What is Your Favorite Country Song?

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Hi,

It could be said that this was just a sneaky way to get this in ... but I would entertain any other song to be put down ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQL9KAoRvD8&feature=related

[WaddWatsonEllis]

This is it from Austin City Limits ... pardon the commercial at the beginning ...

http://www.myspace.com/video/ray-charles/seven-spanish-angels/61812637

[Stu Kettle]

There's too many good ones to pick an all time favorite, but right now I like this one a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P_NsxIBNVM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Delmonico]

The best, why that is no contest, sorry friends, both are good songs I'll listen to any time, but there is one that is hands above all my favorite and it is the best country song ever, by the Hillbilly Shakespeare, the master of country music his self Hank the Father.

And always take off your dang hat when you talk about Hiram King "Hank" Williams.

[Gen Lew Wallace]

Says it all

[Four-Eyed Buck]

In the older category, the Possum's "He Stopped Loving Her Today". Of some of the newer stuff, almost anything by Reba i also like Toby Keith's "Beer for My Horses"

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Found this;

http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,7190.0.html

[Bugscuffle]

Here's mine and yes there is a mercifully brief commercial that comes at the beginning, but the sond is worth suffering through the commercial.

[Delmonico]

Me thinks some don't know the differance tween country music and western music.  Guess that's OK 'cause the radio stations think pop rock is country.

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Hi Delmonico,

This always brings to mind the old saw about what happens when you play a country music record backwards ....

You get your dog back, your pickup back, your wife back .....

TTFN

[Shotgun Franklin]

'Big Iron', Marty Robbins.

[mestiza letty]

"Strawberry Roan" Marty Robbins...many have done this song later an' Chris Ledoux's version ain't too bad
"Momma Tried" by Merle Haggard's up near the top as well...There were alot by so many old guys that are lengendary

[Modoc]

Here is one that I have heard several versions of and really enjoy:

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[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Here is one that I have heard several versions of and really enjoy:

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Well;  I think it musta bin a good song, but for the life of me, I thought he was singin' in Newfie.

So I hadta google  (NOT Bing!) the lyrics to get the jist a that song;

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/murphey-michael-martin/tying-knots-in-the-devils-tail-24318.html

Tying Knots In The Devil's Tail


Way high up in
the Sierry Peaks
Where the yellow-jack pines grow tall,
Old Buster Jiggs and Sandy
Bob
Had a round-up camp last fall.

Well they took along their running
irons
Maybe a dog or two,
And they 'lowed thy'd brand every long-eared calf
That came
within their view.

Now every little long-eared dogie
That didn't push up by
day,
Got his long ears whittled and his old hide scorched
In a most artistic
way.

One fine day, says Buster Jiggs,
As he throws his seago down,
"I'm tired
of cowpiography
And I think I'm a goin' into town."

Well they saddled up, and they
hit a lope
For it warn't no sight of a ride,
And them was the days that a good
cow-punch
Could oil up his insides.

Well they started in at Kentucky Bar,
At
the head of Whisky Row,
And they wound her up at the Depot House
About forty drinks
below.

Well they sets 'em up and they turns around
And they started in the other
way,
And to tell the God-forsaken truth
Them boys got drunk that day.

They was
on their way, goin' back to camp
A-packin' that awful load,
When who should they meet but
the Devil himself
Come a-traipsin' down the road.

He says, "You ornery cowboy
skunks
You better go hunt for your holes,
'Cause I've come up from Hell's rim
rock
Just to gather in your souls.

"The Devil be damned," says Buster
Jiggs,
"Us boys is a little bit tight;
But you don't go gatherin' no cowboys'
souls
Without one helluva fight."

Now Buster Jiggs could ride like hell
And
throw a lasso, too,
So he threw it over the Devil's horns
And he took his dallies
true.

Now Sandy Bob was a reata man
With his gut-line coiled up neat;
But he
shook her out and he builds a loop
And he roped the Devils hind feet.

Well they
stretches him out and they tails him down
While the running-irons were getting hot,
And
they cropped and swallow-forked his ears
And they branded him up a lot.

Well they
trimmed his horns way down to his head
Tied ten knots in his tail for a joke,
Then they
went off and left him there
Tied up to a little pin oak.

Now when you're high in the
Sierry Peaks
And you hear one hell of a wail,
Well you know it's just the Devil
himself
Yellin' 'bout them knots in his tail.
 

[mestiza letty]

Here is one that I have heard several versions of and really enjoy:

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That's a good one Modoc...recorded in "my backyard" John Asguaga's Nugget is actually in Sparks just down I-80 from me

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Hi,

Juni Fisher does a song taken from this one called, 'Sierry Boots':




TTFN,

[Modoc]

mestiza letty,

I like MMM's version better than David John's.  Kinda hoping one of these days to get over to Virginia City and see David and the boys play again.

I tried to find some of their work on  line, but can only provide a link to their web page/dicography http://www.comstockcowboys.com/Products.htm

Check out some of their samples.

[mestiza letty]

Comstock Cowboys are the best!!
Home turf is the "Bucket o' Blood" saloon..saw them last May 

[Modoc]

Yeah,

They are a great group of guys to hang around with.  You should have seen poor Mike when they played the Cottonwood Beer and Wine festival.  It was 119* that day and he was wearing his signature woolies

[Texas Lawdog]

I am sorta partial to "Thank God and Greyhounds You're Gone".