I want to make a song collection of classic and good country songs just for fun but asides having a few Garth Brooks and Kenny Rogers in there I'm pretty much lost. Any classic country songs you can remember?
― Moka, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 07:39 (seventeen years ago)
"Hartbreak Motel," Homer & Jethro
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 07:47 (seventeen years ago)
moar I need moar! :)
Anything remotely similar to Flowers in the wall, perhaps?
― Moka, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 21:11 (seventeen years ago)
Flowers on the Wall is Statler Bros... if you wanna go that pop-country direction there's a ton of that shit: King of the Road, Stand By Your Man, Crazy, Glenn Campbell's Wichita Lineman, Dolly Parton... all this stuff is fairly obvious nashville canon stuff
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 21:36 (seventeen years ago)
I love Merle Haggard's "Silver Wings." That, to me, is a classic country ballad. The imagery of the airplane and the way the song floats along totally captures that sense of loss and rootlessness when traveling by plane, especially when you're leaving a place you really don't want to.
Silver wings shinning in the sunlight, roaring engines headed somewhere in flight. Their taking you away, leaving me lonley, silver wings slowly fading out of sight.
― QuantumNoise, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 22:30 (seventeen years ago)
"You Never Even Called Me By My Name" by David Allen Coe
― Michael White, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 22:38 (seventeen years ago)
This is a killer old Statler Brothers video of their classic tune "Flowers on the Wall". The four part harmony is fantastically well recorded and the harmonies are amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6DmeR9a6ig&feature=share
I also dig whatever funky Italian or elsewhere guitar the one guy is playing, probably provided by the local producer.
― earlnash, Friday, 27 July 2018 01:26 (seven years ago)
https://youtu.be/W6DmeR9a6ig
― earlnash, Friday, 27 July 2018 01:29 (seven years ago)
Love that one, especially the way the bass singer delays and lingers on the first syllable of “KANG-a-roo.”
― 3-Way Tie (For James Last) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 July 2018 01:31 (seven years ago)
I made a Spotify playlist once which seems to have held up to my own repeated listening with that as the third song and another song right upthread as number two so perhaps I should post it here.
― 3-Way Tie (For James Last) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 July 2018 01:40 (seven years ago)
Sometimes they swap up the Louvin Brothers tunes with re-records, though and then I have to dig for original to replace.
― 3-Way Tie (For James Last) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 July 2018 01:42 (seven years ago)