Some Of My Favorite Country & Bluegrass Songs

[tjmurphy]

Hey Griz - Sure do. That was some really good music and helped put Ralph back on the map. Keith and Ricky did an album together using Ralph and the Clinch Mountain Boys while they were together with Ralph. Think they were both 16-years old at the time. Ricky Skaggs left and Renfro Proffitt joined the CMB as lead guitar to Kieth's singing. Keith then formed a band called Country Store and they released one album which I have. Keith later went on and joined J.D. Crow and New South. Keith was a phenominal talent and he'll always be missed.

Your dad had some very nice instruments, the D-41 and the KM-1000, really nice mandolin. Don't know much about the Alverez.

[tjmurphy]

T.J. you're a very busy boy this morning. Since you stole all my thunder with the Bluegrass (what did Ricky Scaggs say? "Bluegrass won't raise your taxes." What a great line), I'm going to take a "left turn Clyde" and put up some Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar (sometimes called Hawaiian Blues) by the king of slack key, Ledward Kaapana. From his "Waltz Of The Wind" album Radio Hula ........

I know it's not Country or Bluegrass but I really love this song. It soothes my soul.

The Gov't will raise your taxes no matter what but at least Bluegrass music will keep you in the lower brackets

[jerryd6818]

The Waltz of the Wind was written by Fred Rose, recorded by Roy Acuff as well as Hank Williams and God knows who else. It's a great song. The vocals on this version are by Alison Krauss.The Waltz of the Wind ........

[jerryd6818]

Just one more before I quit and try to get something done today. Hoyt Axton is one of my all time favorites and he is sorely missed. This is my favorite version of Poncho and Lefty ........

[glenn]

TJ like to hear a little "Bed Of Roses" Please!!!

[tjmurphy]

Is this it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE000LFyuik

Don't know that I recall that song. Sorry. Maybe Jerry.

[jerryd6818]

Oh, geez. Maybe one more. Besides Hoyt Axton, I'm a real big David Allen Coe fan and one of my favorites is Bob Wills Is Still The King ........

[jerryd6818]

Is this it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE000LFyuik

Don't know that I recall that song. Sorry. Maybe Jerry.

Oh hell yeah. That's the one I would have posted T.J. I had a chance to see the Statler Brothers. Several years before they retired, they came to the local county fair and I didn't go. It's one of the few regrets in my life. Before the local flood of 2006 got all my albums, I had several by the Statler Brothers and now I wish I had made more of an effort to save them but that whole incident was so over whelming...

[jerryd6818]

And who doesn't love Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys?

This is the last time Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys ever appeared together. Give a listen to the old Bob Wills standard, "Faded Love".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FfxsDGHryo


In 1936 they recorded Steel Guitar Rag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxzxH6wI ... re=related


San Antonio Rose was another Bob Wills standard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l7rLA9J ... re=related

[tjmurphy]

Oh, geez. Maybe one more. Besides Hoyt Axton, I'm a real big David Allen Coe fan and one of my favorites is Bob Wills Is Still The King ........

Sure sounds like Waylon Jennings on that one, don't he? ::nod::Love that "Faded Love" tag on the end. Faded Love is my all time favorite Bob Wills tune.

[glenn]

That was it! Thanks TJ

[jerryd6818]

In honor of Veteran's Day, take a moment and reflect on the sacrifices of our military. Not just the ones who served in the brutality of combat, but all past and present members of our military. Remember those who spent countless hours training for battle that never came. Remember those who, though they served during a time of relative peace, spent a significant chunk of their lives away from home, family and friends. Marines, Sailors, Solders and Airmen, all part of this great country's fighting force and prepared to give their lives to protect you.

What better way to celebrate our troops, past and present, than with Billy Ray Cyrus's Some Gave All ........

[jerryd6818]

Someone mentioned Iris DeMent so here she is with her version of an old favorite - Will The Circle Be Unbroken ........

[jerryd6818]

I guess you would more likely categorize this one as Folk instead of Country. More in the genre of Woody Guthrie? Nevertheless, I like it. Maybe it's because my family settled in Muhlenberg County Kentucky for a short time during their passage from South Carolina to Southern Illinois. I don't know and quite frankly, I don't care. I just enjoy the work of John Prine on Paradise ........

