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Originally posted by V-Tail:
While in NYC for a recording contract, Steve Goodman and John Prine got outrageously drunk and wrote a country song that had every element of all country songs: prison, standing in the rain, pickup trucks, etc.

Goodman recorded it on his first album in 1971, but the song became well known when David Allen Coe recorded it four years later.

You can find it on YouTube, performed by either Goodman or Coe.

"You Never Even Called Me By My Name."

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Originally posted by bendable:

There's a place for people that don't like country.

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Originally posted by bendable:
There's a place for people that don't like country.

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Originally posted by 92fstech:
I like songs that tell a story, whether it's serious, heartfelt, or just funny. Country is really good at that.

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Originally posted by FenderBender:
I still don't like country, but I do like western.

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Originally posted by radioman:

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Originally posted by FenderBender:
I still don't like country, but I do like western.

what's the difference?

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
None of you have any imagination.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
While in NYC for a recording contract, Steve Goodman and John Prine got outrageously drunk and wrote a country song that had every element of all country songs: prison, standing in the rain, pickup trucks, etc.

Goodman recorded it on his first album in 1971, but the song became well known when David Allen Coe recorded it four years later.

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In a spoken epilogue preceding the song's iconic closing verse, Coe relates a correspondence he had with Goodman, who stated the song he had written was the "perfect country and western song." Coe wrote back stating that no song could fit that description without mentioning a laundry list of clichés from the genre: "Mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting drunk". Goodman's equally facetious response was an additional verse that incorporated all five of Coe's requirements, and upon receiving it, Coe acknowledged that the finished product was indeed the "perfect country and western song" and included the last verse on the record:

I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got runned over by a damned old train