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Frankly my favorite is Chris LeDoux's Rodeo Song

Rodeo Song Lyrics

Well it's 40 below and I don't give a [bleep]
Got a heater in my truck and I'm off to the rodeo
And it's alamande left and alamande right
Come on ya [bleep]' dummy get your right step right
Get off the stage ya god damn goof ya know

Piss me off ya [bleep]' jerk get on my nerves

Well here comes Johnny with his pecker in his hand
He's a one ball man and he's off to the rodeo
And it's alamande left and alamande right
Come on ya [bleep]' dummy get your right step right
Get off the stage god damn goof ya know

Piss me off [bleep]' jerk get on my nerves

Well it's 40 below and I aint got a truck
and i dont give a [bleep] cause im off to the rodeo
And it's alamande left and alamande right
Come on ya [bleep]' dummy get your right step right
Get off the stage ya god damn goof ya know

Piss me off [bleep]' jerk get on my nerves

Well here comes Johnny with his pecker in his hand
He's a one ball man and he's off to the rodeo
And it's alamande left and alamande right
Come on ya [bleep]' dummy get your right step right
Get off the stage ya god damn goof ya know

Piss me off [bleep]' jerk get on my nerves

Birdy
Buncha pages back you pasted some Hoyt Axton lines, without attribution. Would pay serious change for a voice liek his. The incredible breadth of his songs is unmatched in the music world. From the "No, No Song" for Ringo and three-dog-night to the tune you quoted, "This House" to his stuff John Prine started in on... Unmatched! And that voice!

For those unfamiliar, Hoyt was the father figure in Gremlins and played Shirley Muldowney's father in "Heart Like a Wheel." His mother wrote "Heartbreak Hotel" for Elvis. I miss him and knowing that he cannot come back for just one more tune is sad.

HG
I have some Gillian Welch and while good, does not rise to the level of incredible.
art

Karen Carpenter had a wonderful voice.

I just read this piece of nostalgia from beginning to end. I don't think anyone mentioned Boxcar Willy.
It got me thinking back to when I was a teenager (back in the mists of time) when I went to my first "concert" at a local dance hall. Had two guy on the bill named Marty Robbins and Johnny Cash. At that time they were both just getting started. At the time I thought I liked Marty better although over time I came to prefer Johnny.
I haven't listened to much country lately. When ever I try it I find little I like.

Gary Stewart, now there's a name I haven't heard it quite some time. A bunch of us would headout for "Beer Bust" nite and Gary Stewart at the old Western Swing, those I think were fun days err nights, wasn't to good at keeping track of time back then.

Locally we have a "country classics" radio station, truck, house, and even the stereo on the Harley are tuned to it 24/7, but every now and then when I'm on the Harley I have to switch over to the "classic rock" station, a few songs later I'm back to the country. [/quote]


I would get to hear Gary play at the ' Kickers Corner' in Poteet, Tx. Lots of " lying, dying, cheatin' and crying " music. I miss all the dancehall / saloons. San Antonio had quite a few many years ago. Places like Randy's Rodeo, Golden Stallion, Texas Dance Hall. All closed now . Seems todays honky tonks all have a DJ playing music so loud that you can't hear yourself think. Oh well.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Don't forget to add Faron Young to the list of all time greats.

BP...

"Before Microwave ovens when a girl could still cook, and still would."

Are the Good Times Really Over - Merle Haggard

Add to the list...
Sonny James "Running Bear"
Johnny Duncan and Janie Fricke "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better"
+1 on Conway's "That's My Job" Can't Hear it Without Thinking of My Dad.
Gary P. Nunn's version of "Ask Me What I Like About Texas"
Prefer Don Williams version of "Amanda"
Lefty Frizzell's "Saginaw Michigan"
New Stuff:
Josh Turner "Long Black Train"
Andy Griggs "If Heaven"

He wrote it but for Roger Miller. Bobbie McGee. My wife and I had an argument about it and I looked it up. Supposedly, he was in one room writing it and Roger was in another recording it. My favorite by Roger is "Kansas City Star". Tammy Wynette has been dead two or three years. miles

Mmmmm, where to start? And define 'old'... George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline all come to mind.. Plus some not so old such as K.T. Oslin, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams Jr., Bobby Bare, Merle Haggard..

There is so much good music out there that it's very difficult to make choices..

Probably Merle,Conway Twitty and those before them that wouldn't raise an eyebrow compared to the junk put out today.I love country and listen to 107.7 which is in my area.I believe they are on the 'net now and they play damn good bluegrass every Sunday night.

Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Sons of the Pioneers..
SOME of Hank Williams' songs..but not much of his life..

Charlie Rich, Charlie Pride, Dolly Parton, Frizzell, Twitty,Bob Wills,...Tanya Tucker..(when she was much younger) Krystal Gayle..
George Thoroughgood and the Destroyers....Wilson Pickett, Billy Squier..:)
far too many to mention..jim

Hound Girl There is a couple of CD call will the circle be unbroken, I think the dirk band is the main band on it you may want to check it out.
Sitka- My 20 yr old keep stealing my Prine CD's
1Akhunter- I wish I could remmber all the nights I listen to JJ Riden High, They all seem blurrrry

Ernest Tubb, 'Walkin' the Floor over you', 'Waltz across Texas'

Bob Wills, 'Across the Alley from the Alamo'

Bob Dylan, the whole Nashville Skyline album, with Johnny Cash, and Charlie Daniels as a studio musician.

Sycamore

Dylan also made a little known album in '92, entitled- "Good As I Been to You". It's still available.

This album consists of roots based county blues folk "covers" (old traditional tunes), on acoustic guitar (great finger pickin'), harmonica, and voice (raspy but perfect).

Covers include, Hard Times, Little Maggie, Diamond Joe, and even (the closer) Froggy Went-a-Courtin'. This stuff's great.

Another "diamond in the rough" is Michael Tarbox and the Tarbox Ramblers. Think Bluegrass, Mountain Gospel, Backwater Blues, & Hillbilly ROCK- all rolled into One.

"All Music"'s reviewer Thom Juric opined on a Tarbox Ramblers release:
-- "This is the banshee's howl after all the liqour is gone

gotlost
Nancy Griffith did two (maybe more) albums called "Other Voices, Other Rooms" in which she took and old song and got the writer to sing it with her, or in other cases got the one that made it famous. The first is incredible, the second really strong... She has a voice!!!

Really like both of the Circle albums...
art

Don't bring that into the discussion - there'll be no singers left to mention!


Sycamore said, "Ernest Tubb, 'Walkin' the Floor over you'"
I enjoy it but can't shake the sense that Tubb's lilt and phrasing doesn't fit the words and import of the song. Anyone else get that?


There's a marvelous radio station, KRRM, in Rogue River, OR (the Medford area), that I get to listen to on my annual Spring bear hunts. Oldies, cowboys, poetry, and ( <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />) the Art Bell overnight show.

Re: Sitka deer,

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Albums "Will the Circle be Unbroken" ARE all indeed, great classics.

There are three Volumes, "Circle" albums that have been produced over the years:
The 1st, I believe was in 1972.
The 2nd, in 1989.
The 3rd, in 2002.

Think, I like the 1st best, but love them all. That 1st recording session was pretty revolutionary back in the '72 "Hippie" days, but the music is sweet, pure, and 100% Traditional. All the "Old Timers, and the 'Greats" in the business closed ranks and embraced these young "long hairs" in this endevour. Remember, the NGDB was then just a Wesr Coast- Country/Rock band, but the "music" is only, about the "Music".

One great legend, WAS kind of conspicous by his absense from this album. And this was by his own choice, ( I kind of wonder if he ever regretted it). But no-one has any cause to hold that again' him. "Cause everybody loves and respects, Bill Monroe.

--Weed

What a great topic - Brought back some great memories and times. Love the real country and Bluegrass music. I particularly like George Jones and the song "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes"

Macrabbit's (quote) regarding E T's signature song: "Walkin' the Floor over you".

"...Tubb's lilt and phrasing doesn't fit the words and import of the song." "Anyone else get that?"

PW: Nope. Well, not me anyway. Ernest Tubbs voice and his inflection and style is one of those one-of-a-kind voices that just don't come around very often. To me his rendition of "Walkin' the Floor" carries me over the crests and through the troughs of every "wave" of syllables that man sings. Just, sweeps me away!!

When I hear other versions of "this" song- I just can't help gettin' the feeling that it's "not quite right". An' I don't usually do that.

I"m not saying You're NOT right. I'm just saying,
...EVERYTHING's perception.

--Weed

PS- Wish you could hear me "imitate" Ernest Tubb's singin'.

PINEY!!! 1st post!!!- WELCOME to the "Fire", an set a spell.

Bring your guitar? ... I'll sing.

Weed