 3:40
"Driver" – 3:34
"Pepe Hush" – 4:43
"Big Mob on the Hill" – 2:42
"Ice Cream" – 4:36
"Nothin' Works" – 2:54
"Summer's Growing Old" – 2:53
"I Still Miss Someone" (Johnny Cash & Roy Cash, Jr.) – 3:28

Jim, I am a Johnny Cash fan, he just has a special place in my heart and I like posting his songs. But I like all music. This thread is pretty long, it started out with a country theme but I sure have drifted off course on a few of my postings. Please feel free to post any music you enjoy!

The song I Still Miss Someone is a great one. Thanks for posting the songlist. I have to check some of those out.

 

[masonsjax]

Reminiscent of Patsy Cline, Lynda Kay and her haunting voice have been enjoying some well deserved attention from her appearance on the show Justified this season where she was featured singing this song.



Corb Lund is a great lyricist and I've been enjoying a lot of his stuff lately. This is the song that first caught my attention:



There's a good reason why Brent Mason is the most sought studio guitar in Nashville, he's amazing! Check out this Chet Atkins style instrumental.

 

[Ceedubya]

Molly Gene is wearing boots, so she must be country! YEE HAW! she is insane to watch live.

 

[unionrdr]

"Country Roads" Even though I'm not from Virginia, and not everybody is, probably the reason people love this song so much is because it does take you home to earlier days, it does for me that's for sure.

Operator, another great song that brings us home.

Thank you for bringing back great memories Urbanmyth!

In the song,he's actually singin about West Virginia. Since we have our mountain with our sirname on it down in Corely,it means somethin to me. Sure would feel good to go back home again. But like Loretta sings in coal miner's daughter-not much left but the floors...nuthin lives here,anymore. 'Cept the memories of a coal miners daughter. Pop worked in the coal mine down in Angine,WVA,along with my uncles. So that song as well makes me miss goin down home. And for us,it was the Littl Kanowa River. It ran down near the base of the mountain,used to be a lot of sunfish & speckled trout in it. Those songs have a lot of meaning when one knows the meaning. Lil splinter's of the mind's eye...

 

[Dan]

In the song,he's actually singin about West Virginia. Since we have our mountain with our sirname on it down in Corely,it means somethin to me. Sure would feel good to go back home again. But like Loretta sings in coal miner's daughter-not much left but the floors...nuthin lives here,anymore. 'Cept the memories of a coal miners daughter. Pop worked in the coal mine down in Angine,WVA,along with my uncles. So that song as well makes me miss goin down home. And for us,it was the Littl Kanowa River. It ran down near the base of the mountain,used to be a lot of sunfish & speckled trout in it. Those songs have a lot of meaning when one knows the meaning. Lil splinter's of the mind's eye...

Oops! Sorry about that. I can't believe I left out the "West" in West Virginia to fast typing I suppose. I'll try to back and find the post and correct it. It sound very beautiful.

 

[unionrdr]

It's cool,man. I just happened to have memories connected to songs like that. It's a lot like Loretta goin back home & singin about it. They just get me everytime kinda songs. Or like the old timer that played at the Grand Ol Oprey that I worked & drank with when I listen to God is great,beer is good,& people are crazy. Really does remind me of the convwersations over many Buds after work. Asecond heart attack finally took him from us. Mental "photographs & memories". Yet another good songster.

 

[countrygringo]

Heard this on Sirius a day or two ago, think it deserves to be on the list-

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[Dan]

Thank you CountryGringo another great song! I've heard of the Bellamy Brothers when I was a kid but never knew they were so great!

When I started this thread I had my favorite country songs and they still are. But there is so much great country music out there I didn't even know about.

And I want to thank all of you for sharing so much!


(in my head Johnny Cash's tune Keep this Train a Rolling, Rolling Down the Tracks; is playing)
Keep the tunes a rolling,
Rollin on and on.
Ain't heard this much country,
In I don't know how long

Well I started this thread going,
in my Hanford home.
This music list keeps growing
Keep it being known

 

[Dan]

CG, this is for you.

 

[beerkrump]

Dead Flowers _ Rolling Stones

Stones put put some great country/blues tunes in the late sixties-early seventies.

