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I hated this song for a while but it did grow on me. I suppose mainly I hated the idea of another rock star going country. Plus blatent flag waving usually turns me off. Aaron Lewis of Staind. Song features George Jones, Charlie Daniels and Chris Young.


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The Story Teller, Tom T. Hall


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Yeah no one writes songs like this anymore and it's a damn shame.

It's knowing that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowing I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you in the backroads
By the rivers of my mem'ry
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Planted on their columns now that bind me
Or something that somebody said
Because they thought we fit together walking
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing
Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find
That you are moving on the backroads
By the rivers of my mem'ry
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
And some other woman's crying to her mother
'Cause she turned and I was gone
I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

I dip my cup of soup back from the gurglin'
Cracklin' caldron in some train yard
My beard a-rufflnin' coal cowl
A dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can
I pretend I hold you to my breast and find
That you're waving from the backroads
By the rivers of my mem'ry
Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind

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Just damn...

And I need you more than want you
and I want you for all time
and the Wichita lineman
is still on the line

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George just being George


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I ain't got a dime but what I got is mine
I ain't rich, but lord I'm free
Amarillo by morning, Amarillo's where I'll be




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Hotness within


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Martina McBride

:whackit:


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Martina has made my penis hard since she debuted in about 1990. Oh and the girl can flat sing.

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Really great song...


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Gotta have this one


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Moar George from "Pure Country"


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I was about to post that... excellent.

And repost on Amarillo By Morning but it was only like an hour ago so...


:)

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90s country ruled


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Nice BSTC... you just posted the only Garth song I love... and one of the few JA songs I love.

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If your eyes were dry before, they're not now


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BSTC is reading my mind tonight and it's scary. Was about to post Patty Loveless too.

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my all-time favorite songs are "Too Drunk to ****" and "I Should've ****ed 'ol Whats-er name"

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David Allan Coe?

Not the song but pretty close

NSFW reeruns


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That song is actually called "Love, me" but I know youtube posters don't always know that stuff.

Forgive me for being a stickler.

admittedly, my post was based upon a Geroge Carlin bit.

Yes I know, best video I could find

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Check this out BTSC. It was never a single so you never heard it on the radio... but it should have been. One of the best songs from Joe's "A Thousand Winding Roads" cd.

"There Goes The Neighborhood"


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Not bad


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Joe Diffie's fan club is called "the Diffie-cult" btw.

Awesome song.

More Travis


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Since her debut cd Shelby Lynne has spent her time being a fringe country artist. You want to hear a soulful voice? Listen to Shelby Lynne.

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If you can make it through the second verse without feeling any emotion then you're better than me. Never have done it. Being a father of divorce may have something to do with that but really..... just awesome stuff.

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This is the problem with country music threads, they always get too ****ing sad

Here we go


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There's nothing wrong with sad imo. sad = honest and honest = good. JMO.

Top 10 song when I started in radio and one of the first to make an impression on me other than what I'd listened to on my own.

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Another of the great under-rated artists imo.

Ricky Van Shelton "Somebody Lied."

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I thought I was the only one that liked Hal Ketchum considering how fast he rose and how quickly he fell. I've seen him in concert a few times and was only disappointed once in his performances. The one that I didn't like, it was like he was mailing in the performance, almost appeared he didn't want to be there.

I once saw a concert with Martine McBride and Suzy Boggus....mmmmm. Speakikng of Suzy...

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Funny story about another concert I saw Suzy Boggus in....it was at the Topeka ExpoCenter to see her as the opening act for the Statler Brothers. During her concerts she had a propensity to wear the "cowgirl" skirts (modified Square Dance dresses without the petticoats under them). She came on stage and opened with what was her latest single and danced around the stage. What she hadn't taken into account was the stage was about 6 foot above the crowd....and with her short skirt the guys on the front row were getting a pretty nice view.

When she finally realized what was going on...she snuck offstage...let her band do an instrumental opening to "Outbound Train" and changed into something else.

When the Statler Brothers came on, Harold Reid being ever the comic relief offered his apologies to the men in the crowd. He said he tried valiantly to hide the rest of Boggus' costumes but that he had been caught.

More Suzy....

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Keeping in the under-appreciated Ladies theme, how about Jo Dee Messina. Here are my 3 favorites of hers..

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One of her less appreciated songs IMO below....

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more Jo Dee....

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And one more in the under-appreciated Ladies theme....SheDaisy

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This is my favorite from them.....

