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April 26, 2013

George Jones, RIP
— Slublog

An icon passes.

Even if you're not a fan of country music, you have to respect the man for living the AOSHQ lifestyle to its fullest.

His most famous song below.

Open thread.

Posted by: Slublog at 08:24 AM | Comments (157)
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1 Long Live the Possum !

Posted by: The Jackhole at April 26, 2013 08:24 AM (nTgAI)

2 My Dad's favorite song--as I have posted three times now.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 26, 2013 08:25 AM (kXoT0)

3 Love his music.

Posted by: irright at April 26, 2013 08:25 AM (pMGkg)

Long Live the Possum !

Posted by: The Jackhole at April 26, 2013 08:25 AM (nTgAI)

5 He said on an interview he drank so much it gave him two extra personalities

Posted by: Navycopjoe at April 26, 2013 08:25 AM (yMSN1)

6 I have some of his stuff. Good stuff.

RIP George, maybe God will let you take the lawn mower down to the bar even though wifey wouldn't.

Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 08:26 AM (53z96)

7 Don't rock the jukebox, I wanna hear George Jones, Cause my hear aint ready for the Rollin Stones.

Posted by: The Jackhole at April 26, 2013 08:27 AM (nTgAI)

8 Been listening to that song and crying all morning because it made me remember my Dad. We played it at my Dad's funeral.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 26, 2013 08:27 AM (kXoT0)

9 Incredible voice and songwriter.

Posted by: pat dye's liver at April 26, 2013 08:28 AM (tYCwA)

10 RIP, Possum.

Posted by: Andy at April 26, 2013 08:28 AM (sAfwJ)

11 Imagine going to a strip bar with George jones and Johnny cash You wouldn't survive but would go out happy

Posted by: Navycopjoe at April 26, 2013 08:28 AM (yMSN1)

12 RIP George. May you have an endless supply of hot women and cold booze.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Please? at April 26, 2013 08:28 AM (VtjlW)

13 Not a country music fan and don't know much about him. Was he on Hee Haw much back in the day?

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at April 26, 2013 08:29 AM (EGPJQ)

14 It's getting really hard to hear real country music on the radio anymore.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 26, 2013 08:29 AM (l3vZN)

Well I asked my old pappy why he called his brew

White lightnin' 'stead of mountain dew

I took a little sip and right away I knew

As my eyes bugged out and my face turned blue

Lightnin' started flashin' and thunder started crashin'

Shooooooooo - white lightnin

Posted by: The Jackhole at April 26, 2013 08:29 AM (nTgAI)

16 RIP Possum.

Highty-ho!

youtube.com/watch?v=KsNWlM3fWmI

Posted by: Fritz at April 26, 2013 08:31 AM (UzPAd)

17 O/T
Remember the headline about the female US Sailor that kicked some wannabe rapists ass??

Er...maybe not.

http://tinyurl.com/d9mszsp

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2013 08:32 AM (ZQNhv)

18 My favorite song of his was his first big hit; White Lightning. I have a Johnny Cash show video with him doing it on that show and it is fantastic.

Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 08:32 AM (53z96)

19 I believe that his living the AoSHQ Lifestyle inspired Tammy Wynette to do Stand By You Man.

The first 'Ron and 'Ette?

Posted by: John P. Squibob at April 26, 2013 08:32 AM (MrneO)

Election fraud. It's whats for dinner.

http://tinyurl.com/ct8buz3

Posted by: maddogg at April 26, 2013 08:32 AM (OlN4e)

21 A John Deere lawn tractor and George Jones - a story that will live as long as Americans are free.

Posted by: mrp at April 26, 2013 08:32 AM (HjPtV)

22 G men T men revenuers too lookin for the place where he made his brew they were lookin tryin' ta book him but my Pappy kep' a cookin whooooooooooooooooooo white lightnin

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 26, 2013 08:33 AM (8sCoq)

23 5 He said on an interview he drank so much it gave him two extra personalities

Posted by: Navycopjoe at April 26, 2013 12:25 PM (yMSN1)

Piker....

Posted by: Romeo13, all those Sock Puppets are REAL and talk to me... at April 26, 2013 08:34 AM (lZBBB)

24 It's getting really hard to hear real country music on the radio anymore.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 26, 2013 12:29 PM (l3vZN)

Country music ceased being country music years ago.

Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 08:35 AM (53z96)

25 O/T
Remember the headline about the female US Sailor that kicked some wannabe rapists ass??

Er...maybe not.

http://tinyurl.com/d9mszsp

The female navy sailor is actually a member of Seal Team 7, all female SEALS, and the navy doesn't want us to know about them. Yet.

Posted by: EC at April 26, 2013 08:36 AM (GQ8sn)

26 pikespike? pikesmite?

