The greatest song ever written

#3
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Brothers don't listen to country too much. I just ran across while looking at the Harper Valley PTA video.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Brothers don't listen to country too much. I just ran across while looking at the Harper Valley PTA video.
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If you like that one, you should check out these from Merle. Not only was he a good singer, but the guy had a way with words.

Fightin' Side of Me

"Your walking on the fighting side of me
Running down a way of life I fight and fought and died to try to keep
If you don’t love it, leave it; let this song that I’m singing be a warning
When you’re running down my country man you’re walking on the fighting side of me"


Are the Good Times Really Over for Good

"I wish Coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be
It was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV
Before microwave ovens when a girl could still cook and still would
The best of the free life’s behind us now and are the good times really over for good"
 
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Merle wrote some great songs.

I introduced some players at UT to Merle Haggard and Hank Williams Jr. and they introduced me to deep cuts from 3 6 Mafia I had never heard before.
 
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IBlvNTmWrk said:
If you like that one, you should check out these from Merle. Not only was he a good singer, but the guy had a way with words.

Fightin' Side of Me

"Your walking on the fighting side of me
Running down a way of life I fight and fought and died to try to keep
If you don’t love it, leave it; let this song that I’m singing be a warning
When you’re running down my country man you’re walking on the fighting side of me"


Are the Good Times Really Over for Good

"I wish Coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be
It was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV
Before microwave ovens when a girl could still cook and still would
The best of the free life’s behind us now and are the good times really over for good"
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I never knew... thanks.
 
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7thgroupvolfan said:
You'd think he'd be pro republican. Ronald Reagan pardoned him from prison in 1972.
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I think he did support Reagan but changed over the years. Who knows, with Obama in office he might decide he's had enough with supporting democrats.

Rick Hendrick was pardoned by Bill Clinton but he is a republican. I guess those pardons don't change ones beliefs. They're probably expensive in some cases.
 
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You want to listen to Jimmie Rogers and Hank Williams Sr among others. Rogers, 'the father of country music,' uses a lot of dixieland jazz and some sounds bluesey and Williams learned to play guitar from a black guy.

You want to hear some Bob Wills western swing and people like the Delmore Brothers and their "Muddy Water Blues."

When the recording industry was first started, people from up north with the money and business expertise came down and right off the bat they said; "Only white people can record 'hillbilly' and only black people can record 'blues.'

Before that music (and people) was far more integrated.

Pamela Foster has written a very good book on early black country artists;

Mike Johnson, Country Music's No.1 Black Yodeler - Black Country Artists

I first heard of Pam back when she was researching for her book and a friend who owned and published a business magizine told me; "you've got to talk to Pam, she is a black girl from Pittsburg and she has covered contry music for me better than anyone I ever had."

People want to call Charlie Pride the only black artist but here is how he got into the business big time.

Cowboy Clements recorded an album on him and took it to the music company execs and got a contract before they knew what they had done, when they found out Charlie was black they nearly swallowed their tongues.

By then it was too late to back out but they did initiate a policy that you have to have a 'showcase' before getting a contract so they can still keep their devisive policy in place.

MLK said; "the racial hatred I encountered in northern cities like Chicago and Detroit was far worse than anything I had ever witnessed in Georgia or Mississippi."

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thosmas said; "the prejudice of the northern elites was far worse than I had ever encountered even from the KKK while growing up in South Carolina."

Some other facts:

The History of Black Country/Western Singers

Actually Charlie Pride has a son that has a great voice and does country songs too.

"When people are confronted with real facts, it transforms our opinions and opens our beliefs that were once marketed and manufactured by un-relative brainwashing!" by Michael Gladden

BTW if you like Loretta then Patsy Kline is an icon and Kitty Wells is the only female native Nashvillian to make the big time.
 
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