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How bout some Country?

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Fuck Yeah. I love this song:

The red-headed stranger from Blue Rock, Montana,
Rode into town one day.
And under his knees was a ragin' black stallion,
And walkin' behind was a bay.
The red-headed stranger had eyes like the thunder,
And his lips, they were sad and tight.
His little lost love lay asleep on the hillside,
And his heart was heavy as night.
Don't cross him, don't boss him.
He's wild in his sorrow:
He's ridin' an' hidin his pain.
Don't fight him, don't spite him;
Just wait till tomorrow,
Maybe he'll ride on again.

A yellow-haired lady leaned out of her window,
An' watched as he passed her way.
She drew back in fear at the sight of the stallion,
But cast greedy eyes on the bay.
But how could she know that this dancin' bay pony,
Meant more to him than life.
For this was the horse that his little lost darlin',
Had ridden when she was his wife.

Don't cross him, don't boss him.
He's wild in his sorrow:
He's ridin' an' hidin his pain.
Don't fight him, don't spite him;
Just wait till tomorrow,
Maybe he'll ride on again.

The yellow-haired lady came down to the tavern,
An' looked up the stranger there.
He bought her a drink, an' he gave her some money,
He just didn't seem to care.
She followed him out as he saddled his stallion,
An' laughed as she grabbed at the bay.
He shot her so quick, they had no time to warn her,
She never heard anyone say:

Don't cross him, don't boss him.
He's wild in his sorrow:
He's ridin' an' hidin his pain.
Don't fight him, don't spite him;
Just wait till tomorrow,
Maybe he'll ride on again.

The yellow-haired lady was buried at sunset;
The stranger went free, of course.
For you can't hang a man for killin' a woman,
Who's tryin' to steal your horse.
Tthis is the tale of the red headed stranger,
And if he should pass your way,
Stay out of the path of the ragin' black stallion,
And don't lay a hand on the bay.

Don't cross him, don't boss him.
He's wild in his sorrow:
He's ridin' an' hidin his pain.
Don't fight him, don't spite him;
Just wait till tomorrow,
Maybe he'll ride on again.



I'm gonna listen to Willie, Waylon, Hank, and Haggard all day now!
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K, so I'm the only dude that likes old country music?

Baceman, Where u at bro?
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You gotta love Willie,Waylon,Johnny,David Allen,Kris and George Jones.
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Yes! David Allen Coe. Need to Hear "If That Ain't Country" now!
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Definitely into country, particuarly the older stuff - As predictable as it is to say, the newer stuff just has become way too commercial. Granted, there are some good players out that performing it and some good songwriters writing it. It's just a little too polished for me. Dwight Yoakam's my favorite country artist.
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Laugh if you want to, really is kinda funny, 'cause the world is a car and you're the crash test dummy.
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Yeah! Red Headed Stranger is a great song, I like the flow of the lyrics, he's singing a story.
Waylon with Momma's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys got me into country music, the 70" and 80's were a great time for country music.
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Start a country band, do the old stuff. I used to do a Hank Sr. deal when i lived in Richmond, Va for a couple years. Got free beer !!
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Social Distortion's version of "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash was cool. I like so many of us "OLDER" folks in here, we grew up on that style of music until we found out what rock and roll was. Then we grew our hair long, listened to Kiss, Judas Priest and all the others and fell into the fifth ring of hell.
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No only do I like the song, I also like the movie. It was good ..

Now I am going to listen to Poncho and Lefty ...
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If you like country and blues, give a listen to Willie Nelson's cd called "Milk Cow Blues". It is great, with a lot of guest artists, like B.B. King.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYdv4w7T ... re=related

Willie still has a few good blues licks left in his guitar.
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Man, I LOVE Waylon & Willie, Hank Sr & Jr and Merle Haggard & George Jones, but don't be afraid to dig a little deeper, too. Buck Owens had one of the best bands in country history, and was a master song-picker. Lefty Frizzell's voice defined male country vocals for many years, and he also recorded amazing songs. Kitty Wells and Loretta Lynn were FOR REAL. Ray Price & Charlie Pride also rule. Later stuff like Vern Gosdin, Keith Whitley, John Conlee, early Randy Travis. The Class of '89 stuff is coming back now, too... Travis Tritt, Joe Diffie, Clint Black, Alan Jackson's early stuff, Steve Earle, Marty Stuart, etc.
You can listen to country recorded later, but after the big MCA Universal/Seagram's indutry takeovers in '97, it all went straight to hell, and you'll be awhile finding anything resembling country music on a major label after that.
Lately, I'm into OLD stuff... Charlie Poole, Skillet Lickers, 1930's and 40's. I like how stripped-down and basic it is... a few musicians playing to a single microphone into a tape or wire recorder. You get nothing but song that way, no tricks, no slickness added on. Go to archive.org for that stuff.
I'm liking the outlaw/americana stuff making a comeback. Somebody needs to play that around here. There's a whole underground thing starting to simmer in the background... there are a few bands, but they haven't started working together yet, I think. Personally, I think the HankIII fans are a huge untapped resource around here.
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I'm liking the outlaw/americana stuff making a comeback. Somebody needs to play that around here.
The Whiskey River Panhandlers are doin' just that!!!
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Post by slackin@dabass »

i really only like 1 country song... maybe two... but for now, definatly this one:

Well some say Willie got high on the Whitehouse roof,
And old Merle Haggard liked to smoke his hooch,
Yes there's a tale or two to tell on ol' Jerry Lee.
Well, my favorite country singer is Johnny Cash,
Well back in '68 he liked to smoke that hash.
If it's all right by you by God it's ok by me.

