Holy shit.
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Hank Williams Jr "Old Habits" (1980)
Here's another one of those kinda like "On The Other Hand," which similarly I haven't heard in about 20+ years and suddenly a surge of OMGWTFAMAZING comes rushing back to me...
Ween "You Were The Fool" (1996)
This is weird that so far the Ween track is sounding far more country than the Kenny Rogers track, but what am I supposed to do...
Charlie Rich "Behind Closed Doors" (1973)
I suppose this version is okay..... The original is like omgwtf awesome. (Oh wait.. I already broke my promise I wasn't gonna write stuff like that here...)
Kenny Rogers "Morganna Jones" (1978)
Okay, I'm pretty sure this doesn't count as country, but it should! It's the only song on the album The Gambler that Kenny Rogers actually wrote. And 35 million people bought The Gambler, so a lot of people have probably heard this song.
Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson "I Can Get Off On You" (1978)
I found a few decent live clips of Waylon and Willie performing this song individually, but for real, nothing tops the original.. It's a shame they never performed this live together.
Laura Cantrell "Two Seconds" (2000)
Discovered through John Peel's Festive 50 in 2000 which I copied by finding this archive site .. This guy had a lot of the radio shows completely posted, except you could only listen to them by streaming them with Real Audio, so the only way to get a copy was to borrow my dad's dual tape deck and plug it into my computer, and tape the entire top 50 live onto some cassettes.. A huge part of my nostalgic fondness for summer 2002 comes from the immense amount of new music I had access to (new to me anyway) with those 10 or 12 tapes of Peel's Festive 50's constantly getting played on the Sanyo tape deck I stole from my sister, sitting in the back seat of my horrible HORRIBLE Subaru.
So obviously, "Two Seconds" placed at some point in the Festive 50 from 2000, along with stuff like "Idioteque" and Granddaddy and Trail Of Dead... I think Neko Case made it to #1 that year, so it's not like Laura Cantrell was completely out of place. And I recall Peel saying it was the album he had listened to the most that year.
So obviously, "Two Seconds" placed at some point in the Festive 50 from 2000, along with stuff like "Idioteque" and Granddaddy and Trail Of Dead... I think Neko Case made it to #1 that year, so it's not like Laura Cantrell was completely out of place. And I recall Peel saying it was the album he had listened to the most that year.
Randy Travis "On The Other Hand" (1986)
If I comment on all of these I'll probably just end up saying the same thing about all of them.. "This is the best shit ever!!" "OMG These fuckin lyrics are killer man!" And I'll end up sounding like some dumbass hippie by the time it's all done.
I suppose the best commentary I can think for this one is that, I'm pretty positive Randy Travis' Storms Of Life is the last great country album ever recorded, with this being that album's best song.
I suppose the best commentary I can think for this one is that, I'm pretty positive Randy Travis' Storms Of Life is the last great country album ever recorded, with this being that album's best song.
mfalc's video posts
I don't think I really LOVE that many country songs, so this shouldn't take very long... I'm going to post videos to every single country song I love. There can't be THAT many, can there?
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