Country Music - Honkey Tonk - Rockabilly & Lonesome Cowboy Blues

[SomeJackleg]

one more,

[BodhisattvaStyle]

Well, hell, I didn't know we had us a honky tonk thread. We can't have us a HT thread with out some good old Charlie Daniel's Band. 

The devil went down to GA....one of my faves in this genre of music.


Dude can shred that fiddle!
My bad if this is already in the thread.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - Paying Bills at the End of the World

[EndtheMadnessNow]

When it comes to bad luck
I got perfect timing
All the stars just align

Me and trouble
We’re old friends
We understand each other fine

Because it’s hard luck
And circumstances
That brought me here
And if they hang around much longer
I might just disappear

For folks like me
There ain’t no justice
Only the road and it’s long
You might find it funny
My line of thinking
But that don’t make me wrong

[EndtheMadnessNow]

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Fear is my new roommate
I think it might be here to stay
I lost my will to try and fight it
Since my old life went away
Now my heart fills up with all the memories
Of a world that we just let
Go straight to hell in a big hand basket
Lord, how soon we do forget...




Wynonna x Lainey Wilson – “Refugee” (Tom Petty Cover)

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Futurebirds - Easy Company (feat. Waxahatchee)




Outlaw Nation

There's a storm in D.C. now, can't see the light,
Biden's dropped the reins, runnin' from the fight,
Kamala's in the spotlight, dancin' on a stage,
Trump's rollin' back in, full of fury and rage.

[Verse 2]
Folks down in the heartland, feelin' all the strain,
Politicians playin' games, drivin' us insane,
Farmers in the fields, can't catch a break,
Factories closin' down, livelihoods at stake.

[Chorus]
Outlaw nation, we're fightin' to survive,
Caught in the crossfire, just tryin' to stay alive,
The rich gettin' richer, while we pay the price,
Outlaw nation, it's time to stand and rise.

[Verse 3]
Main street's empty now, dreams turned to dust,
Kids askin' questions, who can we trust?
Grandpa's on the porch, with a tear in his eye,
Reminiscin' 'bout the days, when the flag flew high.

[Bridge]
It's a tangled web they weave, in them fancy suits,
But out in the country, we're stickin' to our roots,
With a six-string guitar and a bottle of truth,
Outlaw nation, we're fightin' for the youth.
― James Hilton-Cowboy

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[DaphneApollo]

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new entry into country music -

[EndtheMadnessNow]

West Virginia singer-songwriter Charles Wesley Godwin – Lonely Mountain Town

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Will Clark - Battle of Blair Mountain (West Virginia)




Red Simpson – Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves

[FCD]

Regarding the title of the OP, I call it the "Dead Horse Blues" (but I grew up in Wyoming, so I'm allowed!  LOL!)

(boing, bwang, twang, boiiiing)

'Woke up cold
Feelin' really old
Found my trusty steed
Dead...down in the gulch
Only friend I need
Now covered in mulch

Ohhh-O-oooohhhhh, I got the Dead Horse Blues!'

(boing, bwang, twang....boiiiing)

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Regardng Kenny Wayne Shepard and the song 'Blue on Black', here's a funny factoid about that song.  (Love KWS by the way!)  A lot of people try to find some deep meaning to the words of 'Blue on Black', but the real story is quite different.  Anyone who is familiar with Shepard will know that he writes most songs with the melody and rhythm first, and then he puts lyrics to the songs last.  Well, Shepard wrote Blue on Black, but couldn't think of any lyrics, so as he sat there in the studio he noticed a set of drapes (or something like this) which were blue with some kind of black on the design.  So, "Blue on Black" it was, and that became the lyrics.

Shepard doesn't particularly care for singing in general. He's a guitar virtuoso, not a singer. This is why you'll notice he rarely performs lead vocals on a song. I wouldn't say he 'can't' sing, just that he doesn't particularly care to sing. Although, to hear him say it, he says he can't sing.

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edit - Maybe some clarification is required on the Dead Horse Blues subject (above), and why I call it that. In order to understand, you have to rewind your brain to the late 70's and early 80's and what Country music was back then. Almost every popular song had the exact same ingredients and same recipe back then. It was enough to make even the most hardened Country music lover go insane. It was this whiny, drawn out, complaint about wives leaving them, failed relationships, dead people, living in the past and just plain unhappy, depressing, themes. There's all sorts of social parallels which you can draw from this period in Country music, but I think the one which resonates with me the most clearly is this. ... When you consider the 1980 motion picture 'Urban Cowboy', it was the personification of two concepts. The first was the "Cowboy is cool" concept, meaning the whole cowboy motif was trendy at the time. And second, the movie embodied the Country music style which led up to it. And, if you really think about it (and this is bizarre), Country music was the equivalent of the "Emo" and "Goth" cultural revolution which would come after it. The clothing was different, but the mentality and emotional aspect of the music was very similar.

Thus the notion (and my calling it)...The Dead Horse Blues.

[727Sky]

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