Country Tunes

Wheeler walker Jr. Will cock slap all of them.

Ezza knows his shit.

Throw some in Merle & Bonnie Owens, Conway, Ray Price, Charlie Pride, Possum, Bob Wills, Buck Owens, Waylon......

I still have that album ^, it was my dads, he bought it along with this pictured below at the time/store.



Reuben James, for you still walk the furrowed field of my mind
Faded shirt, the weathered brow
The calloused hands upon the plow
I loved you then and I love you now, Reuben James

Nobody wrote lyrics like the Working Man's Poet.....



https://youtu.be/5S1jBqZphco

I'll never swim Kern River again
It was there that I met her
It was there that I lost my best friend
And now I live in the mountains
I drifted up here with the wind
And I may drown in still water
But I'll never swim Kern River again

I grew up in an oil town
But my gusher never came in
And the river was a boundary
Where my darlin' and I use to swim
One night in the moonlight
The swiftness swept her live away
And now I live on Lake Shasta and
Lake Shasta is where I will stay

There's the South San Joaquin
Where the seeds of the dust bowl are found
And there's a place called Mount Whitney
From where the mighty Kern River comes down
Well, it's not deep nor wide
But it's a mean piece of water my friend
And I may cross on the highway
But I'll never swim Kern River again

I'll never swim Kern River again
It was there I first met her
It was there that I lost my best friend
And now I live in the mountains
I drifted up here with the wind
And I may drown in still water
But I'll never swim Kern River again

I'll never swim Kern River again
It was there I first met her
It was there that I lost my best friend
And now I live in the mountains
I drifted up here with the wind
And I may cross on the highway
But I'll never swim Kern River again

https://youtu.be/myJDBos5Vyw

Can't embed on a phone

Talk about imagery. The Hag puts you right there in the mindset of a boy in the 'Grapes of Wrath' era, out working with his sharecropping parents, refugees from the Okie dust bowl, living in a train box car in CA trying to start over.

https://youtu.be/5zhEOR9hizo

Around here these little country music tv shows were big,say before hee haw

Hey you never heard this,Stanley brothers do the full song but jim and Jesse were just redneck ,loved it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qKJbscNE2rk

Henson Cargill on another one of them shows,they were sponsored by grocery stores,flour and corn mill ,ice cream

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QypW-d1Rreo

That is a dark one,I like dark bluegrass stuff the best.

A little David Allen Coe...fellow Buckeye

I still own and play his LPs often.

Kris Kristopherson is a hero of mine. He is truly an amazing person that few know about how awesome he is. Check this dude out.


"An aspiring writer, Kristofferson enrolled in Pomona College that same year. He experienced his first dose of fame when he appeared in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" for his achievements in collegiate rugby union, American football, and track and field.

Kristofferson graduated in 1958 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in literature. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa his junior year.

Kristofferson earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, where he studied at Merton College. While at Oxford, he was awarded his Blue for boxing,[8] played rugby for his college, and began writing songs.


Kristofferson, under pressure from his family, ultimately joined the U.S. Army and attained the rank of Captain. He became a helicopter pilot after receiving flight training at Fort Rucker, Alabama. He also completed Ranger School. During the early 1960s, he was stationed in West Germany as a member of the 8th Infantry Division. During this time, he resumed his music career and formed a band. In 1965, when his tour of duty ended, Kristofferson was given an assignment to teach English literature at West Point. Instead, he decided to leave the Army and pursue songwriting. His family disowned him because of his career decision and sources are unclear on whether or not they reconciled".

He got a job sweeping floors at Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville. He met June Carter there and asked her to give Johnny Cash a tape of his. She did, but Johnny put it in a large pile with others.Weeks after giving June his tapes, Kristofferson landed a helicopter in Cash's front yard, gaining his full attention. Cash decided to record "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" and that year Kristofferson won Songwriter of the Year at the Country Music Awards.



Not bad for a dude who spent most of his time playing guitar in smokey bars.

Winner !

I had that album, it was mine not my Dad's. I believe one of the tracks is Me and Bobby McGee. First time I heard that song and felt I'd discovered a hidden treasure. About a year later Janis hit the Top 40 with her version and it became
a standard.

BTW just got my tickets for Emmylou Harris in Oct.

Written by Willie Nelson.