Posted by: soothsayer at April 26, 2013 08:36 AM (CXoSL)

27 European intelligence agencies are worried that European Muslims fighting in Syria will return to carry out terrorist attacks because of their contacts built with al-Qaida, the BBC reported on Wednesday. The UK, Ireland and France are the Western countries believed to have the most fighters in Syria, according to the report, which quotes EU anti-terror chief Gilles de Kerchove as saying that about 500 Muslims from Europe are fighting with the rebels. However, according to Soeren Kern, a senior fellow for the New York-based Gatestone Institute, and a longtime observer of Islam in Europe, more than 1,000 European Muslims are fighting in Syria. In an article for Gatestone in March titled Â“European Jihadists: The Latest Export,Â” he wrote that Syria Â“has replaced Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia as the main destination for militant Islamists seeking to obtain immediate combat experience with little or no official scrutiny.Â” In an interview with The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, Kern related to the debate: Â“Although there is no consensus among analysts on the exact number of European jihadists fighting in Syria, I believe the number 1,000 is about right based on a compilation of intelligence estimates and media reports from across Europe.Â” syria is now ground zero for jihadis, more than yemen, more than somalia

Posted by: thunderb at April 26, 2013 08:36 AM (nH8jP)

28 His "I'm a One Woman Man" has always been one of my faves. Along with Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues", it is actually one of the two songs I can sing well at kareoke night. They definitely don't make them like George anymore. Rest in peace, brother.

Posted by: BigDaddyD at April 26, 2013 08:36 AM (S4N/h)

29 Country music ceased being country music years ago. Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 12:35 PM (53z96) Amen to that.

Posted by: jwb7605 ([i][u]Let it Burn[/u][/i])[/s][/b] at April 26, 2013 08:36 AM (Qxe/p)

He lived to be 81 abusing his body and living the AoS lifestyle.

Imagine if he had lead a healthy lifestyle, he wouldn't have made 60 !

Posted by: The Jackhole at April 26, 2013 08:36 AM (nTgAI)

31
I pulled the head off Elvis
Filled Fred up to his pelvis
Yabba Dabba Doo, the King is gone
And so are you

Posted by: Wodeshed, channeling George Jones at April 26, 2013 08:36 AM (a9L+B)

32 Country music ceased being country music years ago.

Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 12:35 PM (53z96)

Yes, it is a lot closer to soft rock these days. OMG, when Taylor Swift and her perennially re-written and re-recorded 3 songs is their idea of Country, then you know how far they have strayed.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 26, 2013 08:37 AM (kXoT0)

33 I disagree. The shit they played years ago was an assault on my ears. Nothing but drinkin, crying, whinin, truckin, and cheatin. Its a hell of a lot better now with some of the modern artists like Brad Paisley. I like modern country. The old guys were predictable and boring to me for the most part.

Posted by: maddogg at April 26, 2013 08:37 AM (OlN4e)

34 I have avoided listening to George Jones music in recent years because some of his songs hurt so much, and I have 3 loaded pistols in the house He Stopped Loving Her Today The Grand Tour The Door George Jones WAS country music. That shit on the radio today is CINO- Country In Name Only. RIP, Hoss

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 26, 2013 08:38 AM (8sCoq)

35 Pulled a lot of weeds listening to Mr. Jones. RIP. Might be a song in there.

Posted by: nip at April 26, 2013 08:38 AM (lGVXf)

36 uh oh open tag

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 26, 2013 08:38 AM (8sCoq)

38 It's getting really hard to hear real country music on the radio anymore.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 26, 2013 12:29 PM (l3vZN)

People listen to country music on purpose???

Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 26, 2013 08:39 AM (SY2Kh)

I stopped listening to Country for good in about 1980, when that was taped, after about two years of nothing but Country.

Man, that was/is great tune.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 26, 2013 08:39 AM (03IDC)

40 You know, I bet that George Jones could have written an awesome song about being in the barrel.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Please? at April 26, 2013 08:39 AM (VtjlW)

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 26, 2013 12:29 PM (l3vZN)

___

One of the Sirius channels plays classic country, can't recall which.

Posted by: kallisto at April 26, 2013 08:40 AM (jm/9g)

42 barrel? what barrel?

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 26, 2013 08:40 AM (8sCoq)

43 I was always sad that they closed Nudie's before I got to see it. Look at that car: http://goo.gl/FXvEC

Posted by: waldo at April 26, 2013 08:40 AM (y2XjR)

44 40 You know, I bet that George Jones could have written an awesome song about being in the barrel. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Please? at April 26, 2013 12:39 PM (VtjlW) And made us cry!

Posted by: jwb7605 ([i][u]Let it Burn[/u][/i])[/s][/b] at April 26, 2013 08:40 AM (Qxe/p)

45 Jones...barrel.

Here, take my goggles from yesterday. You'll need them.

It's been especially....oh....piquant in the barrel lately.

