I meant to write about this song a couple of weeks ago when I posted on Merle’s “Big City”. It’s another one of my favorite songs that shows up on my mix while I’m running and hurting. I do, however, find it ironic that this song is all about weathering the storm and [...]
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. [...]
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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 [...]
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Like any really good country song should be, this one is sad–a family going through a tough time and planning on trying their luck somewhere else. The dad just “got laid off down at the factory”, and his young daughter doesn’t understand that things are [...]
Download these classic country Christmas songs on iTunes!
For the holidays I thought I’d write about 12 of my favorite Classic Country Christmas songs. I was going to do this anyway, and then I found this group writing project sponsored by Litemind that ties in really well with it. I’ll go ahead and post the whole [...]
Nope, it’s not Mother’s Day yet, but my wife just had our first baby and I am in awe of here. So here’s a list of my favorite classic country songs about mothers.
***UPDATE***
I was reading through my blog and found this post and thought some people may be interested in it with Mother’s Day coming [...]
Just in time for Independence Day, here are some patriotic classic country songs that are perfect for the 4th of July. Some of the these are heart-felt patriotic, a couple are in-your-face patriotic, and a couple are a little more contemplative. Hope you all have a great Fourth!!!!
Proud to be an American by [...]
A couple of years ago I was flipping through channels one night and ran across an old episode of the the Glen Campbell Good Time Hour. It was just coming on, so I just waited to see who was going to be on. Here was the lineup of guests for a single episode: Johnny Cash, [...]
After listing the songs, I realized this post could just have easily been called, “Conway Twitty’s Sexiest Songs”. Of course this isn’t a comprehensive list, just the ones that came up off the top of my head, and Conway has four of the ten I thought of. His are by far the sexiest too. So [...]
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, [...]