 

[Dan]

 

[Dan]

.
When I was a young Sailor home-ported out of Atsugi Japan, there was an old Japanese bar that I frequented often one winter. The "Mama-san" was ancient and the place was very comforting. When I walked in the door I was met by the warmth and odor of a kerosene heater.

I would walk up to the bar and order a beer and a simple soup of noodles called ramen. The place was never crowded. There was a jukebox in the corner filled full of old songs. I wish I had that jukebox now. The songs were outdated by many years but it was a box full of treasures. One of the songs I fell in love with was Waltzing Matilda.

Three or four years later in 1988, I married my first wife, a beautiful Australian girl. The marriage was destined for failure but we held out for twelve years and had three wonderful children together.

I’m sure we could have lived a life together forever if I hadn’t been so young with unrealistic expectations of how easy marriage is, and she wasn’t so far away from home. Here is to the happy beginning.

Our marriage was in Western Australia in a town close to Perth called Cottesloe. We were married in an old majestic Anglican chapel. Every man had on a tuxedo and the women wore beautiful dresses.

Before the wedding my soon to be father in law Graham, told me I needed to give a speech.. What?? He wanted to help me write it. I said no worries I will. By the time I had to give the speech I hadn't written a thing. When my turn came to talk I thanked the new in-laws, made heartfelt claims of love to my new bride and rambled a bit; it was over in about 30 seconds. I was happy albeit humiliated by my lack of words.

After the other speeches were given we had dinner. It was delicious. My father in law who either owned a winery at the time or had close connections to good wine provided the celebratory wine. The priest who preformed the ceremony liked it quite a lot and mentioned it should be served for communion.

The night progressed and soon came time for the newlywed dance. What did they play? Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda come dancing with me...

I was going to show the same version t but can't find it. The same song I heard at the old Japanese bar and at the reception are romantic versions of the original. The melody I'm familiar with is what I’m sending. To bad it is so short.

 

[jgln]

Maybe I should post this in Drunken Ramblings.

When I was a lot younger and home-ported out of Atsugi Japan, there was an old Japanese bar that I frequented often one winter. The "mamasan" was ancient and the place was very comforting. When I walked in the door the warmth and odor of a kerosene heater met you.

I would walk up to the bar and order a bull of ramen, a simple soup of noodles, and a beer. The place was never crowded. There was a jukebox filled full of old songs. I wish I had that jukebox now. The songs were outdated by many years but it was a box full of treasures. One of the songs I fell in love with was Waltzing Matilda.

Three or four years later in 1988, I married my first wife, a beautiful Australian girl - 12 year marriage. The marriage was in Western Australia in a town called Cottesloe, close to Perth. We were married in an old majestic Anglican chapel. Every man had on a tuxedo and the women wore beautiful dresses.

Before the wedding my soon to be father in law told me I needed to give a speech.. What?? He wanted to help me write it, I said no worries I will. By the time I had to give the speech hadn't written a thing. So I thanked the new in-laws, made claim of love to my new bride and rambled a bit; it was over in about 30 seconds. When it was over I was happy albeit humiliated by my lack of words.

After the other speeches were given we had dinner. It was delicious. My father in law who owned a winery at the time provided great wine.

The night progressed. Came time for the newlywed dance. What did they play? Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda come dancing with me...

I was going to post the same version tonight but can't find it. The same song as I'd heard it at the old bar and at my reception are a romantic version of the original. The melody I'm familiar with is what gets posted. To bad it is so short.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQBlnwrffAg&feature=related

Ah, so there was a connection in the story...

 

[Dan]

Yep. There was.

 

[Dan]

I'm still home with "the plague" (pneumonia, of all things) so I'm whiny, bored, and out of sorts. One thing I just came across on Spotify is what I think is probably my favorite Johnny Cash song but sung this time by his daughter at his memorial.

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

Yoop I don't know if I missed this or didn't comment on it, the thread is long and my computer processor has been underpitched and is having a hard time chewin through these posts. har har

If I didn't say so before. Thanks for this song

 

[spearko520]

a bit darker, but your post made me think of this good one- not sung by eric bogle, but a good song...