Cochran's probably been at the hummus again.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/u][/s][/b] at April 26, 2013 08:40 AM (sbV1u)

46 It's Barrellin' time Jonesy!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2013 08:40 AM (ZQNhv)

47 I love that song. It always makes me stop in my tracks for some reason.
Thanks, George. RIP.

Posted by: Leonard Pinth-Garnell at April 26, 2013 08:41 AM (LO5eB)

48 It's the industry Jinxy. Find a sound that sells and push that sound. Try "Old Martin and a Mandolin" on the live cd at my nic. You can hear a free sample.

Posted by: teej at April 26, 2013 08:41 AM (e0nsQ)

49 I am not a big Country music fan. But some of the classics really hold up--Patsy Cline, George Jones, some, but not all of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, etc.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 26, 2013 08:41 AM (kXoT0)

50 Never! I have barrel immunity or something! I'm sure I do. It's around here someplace.

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 26, 2013 08:41 AM (8sCoq)

51 >>>Country music ceased being country music years ago.<<<

I don't know if it's even Country anymore so much as it's Western Pop.

Posted by: Fritz at April 26, 2013 08:42 AM (UzPAd)

52 syria is now ground zero for jihadis, more than yemen, more than somalia

Posted by: thunderb at April 26, 2013 12:36 PM (nH8jP)

And yet, Obama is having our nuclear arsenal dismantled unilaterally. Why it is almost....

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 26, 2013 08:42 AM (Cnqmv)

53 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 26, 2013 08:42 AM (/PCJa)

54 I always did like bluegrass however. I still do.

Posted by: maddogg at April 26, 2013 08:42 AM (OlN4e)

55 I diagress. I love Jason Aldean, Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert. Otherwise I am forced to listen to rap or Justin Beiber

Posted by: thunderb at April 26, 2013 08:42 AM (nH8jP)

56 I wish old George was just playin' possum. Yet Jerry Lee Lewis still lives!

Posted by: Mr. Dave at April 26, 2013 08:42 AM (hcNX8)

57 Country music ceased being country music years ago. Country music died when Naahville went Hollywood.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2013 08:42 AM (rgOb9)

58 One of the Sirius channels plays classic country, can't recall which.

Posted by: kallisto at April 26, 2013 12:40 PM (jm/9g)

Willie's Road House, channel 59. I have it on my presets in the GS.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 26, 2013 08:42 AM (kXoT0)

59 Today's US Government Powered by Movable Type

Posted by: soothsayer at April 26, 2013 08:42 AM (oxIUw)

60 From last thread re: Mark Levin's show yesterday: Did you hear the 23 year old guy with autism? Believe his name was Johnathan. That kid almost had me choked up - not because he was autistic because you could hardly tell - but that he was 23 and so damn well spoken and willing to try to educate all of his drone friends. (He could probably teach me about run on sentences.) But it's little, simple moments like that that gives me hope. Posted by: RWC at April 26, 2013 11:37 AM (fWAjv) At the 70 minute mark from yesterday's show. just an fyi

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 26, 2013 08:43 AM (XYSwB)

61 Patsy Cline

I'm not a country music fan either, but I have two of her songs on my car's flashdrive.

Posted by: EC at April 26, 2013 08:43 AM (GQ8sn)

Once upon a time George was scheduled to play a festival in Southern Ohio.

At the time you couldn't buy any alchohol on Sunday in OH. So George

approached somebody at the local gas station and hired him to drive him back

to Tenn for more booze. Needless to say that was one of his 'no shows'.

Posted by: spc at April 26, 2013 08:43 AM (CtffS)

Never! I have barrel immunity or something! I'm sure I do. It's around here someplace.

No one has barrel immunity. Not the head ewok, not AtC; not anybody.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 26, 2013 08:43 AM (/PCJa)

64 George Jones had at least one #1 country hit in 5 consecutive decades.

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 26, 2013 08:43 AM (8sCoq)

oooo, the horde is itching for a fight today, I can see longbows vs. crossbows is going to be supplanted by the epic new country vs. classic country battle.

Taylor Swift does write the exact same song. Every. Damn. Time. At some point, honey, maybe it's you and not the guy, that's effed up. Did you ever think of that Ms. Peaches and Cream goody two shoes?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2013 08:43 AM (RZ8pf)

66 OT: (Linked on NRO). John Kerry has discovered the reason that the Chechnya twins and others like them attack us:

"I think the world has had enough of people who have no belief system, no policy for jobs, no policy for education, no policy for rule of law, but who just want to kill people because they donÂ’t like what they see. ThereÂ’s not room for that."

Because they lacked a jobs and education policy. Reminds me of The Honorable Senator Patty Murray who discovered that Osama bin Laden attacked us because we didn't have government funded child care.

