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Post by jamesottosweethart on May 2, 2012 16:53:10 GMT -5
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Post by KyleEl on May 4, 2012 14:22:51 GMT -5
The weather is hotter so I am listening to classic country more.
The reason is that the air conditioning in the car sometimes causes this squealing noise that makes distant AM stations, such as my favorite pop station unless I happen to be in its town, unlistenable.
So there's only the one FM I know I'll like. Unfortunately it gets messed up by a hot AC (now THERE'S an oxymoron) and a hip-hop station.
I didn't know Porter Wagoner did "The Carroll County Accident". I've heard it only a few times on this one station. I don't know whether I heard it in years past.
Porter Wagoner discovered Dolly Parton and sang with her some. He was the Liberace of country music. Or for those of you not old enough, Elton John. Wait, that may still not be familiar to young people, since Elton doesn't dress like that any more.
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Post by KyleEl on May 7, 2012 13:17:05 GMT -5
I found the perfect way to watch Carrie Underwood, who in yesterday's Parade magazine was described as sounding like "Loretta Lynn meets Joan Jett" on her new single "Good Girl". No, Loretta Lynn and Joan Jett should never meet.
But I saw her performing on Letterman in a commercial where the only audio was the narrator saying who was going to be on. That's the ideal, because you get to look at her.
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Post by KyleEl on May 10, 2012 15:25:54 GMT -5
I heard the perfect country song yesterday. It's called "You Never Even Called Me by My Name". David Allan Coe said it wasn't perfect because it didn't mention Mama, or prison, or trucks, or trains, or getting drunk.
So the final verse was added. "I was drunk the day my mama got out of prison ..."
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Post by avp60685 on May 10, 2012 16:19:25 GMT -5
Oh wow! That's interesting Kyle
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Post by KyleEl on May 16, 2012 14:04:26 GMT -5
Puck on "Glee" sang "Mean". I couldn't tell it was even a country song until I heard the chorus.
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Post by jamesottosweethart on May 16, 2012 15:10:40 GMT -5
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Post by KyleEl on May 16, 2012 16:30:10 GMT -5
^^^ When Taylor sings it, to me it couldn't sound anymore country. I love to hear the mandolin in it.  God bless you and her always!!! Holly Puck was playing a guitar and that doesn't mean anything. But it is the only song I like to hear Taylor perform. |
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Post by KyleEl on May 28, 2012 13:54:41 GMT -5
I accidentally taped over the part of the Billboard Music Awards show where Taylor Swift got an award.
I was going to the kitchen, and while you can freeze TiVo, this was a VCR. So I turned off the TV because the converter box was on and the noise of a TV that can't pick up channels is very annoying. I came back to find the machine recording. I turned it on and turned the VCR off, and when I pressed "play", Taylor's clip was nearly over.
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Post by KyleEl on May 30, 2012 15:43:40 GMT -5
I had a chance to listen to some bluegrass yesterday. I have two classic country stations, but depending on where I am, one might be much clearer than the other. Where I was yesterday, the station with the bluegrass show starting at 6 PM (ET) was the clearer choice.
When they do their regular format they also tell you they play your favorites. Actually, even with five years of listening to another classic country station, I still hear songs that I've never heard but like. That other station didn't have quite the heritage of this one and so its collection was smaller.
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Post by KyleEl on Jun 1, 2012 14:53:35 GMT -5
I listened to bluegrass yesterday too.
I heard a report on Doc Watson on TV from the next room. I liked the music I heard, whatever it was called.
In addition to Earl Scruggs, fans of the banjo have lost some one else. I read yesterday that Doug Dillard from "The Andy Griffith Show" died. His band was called The Dillards, though on the show they were the Darling Family.
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Post by KyleEl on Jun 4, 2012 13:29:19 GMT -5
Over the weekend I heard part of "A Prairie Home Companion". They were doing the show from North Carolina, and I should have taken the time to listen to more of it. Lots of bluegrass and that sort of thing.