So let's all get stoned,
and listen to George Jones.
We'll get higher than a hippie on a helicopter ride.
So roll up some home grown,
and play a honky tonk song.
I said you sing the low point,
buddy I'll sing my high.

Yeah that old draft beer just makes me wanna cry,
and good hard liquor always makes me wanna fight,
and Jose Cuervo, you are no friend of mine.
I guess that I like the smell and I like the taste
of a big ol' fattie stuck right in my face.
So if you got, then smoke it , and pass it on down the line.

So let's all get stoned,
and listen to George Jones.
We'll get higher than a hippie on a helicopter ride.
So roll up some home grown,
and play a honky tonk song.
I said you sing the low point,
buddy I'll sing my high.

Well I said you sing the low point,
buddy I'll sing my high.

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Lyrics to Sic 'em On A Chicken :
Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken and watch them feathers fly

Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken. Bring out the butter and the flour we're ready to fry.

My dog Pete is the smallest dog of all the dogs in my yard
He's a mean son' bitch
Drinks (jim)Beam and water from a broken mason jar, then I...

Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken and watch them feathers fly

Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken.
Bring out the butter and the flour we're ready to fry.

I heard this awful noise coming from the woods
I heard chicken screams
Know it ain't gonna be good

Well I think we lost the chicken
Think we lost the chicken
Think we lost the chicken because I just heard him cry

Think we lost the chicken
Think we lost the chicken
Think we lost the chicken but you can get another one for a dollar 79

In a couple of years his spurs have grown
He wasn't safe to keep around the house
When he almost took an eyeball from Lonny's son
And I was sitting at home making fig preserves
And I'd seen where that rooster kicked him in the eye
And I knew that that was the day that chicken was going to get what he deserved

So I chased the chicken
I chased the chicken
I chased the chicken and Pete hit 'em from the side

I chased the chicken
I chased the chicken
I chased the chicken and me and Pete suppered on a home made chicken pot pie

Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken and watch them feathers fly

Sic 'em on a chicken
Get that chicken
I can smell the kitchen and it's almost supper time
Laugh if you want to, really is kinda funny, 'cause the world is a car and you're the crash test dummy.
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My father picked up this VHS tape a few years ago at the big flea market in Hazen. I think it's called The Other Side of Nashville. It's an incredible documentary from the late 70s/early 80s, I think. It shows both the glam and downside of being in Nashtown. Everyone's in it from Ricky Skaggs to Emmylou Harris to Cark Perkins to Terri Gibbs to Bobby Bare. There's even some footage of Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan working on a song in the studio, screwing up, and laughing about it. Everyone's real down to Earth and cool in the interviews.

I'm heading back to H-dale tonight. Maybe I'll watch it.
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Colton wrote:
Lyrics to Sic 'em On A Chicken :
Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken and watch them feathers fly

Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken. Bring out the butter and the flour we're ready to fry.

My dog Pete is the smallest dog of all the dogs in my yard
He's a mean son' bitch
Drinks (jim)Beam and water from a broken mason jar, then I...

Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken and watch them feathers fly

Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken.
Bring out the butter and the flour we're ready to fry.

I heard this awful noise coming from the woods
I heard chicken screams
Know it ain't gonna be good

Well I think we lost the chicken
Think we lost the chicken
Think we lost the chicken because I just heard him cry

Think we lost the chicken
Think we lost the chicken
Think we lost the chicken but you can get another one for a dollar 79

In a couple of years his spurs have grown
He wasn't safe to keep around the house
When he almost took an eyeball from Lonny's son
And I was sitting at home making fig preserves
And I'd seen where that rooster kicked him in the eye
And I knew that that was the day that chicken was going to get what he deserved

So I chased the chicken
I chased the chicken
I chased the chicken and Pete hit 'em from the side

I chased the chicken
I chased the chicken
I chased the chicken and me and Pete suppered on a home made chicken pot pie

Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken.
Sic 'em on a chicken and watch them feathers fly

Sic 'em on a chicken
Get that chicken
I can smell the kitchen and it's almost supper time
Everything that's wrong with the shit known as pop country. cornball shit, and a Jim Beam reference to act like he's hard. Is chicken all that dude sings about?
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bassist_25 wrote:My father picked up this VHS tape a few years ago at the big flea market in Hazen. I think it's called The Other Side of Nashville. It's an incredible documentary from the late 70s/early 80s, I think. It shows both the glam and downside of being in Nashtown. Everyone's in it from Ricky Skaggs to Emmylou Harris to Cark Perkins to Terri Gibbs to Bobby Bare. There's even some footage of Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan working on a song in the studio, screwing up, and laughing about it. Everyone's real down to Earth and cool in the interviews.

I'm heading back to H-dale tonight. Maybe I'll watch it.
Yeah, they were the greats. Some of the best stuff from that era ..
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DirtySanchez wrote:Everything that's wrong with the shit known as pop country. cornball shit, and a Jim Beam reference to act like he's hard. Is chicken all that dude sings about?

Don't be a dick. He also sings about jeans that fit just right. Oh, and the radiooowoooohhwooohhwoooooohh.


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I dont really know much of his stuff, but I fucking love that sic'm on the chicken song.
Laugh if you want to, really is kinda funny, 'cause the world is a car and you're the crash test dummy.
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Someone needs to put the "O" back in "cuntry." 'Nuff said.
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Mr.MoJo RiZin' wrote:Someone needs to put the "O" back in "cuntry." 'Nuff said.
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