Posted by: WalrusRex at April 26, 2013 08:43 AM (Hx5uv)

67 George Jones Dead........Republican Sequester to blame ..............

Posted by: CNBC Headlines at April 26, 2013 08:44 AM (90aTA)

68 diagress- when you disagree and digress outta be a word

Posted by: thunderb at April 26, 2013 08:44 AM (nH8jP)

69 "Whose Gonna Fill Their Shoes?" As far as country music singers go, "nobody" seems to be the correct answer.

Posted by: BigDaddyD at April 26, 2013 08:44 AM (S4N/h)

70 Today's US Government

Powered by ReMovable Type

Posted by: soothsayer at April 26, 2013 12:42 PM (oxIUw)

FIFY

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 26, 2013 08:44 AM (Cnqmv)

71 "but I have two of her songs on my car's flashdrive."

A phrase that was unimaginable ten years ago.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2013 08:44 AM (ZQNhv)

72 Because they lacked a jobs and education policy. Reminds me of The Honorable Senator Patty Murray who discovered that Osama bin Laden attacked us because we didn't have government funded child care. Posted by: WalrusRex at April 26, 2013 12:43 PM (Hx5uv) Halp us John Kerry, where stuk wit no jobz?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Please? at April 26, 2013 08:44 AM (VtjlW)

73 Taylor Swift = not country Tammy Wynette = country jeez you kids today

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 26, 2013 08:45 AM (8sCoq)

74 One of the Sirius channels plays classic country, can't recall which. Posted by: kallisto at April 26, 2013 12:40 PM (jm/9g) Several channels. I like "Willie's Road House" (56) and "Outlaw" (60) the best.

Posted by: jwb7605 ([i][u]Let it Burn[/u][/i])[/s][/b] at April 26, 2013 08:45 AM (Qxe/p)

75 I diagress. I love Jason Aldean, Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert.

Otherwise I am forced to listen to rap or Justin Beiber

Posted by: thunderb at April 26, 2013 12:42 PM (nH8jP)

I like most of Miranda's stuff, except when she gets 'whiny'. I loved the song, Only Prettier. Hated the song about baggage. I love Kenny Chesney and Grace Potter's, You and Tequila Make Me Crazy. I like some of Shania Twain's songs.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 26, 2013 08:45 AM (kXoT0)

76 Well at least George Strait is still with us.

Posted by: kallisto at April 26, 2013 08:45 AM (jm/9g)

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2013 12:43 PM (RZ8pf)

Yeah, but she's just soooo damn good looking. Who is listening to her songs?

Posted by: maddogg at April 26, 2013 08:45 AM (OlN4e)

the epic new country vs. classic country battle.

There is no epic new country music.

Or I'm parsing that sentence incorrectly.

That siad, there's some modern stuff that's fun, but most of it really isn't as good as the older stuff. Much like Metal, C[and]W kind of died when it went mainstream in the late 80s and early nineties.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 26, 2013 08:45 AM (/PCJa)

79 also love Patsy Kline, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash and sometime, Johnny Horton

Posted by: thunderb at April 26, 2013 08:46 AM (nH8jP)

80 The Golden Age of country music was the 50s, 60s, and early 70s. It starting sliding toward the end of the 70s. When Chet Atkins, Johnny Cash, and June Carter were gone it was starting to get to be slim pickings. Who's left now? Sonny James?

He quit playing in 1983 and he is now 83.

Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 08:46 AM (53z96)

81
>The female navy sailor is actually a member of Seal Team 7, all female SEALS, and the navy doesn't want us to know about them.<

I think they are called Fox Force Five. And Uma tells a joke at the end of each episode.

Posted by: Hiiden Wristwatch at April 26, 2013 08:47 AM (Opo0Q)

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 26, 2013 12:45 PM (8sCoq)

Travis and Jonathan had a good line about Swift writing songs in purple ink on her unicorn notebook.

Posted by: kallisto at April 26, 2013 08:47 AM (jm/9g)

83 Someone at work has kin that has been working on Miranda and Blake's new property here in Oklahoma. They built a huge house and so far, all the water wells have come in dry. They have to haul water in by the tankerfull.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 26, 2013 08:47 AM (kXoT0)

84 also Kenny Chesney not Faith Hill, but I do like some TIm McGraw

Posted by: thunderb at April 26, 2013 08:47 AM (nH8jP)

85 Not a dry eye in the house. Makes you remember how beautiful marriage is, and why it's worth sticking with it.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 26, 2013 08:48 AM (XYSwB)

86 Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 26, 2013 12:45 PM (kXoT0)

Not really sure of the genre subtlety, but I like Patty Loveless (You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive).

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 26, 2013 08:48 AM (Cnqmv)

87 The one new country singer that still produces stuff close to old country is Brad Paisley.

Taylor Swift is a pop star.

