Archive for the 'country music' Category
A Workin’ Man Can’t Get Nowhere Today
Merle Haggard, “A Workin’ Man Can’t Get Nowhere Today
No one’s made a video yet for this song, and someone should.
For that matter, some mainstream female country star would have a huge hit by remaking this song as “A Workin’ Mom Can’t Get Nowhere Today”.
I don’t think Merle will mind if I publish the lyrics. [...]
The Most Beautiful Singing is the Carter Family
While the Band is Playing Dixie
And oh this is heartbreakingly beautiful:
You are My Flower/ I’ll Be Satisfied
I have never seen this footage before and it is so beautiful I may cry, oh my that version of “I’ll Be Satisfied” is just the best thing.
Turn this one up loud, poor quality: Sweet Fern
Little Moses
This one is [...]
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Read More..>>I’m Beginning to Think Max Blumenthal is an Idiot
UPDATE BELOW (and partly re-written thanks to the #@%% server crashing and losing half my text)
I’m not one to go after other lefty bloggers, but Max Blumenthal’s Toby Keith diatribes are becoming more than a little much to take without mockery.
I think it’s long been accepted in the blogsphere that bloggers really aren’t responsible [...]
Don Helms, Last Remaining Drifting Cowboy, Dead at 81
Don Helms, last of Hank Williams’ Drifting Cowboys, has died.
Mr. Helms was the last remaining link to the Drifting Cowboys. His guitar was heard on more than 100 of Williams’ recordings, including “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” “Cold, Cold Heart” and “I Can’t Help (It If I’m Still In Love With You).” His steel playing is an [...]
Someone Go Find Some Pearls for Max Blumenthal to Clutch.
It’s rare that I criticize a fellow lefty, but this article by Max Bluemnthal tagging Toby Keith as a lynching advocate is hysterical. And I don’t mean that in the “extremely funny” sense of the word.
Last week, I reported for the Huffington Post that country singer Toby Keith had performed a pro-lynching anthem on the [...]
John Rich: Clown
According to Country Standard Time, John Rich, country star and homophobe, has written an anthem for John McCain, who Rich apparently is man-crushing.
According to Associated Press, the song includes the lyrics, “He stayed strong, stayed extra long til they let all the other boys out. Now we’ve got a real man with an American plan, [...]
Eddy Arnold 1918-2008
I was never a huge fan of Eddy Arnold (although Uncle Fucker covered his hit “Tennesee Stud”), but the guy was a bona fide legend of country music. He started out as a cowboy singer/yodeler, but after a few years in Nashville he became a super-slick balladeer in the Nashvegas style: lots of strings, [...]
Read More..>>Waylon Jennings: Honky Tonk Heroes
Waylon Jennings puts in a massive performance of “Honky Tonk Heroes”: this is just awesome.
And from the same show, “Lonesome, Ornery, and Mean”:
My Favorite Love Song
SuperSuckers: Hungover Together Again
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