Presale is already going on so i already have tickets. I think they go on sale to the public tomorrow at around 10am
can't believe y'all dont appreciate country music. oh wait i can, portland is full of liberals, not real americans
The "new" country music is pretty much just rock and roll with fiddle and twang added. It all sounds the same. It needs a reset. The stuff from the 60's and 70's is the good stuff that tugs at the heartstrings and makes the beer go down so easily. And while I consider myself a moderate with some occasional liberal leanings, I'm proud to say I have my hotel reservations for Bob Wills Days, to be held in Turkey Texas (still searching hard for any other reason people might want go to Turkey Texas) the last weekend of next April. Three days of Texas BBQ, Texas cowgirls and Western Swing music in the middle of freakin' nowhere. Blake just can't compete.......not all Portland folks are hipsters @rasheedfan2005........
Where was the invite UCD? Shit, that sounds like a hell of a time.
Im just pokin fun. i fully agree i love older country. waylon jennings is probably in my top 5 country artists. i love rock too though so i dont mind some of the newer stuff. jason aldean, for example. lots of good newer stuff if you are a rock and country fan. but for real country you do have to go back. i recently got 4 disc hank jr. greatest hits and i have to admit, i picked up joe diffie greatest hits too.
Hey watch your back..... just saw I had you on ignore. I'm not a pussy so I wouldn't have ignored you even if I had cause. Make sure Sly isn't making money off ignore... don't know who would have paid him though.
I have...love it...Etta James played the same circuit as my band in the late 70s and they blew away every band they opened for....I saw the Jerry Garcia band try to follow Etta and totally embarrass themselves.
it's ok every forum ive ever been on i figure everyone has me on ignore and im just talking to myself
Another guy I like to listen to is Don Walser (who passed away 10 years ago). A big ol' Texas boy who covered the old stuff and could yodel until the cows literally came home. His nickname was "The Pavarotti of the Plains". Different approach in a great way. I also recently picked up the last two albums by John Prine (In Spite Of Ourselves and For Better Or Worse). Both are collections of old standards/duets he does with country ladies past and present. Prine's voice isn't quite what it used to be due to throat cancer but they are both really good efforts. Like I said, I like the older stuff....
Its part of a very long road trip I will be on at that time (stay tuned for my blog). But.......if you can fly into Lubbock on Thursday afternoon (April 28) and can fly out from Abilene on Sunday afternoon (April 30) on my way further south, you're welcome to tag along. I'll have an aero bed with me so you could even crash on the floor of my room.....but you're on your own when it comes to dealing with hangovers, pissed off cowboys and newly acquired social diseases.....