[tjmurphy]

An old Wynn Stewart song "I'd Rather Have America"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYK8S6hDmLs

[jerryd6818]

Enjoy the smooth voice of Jim Reeves (1923-1964) - singer-songwriter, musician and minor league baseball pitcher out of Galloway Texas - doing some solid country gold - Don't Let Me Cross Over ........


T.J. if you don't remember this one, we'll have to ship your old hairy hide up to Detroit Michigan.

[tjmurphy]

I guess you would more likely categorize this one as Folk instead of Country. More in the genre of Woody Guthrie? Nevertheless, I like it. Maybe it's because my family settled in Muhlenberg County Kentucky for a short time during their passage from South Carolina to Southern Illinois. I don't know and quite frankly, I don't care. I just enjoy the work of John Prine on Paradise ........

Who's singing that, not John Prine??

[tjmurphy]

Enjoy the smooth voice of Jim Reeves (1923-1964) - singer-songwriter, musician and minor league baseball pitcher out of Galloway Texas - doing some solid country gold - Don't Let Me Cross Over ........


T.J. if you don't remember this one, we'll have to ship your old hairy hide up to Detroit Michigan.

Of course I remember that song, but this is how I remember it, the one's who made the hit on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kosNroVg_GA

But if you like Jim Reeves, this is one of his best
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpi8Bek6jdM

[jerryd6818]

Where have all the good ones gone? Taken before her time, here's some classic Patsy Cline - I Fall To Pieces ........

[jerryd6818]

I guess you would more likely categorize this one as Folk instead of Country. More in the genre of Woody Guthrie? Nevertheless, I like it. Maybe it's because my family settled in Muhlenberg County Kentucky for a short time during their passage from South Carolina to Southern Illinois. I don't know and quite frankly, I don't care. I just enjoy the work of John Prine on Paradise ........

Who's singing that, not John Prine??

That's the voice of the one and only Mr. John Prine. I'm fairly certain he also wrote Paradise.

[tjmurphy]

Here's another of my favorite Jim Reeve's songs, keeping with the Veteran's Day theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t1fQzTOdO4

[tjmurphy]

I guess you would more likely categorize this one as Folk instead of Country. More in the genre of Woody Guthrie? Nevertheless, I like it. Maybe it's because my family settled in Muhlenberg County Kentucky for a short time during their passage from South Carolina to Southern Illinois. I don't know and quite frankly, I don't care. I just enjoy the work of John Prine on Paradise ........

Who's singing that, not John Prine??

That's the voice of the one and only Mr. John Prine. I'm fairly certain he also wrote Paradise.

Surely before he developed his vocal styling. Like him better today. He did write "Paradise"

[jerryd6818]

Enjoy the smooth voice of Jim Reeves (1923-1964) - singer-songwriter, musician and minor league baseball pitcher out of Galloway Texas - doing some solid country gold - Don't Let Me Cross Over ........


T.J. if you don't remember this one, we'll have to ship your old hairy hide up to Detroit Michigan.

Of course I remember that song, but this is how I remember it, the one's who made the hit on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kosNroVg_GA

But if you like Jim Reeves, this is one of his best
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpi8Bek6jdM

I was just jerkin' your chain because you said you didn't remember that Statler Bros. song. I'm embarrassed to admit I don't remember Carl Butler, even though he wrote one of my favorite songs, "If Tear Drops Were Pennies". Wow! What a great voice. Wow! Those goofy 60's costumes. I'm not sure why he's slipped from my mind. Maybe it's because I don't remember the 60's?

Well shucks, I thought I had a copy of "He'll Have To Go" around here some place but if I do, I can't find it. I do have "From A Jack To A King" and "Distant Drums" though. Jim Reeves was my time and my guy. Loved his songs and still do.

[jerryd6818]

An old Wynn Stewart song "I'd Rather Have America"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYK8S6hDmLs

I don't think I've ever heard that. Doesn't that tune have the flavor of Johnny Horton's "North To Alaska"??

[tjmurphy]

An old Wynn Stewart song "I'd Rather Have America"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYK8S6hDmLs

I don't think I've ever heard that. Doesn't that tune have the flavor of Johnny Horton's "North To Alaska"??

Kinda sorta - different phrasing and chord progressions.

Ah, Johnny Horton - He fought all the way "Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb" he fought all the way "Johnny Reb". And who can forget "The Battle of New Orleans"? Fiddle players play a tune called "The 8th of January" which is the tune to "The Battle of New Orleans".