We’ve lost another one of the all time greats. Eddie Arnold past away at a care facility just outside of Nashville. It’s sad to lose another true legend. Mr. Arnold had an incredible voice–smooth, smooth, smooth. Take a listen to “Cattle Call” for proof. Although his voice was unique and unmistakably his, it wasn’t gimmicky [...]
Does anyone know what Lacy J. Dalton has been up to lately? She has one of the coolest most distinct voices I can think of. I was banging around on the guitar earlier today and started playing 16th Avenue, which is probably her biggest hit. That’s such a great song, and I [...]
A couple of weeks ago a friend told me about Pandora Online Radio. I went there to check it out, set up an account, listened to a ton of great classic country songs along with some newer stuff that I actually like. I waited for my account to get disabled and Pandora to [...]
I’ve had the house to myself this week, so I’ve been able to do a few things I don’t normally do. (1) stretch out in bed, and (2) leave the radio on at night. I like the XM America channel a lot, and it’s been on nonstop in our bedroom since Sunday. [...]
Download Merle Haggard’s Big City on iTunes!!!
I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say that “Big City” is my favorite Merle Haggard song, but it has to be up there with “Kern River” and “If We Make It Through December”. This song really captures The Hag’s rebellious side without being overly [...]
I go through phases with CDs and mixes. Right now I’m on a big Ray Price kick. The only Ray Price album I have is “American Originals”, which is a greatest hits album. I usually end up listening to “For the Good Times” at least three times per listen, partly because I’m [...]
I’ve never been that big of a Tammy Wynette fan, but I recently put her box set into my mix on my iPod. The other day I was out running, and about the time it really started to hurt, “I Don’t Want to Play House” came on my mix. All of a sudden, I [...]
I heard this song on my way to work this morning. I love it when I hear a song that I’d completely forgotten about but love. It’s like hearing it for the first time all over again. As I was listening to it, it sounds like something Kris Kristofferson would write, but [...]
I consdider this one of the last great country albums. It came out in 1989 and is loaded with good songs. The title cut, “Better Man” (maybe the best breakup song of all time), “Walkin’ Away”, “Nobody’s Home” are incredible songs. Even better is the fact that Clint Black wrote or co-wrote every song on [...]
This is one of my favorite songs to sing at karaoke. Even if they’ve never heard it, people are always singing along by the end of the song. A lot of people don’t know that “Okie” was actually a derogatory term for people from Oklahoma. Merle wrote this song for his dad, [...]
If you’ve never heard this Statler Brothers album before, you have to check it out. It is unbelievably hilarious. The premise of the album is a group of musically challenged musicians who live and perform in the town of Rainbow Valley. Their shows occur at two venues, the studios of W.E.A.K. Radio [...]
I read this a while back and just remembered it. My favorite part is his advice for rappers who receive criticism:
“Ignore it,” Cash says. “Do what you do. You can’t let people delegate to you what you should do when it’s coming from way in here [taps heart]. I wouldn’t let anybody influence me [...]
Been listening to Tom T. Hall @ work for the last two weeks.
“Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher” is so freaking good I can’t believe it. I remember having an album he did for kids when I was little, but didn’t think much of the songs on it. He has a TON of good songs though, [...]
Johnny Cash’s live album recorded in California’s San Quentin prison is a far cry from the flower child hippie stuff other people were releasing at the time. Cash played in various prisons throughout his career, and the recordings at San Quentin and Folsom Prison both produced highly successful albums. The original release of At [...]
This is currently my favorite greatest hits cd. Disc 1 is Kris singing some of his biggest songs, and Disc 2 is the same songs being done by other artists, in most cases the artist that made them famous.
I love Roger Miller doing “Bobby McGhee”, Ray Price doing “For the Good Times”, and of course [...]
Willie Nelson’s definitive album, Red Headed Stranger, was released in 1975 and is generally regarded as the starting point of the Outlaw movement in country music. Willie had already established himself as a successfully songwriter in Nashville, writing classics like “crazy”, “Funny How Time Slips Away”, “Night Life”, and “Hello Walls” for Patsy Cline, Ray [...]
