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Termyn8or -> RE: Favorite country artists. (10/3/2008 6:07:57 PM)
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SB, if you knew David Allen Coe's style before he got big, you might cross him off the list. Let me put it this way, look for a song called If That Ain't Country. The N word is in there. I don't know how much they had to whip his ass to get him to stop, but if you heard his older stuff you might not like it at all. Very racist and incindiary. Of course I like it. I can send you some if you like. Perhaps it is better you don't know.
Like me with Leonard Skynard, I wrote them off because of certain lyrics. Mainly the song Saturday Night Special. They sing "why don't we dump them (the guns) people, to the bottom of the sea, before some ol fool comes around here, wanna shoot either you or me". That was it. There is no Skynard in my house and there never will be because of that, and to think I used to damn near sing it ! That's a sellout. Perhaps I shouldn't be so harsh, maybe I am the old fool and if anyone I want to shoot took that to heart, I don't have to worry about them shooting back. And you don't know harsh, I took pristeen Skynard LPs and laid them at my door and insisted that people wipe their shoes on it before LEAVING, not entering.
David Allen Coe is not offensive to me, but there are a few things, he didn't write The Perfect Country Song, and doesn't claim to have. His version had an extra verse at the end.
I was drunk,
The day my Mom got out of prison,
And I went to pick her up in the rain,
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck,
She got run over by a dammned ol train
David Allen Coe's real claim to fam IMO was The Ride.
Well I thumbing from Montgomery,
Had my guitar on my back.......
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You don't have to call me mister mister,
The whole world calls me Hank
Song has also been called The Ghost Of Hank Williams.
I can't say I have any favorite artists, Should've been a cowboy, if I read that right it's Travis Tritt. Little Man, I think it's Alan Jackson.
I never idolized, even a little bit. I judge the product. I like Old Red which is Blake Shelton, and I have a couple of Steve Earle pieces I like. I also have a few Hank Williams the third songs like Missippi Mud, which was before he took on the name Kid Rock. (please do not start that argument, you will NEVER convince me he is not because of what I have seen). Also from Hank 3, Put The Dick Back In Dixie And The Cunt Back In Country.
I am the type who does not remember actors' names in a movie no matter how much I liked it. I especially like Aaron Tippin's I Got It Honest. There are a few I don't even know who did.
In that respect I am terrible on names. It caused me trouble when I was downloading my library, which is extensive, not so much in volume but in scope. It causes me trouble now when I go to play SOMETHING I HAVE. I literally have to go to Google to find out who did it because my library is arrainged by artist.
OK, one I did remember, Bellamy Bros. - Let Your Love Flow. Playing right now.
So with me it is not the artist, it is the song. I play guitar and am learning piano slow but sure, and I don't take praise well. I don't need applause, I don't need instant gratification. It is nice though, when next week someone asks me to play. Maybe it's just how I am and I don't dish out what I don't want to take. Appreciate the music, not me. Anyone can do this.
And that is pretty true because most of these "stars" do not write their own music.
I also like many pieces by Buddy Holly, Fifth Dimension, Madonna and Judas Priest. I also dislike many cuts, and I was in the forefront of taping when I was younger. I used to have a reel to reel, and then I went on to expensive cassette decks, not the most expensive, but good ones, like three headers. You have any idea how expensive a three head cassette deck was back in the day ? The upside was you could adjust the bias and EQ so it sounded the best, because in tape monitor you were actually listening to the recording. Then when Dolby HX came out I had to have it.
I am no stranger to music, but I have to admit I don't know who did what. With my record, when I got P2P it's easy to see why my harddrive is full. But even though I categorized it, renamed it and set it in the proper alphabetic directory for my toolbar to work, I don't remember artists' names. I meant what I said, I literally have to go to Google to find something on my own harddrive.
I agree pretty much with all mentioned here, in fact I listened to a Patsy Cline piece earlier, the only thing I go against is Skynerd. That is not because of lack of skill or talent, it is because of the words of one of their most popular songs. If the words of Saturday Night Special are their opinion, I want nothing to do with them. If they sang that when it goes against everything but just did it for the money I want nothing to do with them.
Sorry to the Skynerd fans, but listen very closely to the words of Saturday Night Special before even talking to me about it.
There are other artists banned from my computer and in fact my home, but yall are talking country. I told you about me and Skynerd because they can be considered country. The others have nothing to do with this.
Back to rock mode, it is Friday night you know !.
T
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