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How about a little Ed Bruce...

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Some very "old-school", but a classic...Floyd Cramer

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Sorry...this thread just doesn't have enough AJ

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more AJ.....

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how about a little Patty Loveless...

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Colin Raye....

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Steve Wariner...

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Here's my 2 favorite Martina McBride songs...

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Let's get this shit started again

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Most of you like pop music.

Nice one from an underrated singer.

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I heard two songs on the radio for the first time yesterday and I'd like (no, I need) to type my thoughts.

1) "Pontoon", by Little Big Town. Pretty ****ing cool, because it just sounds different than most anything else on radio. That's something I've always liked. Maybe I'll get sick of it soon. I've only heard it once.

2)[rant] And, from the You've Got To Be ****ing Kidding Me Dept: Tim McGraw, with something like "Truck Yeah". Is that the title? I don't know. I don't really want to know. The initial guitar riff was kind of interesting, then things went downhill from there, in a hurry.

It had, like too goddamn many songs recently, the obligatory truck reference as well as a line something like, "tell the DJ to PLAY SOME COUNTRY!". WTF. This is a song more suited to an assclown like Luke Bryan. If your country song has to repeatedly beat us in the head with I'M COUNTRY AND I'M LEGIT well, it's not. Embarrassing. What's wrong, maybe, with making a good song that happens to be country? I think ol' Tim has jumped the shark, and the gator, and all the catfish too.

I might post Pontoon if no one else does but I won't post that McGraw song because **** that song, that's why.[/rant]

That was kind of fun. I feel better.

Oh, and I like that Suzy Bogguss song above. I'd forgotten about it.

If you like Suzy Boggus you should see my earlier story about going to see her and The Statler Brothers at the Topeka ExpoCentre many years ago

I'm pretty sure I read it, but I'll go back again after I catch my breath from kicking Tim McGraw in the balls.

Man I'm right there with you on "Truck Yeah." It may indeed be the worst song I've ever heard. Worse than "Achey Breaky Heart" kind of bad. I'm actually embarrassed to play it... but I never let my personal tastes or feelings rule what we play so.... ugh. I was thinking about posting it and labeling it as a new worst song ever. I've never been much of a McGraw fan although I do like a few of his songs but man you're right..... he's jumped off the deep end now. I just pray it doesn't become a bonafide hit.

Oh and Mosbonian I can't rep you again right now for the Ed Bruce so REP here. It's funny, I was just listening to "My First Taste of Texas" a couple nights ago.

You know, if he'd just called it "**** Yeah", I might respect that.

I've wondered, sometimes, if you had to bite your tongue to the point of bleeding when playing some of the dreck out there...

Here's another good one from Suzy Bogguss... Aces.

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I bite my tongue a lot. Actually my partner and I stop biting our tongues from time to time and just say what we think and although that can be dangerous it's funny seeing the generally positive response that gets. People seem to appreciate us being real at least even if they disagree with our takes. For instance it's a well know thing that my partner loathes Taylor Swift and a lot of people agree with her and sometimes people will request a Taylor song just to mess with her haha.

I get my digs in on the current state of the genre as a whole by saying things coming out of the new Alan Jackson song or others that are more traditional with things like "That's Alan Jackson... he sings what we call country music for those of us unfamiliar with the idea and/or under 20 years old."

Another good Jo Dee Messina

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Thanks....thought you would like that. Imagine a night of Ed Bruce and Don Williams. That's to me is country nirvanah.

That would be great. I've seen Don Williams twice. He's such a stud and the best part is he doesn't even have to try.

All it takes to despise Taylor Swift is to hear her sing outside the studio. Hell, there are better singers than her in my daughters HS Ensemble.

I know some people will stone me for saying this, but to me the true watering down of Country Music started with Garth Brooks. His first couple of albums were great but after that I just lost interest.

And were it not for The Statlers, George Strait and Alan Jackson I might have abandoned Country Music.

I'm with you on all accounts. I respect that people like Garth and I understand he did a lot to advance the popularity of the genre. Personally I never liked anything album-wise after his first. "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" was a great lead single. There were a couple more good singles on that album. Once "Friends In Low Places" hit it was over though for me. Again no disrespect for those who love that and him.

I don't think he's a good singer at all vocally and I'm just not into "party country" much.

I also blame Shania Twain for a large part of the crappy pop country that rules the day now. She was one of the first to really take worthless lyrics and over-produced shit to the top of the charts without even trying to sound country.

All imo of course.