Posted by: Slublog at April 26, 2013 08:49 AM (0nqdj)

88 I listen to/enjoy precisely none of it. Posted by: The Obsidian Owl at April 26, 2013 12:46 PM (tWmgi) That's because you're a very special snowflake Travis and Jonathan had a good line about Swift writing songs in purple ink on her unicorn notebook. Posted by: kallisto at April 26, 2013 12:47 PM (jm/9g) That sounds about right

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 26, 2013 08:49 AM (8sCoq)

89 Taylor Swift does write the exact same song. Every. Damn. Time. At some point, honey, maybe it's you and not the guy, that's effed up. Did you ever think of that Ms. Peaches and Cream goody two shoes?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2013 12:43 PM (RZ8pf)

Exactly, it is the same three songs, same music, same breathy little voice.

A) Boy is with wrong girl and should wise up and come be with her.

B) Boy is with her and all is right with the world

C) Boy and Girl are together, but, the adults are being mean to them.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 26, 2013 08:49 AM (kXoT0)

The linked article says all the stories about him are true. I don't know what "all the stories" are, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say if he lived to be 81, I strongly suspect not ALL the stories were true.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2013 08:50 AM (TOk1P)

91 Per the previous thread on sequester, and Obama trying to cleverly allocate the pain:

I know many here consider anyone on unemployment a looter, but that said, my UE is being cut 20% because of a sequester that only insisted on a 3% cut.

Also, the reason I was laid off was because the company is a.) not doing well in this economy, and b.) adjusting employee count and protecting the bottom line in the face of Obamacare. The HR person who frog-marched me out in 10 minutes after six and a half years was an AA hire, too.

So I'm all about Democrats.

Posted by: Unemployed.Guy at April 26, 2013 08:50 AM (Q8Wa9)

92 crazy by Patsy Kline ring of fire, written by June Carter and performed by her and Johnny Cash he stopped loving her today, George Jones

Posted by: thunderb at April 26, 2013 08:51 AM (nH8jP)

93 I thought he died thirty years ago. I used to hate country and bluegrass. As I get older it is starting to grow on me.

Posted by: Knave at April 26, 2013 08:51 AM (cipri)

94 >> It's getting really hard to hear real country music on the radio anymore. This is where Pandora excels. The Don Williams Pandora channel I play at home a lot is better than any country station out there.

Posted by: Andy at April 26, 2013 08:51 AM (GjmjR)

95 The old guys were predictable and boring to me for the most part.Posted by: maddoggÂ Sacrilege! Start the crusades.

Posted by: Lauren at April 26, 2013 08:51 AM (wsGWu)

96 The Civil Wars are also quite good, but they are more new Appalachian than country.

Posted by: Slublog at April 26, 2013 08:51 AM (0nqdj)

97 I, of course, love Don Williams, Livin On Tulsa Time.

http://www.last.fm/music/Don+Williams/_/Tulsa+Time

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 26, 2013 08:52 AM (kXoT0)

Not every country song has to have the same tempo and strumming pattern as "Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie."

For example: Tim McGraw - excellent songwriter and musician. Brad Paisley - amazing guitarist. Billy Currington - when I want to initiate the launch sequence, I put on "Must Be Doing Something Right" where the missus can hear it and buckle my chinstrap.

I don't miss hearing fucking mouthharps in songs.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 26, 2013 08:53 AM (CJjw5)

99 Carrie Underwood is good. This song also always brings tears to my eyes, no matter when I hear it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLntFKtR66g There's great old country and great new country.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 26, 2013 08:53 AM (XYSwB)

100 Much like Metal, C[and]W kind of died when it went mainstream in the late 80s and early nineties.

Ahh yes, the classic "band X sucked once people had heard of them". I think the Greeks called it argumentum ad hipster.

Exactly, it is the same three songs, same music, same breathy little voice.

Of course. Every year there's a new crop of 13 year old girls who think Taylor knows EXACTLY WHAT I'M FEELING. It's capitalism at its finest.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 26, 2013 08:53 AM (B/VB5)

101 Ace up

Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 08:53 AM (53z96)

102

Dwight Yoakam is just about the only guy out there (is he still out there?) who I would even consider to be playing country music these days.

Posted by: BigDaddyD at April 26, 2013 08:53 AM (S4N/h)

103 >Not really sure of the genre subtlety, but I like Patty Loveless (You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive). Posted by: Hrothgar at April 26, 2013 12:48 PM (Cnqmv) I'm a fan of hers as well. Great voice. She did a duet with George Jones "You Don't Seem To Miss Me" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvnDl5vYtdI

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 26, 2013 08:53 AM (8sCoq)

104 They had this really edgy bluegrass band on PBS last night. Craziest thing I have seen in a while.

Posted by: Knave at April 26, 2013 08:53 AM (cipri)

105 I already said this is the thread below, but I'm bummed. Mr. Black and I had tickets to go to his concert in a couple weeks. I was really looking forward to seeing this legend. And I'm not even a huge country fan. George Jones is just another slice of Americana we say goodbye to. Soon to be replaced with who knows what, since the America I grew up with is dying. George Jones.....when country was country.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2013 08:53 AM (3V9LU)

106 I like Paisley a lot. I have several cd's and have seen him in concert. He puts on one hell of a concert. And I think Jennifer Nettles (though not pure country) has an incredible voice.

