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Originally Posted by The Batlord
My muthafukkin nigga.
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^ Thanks, Batlord. I liked all the Waylon Jennings songs, but particularly this one.
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Originally Posted by MicShazam
Anything that sounds even remotely like typical, modern Nashville stuff can die in a fire.
I imagine there's some less cheesy stuff hiding behind a rock somewhere.
If my parents can tolerate it, I probably hate it.
EDIT: It would be just great if we could stay three million light years away from Garth Brooks and his ilk.
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^ HaHa! Glad to see that we are more or less starting on the same page, MicShazam! I think our challenge is going to be to walk a path between cheesy country on one side and on the other, gothic country, which quite rightly imo has a thread of its own:
https://www.musicbanter.com/country-...k-cabaret.html
I wonder if this song will pass the MicShazam Test: I like it because of the humour in the lyrics:-
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Originally Posted by RoxyRollah
....and best Randy Travis song ever... I have a feeling this may be on someone in this threads ipod....
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More than racism, I think that sentimentality is the defining attitude of Country Music. It's in my fave-so-far Gram Parson's song, Hickory Wind, and it's here in spades in this quality post from Paul Smeenus:-
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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus
This is what country music does best IMO. Before she was ruined by the big Nashville machine, a very very young Dolly Parton wrote this beautiful song about her unforgettable night in 1972 in one of my favorite little cities, Eugene, Oregon, where she was a very sick young lady but decided to play anyway. Of course Nashville didn't release it for decades until Dolly, to her credit, insisted it be included in a box set.
"I stayed in my little room in the bus and cried while Porter and the band went on and did the shows without me. In Eugene, Oregon, I decided that I had to get up and get on stage that night. I was so weak that it took me all afternoon to get ready."
"I went out on stage, informed the audience that I was sick and asked them to please forgive my weakness. They totally supported me, they loved me and gave me my first standing ovation — actually two. I got one after I finished my song ‘Coat of Many Colors’ and I cried like a baby. I almost couldn’t go back into the next song I was so touched by it.”
"Then I got another standing ovation when I left the stage. I went back a couple of times for encores. I was so touched by their kindness that I went straight to the bus, as sick as I still was, and wrote the song, ‘Eugene, Oregon.’ To this day it is one of my favorite songs and I will remember Eugene, Oregon, for the rest of my life.”
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(Not sure how much I would like this song without the backstory tbh.)
Still Pending: Willie Nelson.