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Post by jamesottosweethart on Jun 4, 2012 18:05:03 GMT -5
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Post by Aeryn on Jun 6, 2012 23:25:27 GMT -5
The ones I like are:
Elvira (Oakridge Boys)
Poor, poor pitiful me (Linda Ronstadt)
Coal Miner's Daughter (Loretta Lynn)
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Post by jamesottosweethart on Jun 7, 2012 9:48:00 GMT -5
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Post by KyleEl on Jun 11, 2012 15:21:33 GMT -5
^^^ I love to hear Terri Clark sing "Poor Poor Pitiful Me". God bless you and her always!!! Holly Yeah, that's a good one. I saw the movie "Strange Bedfellows" (not the one with Rock Hudson). That has a lot of real country music in it. |
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Post by avp60685 on Jun 14, 2012 12:04:15 GMT -5
The movie "Urban Cowboy" has a lot of country music in it too!
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Post by KyleEl on Jun 15, 2012 13:58:31 GMT -5
The movie "Urban Cowboy" has a lot of country music in it too! Not only that but it defined a type of country music. Ironically, "Urban Cowboy" country is even more pop-sounding than the mess today. The difference is that for some reason we liked it. |
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Post by KyleEl on Jun 18, 2012 15:27:09 GMT -5
I heard "Crying" by Don McLean. Back when it was popular a DJ said he had a new baby in the hosue and ... apparently the song meant a lot.
I saw the movie "Cars" over the weekend. In Radiator Springs there was a lot of country music. In other parts of the movie, no.
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Post by KyleEl on Jun 20, 2012 14:47:36 GMT -5
On the way to the mountains, I stayed on my favorite pop station until its signal got too bad.
I have read that the next station I turned to, co-owned with a country station I can hear at home (during the day), also gets its music from the same service as that station.
And when that second station started having problems, I tried a third station. Same music, same DJs! That wasn't true last year but there may have been some kind of corporate merger.
Closer to my destination they're still using a different service. I think I heard Zac Brown Band. They can pass for country, I guess.
One or two places I went in today had bluegrass. I saw a CD player with a CD of Roy Rogers cowboy songs, so that must have been what I was hearing there. It sounded great!
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Post by KyleEl on Jun 25, 2012 14:49:49 GMT -5
Waylon Jennings says "I've always been crazy but it keeps me from going insane."
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Post by jamesottosweethart on Jun 25, 2012 21:10:42 GMT -5
^^^ Go here to listen to my most favorite singer, James Otto, sing "Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand?" from the tribute to Waylon Jennings that was released back in February of last year and here to listen to my most favorite female singer, Alison Krauss, sing "Because You Asked Me To" from the first Waylon tribute album released in 2003. God bless you and James and Alison always!!! Holly |
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Post by KyleEl on Jun 29, 2012 13:47:01 GMT -5
I doubt I will. I don't have sound at home and my Internet is too slow for anything like that.
And when I go to a library with sound, I just have other stuff to do.
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Post by KyleEl on Jul 2, 2012 13:44:38 GMT -5
I heard some good country music on the TV series "World's Funniest" yesterday. No lyrics, but good music. I had a strange experience last night. I heard a radio station I rarely hear. My first though was that a top 40 station that let its morning host go had switched to country. And it was a really old song, but not one that sounded country. And the station played several other old songs. The top of the hour station ID included the words "Today's best country". Yeah, if it's 1986.  |
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Post by KyleEl on Jul 6, 2012 14:01:19 GMT -5
The afternoon DJ on the station in the town where I was yesterday is John St. John. At least that was true yesterday. I remember another name.
Only the morning DJ is local.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2012 21:02:03 GMT -5
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Post by KyleEl on Jul 12, 2012 15:26:48 GMT -5
If Carrie Underwood sang it and it's not a duet with Randy Travis, it's not country.
She did a duet with Tony Bennett ("It Had to Be You") which was good. Not country, but good.
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Post by jamesottosweethart on Jul 12, 2012 16:57:54 GMT -5
^^^ Amen to that. To me, even collaborating with a country singer does not make her country. God bless you always!!! Holly |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2012 18:14:58 GMT -5
She is a country artist. Travesty, Kyle!  |
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Post by KyleEl on Jul 13, 2012 13:21:59 GMT -5
She is a country artist. Travesty, Kyle! ![]() No, the travesty is that she is considered country. Country-pop or country-rock, but not country. |
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