Posted by: maddogg at April 26, 2013 08:54 AM (OlN4e)

107 whether you like it or not country music is the only place to hear non rap or hip hop influenced music, which I have grown very tired of. And its even showing up there there is a reason Robert Plante, Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow (i know i know) are performing in country venues and doing crossover albums

Posted by: thunderb at April 26, 2013 08:54 AM (nH8jP)

108 No one has barrel immunity. Not the head ewok, not AtC; not anybody. Whoa there! That's crazy talk. Who in their right mind is gonna try to put AtC in the barrell?

Posted by: Midaz at April 26, 2013 08:54 AM (pbWXF)

109 I could never stand George Jones' songs. That era of country music was about as foreign to this city kid as you could get.. the cryin' voices along with the cryin' guitars was just too much for me.

I did admire George's voice though... and now that I am older, I have found country music much more palatable.. but that old style country is still only palatable in small doses.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 26, 2013 08:54 AM (f9c2L)

110 Whoa there! That's crazy talk. Who in their right mind is gonna try to put AtC in the barrell?

There are times when even royalty must show humility before the Law.

Posted by: EC at April 26, 2013 08:55 AM (GQ8sn)

111 >Sacrilege! Start the crusades. Posted by: Lauren at April 26, 2013 12:51 PM (wsGWu) BURN HIM

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 26, 2013 08:55 AM (8sCoq)

112 Country sounds like 3/4 speed classic rock to me.

Posted by: Knave at April 26, 2013 08:55 AM (cipri)

113

Ahh yes, the classic "band X sucked once people had heard of them". I think the Greeks called it argumentum ad hipster.

It's not exactly that. And I'm not talking about specific bands; rather the genres. Finding good Metal is hard, because everyone figured out "what sells" and now everyone does that.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 26, 2013 08:55 AM (/PCJa)

114 love that duet by Paisley and Underwood Remind Me

Posted by: thunderb at April 26, 2013 08:56 AM (nH8jP)

115 Ohh.. and I forgot.. RIP George! Maybe you got a duet with Elvis coming up tonight that you can miss!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 26, 2013 08:56 AM (f9c2L)

116

They don't make them like old "No-show" anymore.

A couple of years back, he did a duet with Kathy Mattea on the Toy Story song You've Got A Friend in Me. When he sings, "You've got troubles? Well, I've got them, too - there is anything I wouldn't do for you," his voice did that trick of going from that beautiful tenor to basso profundo that always tears me up.

Godspeed, Mr. Jones. Have one for me, wherever you are.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2013 08:56 AM (zF6Iw)

117 crazy by Patsy Kline

I've got that and "Fall to Pieces" on my car.

Posted by: EC at April 26, 2013 08:57 AM (GQ8sn)

118 thats another good one

Posted by: thunderb at April 26, 2013 08:58 AM (nH8jP)

119 thats another good one

I am confident in my heterosexuality to sing along with it.

Posted by: EC at April 26, 2013 08:58 AM (GQ8sn)

120 I've never liked and still don't like C&W music. Always sounded like retarded twang to me.

Posted by: Soona at April 26, 2013 08:58 AM (hTpC2)

121 Posted by: Jones in CO at April 26, 2013 12:53 PM (8sCoq)

She has a knack for some great duets. I could not find the other one of her I really like (which may have also been a George Jones duet).

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 26, 2013 08:59 AM (Cnqmv)

122 I remember an old episode of "Martin" (remember him?!?!) where he says he hates country music, but starts listening to it and ends up loving it by the end.

Posted by: EC at April 26, 2013 08:59 AM (GQ8sn)

123 There really isn't any new country music. They still call it "country" but it has almost nothing to do with the country music that existed from Hank Williams, Sr through the early 80's. Just like it is a bit ridiculous to call both Elvis and [insert name of some current "rock" band here] rock, it is absurd to say that Hank, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, etc, etc and people like Carrie Underwood (for example) are doing today is really in any significant way the same kind of music. Not saying that today's stuff is bad, it just ain't the same thing.

