You know, Country & Western!
This ain't your Dad's country music. It's your Granddad's! None of that new Nashville bullshit either. This is where you'll find what I consider the best in Country (Classic and Alt), Folk, and Americana.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Not Country Post of the Day
Frank Sinatra - The House I Live In
Don’t let your politics/pundits divide you. Despite what you may think, we’re in this together each and every day.
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What is America to me?
A name, a map, or a flag I see?
A certain word, “democracy”.
What is America to me?
The house I live in, a plot of earth, a street
The grocer and the butcher, and the people that I meet
The children in the playground, the faces that I see
All races and religions, that’s America to me
The place I work in, the worker by my side
The little town or city where my people lived and died
The “howdy” and the handshake, the air of feeling free
And the right to speak my mind out, that’s America to me
The things I see about me, the big things and the small
The little corner newsstand and the house a mile tall
The wedding in the churchyard, the laughter and the tears
The dream that’s been a-growin’ for a hundred and fifty years
The town I live in, the street, the house, the room
The pavement of the city, or a garden all in bloom
The church, the school, the clubhouse, the millions lights I see
But especially the people
That’s America to me
Loretta Lynn - She’s Got You
Loretta channels Patsy on some Frank Sinatra TV Special.
Plus! A truly awful DISCO duet of Frank and Loretta singing All or Nothing At All (in Loretta’s case, All or Nothin’ At All). So bad that I couldn’t even finish watching it.
Roy Clark & Sammy Davis Jr. - Lonesome Road
You know I started a new tumblr all about old 50s/60s pop/jazz/easy listening standards over at A Swingin’ Affair, right? C’mon over!
