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Ever so often we hear name's of other singers in a song.Of coure, this may help to sell the song.For example,,,Old Hank and Lefty.
And the most you hear today that writer's of song's lean on are, the name's Haggard and Jone's.I can think of afew more,but let's see what you come up with.These are people that will be heard of years from now,Hank,Lefty,Haggard, and Jones.Can you name other song's,that mention other recording artist<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by BJ Bailey on 07 June 2001 at 02:03 PM.]</p></FONT>

I wrote a song many years ago, long before the VInce Gill tune, called "High and Lonesome" that invoked the name of Bill Monroe:

"I need to hear ol' Bill Monroe's high lonesome voice,

'cause I'm high and I'm lonesome tonight"

© 2001 Moose Muse Music BMI

it was also very cool of LS to use Neil Young's name in "Sweet Home Alabama" <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 07 June 2001 at 12:09 PM.]</p></FONT>

Garth Brooks "Much too young to feel this D@mn old" mentions Chris Ledoux.

Hey, soon enough people will be charging to have their name used.

Leonard....(Tommy Collins) By Merle Haggard

Pure Praire League...I'll change your flat tire Merle....

Some say I sound a lot like Merle.
David Allen Coe.

The best one of them all is from Steve Goodman:

<i>"You don't have to call me 'Waylon Jennings',
And you don't have to call me 'Charlie Pride',
You don't have to call me 'Merle Haggard', anymore,
Even though you know you're on my fightin' side

And I'll hang around as long as you will let me,
I never minded standing in the rain,
You don't have to call me 'Darlin'', darlin',
But you never even call me by my name."
<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jim Cohen on 07 June 2001 at 08:24 PM.]</p></FONT>

"I grew up when Roy and E.T. and Kitty and Lefty and Hank were the rage, it was good enough then and it's good enough now 'cause a good wine gets better with age."

--lyric from "What's Wrong With the Way That We're Doin' it Now" by Justin Tubb

Tim R.

Mary Chapin Carpenter's "I Feel Lucky" goes
" Dwight Yoakum's's in the corner, and he's trying to catch my eye
Lyle Lovett's right beside me with his hand upon my thigh"
(No arguments about how 'Country' any of them are please!)


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David Allan Coe - Willie, Waylon and Me (which also mentions McGuinn, the Byrds, the Burritos...)

Lee Clayton's Ladies Love Outlaws, which refers to Waymore, Jessi, Billy Joe Shaver...

Luckenbach, Texas, which mentions Newbury, Jerry Jeff, Waylon, Willie

Waylon's It's Alright mentions JJ Cale

Another Waylon one that I forget the title of, has a line something like "David Allan Coe thinks he's an outlaw, Double-parked on Music Row", and also mentions George Jones and a bunch of others.

Kristofferson has at least one that namechecks Billy Joe Shaver...

(70s Texas Outlaw Music fan? Me? Nah... )

Ah, yes, then there's "Creeque Alley" by the Mamas and the Papas

"McGuinn and McGuire couln't get no higher..."

and then it goes on to name John Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, Denny, and a host of others...

"...and no one's gettin' fat 'cept Mama Cass"

Lynyrd Skynyrd were having a dig at Neil Young in 'Sweet Home Alabama.'

Why, well apparently they didn't care for the sentiment that Mr. Young shared on his song 'Southern Man.'

Basically LS are on about Southern pride, geeting all misty about their early days at Muscle Shoals Sound studio where they got to meet and record with some of their idols, and they get to poke at Mr. Young.
All in all a good days work for a fiesty Southern rock band.

Joe Diffie ,sung We had a love bigger than the Beatle,The song meantion's the Rolling Stones,and love takes them higher than the Eigal's and Elvis.C.C.R. had one something about looking out the back door ,liston to Buck Owens. What pink elaphants marching in the band????Hey Ray recon C.C.R. had a joint or two going

"She changed direction, headed back home. She changed her tune, it's all Haggard and Jones"
-Montgomery Gentry: "She Couldn't Change Me"

"Got old Hank crankin way up loud"
-Tim McGraw: "Down on the Farm"<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Corwin Colebrooke on 08 June 2001 at 11:47 AM.]</p></FONT>

George Jones: the king is gone (and so are you)mentions Elvis and Fred Flintstone!

