Saddest" Country Song
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Saddest" Country Song
How about it! What is your choice for the
most "cry in your beer" country song?
I'll vote for "DOWN TO SEEDS & STEMS AGAIN"
by Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen.
(Lost his dog, his wife left, the finance company repossessed his home........)
Anybody have any others?
........
Bob
most "cry in your beer" country song?
I'll vote for "DOWN TO SEEDS & STEMS AGAIN"
by Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen.
(Lost his dog, his wife left, the finance company repossessed his home........)
Anybody have any others?
........
Bob
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Dave, when I read this topic title, "Chisled in Stone" had just ended playing on the CD deck. I figured my response would be a no-brainer, so it was weird when I saw your answer!
The first time I heard that song and the words hit home, the effect was like taking a hard, fast medicine ball right in the gut.
I would definitely have to second you on the choice.
"Got The Down To Seeds & Stems Again Blues" is a campy, (but delightful), tongue-in-cheek parody of "The Real Thing"! It's a real hoot.
"I saw your other man today; he was wearing my brand-new shoes"....<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Rich Paton on 02 April 2000 at 01:01 PM.]</p></FONT>
The first time I heard that song and the words hit home, the effect was like taking a hard, fast medicine ball right in the gut.
I would definitely have to second you on the choice.
"Got The Down To Seeds & Stems Again Blues" is a campy, (but delightful), tongue-in-cheek parody of "The Real Thing"! It's a real hoot.
"I saw your other man today; he was wearing my brand-new shoes"....<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Rich Paton on 02 April 2000 at 01:01 PM.]</p></FONT>
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And here's a weird one...while married, back in 1977, I drove home shortly after work.
All the furniture was gone, and a note was on the mantle...
So, after the initial surprise dissipated a bit, I grabbed my stash of Columbian Red and headed for my buddy's place where we had often spent a lot of time drinking Busch Bavarian and listening to great music.
So, I'm sitting stoned stupid on the couch, and the very first thing he puts on the stereo was a brand new Neil Young album, which started on a tear-jerker country tune I hadn't heard.
I wound up loving that song, have played it lots of times in bars and dives, and even talked my brother into playing the fiddle again because of it. Now he's nearly a virtuoso fiddler.
So...the very first music I heard as a freshly emancipated, 26 year old single man was...
"They were playin' that Old Country Waltz,
In this empty bar, echoin' off the wall.
When I first got the bad news, that you set me free...
The band played the Old Country Waltz, to me"
Great fiddle and PSG (Ben Keith) on the tune.
And with that, the Albatross winged her way briskly into the setting sun......
How could one not dig such a tune, when it fits you so perfectly?
BTW, I ceased imbibing herbs in 1979.
All the furniture was gone, and a note was on the mantle...
So, after the initial surprise dissipated a bit, I grabbed my stash of Columbian Red and headed for my buddy's place where we had often spent a lot of time drinking Busch Bavarian and listening to great music.
So, I'm sitting stoned stupid on the couch, and the very first thing he puts on the stereo was a brand new Neil Young album, which started on a tear-jerker country tune I hadn't heard.
I wound up loving that song, have played it lots of times in bars and dives, and even talked my brother into playing the fiddle again because of it. Now he's nearly a virtuoso fiddler.
So...the very first music I heard as a freshly emancipated, 26 year old single man was...
"They were playin' that Old Country Waltz,
In this empty bar, echoin' off the wall.
When I first got the bad news, that you set me free...
The band played the Old Country Waltz, to me"
Great fiddle and PSG (Ben Keith) on the tune.
And with that, the Albatross winged her way briskly into the setting sun......
How could one not dig such a tune, when it fits you so perfectly?
BTW, I ceased imbibing herbs in 1979.
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There are so many. I will have to go with "Chisled in Stone" also. When that album was released, the rate of suicides off the Golden Gate Bridge quadrupled. I was there ready to jump many times myself. "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and "Gitty Up Go" are tied for second.
D@mn, where's my cyanide.
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Richard Sinkler BS, www.sinkler.com
D@mn, where's my cyanide.
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Richard Sinkler BS, www.sinkler.com