Waylon Jennings - Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down

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clicky

so why is that when I tune into so-called country music on the radio I can't hear music like this???

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because it's oulawed in most states!

Dialogue/commentary between Divot, Twardo & myself -

"from your first Oshkosh when the three of us were riding to or from one of

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I'm not really certain I understand the song.

The problem I have when I drink is it amplifies the past and just makes the memories worse.

Does this not happen with everyone?

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

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clicky

so why is that when I tune into so-called country music on the radio I can't hear music like this???

Because you don't have XM Radio?

Now you've got me watching old country music videos.

[AggieDave 6]

Simply because what 99% of what the radio stations play are all top-40 pop-country that is churned out of Nashville daily. That 99% of music is literally all crap! Thankfully there are artists out there making good music and we still have the old outlaws (some living, some living on with their recorded music).

Check out Junior Brown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRMNeoaosQw

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

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I used to go see Junior play at the Continental Club a lot when I lived in Austin. Great music.
And quade: You're analyzing it too much. Just listen to the music.

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And quade: You're analyzing it too much. Just listen to the music. [Tongue]

You make it sound as though he was serious - I thought he was joking.

Dialogue/commentary between Divot, Twardo & myself -

"from your first Oshkosh when the three of us were riding to or from one of

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holy shit! yer wanted by the Po-lice, and my wife thinks yer dead!

WOW! I got to see Junior Brown in my hometown, frederick, maryland. opening for Bob Dylan. who played KEYBOARD!

oh & by the way, Patsy Kline got her name from a man from my home town. she is from Winchester, VA, not far from Brunswick (where she used to play at the VFW hall before she got famous), a short drive from Frederick, MD.

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[AggieDave 6]

How about Hayes Carll?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWEjp87401A&feature=related

Down the Road Tonight is a favorite of mine.

James McMutry is another good one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXVgl2Y4-Qg&feature=related

Choctaw Bingo is one of my favorites from him, then again its about all the people I knew in high school (its about meth-heads in N. Texas and S. Oklahoma, and I grew up in north/central Texas).

Here's a copy, although a bad one, of Choctaw Bingo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Q3grjC3-g&feature=related

Lyrics, since its hard to hear:

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Strap them kids in
Give em a lil bit of vodka
in a cherry coke
were goin to oklahoma
to the family reunion
for the first time in years
its up at uncle slatons
cuz hes gettin on in years
no longer travels but hes
still pretty spry
hes not much on talk
and hes too mean to die
and they'll be comin down
from kansas and west arkansas
it'll be one big old party
like you've never saw

uncle slaton's got his texan pride
back in the thickets with his asian bride
hes got an airstream trailer and a
holstein cow
still makes whiskey cuz he still knows how
plays that chocktaw bingo every friday night
you know he had to leave texas but he won't say why
he owns a quarter section up by lake ufalla
caught a great big ol bluecat on a driftin jugline
sells his hardwood timber to the chippin mill
cooks that crystal meth cuz his shine don't sell
he cooks that crystal meth cuz his shine don't sell
you know he likes that money, he don't mind the smell

my cousin roscoe, slaton's oldest boy
from his second marraige up in illinois
hes raised in east st louis by his
mammas people where they do things different
thought he'd come on down
hes goin to dallas texas in a semi truck
caught from that big mcdonalds
you know that one thats built up on that
big old bridge across the will rogers turnpike
took the big cabin exit stopped and bought a carton of cigarrets
at that indian smoke shop with the big neon smoke rings
and the cherokee nations hittin the skogee late that night
somebody ran the stoplight at the shawnee bypass
roscoe tried to miss him but he didn't quite

bob and mae come up from
some little town way down by
lake taxoma where he coaches football
they were two-A champions for two years running
but he says they wont be this year
not they wont be this year
and he stopped off in tuska at the pop knife and gun place
bought a sks rifle and a couple full cases of that steel core ammo
with the beardam primers from some east bloc nation
that no longer needs em
and a desert eagle thats one great big old pistol
i mean fifty caliber made by bad-ass ebers
and some surplus tracers for that old BAR
of slatons as soon as it gets dark
were gonna have us a time
were gonna have us a time

ruth-anne and lynn come from baxter springs
thats one hell-raisin town way down in
southeastern kansas
got a biger bar next to the lingerie store
thats got rollin stones lips up there in
bright pink neon
and they're right downtown where everyone can see em
and they burn all night
you know they burn all night
they burn all night

Uncle slaton's got his texan pride
back in the thickets with his asian bride
hes got a corner pasture and an acre lots
he sells them owner financed strictly to them
its got no kind of credit
cause he knows they're slackers
and they'll miss that payment
and he'll take it back
plays that choctaw bingo
every friday night
he drinks his johnny walker
at that club 69
were gonna strap those kinds in
give em a lil bit of vinadryll
were gonna have us a time
were gonna have us a time

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[futuredivot 0]

I can't believe you didn't link "She left me for Jesus"

You are only as strong as the prey you devour

[AggieDave 6]

That's a good one too!

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."