Alan Jackson's "Playing Possum" is about listening to George Jones records.
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"Just playin' Possum, and laying low;
I got a hundred watts of hurtin' on the speakers of my stereo."</I>

John Hartford had a song where he mentioned almost EVERYBODY in the Bluegrass scene.
Sorry, I can't remember the name.

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Trisha Yearwood, "XXX's AND OOO's"
She's got her God and she's got good wine like Aretha Franklin and Patsy Cline.

Kim Karns, "Shes got Betty Davis Eyes"

Wynonna, "Girls With Guitars"
Lookin' at Hendrix like a lovesick pup.

Andy Griggs, "Ain't Livin'Long like This"
Make Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee I want to love her but I don't know how.

Charlie Daniels had a song called "The South's gonna do it again" which mentioned several performers.

I think it was Merle Haggard who had the song "That's the way it was in 51" and it mentioned that Hank and Lefty crowded every jukebox, but of course B.J. already mentioned Hank and Lefty.

Also, I can't believe no one has mentioned "Hillbilly Heaven" yet...a ton of names in that one!

Hank Locklin's "Country Hall of Fame", or at least I think that's the name of it mentioned quite a few also.

One I can't remember the name of had something about..."I wish I had Johnny's cash and Charley's pride, etc...

"How to be a country star" by the Statler Brothers.

"I was country when country wasn't cool" by Barbara Mandrell.

"My baby don't dance to nothin' but Ernest Tubb" by Junior Brown.

"Jimmy caught the dickens for putting Ernest in the tub" written by The Easter Brothers.

<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Lem Smith on 08 June 2001 at 08:17 PM.]</p></FONT>

I do an old Waylon tune, also covered by Webb Wilder called "Nashville Bum" where one part of a verse states:

I look good in cowboy clothes
And I sing through my nose
Ol Webb says that's the way to get her done

Of course referring to Webb Pierce, not Webb Wilder!

And since Ricky Davis hasn't spoken here yet--another vote for Merle in Dale Watson's "Nashville Rash" where he states "Help me Merle I'm breakin' out in a Nashville rash" at the end he also mentions Johnny Cash, Charey Pride, etc. etc., and if you see him do it live he will mention most of the pioneers of real country and even challenge the audience to come up with some on their own!

Oh, and pleae no slams for mentioning two anti Nashville songs in my post!
DD

That ok Dana, Most folks on this forum are anti with most of the music Nashvill is produceing in the last few year's <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by BJ Bailey on 09 June 2001 at 10:22 AM.]</p></FONT>

"I`ll fix your flat tire,Merle" by Big Brother and the Holding Co.;a counter culture answer of sorts to Merle`s "Okie from Muskogee"

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Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes - George Jones

Makes reference to the following:

Waylon and Jesse
Willie Nelson
Johnny Cash
Merle Haggard
Conway Twitty
Elvis
Lerry lee Lewis
Charlie Rich
Luke the Drifter
Marty Robbins
Lefty Frizzell

and

Hank (Snow) (Williams)


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Has anybody mentioned "Set up Joe" by Vern Gosdin. It talks about ET and "Walkin'the Floor."

Clint Black had a song called "Tuckered Out" that made references to the following:

Little Texas
The Playboys
Bob Wills
Johnny Russell
Charlie Rich
George Strait
Radney Foster
Desert Rose Band
Brooks and Dunn
Crystal Gayle
Merle Haggard
Waylon Jennings
Restless Heart
Wynonna
Dolly Parton
Vince Gill
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Reba McEntire
Patty Loveless
Tanya Tucker
Gatlin Brothers
Kentucky Headhunters
Eddie Rabbitt
Eddie Raven
McBride and the Ride
Dan Seals (or Troy Seals?)
Alabama
Asleep At The Wheel
Johnny Paycheck
Kitty Wells
Johnny Cash
Billy "Crash" Craddock.

Granted, this was a novelty tune that worked the names into the lyrics...... but I can't think of any other song that mentions that many people.