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Discussions About Being Bald => General Discussion => Topic started by: hammerdrill376 on November 27, 2008, 08:46:55 PM
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Hey SLY guys. I was just curious how many of you like some of the older country music. Mainly I mean mid to late 80's era. Here is a guy who was one of my favorites whose life was untimely cut short...the late, great Keith Whitley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpMOINNWFLY
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Waylon Jennings for me.............
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You mean back when country music was actually country and not Caribbean-reggae and 80s pop/rock with a few steel guitar licks thrown in in the hope that no one will notice the difference?
Did you know that the original version of "I Never Go Around Mirrors" as recorded by Lefty Frizzell only had one verse? Keith Whitley asked Sanger D. Schafer, the co-writer, to write a second verse because he wanted to record the song and RCA was fighting him on it because they thought it was too short.
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Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, the early George Strait and Randy Travis. All awesome.
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Tom T. Hall, Loretta Lynne, Conway Twitty.
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I'm also a fan of "outlaw" country such as David Allen Coe, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson.
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Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lynn, T.G. Shephard, Conway Twitty, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers
oh the memories. My parents used to own a country radio station in the early 80's. I met a lot of those folks. Of course I was 10 or so and didn't realize WHO I was meeting. That was when country was COUNTRY.
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Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Charlie Pride and Waylon Jennings
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Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lynn, T.G. Shephard, Conway Twitty, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers
oh the memories. My parents used to own a country radio station in the early 80's. I met a lot of those folks. Of course I was 10 or so and didn't realize WHO I was meeting. That was when country was COUNTRY.
Amen.
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I won't even listen to country radio anymore....... it's really just Pop music........
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Is there a satellite radio service (XM, Sirius?) that has a dedicated "channel" that separates the older country music from the current?
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I have Sirius and the answer is no. There is a station that plays some traditional stuff but it's not a "classic country" station.
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There's classic country on the music channels on most digital cable and satellite systems. That's what I listen to primarily. When I'm in the mood to listen to something new, I tune into the Americana channel. They have some stuff that I like a lot and some other stuff I'm not so crazy about. But at least it isn't the same old junk that gets played on "Today's Country" radio, which I don't listen to at all anymore.
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Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Charlie Pride and Waylon Jennings
Glen Campbell, Dottie West, Roger Miller, Lynn Anderson, Roy Clark
I miss the old TNT {Nashville Network}. At 9 every night there was a great live show with Bob Emery featuring many old school country artists.
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Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Charlie Pride and Waylon Jennings
Glen Campbell, Dottie West, Roger Miller, Lynn Anderson, Roy Clark
I miss the old TNT {Nashville Network}. At 9 every night there was a great live show with Bob Emery featuring many old school country artists.
Rafter: I'd forgotten about that channel. You're right, they had some great performances and programming.
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Well I think George Strait and Alan Jackson pretty much summed it up with this song O0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgiILl_F7O8
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Course anytime a George Strait song or video comes on I still have to wipe up the drool from my wifes mouth after all these years :/O
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Well I think George Strait and Alan Jackson pretty much summed it up with this song O0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgiILl_F7O8
Love that song.
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And back in my BM days...that would be "before marriage" I had more than one night as described in this song. Man this song would probably PISS off feminists now adays O0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BMnsLzkvrQ
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http://www.youtube.com/v/9m_OvYkoyeE
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Years ago I used to work as bouncer on the weekends at a country club in Myrtle Beach. One of the cool things was meeting some of the up and coming stars before they became big.. But one man stands out in my memory. His name was Vern Gosdin. He put on one hell of a show then after the club closed we all sat around with him and jammed till about 5AM. He was one hell of a nice guy. I also met Garth Brooks at the same club but cannot say the same about him. First word comes to mind for Garth is....arrogant!
Anyway..here's a bit of Vern Gosdin for ya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2p8k9IET1w
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I also met Garth Brooks at the same club but cannot say the same about him. First word comes to mind for Garth is....arrogant!
That doesn't surprise me a bit.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/9A2a5UqDWc8
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Years ago I used to work as bouncer on the weekends at a country club in Myrtle Beach. One of the cool things was meeting some of the up and coming stars before they became big.. But one man stands out in my memory. His name was Vern Gosdin. He put on one hell of a show then after the club closed we all sat around with him and jammed till about 5AM. He was one hell of a nice guy. I also met Garth Brooks at the same club but cannot say the same about him. First word comes to mind for Garth is....arrogant!
