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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
Mandatory Monday Morning Merle
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Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and George Jones - Keep On The Sunny Side
Hey George, I’m guessing a) you missed practice b) cuz you were out drinkin’.
After a month+ hiatus, The Both Kinds of Music Show returns to the airwaves. On today’s show, we remember George Jones and celebrate Willie Nelson’s 80th birthday with lots of good stuff in between. Join me for two hours of country music goodness.
The Both Kinds of Music Show is on BBOX Radio from 4:30-6:30 p.m. ET (1:30-3:30 PT).
Boo! There’s a rerun playing. Hopefully I can get the new episode to air before next week.
George Jones - Still Doin’ Time
Heckuva service for George today. If they archive it and you’re interested, put it on in the background.
I don’t care who y’are, take your hat off at a funeral.
George Jones Funeral Details - Watch or Listen Live Starting at 10 a.m. CT
Nashville, Tenn. (May 1, 2013) – George Jones’ funeral will take place on Thursday, May 2nd at The Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee, starting at 10 am (Central) and will be open to the public. Doors will open at 9 am.
In addition, national television networks CMT, GAC, RFD, and FamilyNet, as well as local Nashville stations WKRN 2, WSMV 4, WTVF 5, WZTV 17 will broadcast the funeral service “LIVE”, with radio partners WSM 650AM and SiriusXM Willie’s Roadhouse (Ch. 56) broadcasting the service. Fans around the world can listen online at wsmonline.com or watch online at opry.com.
(Source: georgejones.com)
Mandatory Monday Merle featuring George Jones - The Way I Am
George Jones - A Picture of Me (Without You)
What country music fans look like today.
George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today
Well, damn. You think your heroes will live to be 100 years old. Not for them, but for you. You want to know they’ll be around as a reminder that everything’s OK.
Everything’s not OK today.
George Jones, you’re the greatest country music singer the world has ever known.
Rest in peace, Possum. Hope you’re not a No Show to the Pearly Gates.
Eddy Arnold, right, with Charlie Rich, left, Conway Twitty and George Jones during dress rehearsal for the second annual County Music Hit Parade at the Grand Ole Opry at Ryman Auditorium. (1/24/1974)
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George Jones & Tammy Wynette - We’re Gonna Hold On
A whole lotta George and Tammy on Hee Haw.
Bob Dylan - I Want You
You ever listen to a song? I mean really get deep into it and become aware of how all the instruments fit together to create the song? I’ll confess, I don’t do it much. I mean there’s Clapton’s guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps, which you normally don’t hear until he solos, but it’s there the entire time.
Then there’s your Nashville session musician, like Hargus “Pig” Robbins, who did a ton of work on well known songs. He’s really apparent in say, White Lightning or the signature sound of Behind Closed Doors, but Dylan keeps his bouncy tone as part of the whole ensemble so you don’t really hear it unless you listen for it. But it’s this essential professionalism that got him inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame last year.
All of this just to say Happy 75th Birthday to ol’ Pig.
