Which songs to show the “I don’t like Country” people the error of their ways.
quote:
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."
Here you go VT
Plus one
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April 07, 2025, 07:23 PM
wcb6092
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April 07, 2025, 07:31 PM
ArtieS
I also believe this to be a county song. Many will disagree, but Knopfler kills it.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
April 07, 2025, 07:40 PM
ArtieS
Then there's Travis Tritt...
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
April 07, 2025, 08:48 PM
92fstech
^ Tritt is a good one!
April 08, 2025, 06:26 AM
bendable
There's a place for people that don't like country.
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April 08, 2025, 08:59 AM
V-Tail
quote:
Originally posted by bendable:
There's a place for people that don't like country.
I have a friend who says he likes BOTH kinds of music -- country AND western.
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April 09, 2025, 09:05 AM
bettysnephew
"Many a Long and Lonesome Highway" by Rodney Crowell
The “POLICE" Their job Is To Save Your Ass, Not Kiss It
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April 09, 2025, 07:16 PM
400m
quote:
Originally posted by bendable: There's a place for people that don't like country.
It’s called heaven!
April 10, 2025, 10:06 AM
DanH
quote:
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.
I'm not and it's why country music is close to the same esteem I hold rap. Unless you're an amazing wordsmith, or you're hilarious, odds are you're spending why too much time on lyrics and not enough on the actual music that I listen to. While he's definitely NSFW, I do love listening to some bits of Wheeler Walker Jr because he also hires some excellent musicians to perform with.
It also goes without saying that if I could find more country like this, I'd be more inclined to listen to it:
NSFW
April 10, 2025, 10:15 AM
Sig2340
Nice is overrated
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April 10, 2025, 10:22 AM
FenderBender
I still don't like country, but I do like western.
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April 10, 2025, 10:55 AM
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April 10, 2025, 11:34 AM
radioman
quote:
Originally posted by FenderBender: I still don't like country, but I do like western.
what's the difference?
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April 10, 2025, 01:59 PM
Mr. Peteroniman
quote:
Originally posted by radioman:
quote:
Originally posted by FenderBender: I still don't like country, but I do like western.
what's the difference?
hank williams vs marty robbins, i think, more of a country/blues/rock guy myself
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April 10, 2025, 02:27 PM
P220 Smudge
Whole thread packed full of songs that perfectly illustrate why I don't like country from the OP on down.
I agree with Beancooker.
If you wanna bring a rocker to country, David Allen Coe isn't a terrible place to start. Didn't hurt any that all the pictures I saw of him before this album was made had him wearing a long braided goatee and playing an Ibanez RG or Jem on stage. That's about as far from the standard country guitar player uniform Telecaster as it gets in the guitar world. He went even further from it playing Darrel Abbot's signature Deans.
This is basically Pantera with David Allen Coe standing in for Phil Anselmo. I have it queued to start at my favorite track in the album, but it's representative of the whole thing.
quote:
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.
Let's not forget to give Coe credit for helping to tie the whole thing together:
quote:
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
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April 10, 2025, 03:32 PM
Hobbs
April 10, 2025, 05:39 PM
Johnny 3eagles
You don't have to like the music, but the video has some great scenery
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April 10, 2025, 05:54 PM
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