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One afternoon in June of 1957, while he was living in a trailer back up in the woods of Knoxville, feeling down and out, he tried his hand at doing a lost love ballad. He sang into the tape recorder the words, "I Can't Stop Loving You," and said to himself, "That would make a good title." He soon finished that song, then started on another one which he would end up calling "Old Lonesome Me." When he sent the tape to Acuff-Rose to be transcribed and copyrighted, a staff copyist misunderstood the title, and wrote it as "Oh Lonesome Me." "It was the kind of day I could use a few more of," recalls Don.
-- Charles Wolfe, from the liner notes to Don Gibson's A Legend in My Time
― spittle, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Broheems (diamond), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 07:12 (twenty-two years ago)
He was a class act. And those early '60s sides have nice Chet Atkins picking, and Floyd Cramer on piano. Good stuff.
― spittle, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 07:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― dylan (dylan), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)
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Look at this staid beast of an album cover. The standout of any Flying J's $2 CD rack. I don't even want to listen to it so much as I want to dust it off with my shirt and toss it somewhere in the cab of my big rig (for later today, or tomorrow).
― del griffith, Sunday, 2 February 2014 04:51 (twelve years ago)