Anyway..here's a bit of Vern Gosdin for ya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2p8k9IET1w
Now THAT"S real Country music!
Thanks Hammer!
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Is there a satellite radio service (XM, Sirius?) that has a dedicated "channel" that separates the older country music from the current?
I use Pandora and just set it to Classic Country.
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And back in my BM days...that would be "before marriage" I had more than one night as described in this song. Man this song would probably PISS off feminists now adays O0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BMnsLzkvrQ
Loved Mickey Gilley. Remember "Gilley's Place" that was featured in that flick "Urban Cowboy" with John Travolta. Did you know that he and Jerry Lee Lewis are cousins.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/9A2a5UqDWc8
Got to be Loretta and Conway.
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Not into country much guys. I recognize some of the names because my lovely wife listens to it. Prefer rock. This song is by a band called Alterbridge.
This song is for my Uncle who lived in Boston and who died last year (he wasn't really my Uncle. He was my dads cousin, making him my second cousin. But he was better than any real uncle could have been). After my father he was the second largest male influence in my life. Despite the distance between us the bond was unbreakably strong and, to me, extremely special.
When he died he asked that he be cremated in the US and his ashes be scattered here in Scotland. We carried his wishes out earlier this year and even now I am sitting here with my eyes full of tears finding it difficult to focus on the keyboard. I hope you all like the song. Let me know, and if you do, listen to some more Alterbridge.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6YnIJpp2IZ4
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I never heard of Alterbridge. The song really captures how it feels to lose someone so special. Great tribute to your uncle Stephen.
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I never heard of Alterbridge. The song really captures how it feels to lose someone so special. Great tribute to your uncle Stephen.
Band were named after a bridge ona place called Alter Road in Detroit.
Check em out on www.alterbridge.com
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I never heard of Alterbridge. The song really captures how it feels to lose someone so special. Great tribute to your uncle Stephen.
I never heard of them either but that is a wondeful tribute to your Uncle... O0
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The Old Possum.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2aNifcy20
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Years ago when I was in the Tactical force in the Sheriff's Dept, they had Johnny Paycheck at the county fair, I think it was around 1986.
Somehow I got elected to be his escort for the night, escorting him between his bus and the stage etc. The guy talked to me all the time and I had no problem with him at all, but he would totally ignore the fans and would not give anyone autographs or the time of day.
I never knew very much about the man, but I thought he was pretty arrogant also.
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This is a little before the 80's, and in all honesty, i really dont like country. I can appreciate it and the talent thats in it, but its just not my thing. But Patsy Cline does it for me.
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I can appreciate it and the talent thats in it, but its just not my thing.
+1
I also agree with Mike that Country music is overproduced pop music now.
And although I'm not a country fan, I do enjoy blue grass... i know, i know same thing, right? Blue grass has more of a raw feel, that i appreciate.
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And back in my BM days...that would be "before marriage" I had more than one night as described in this song. Man this song would probably PISS off feminists now adays O0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BMnsLzkvrQ
Loved Mickey Gilley. Remember "Gilley's Place" that was featured in that flick "Urban Cowboy" with John Travolta. Did you know that he and Jerry Lee Lewis are cousins.
Jimmy Swaggart is a cousin of theirs as well.
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Yep..alot of people don't know that Jerry Lee Lewis was also an Assembly of God minister like first cousin Jimmy Swaggart. Hard to believe Swaggart, Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley are all from the same lineage.
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Yep..alot of people don't know that Jerry Lee Lewis was also an Assembly of God minister like first cousin Jimmy Swaggart. Hard to believe Swaggart, Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley are all from the same lineage.
..and his wife too! ;D
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Yep..alot of people don't know that Jerry Lee Lewis was also an Assembly of God minister like first cousin Jimmy Swaggart. Hard to believe Swaggart, Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley are all from the same lineage.
Actually, Jerry Lee went to the Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, Texas. He was expelled in the third month of being enrolled. He never did become a AOG minister.
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I knew he went to Southwestern and thought he was ordained at one point but I was mis-informed on that part.