A very special treat for everyone tonight. Of all the right-wing anti-hippie country songs from the late 60s and early 70s, none, and I mean none, reach the magisterial bizarre glory of Autry Inman's "The Ballad of Two Brothers." This is very, very special.
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Another of the great country legends has traveled to the great honky tonk in the sky. Today, Ray Price doesn't have the cache of Cash, Nelson, Haggard, or Williams. But.
Keep the members of Willie Nelson's band in your thoughts today as they were in a serious weather related accident yesterday: One incident injured three members of singer Willie Nelson's.
I was lucky enough to see Robbie Fulks last night at Cafe Nine in New Haven. You should check out his new album. It's quite good. Here's an old favorite: And here's the lead song of the new album, with a title I think everyone...
Country music will warn you about many things. Among them is to watch out for strangers with drugs. Every drug known to man, she now knew them all.
Of course "Hurt" is a Johnny Cash song. In the public mind, any song sung by Johnny Cash is automatically a Johnny Cash song, be it "Cocaine Blues" or "Bird.
Dolly Parton reminds us about work and feminism.
Another country legend is gone. It's amazing how many iconic country songs Glaser was involved with in one way or another. "Streets of Baltimore." "El Paso." "Gentle on My Mind.".
One of the unsung legends of country music. More known as a producer than performer or songwriter, but he was everywhere in country music for 50 years. "Let's All Help.
Not many country artists left from that generation.
The country music response to the hippies led to many songs that ranged from belligerent to hilarious to bizarre. Such as Buck Jones' "A Box of Grass."
Roy Hogsed's 1948 version of "Cocaine Blues" Country Music History 101 teaches everyone that Johnny Cash did not write that song, though he did a good version of it. I.