What a coincidence! That was one of the 5 CDs I put on today to listen to. The title of one of the others was appropriate - Dwight Yoakam's Hillbilly Deluxe, one of my favorites of his. Also had one of Vern Gosdin, Rosanne Cash, Doug Stone, in addition to the Roger Miller CD.

Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
Gibson SG and Fender Bass.
This was THE song that turned me on to heavy metal and I never looked back.

One more.

Still all hillbilly for me, though I did throw on a CD by Credence Clearwater, for variety.

pepperhead212 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 1:06 pm Still all hillbilly for me, though I did throw on a CD by Credence Clearwater, for variety.

Growing up in the Ozarks they seemed to have bluegrass music somewhere every weekend along with a town rummage sale.
Rock and roll gets part of its roots from bluegrass and hillbilly music.
My Mom bought a butter churn and a 1 pound butter mold at one and put me to work making butter.
My dad milked the cow my Mom skimmed the cream and I did the rest.
I was in grade school.

Turn this on and play to an unsuspecting friend or spouse.

This started showing up on my feed and I welcome it.

This is a song from before I was born, and when it comes on, I can't help but to start laughing, out in my garden, or down in the workshop. And the time this came on made it even funnier.

I remember when 20 dollars would be more than enough to take your girl out buy gas go to a movie and get something to eat and buy a gallon of draft of beer and a pack of smokes.
Swimming was free at the lake down the road.
There's definitely a song there.

That sounds like it's from that era of another song, of Tom T Hall - Back When Gas Was 30 Cents a Gallon.

Another funny Saturday Night song. First time I ever heard this it was a remake, by Cat Stevens, but my roommate had the original vinyl.

Sam Cook I remember that song.
I had a couple of Tom T Hall albums.
One of my favorite country singers.
This one is so true.
I'm thinking of a jail song now with the lyric chorus, Stale bread cold eggs and colder coffee.
I was in jail so long I fell in love with a gal that was uglier than a jail house breakfast.
Stale bread cold eggs and colder coffee.
She sat there in a sky of blue
Her front teeth were missen justa smilen at me making all my dreams come true.
She was uglier than a jail house breakfast.
Stale bread cold eggs and colder coffee.
Etc etc.

I remember the part about "she brought that hot balogna every day". Actually, I could probably recite the entire song from memory. He was another artist I had every album of, in the vinyl days. He always had a harmonica player in his band, up to '75 or '76, when he put out an album (don't remember the name of the album, but I can picture the front of it!) that was the first album where none of the songs had the harmonica - don't know if the guy passed away, or what the explanation was.

I got so drunk last night I got married to a possum in an outhouse.
A raccoon was the preacher.
A stray cat was the maid of honor.
The best man was a rattlesnake.

I got so drunk last night I got married to a possum in an outhouse.
I wish they'd a put me in jail.
When I woke up this morning all I saw was that possums tail.

My wife and I went to go see Don Williams in Odessa Texas in around 1982.
The crowd we ran around with listened to good country and rock and roll equally.
Don just sat there and played music no idiot prancing around like they do today and have been for years.

Oh, I have a few memories of Don Williams! I saw him at least 3 times at the Valley Forge Music Fair, and many others there, too. Charley Pride twice, Oak Ridge Boys, Kathy Mattea, Mary Chapin Carpenter (first time the lead act for Dan Seals, second time she was the main act), Statler Brothers, John Anderson, Ronnie Milsap, and probably some others I haven't thought of off the top of my head. It's too bad that place was torn down way back in the 90s.

A lady I knew back in those days loved Don Williams, and that's who I went to many of those concerts with. And there is one song that I remember him doing best, which I had heard on the album, but the live version was one of those that "brought down the house", STS. The album version was just a piano (and some other things in the background), but on the stage, the band stepped to the back, out of the light, and it was just him and the guitar, and it was fantastic! It took several seconds for the audience to "catch their breath", or whatever you would call it, then I don't even know how long, before the applause died down. I haven't found that version on "live" takes on this song, just the piano versions.

worth1 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 1:43 pm Turn this on and play to an unsuspecting friend or spouse.

Oh noooooooooooooooooo!!!

@MissS
Did you know Angus Young is 5 foot 2.
His brother Malcolm Young was 5 foot 3.
Malcolm sadly passed away in 2017.

worth1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 11:08 am @MissS
Did you know Angus Young is 5 foot 2.
His brother Malcolm Young was 5 foot 3.
Malcolm sadly passed away in 2017.

No I didn't know that. I would fit right in being 5'1".