Country Music, anyone?

SG John said:
Country music lost me when Glen Campbell released Rhinestone Cowboy. Modern country is rock with a steel guitar and violin, and maybe a bit of drawl to the lyrics.

I still love Jerry Reed, Roy Clark, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and a lot of old school stuff.
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I'm very much a fan of Johnny Cash. His style was unique.

But, I'll be honest....I'm the oddball here. I don't really care much for the old-timey country. I actually prefer the modern country better.

I realize that is a sacrilege.
 
smitty_p said:
I'm very much a fan of Johnny Cash. His style was unique.

But, I'll be honest....I'm the oddball here. I don't really care much for the old-timey country. I actually prefer the modern country better.

I realize that is a sacrilege.
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Johnny Cash. Roger Miller. Johnny Horton. All records my mom and dad had. I was able to rescue their entire collection before they went to an estate sale. I really need to catalog their collection.

Only album I have of my own is one of Horton’s with Battle of New Orleans and Sink The Bismarck on it. Can still sing along with both while listening.
 
Sargeant Preston said:
I was on the verge of saying that you'll never hear heavy metal music played at a square dance and then I saw


There's a Jethro in there somewhere.
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Thru the YMCA years ago we took some ball room dance lessons. The usual. Waltz. Cha cha. Fox Trot. Swing. But rather than the Arthur Murray way of doing it, our instructor taught using popular music. Like Santana to learn Cha Cha. His reasoning….. learn the styles and then at weddings and such you can pick out the beat and do your ball room dance moves to any song played at the wedding. And, it worked even though we really didn’t get all that good at it. :unsure:

So to see line dancing to metal. Does not surprise me. And frankly, it’s kinda cool.
 
Sargeant Preston said:
Recent Chat Box discussion about turkey vultures reminded me of this good old country tune.
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Dude, I remember when I first heard that song as a kid. I loved it then and love it now.

I wasn't really into music yet, but my step-dad heard it on the radio in the car and turned it up while we were on a trip once.

Hilarious stuff.

It's strangely educational, too. I didn't know what "olfactory" meant, so it prompted me to look it up in the dictionary. We didn't have internet then, so ya had to use real books!
 
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smitty_p said:
Dude, I remember when I first heard that song as a kid. I loved it then and love it now.

I wasn't really into music yet, but my step-dad heard it on the radio in the car and turned it up while we were on a trip once.

Hilarious stuff.

It's strangely educational, too. I didn't know what "olfactory" meant, so it prompted me to look it up in the dictionary. We didn't have internet then, so ya had to use real books!
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I also like the phrasing in the first verse:

"He didn't see the station wagon [pause] car."

That pause alone makes it memorable.
 
LMAO!
The year was 1972 and I owned a Ford Country Squire station wagon (monster vehicle). Two kids and two Saint Bernard dogs ridin' in back. And yes!!!! I ran over a few skunks, squirrels, rabbits, and raccoons, but the worst animal I ever ran over was an opossum. It was like running over a 6 x 6 wooden beam. Solid.
 
Sargeant Preston said:
LMAO!
The year was 1972 and I owned a Ford Country Squire station wagon (monster vehicle). Two kids and two Saint Bernard dogs ridin' in back. And yes!!!! I ran over a few skunks, squirrels, rabbits, and raccoons, but the worst animal I ever ran over was an opossum. It was like running over a 6 x 6 wooden beam. Solid.
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I had quite the summer last year. I hit three squirrels in a single day! I tried to avoid them, but the little things dart back and forth in a state of confusion.

Oh, you know the chicken that tried to cross the road? Well, I hit it with my car a few years ago. So, I guess there are no more of those jokes. Sorry, ya'll!

I never hit a skunk, though.
 
Sargeant Preston said:
The secret method to avoid killing squirrels on the road is aiming for them! They always manage to get away unscathed. That secret method does not apply to deer or moose!
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I came very close once to nailing a deer. Big guy. Coming out of a little town of like 600 population…. Coming around an S curve…… dark. I’d just accelerated back to 55 and set the cruise and there he was straddling the center line. Didn’t even get a chance to kick off the cruise. Fortunately. I steered to the left and he moseyed off to my right. I might have clipped a back hoof. But there was no evidence on my car. Driving a 99 Dodge Intrepid with that sloped hood. If id have hit him square he was big enough to scoop up and he’d have come thru the windshield. That might not have ended well.
 
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