Posted by: BigDaddyD at April 26, 2013 09:01 AM (S4N/h)

124 Oh, jeez, we're not going to have a C&W fight now, are we? If so, I stake out my position: Porter Wagoner, Johnny Cash, Dave Dudley, Dick Curless, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Faron Young, Marty Robbins, Claude King, Buck Owens and Charley Pride. That's what I grew up with and that's what I like.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2013 09:04 AM (zF6Iw)

125 This is why I stick with Slayer, personally. Since 1981, they just haven't bothered changing much. And I like that.

Posted by: [/i]akula51 at April 26, 2013 09:05 AM (Vgn84)

126 Oh, jeez, we're not going to have a CW fight now, are we? If so, I stake out my position: Porter Wagoner, Johnny Cash, Dave Dudley, Dick Curless, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Faron Young, Marty Robbins, Claude King, Buck Owens and Charley Pride. That's what I grew up with and that's what I like.

---

Ditto. I'm taking sides and all aboard the MPPPP train.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2013 09:07 AM (3V9LU)

127

"What kind of music do you usually have here?"

"Oh, we got both kinds. Country AND Western."

Posted by: BigDaddyD at April 26, 2013 09:09 AM (S4N/h)

128 The oldest Country music I have in my library is the original Mother Maybel and Carter family recordings from the 20s. The newest is Asleep at the Wheel.

And I have a LOT of stuff in between those.

Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 09:11 AM (53z96)

129 I like to think of Country music as AMERICAN music.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 26, 2013 09:20 AM (4Mv1T)

130 We got BOTH kinds o' music here! Country AND Western!

Posted by: that chick in that country bar in Blues Brothers at April 26, 2013 09:22 AM (+dlqq)

131 This is the music I listened to with my granny and granddaddy when I was little. I still love it today and even have my grandparents LPs. I hate to learn of his passing. RIP

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 26, 2013 09:34 AM (OJGUh)

132 He was tapping Tammy Wynette well before Burt Reynolds did. And she was hot.

As for country, I love it. It's the last form of pop music left where the artists, generally speaking, are attractive, and they dress up and do their best to look good when they go on stage. (Okay, maybe Tim McGraw's giant black cowboy hat is not dressing up. But can you complain about Faith Hill in the looks department?)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 26, 2013 09:38 AM (BDU/a)

133 BOB WILLS! Who could forget Bob Wills?

Posted by: jem at April 26, 2013 09:49 AM (7g1yh)

134 98 The Don Williams Pandora channel I play at home a lot is better than any country station out there.
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Don Williams: "Good Ol' Boys Like Me." Top-notch stuff. How many popular songs of any genre can you name that mention not only Stonewall Jackson, but also Tennessee Williams and Thomas Wolfe as well? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzGx_XzxDeM

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 26, 2013 09:49 AM (BDU/a)

135 Huge fan of George's songs his 'Hardcore Honkytonk' CD is the one I've probably listened to more than other discs I have, and I have well over a thousand

Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at April 26, 2013 09:49 AM (XvrTA)

136 125 I've never liked and still don't like C&W music. Always sounded like retarded twang to me.
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A lot of it, yes, and that stuff is easy to parody. "You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly," for example. But what about great story songs like Randy Travis's "Three Wooden Crosses," or Garth Brooks's "Beaches of Cheyenne"? Look 'em up. They're almost complete short stories in song. That's what country has over anything else now: they still can tell an affecting story.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 26, 2013 09:56 AM (BDU/a)

137 Until I lived in TX I had barely heard of him. He was like a God down there. I came to appreciate GJ during my stay in the Lone Star State. RIP, George.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at April 26, 2013 10:05 AM (7ObY1)

138 They should have a George Jones funeral for the public with an empty casket. Okay, maybe that's not funny.

Posted by: Last! at April 26, 2013 10:05 AM (1R473)

139 I like the Zac Brown band, those guys are great.

Posted by: navybrat at April 26, 2013 10:07 AM (fj7Xo)

140

Zac Brown band is awesome. I've seen them live twice. But the King of C&W is still with us. Long live King George. Seen him twice too.

Posted by: jewells45 at April 26, 2013 10:12 AM (l/N7H)

141 33I disagree. The shit they played years ago was an assault on my ears. Nothing but drinkin, crying, whinin, truckin, and cheatin. Its a hell of a lot better now with some of the modern artists like Brad Paisley. I like modern country. The old guys were predictable and boring to me for the most part.

Posted by: maddogg

You must love the blues then.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at April 26, 2013 10:17 AM (VLifP)

142 My fave country song: "Ghost Riders in the Sky".

Posted by: navybrat at April 26, 2013 10:25 AM (CeCNz)

143 To meld two common themes of AoSHQ Lifestyle - in the Elmore Leonard novels about Raylan Givins that were the basis of "Justified", Raylan had two sons with ex-wife Winona.

