Singin' the Blues or any other durn thing ya want.

[Texas Lawdog]

We've got a radio station in the MetroPlex called Lone Star.  They play alot of music from Texas artists like SRV, ZZ Top, Willie, Waylon, David Alan Coe, Guy Clark, and Billy Joe Shaver. They also play Skynard.

[litl rooster]

Kind of the Austin City limits of Radio?   Ohio and Ky  must of run David Allen Coe off.




Leo that's not from JR Cash

[Leo Tanner]

Told ya I got cunfused now an then.
     Now I'll be thinkin on it the rest of the day    An I also got DAC's "The Ride" stuck in my head as well.


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

It's really agood station to listen to. It's not the kind of station that you would expect an Ol' redneck Cowboy Cop to listen to.

[litl rooster]

It's really agood station to listen to. It's not the kind of station that you would expect an Ol' redneck Cowboy Cop to listen to.

I ain't no LEO either, been known to Cowboy some, but I shock people with my taste in fiddle and piano music...Rack full from Across the Pond to Detroit City to Austin and many others along the way.  You mentioned Billy Joe Shaver watched a Outlaw show on one of the Country stations featured him and Merle, David Allen Coe and some  other guy from OKalhoma.  Billy Joe getting up there in age and to be quite Honest, I'm surprized alcohol ain't killed him

[Texas Lawdog]

Who would have thought that Willie would live this long?

[Ozark Tracker]

Who would have thought that Willie would live this long?

maybe he used just the right combination of alcohol and drugs to preserve hisself permanet like. 

[Leo Tanner]

I believe he has been well preserved by his hatred for the IRS.   

[Texas Lawdog]

Willie was a bass player for Ray Price and living in Nashville(years ago) and his house caught fire. He went back into the house while it was burning. A firefighter asked him why he went back inside.  Willie told him that he didn't want his stash to burn up.  Willie ia a big time poker player. He comes to Fort Worth quite a bit.  He drove home late one night and stooped to sleep in his car for a while.  The police found him and found some grass in his ashtray and arrested.  He was also arrested in Louisana last year with some grass on his tourbus.

[Leo Tanner]

TL
     Do you remember (sure ya do) when all the hippies got into Merle?  He put out "Oakie From Muskogee" to really isolated his self from them...forever.  I've always admired him for that--turnin down record sales jus to not be associated with the folks he moraly stood against.
     Good Man.  I can almost see that bobber dancin 


Leo

[Ozark Tracker]

When Merle recorded the Okie from Muskogee album, he was at the Muskogee Civic Center, a friend and I went that night, it sold out a long time before everyone got a ticket that wanted one,  we stood outside with about 2 or 3 thousand others, They set up speakers on the front side of the building so everybody outside could hear everything, 
we all got a kick out of it,  seeing as how most all of us there had been born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA 

[Trinity]

Ah was borned in McComb.  What does that make me?

[Ozark Tracker]

Ah was borned in McComb.  What does that make me?

wall that must make ya bout half related, my Granny was a MaComb  afore she was married.

[Texas Lawdog]

Leo, I was a Sophomore in College when Okie from Muskogee came out. About that sme time the State of Oklahoma came out with an "Okie" lapel pin. I wish that I could find mine. I am verry proud of my Oklahoma heritage from the Cherokee Indians and my education from Panhandle State in Goodwell, Oklahoma.

[Delmonico]

When Merle recorded the Okie from Muskogee album, he was at the Muskogee Civic Center, a friend and I went that night, it sold out a long time before everyone got a ticket that wanted one,  we stood outside with about 2 or 3 thousand others, They set up speakers on the front side of the building so everybody outside could hear everything, 
we all got a kick out of it,  seeing as how most all of us there had been born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA 

My co-worker Terry was on the paper down there and was there that night.

Ah was borned in McComb.  What does that make me?

Could be related to Jerry Clower.

[Texas Lawdog]

Yazoo City has a Jerry Clower Blvd.  I never got to see Jerry in person but the "Coon Hunt" is a classic. I even had some of his albums on 8 Track.  The "Coon Hunt" was my Dad's favorite.

[Ozark Tracker]

The coon hunt and his talkin chainsaw was some good ones

I had a freind that mananged the local farmers Co-op, he went to a meeting they had and started telling us about this guy they had there for entertainment,  he had bought a couple of tapes from him and let us listen, wasn't too long before we started hearing it on the radio's,

[Delmonico]

Jerry settled in Yazoo City, but was from McComb.

[Delmonico]

Was quiltin' today, put on some John Prine, love the guys lyrics, sometimes you have to say huuuuhhh, till you listen to them a time or two, then they make sense.


All the snow has turned to water
Christmas days have come and gone
Broken toys and faded colors
Are all that's left to linger on
I hate graveyards and old pawn shops
For they always bring me tears
I can't forgive the way they rob me
Of my childhood souvenirs

Memories they can't be boughten
They can't be won at carnivals for free
Well it took me years
To get those souvenirs
And I don't know how they slipped away from me

Broken hearts and dirty windows
Make life difficult to see
That's why last night and this mornin'
Always look the same to me

I hate reading old love letters
For they always bring me tears
I can't forgive the way they rob me
Of my sweetheart's souvenirs

Memories they can't be boughten
They can't be won at carnivals for free
Well it took me years
To get those souvenirs
And I don't know how they slipped away from me

[Leo Tanner]

John Prine was great.
     This is one a my favorites from CCR, though it never got much airplay.  If I hear it at just the right moment ma allergies start actin up.

First thing I remember was askin' papa, "Why?",
For there were many things I didn't know.
And Daddy always smiled; took me by the hand,
Sayin', "Someday you'll understand."

CHORUS:
Well, I'm here to tell you now each and ev'ry mother's son
You better learn it fast; you better learn it young,
'Cause, "Someday" Never Comes."

Well, time and tears went by and I collected dust,
For there were many things I didn't know.
When Daddy went away, he said, "Try to be a man,
And, Someday you'll understand."

CHORUS

And then, one day in April, I wasn't even there,
For there were many things I didn't know.
A son was born to me; Mama held his hand,
Sayin' "Someday you'll understand."

CHORUS

Think it was September, the year I went away,
For there were many things I didn't know.
And I still see him standing, try'n' to be a man;
I said, "Someday you'll understand."

CHORUS

Mmmm-mmmm-mmmm....


Leo