redwalker wrote:


WOW!! You said it!!

This was the worst song my ears had the misfortune of hearing today - please do not inflict this on anyone else.

Thank you most kindly.

FamilyMan wrote:

:puke:

Absolutely HORRIBLE

Im really really REALLY sorry... but i cant stand this track :( Sorry. The voice is just really irratating :/

CBJr wrote:Five really good ones mentioned here, especially in consideration of songwriting. But while George Jones does represent part of the true heart of the genre, I might have a list swapping him for, oh, say, Willie Nelson, or better yet, Patsy Cline!

oufason wrote:

Indeed.

crystalboy wrote:

There is truth there. I frst worked in CM in 86 when I thought it had turned a corner with Dwight, Steve Earle, kd lang, Lyle Lovett (to name a few) were bursting on the scene. All the label / mgmt people that brought around that change eventually had jumbo mortgages, private schools and big cars to pay for. When that happens people play it safe and you get the drek we have today.

Whats not to like? This just oozes emotion.

KevDogRedux wrote:

Like most art, once the money stars flowin' the originality gets up and goes. Look what happened to rap.

rgr0707 wrote:
:iamwith: I'm sad to say I have to agree. I try to be opened minded and have discovered a lot of great music thanks to RP. But this just kills me.

FamilyMan wrote:

ploafmaster wrote:

Me too. I really dig Hank Sr, Cash, Jones and Dolly. The only other country in my collection is Dwight Yoakam who always puts on one hell of a show. :nodhead:

not really my flava but he won me over by the end of the song...

1 of 3 songs play by RP that makes me switching stations. I am tuning to SOMA FM and will be right back...

Ooh...Sorry, Hank. A little too whiney for me...

I had to suffer through some staggeringly bad country music as I grew up in the 70s and 80s; for some inexplicable reason my parents really dug the kind of country played on the radio in those days. When I hear this, well, it's a sort of tonic.

Almost erases memories of:

And I'll be drinkin' that free bubbalub
And eatin' that rainbow stew :puke:


Here's to ya, Sr.

Even if it isn't your cup-o-tea it is roots, damn fine roots at that.

Hank's entire body of work consists of him singing variations of the same three songs over and over. Fortunately for us, they happen to be three bloody brilliant songs.

Whatever happened to country music, anyway?

No offense to this legend.....but this is not the style of music I wish to hear on RP

You can feel what he sings 40 years later !!

I kept waiting for Cab Calloway bust out with Hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi. 8-<

bluedot wrote:

As a friend of mine said, "Interesting how talent like that seems to skip a generation."

And when Minnie Pearl bumped into him at the Opry, she said, "Honey, you're a ghost!"

Hank3 is good. Not the pop music savant that Sr. was, but he's making good records. I uploaded his cover of Springsteen's Atlantic City but that track has some of that "bonus" silence at the end of it and really it's pretty hard to take overall. maybe I'll go look for something else RP might like.

ploafmaster wrote:

Same here. Fortunately, there are a number of artists who now do Retro Country stuff. Folks like the Derailers, Junior Brown, Dale Watson and others who hang around Austin from time to time.

For the most part, I can take the pre-1970s country stuff, but I dig the stuff from the 30s to the 50s the most.

what a gem

This was never my bag but I just jumped it up to 8.
Sounds like LIFE to me.

lester wrote:

Dubya?

flandersdog wrote:
wish i could agree!

Any similar parent-child combinations, where the offspring made a whole lot more money with a whole lot less talent, come to mind?

Bill always seems to stick with the talent. Thanks RP.