Friday Classic Country Music Thread

[Earth 2 Chris]

I like anything Johnny Cash, Waylon, Willie, the Highwaymen, Jerry Reed, and Don Williams. I've been on a Don Williams kick lately. He's vastly underrated. I'm particularly fond of "Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good."

There's a new country station in our area that only plays "the legends". Stuff from the 50s through the 80s. I'm really digging it.

Chris

[HardyGirl]

I fell in love w/ this song when I heard it on the opening of the Hallmark movie "Back To You & Me" featuring Lisa Hartman Black. It's sung by her husband, Clint Black:

Spend My Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXbZ7YpYceM

Heard this one on Touched By An Angel:

Walkaway Joe by Trisha Yearwood, featuring Don Henley:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCdCuduv0H0&feature=av2e

[Adam West]

I know I mentioned Patsy Kline because of dad memories but I do have like Rascal Flatts "Broken Road". I realize they are a crossover band but the particular song has a special meaning to me.

[saildog]

When it comes to some of the "Classic" Country Music, well...I don't think most folks get just how subversive and "anti-American values" it was at the time. It's like that stuff just sailed right by them because it had twin fiddles and a steel guitar.

Okie From Muskogee? Used by Oliver Stone to show Bunny being non-hip because he liked it. Maybe Stone caught the difference and included it as such in Platoon, but that song was embraced as one thing and meant to be another. It was satirical and the joke was that it was embraced by those it was mocking.

"It started out as a joke. We wrote to be satirical originally. But then people latched onto it, and it really turned into this song that looked into the mindset of people so opposite of who and where we were. My dad's people. He's from Muskogee, you know?" Haggard once noted about "Okie from Muskogee."[1] In fact, critic Kurt Wolff wrote that Haggard always considered what became a redneck anthem to be a spoof, and that today fans - even the hippies that are derided in the lyrics - have taken a liking to the song and take humor in some of the lyrics.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okie_from_Muskogee_(song)

How about Jennie C. Riley's Harper Valley P.T.A.?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZPB...eature=related

A major hit because it had a pretty young gal in a short skirt, go-go boots, and piled up hair accompanied by a steel guitar. Certified hit.....not performed by the writer...who was a bona-fide star in his own right, for being All-American to the core. That stuff sailed right by all those who normally have been critical of the message.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7aZCs3RzaU

Heck, most of Loretta Lynn's stuff was subversive as all get out (according to what the status quo who embraced her would have esteemed...had they got it at the time) who were too enthralled by the conventional trappings to realize that they were having it all shoved back in their face.

Anytime you want to make fun of Country for being "corn-pone", remember...there was a time when folks like Cash, Lynn, Haggard...etc. were willing to break that assumption off in yer butt. It was all brilliant. Those who should have hated the "water" were munching on "the pail".

This was could have been career suicide at the time, but it was Cash and he was no less thought of for it. People went, "Hmmmm....." when they otherwise would have been up in arms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCqpPj87ekE

[Mikey]

Charlie Daniels - Long Haired Country Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs4y5si8DGs

m

[livnxxxl]

Charlie Daniels - Long Haired Country Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs4y5si8DGs

m

Speaking of Charlie Daniels I really do like that one classic of his. Devil went down to Georgia. That song rocks for a country song. CD can tear that fiddle up. He is like the Eddie Van Halen of fiddles.

[Mikey]

Speaking of Charlie Daniels I really do like that one classic of his. Devil went down to Georgia. That song rocks for a country song. CD can tear that fiddle up. He is like the Eddie Van Halen of fiddles.

I always liked "Devil" but I always liked In America a little better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kB7OR161-U

m

[saildog]

Charlie Daniels - Long Haired Country Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs4y5si8DGs

m

Mike,

RussG posted that already.

[saildog]

Malfunction

[Mongoose1983]

I'm bumping this thread and will try to keep it and turn it to hardcore Country.

Here's the greatest voice in the history of recorded music (and the greatest Country song of all time, too).

George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYQViYm92hg
GJ - She's Mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8jwj-mT_UY

The 90's saw Garth Brooks killing the genre for good, but still there were two singers, with REAL Country voices to listen to.

Ken Mellons - I Can Bring Her Back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbzBGgG8gZA
And the great Wade Hayes, who nowadays is fighting cancer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnrxRiHoqSU

[nobody]

now you can put the video on the thread......

[nobody]