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...and my favorite, Don WIlliams (Did he write this?)

"I can still hear the soft southern wind in the live oak trees. And those Williams boy they sure mean a lot to me, Hank and Tennessee.
I guess we're all gonna be what we're gonna be. So, whadda ya do with good ol' boys like me?"

CDB (Charlie Daniels Band) mentioned in the Barefoot Jerry song, "Woes Of The Road".

"It don't matter who's in Texas Bob Wills is Still the King." by Waylon Jennings, (these "outlaw: guys sure are mentioned a lot in this thread. Namedroppers???? Naah.

Don't forget Steve,Roger Miller sang about you"England Swings Like A Pendlum Do" Ray

P.S.What's on the menu.

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Steeling is still legal in Arizona

BD, Good Ol' Boys Like Me was written by Bob McDill. Larry

Hi Jason,

I found a quote of Ronnie van Zant somewhere on the net about that Alabama song:

Ronnie Van Zant: "We wrote 'Alabama' as a joke. We didn't even think about it - the words just came out that way. We just laughed and said 'Ain't that funny'... We love Neil Young, we love his music."

I don't know when he said this, and I don't really believe this ****. It's easy to say these things afterwards. With one beer less they should have thought about it twice...

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s-10 sierra crown gearless 3 x4 - fender hotrod deluxe

Remember Haggs "Daddy Frank" ? His steel player at the time was the name sake of that song--Frank Hardcastle who now lives here in Rogers, Ar. He can entertain you big time !! Any body on here know him ?

David Allen Coe had a song about Anita Bryant that wasn't exactly 'family fare'

I am really tired of of people using names of our "icons" in their songs ...espcially the numb brains that keep using the traditional artist name's.. anymore it is just an excuse for non-creative people to pull off a lazy suck-up and hope some jaded record company still thinks this is clever.
when I hear Haggard and Jones, as in the new Montglmery/gentry song, it is like fingernails on a blackboard.....the only clever thing I have heard in this vein was on Clint Blacks "D'lectrified" when he brought Waylon in the studio to do a "real" name-dropper with a twist.
The "pretend" writers are the same one's that think a C to Em and then the Am chord progression has something fresh to offer - ala Travis Tritt and Billy Ray Cyrus.

Let's not forget Tex Ritter (John's Daddy.) who had a song called Hillbilly Heaven. Named all the ghosts in the music world and then himself but that was before he died. Maybe that will be the end of this. Paul

I think the tune was "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool"...the line "I saw Tammy leavin' Jones"
Junior Brown tune "My Wife Only Dances To Ernest Tubb"
Martin, here's a link to a good reading on the Skynrd/Young thang... http://HyperRust.org/General/Skynyrd.html
I've always wondered how much, if any, having Neil's name in "Sweet Home Alabama" helped Skynrd along in their career...At the time Neil was very, very popular worldwide, and Skynrd was relatively new to "the music scene", even nationally.
I know hearing Neil's name in that tune made me forever remember the tune AND the name of the band.
Anyhow, neither Neil nor Lynrd Skynrd seem like the thin-skinned type...so hey,
"(expletive deleted) 'em, if they can't take a joke!"

David Allan Coe has a song titled "Jimmy Buffett" on the Nothin' Sacred album. It's not available in stores or TV

What about "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey"?

BTW, did you ever go home?

Regards,
HH

Rich, I'm glad you posted the link to the info on the LS/Neil Young thing. It's one of the more interesting and most frequently distorted stories of rock and roll

Here are words of a song I played steel on: Chorus: It’s Hank and Jimmie Rodgers, moaning the blues
Ernest Tubb and Jim Reeves, was singin with them too
Bob Wills, those fiddles, them Texas playboys
Made me and Patsy Cline, waltz across the floor
The song was written by singer songwriter, Dustin James, and was actually inspired by a dream he had. If you'd like to hear it, I believe you'd be able to by going to Mp3.com and searching for "The Dustin James Band". The name of the song is "Ghost Town". It also fared pretty well on the country division of garageband.com -- Marc

"Springfield Guitar Social" Thumbs Carlisle
Plenty of names and signature licks

"Lonestar Beer And Bob Wills Music".

And then - forgive me about this one - there is "Ich möcht´ so gern Dave Dudley hör´n, Hank Snow und Charlie Pride" by Germany´s TRUCK STOP. ("I´d like to hear DD, HS and CP"). In this neck of the woods that song is almost as well known as "Country Roads". (Boy, do I hate that song ...)

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Phil Baugh once had a song with the lyric:

Play me something sweet,
Like you've never heard,
Play me a chorus like Jerry Byrd.

And then he did just that; on a lead guitar !

Regards, Paul

...Clint Black's "Ode To Chet" not only mentions Chet Atkin's name...at the end is a brief conversation between Clint and Chet...

...Roll Over Beethoven, and Tell Tchaikowsky The News...