Classic Country Thread

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Growing up in Alex, I listened to a lot of of country and watched more Hee Haw than any child should be subjected to ever. A Convoy reference in another thread triggered some great childhood memories.

So this is a thread dedicated to Classic Country and a seemingly simpler time, which for the purposes of this thread are pre 90s.

Sorry to any you 40 year olds in advance, but nostalgia as you push 60 is a treat- you’ve made it this far to have some great memories, from a time when you could never imagine being this old.

Anyone else wanna take a trip down memory lane, y’all jump in here.

The first is one of the best male voices ever and the second was a Huge Crush of mine - she still gives me goosebumps (she seemed more attainable than Olivia Newton-John).

 

[Slim Tubby]

As a metalhead, I can enjoy listening to the following without apologies:

Alabama
Waylon Jennings
Johnny Cash
Hank Jr.

Get a rope if it's anyone else.

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

As a metalhead, I can enjoy listening to the following without apologies:

Alabama
Waylon Jennings
Johnny Cash
Hank Jr.

Get a rope if it's anyone else.

 

[coolhandgopher]

I’m a big fan of the outlaw country movement from the ‘70s and the modern version (in my head at least—Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, Tyler Childers)

I’ll start with David Allen Coe singing this classic penned by John Prine and Steve Goodman:

 

[coolhandgopher]

And while you your eyes were on Mandrell, my crush was on Tanya Tucker:

 

[Ogee Ogilthorpe]

This is pretty much the extent of what I have on country music

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

As a metalhead, I can enjoy listening to the following without apologies:

Alabama
Waylon Jennings
Johnny Cash
Hank Jr.

Get a rope if it's anyone else.

Something hard for you metal head

Hopefully you didn’t only listen to this alone in you room on a Friday night

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

And while you your eyes were on Mandrell, my crush was on Tanya Tucker:

My wouldn’t survive her

Below, maybe the best female country vocalist performance ever? I’ve heard this song hundreds of times in my life and it still transfixes me.

As Andy Gibb (bonus ), says in the intro, one of only a few songs to ever go #1 on the pop, C&W and easy listening charts.

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

I’m a big fan of the outlaw country movement from the ‘70s and the modern version (in my head at least—Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, Tyler Childers)

Two of my favorites -

My personal anthem



My favorite drinking song along with one bourbon, one scotch and one beer.

I’ll start with David Allen Coe singing this classic penned by John Prine and Steve Goodman:

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Mr. George Jones

 

[Bad Gopher]

Bob Wills was a fuckin character. In The Blues Brothers, when she says we play both kinds here, it's funny because it's true: Western Swing is its own thing, its own beautiful thing.

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Bob Wills was a fuckin character. In The Blues Brothers, when she says we play both kinds here, it's funny because it's true: Western Swing is its own thing, its own beautiful thing.

Excellent info and addition to the thread.

This was a clue on Jeopardy
Last evening

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Bob Wills was a fuckin character. In The Blues Brothers, when she says we play both kinds here, it's funny because it's true: Western Swing is its own thing, its own beautiful thing.

Tex Ritter, John’s papi, was one of the pioneers of Country Music.

 

[mggoph]

Smoked a lot of green stuff back in the day to Waylon and Willie, Little Feat, Marshall Tucker, Johnny....

 

[Bad Gopher]

Excellent info and addition to the thread.

This was a clue on Jeopardy
Last evening

No way!!

 

[Bad Gopher]

Honest to god, my favorite song as a tyke, more than capably covered by Social Distortion.

 

[DarrenTheGreek]

Always enjoy listening to Highwayman. Also dig Jerry Reed's "Amos Moses" for a fun uptempo song, although whether it is considered "classic country" would be debatable.

 

[WilliamsArenaGuy]

Honest to god, my favorite song as a tyke, more than capably covered by Social Distortion.

Also loved it as a kid. Even more so when it was used as theme music for the Clem Haskins Show, and he played a trumpet wearing a sombrero during the credits.

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

No way!!

My fork dropped out bf my hand as I screamed the answer - Ken was not amused. In my minds eye it was like this (the first part, before Final Jeopardy) -

Cheers Cliff Clavin Plays Jeopardy

Postal carrier Cliff Clavin from Cheers plays a friendly board of categories on Jeopardy and crushes it...or does he?#mlb #newyorkyankees #worldseries #losan...

youtube.com

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Grest Song for pre- partying.

Let’s get drunk and break

Back when that was a good idea, many ago.

 

[Bad Gopher]

The way I've heard the story, word spread fast that the plane carrying Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, and Cowboy Copas was overdue, and their Opry fellows were fearing the worst. Of course, their pilot was inexperienced and not capable of flying under those conditions, and they crashed hard into the side of that mountain. There were body parts and debris spread all over.

Roger Miller became aware of the situation, and he went out in the middle of the night, into the woods where reports indicated they were lost, and searched for the plane. Around dawn, he climbed a fire tower and spotted the debris field. I'm not sure, but he might have been the first on the scene. Again, body parts, musical instruments...that plane hit hard.

My folks listened to Roger Miller, and I always thought of him as being a clown, with his novelty songs and his delivery of them. But ever since I heard that story, I know that he was clearly a dear-hearted and heroic man of substance to do what he did. I think of the current musical industry and whether there's such a tight, loving community that anyone would do that today, and you know what? If Brandi Carlile went missing like Cline did, I have even money that Jason Isbell would tromp out into the woods to look for her. The alt country community is that kind of a place, and he's that kind of a man.

 

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[Bad Gopher]

One of my dad's favorite movies, him being a Navy man. I love the film, too. Some say it moves slow, but I think the pacing is perfect.

 

[Go4Broke]

One of my dad's favorite movies, him being a Navy man. I love the film, too. Some say it moves slow, but I think the pacing is perfect.

I love that movie. I have lost count of how many times I have watched it.

 

[coolhandgopher]

The way I've heard the story, word spread fast that the plane carrying Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, and Cowboy Copas was overdue, and their Opry fellows were fearing the worst. Of course, their pilot was inexperienced and not capable of flying under those conditions, and they crashed hard into the side of that mountain. There were body parts and debris spread all over.

Roger Miller became aware of the situation, and he went out in the middle of the night, into the woods where reports indicated they were lost, and searched for the plane. Around dawn, he climbed a fire tower and spotted the debris field. I'm not sure, but he might have been the first on the scene. Again, body parts, musical instruments...that plane hit hard.

My folks listened to Roger Miller, and I always thought of him as being a clown, with his novelty songs and his delivery of them. But ever since I heard that story, I know that he was clearly a dear-hearted and heroic man of substance to do what he did. I think of the current musical industry and whether there's such a tight, loving community that anyone would do that today, and you know what? If Brandi Carlile went missing like Cline did, I have even money that Jason Isbell would tromp out into the woods to look for her. The alt country community is that kind of a place, and he's that kind of a man.

I think you hit it on the head-I feel like anyone that was in the John Prine galaxy possesses that kind of ethos. Not that he was the progenitor of that movement (I read a book some time ago about the outlaw country origins and he was brought into the fold by the likes of Guy Clark and Jerry Jeff Walker) but Prine was definitely a connector between generations of outlaw/alt country.