Raylan wanted to name them Hank and George bur Winona insisted that the boys be named Rickey and Randy.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at April 26, 2013 10:32 AM (31Nrp)

144 "33 I disagree. The shit they played years ago was an assault on my ears. Nothing but drinkin, crying, whinin, truckin, and cheatin. Its a hell of a lot better now with some of the modern artists like Brad Paisley. I like modern country. The old guys were predictable and boring to me for the most part.

Posted by: maddogg at April 26, 2013 12:37 PM (OlN4e)"

Philestine

Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at April 26, 2013 10:40 AM (31Nrp)

145 "Retarded Twang?" Do you really want people to start characterizing all the stupid types of "music" you hear today?

Posted by: WTF at April 26, 2013 10:47 AM (QbjWk)

146

138BOB WILLS! Who could forget Bob Wills?

"It don't matter who's in Austin, Bob Wills is still the king." -Waylon Jennings

Of course Bob Wills is more Western than Country, I think.

Posted by: BigDaddyD at April 26, 2013 10:50 AM (S4N/h)

147 Bob Will was what is known as "Western Swing". Asleep at the Wheel same.

Posted by: Vic at April 26, 2013 10:52 AM (53z96)

148 White Lightin'

Posted by: Yip at April 26, 2013 10:54 AM (/jHWN)

149 I used to play poker with some friends and this one guy who was a real jerk. He was a friend of one of the other guys. He had some bone to pick with me, I have no idea why. He was a real open-minded, tolerant Progressive (you know the kind?) and, although I never talk politics at the poker table he knew I was a Republican and always had some pissy comment to make about me.
Anyway, he hated country music a lot. He was a real music snob too. Whenever he was trying to concentrate on his cards I'd start singing George Jones or Roger Miller.
It really pissed him off and I didn't give a good goddamn.
I moved away and I later learned that he was kicked out of the group for cheating. Cheating in a nickel-dime game of cards among friends. A real class act.

Posted by: Fart at April 26, 2013 11:04 AM (2aB+q)

150 Nothing better than the Possum singing Bartender Blues (written by James Taylor) or the Rolling Stones Time Is On My Side. He was great.

Posted by: UncleZeb at April 26, 2013 11:32 AM (Nvirt)

151

The problem with midshifts is you get to stories like this late in the day. So, assuming anybody is still following this thread.......

RIP George Jones. He was an original. Its within the last 10-15 years that I've gotten into country but not the radio pop crap, just the older stuff. FYI for those in the DC area. WAMU has a low powered FM radio station (105.5) that plays bluegrass. They piggy back off of there website Bluegrass Country.org.

Posted by: puddleglum at April 26, 2013 12:20 PM (1mMIf)

152 Oh gee, not George Jones! I will miss him.

I hated country music growing up. My uncle always listened to it and we young'uns made fun of him and called him Hillbilly Bob.

Then my brother came along, born with multiple handicaps. The only kind of music he loved was country. He'd steal money from anyone just to buy country music cassette tapes.

So I started listening. And fell in love with country music.

My daughter came along and hated country music. Then my son was born and he loved it. At three years old he was singing Sawyer Brown's "Some Girls Don't Like Boys Like Me, but some girls do ..." So my daughter started listening, and fell in love.

When my brother died, we buried him with some of his tapes. George Jones was among them.

Thanks George, for what you and yours did for our family memories.

Posted by: mama winger at April 26, 2013 12:40 PM (P6QsQ)

153 33I disagree. The shit they played years ago was an assault on my ears. Nothing but drinkin, crying, whinin, truckin, and cheatin. Its a hell of a lot better now with some of the modern artists like Brad Paisley. I like modern country. The old guys were predictable and boring to me for the most part.

Posted by: maddogg at April 26, 2013 12:37 PM (OlN4e)

They thought no one would miss it
Once it was dead and gone
They said no one would buy them ol'
Drinkin' and cheatin' songs ("Oh, but I still buy 'em")
Well there ain't no justice in it
And the hard facts are cold
Murder's been committed
Down on music row

Posted by: the Butcher at April 26, 2013 12:58 PM (8g9qq)

154 A few months ago I heard he was planning a final tour. Country is losing its history. Last year Doc Watson, now George Jones. Jim Lauderdale is a country traditionalist, as well as a bluegrass, artist. Iris DeMint's voice is as big as Patsy Cline's. Also a number of successful indie pop artists mix in country elements (I forget the names of the bands but the Grammys had like 3 bands with a banjo). San Francisco used to have one 'twang Sunday' bar. Now there's two. With all the pills and alcohol it's amazing he made it as long as he did. He voice became a standard but his music was spotty. He put out lots of filler. But he does have a 2 CD set called something like The Great Lost Hits of the 60s that has the finest country music you'll ever hear.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at April 26, 2013 07:13 PM (7v8o1)

155 assuming

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156 assuming they

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2013 01:37 PM (/WLC3)

157 assum___ they

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2013 01:38 PM (/WLC3)

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