Interesting that you put up Lost Highway by Hank Williams. Rolling Stone Magazine named Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone as the number one rock and roll song of all time. Dylan said he got the idea for the song from listening to Hank William's Lost Highway.Originally Posted by limitles
Lost Highway starts out "I'm a rolling stone all alone and lost." And Dylan's big line is "Like a rolling stone." Dylan had some pirate in him.
Corb Lund is an Albertan country music artist that lives just a little north of me.When he's not making music he's a poker junkie as exhibited by this song called A Game In Town Like This:
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Yes very interesting. I thought the same. It's well known that the British invaders were heavily influenced by all things America, blues, country and early rock' n roll. That's just how it goes. And I get what you're saying about Dylan.Interesting that you put up Lost Highway by Hank Williams. Rolling Stone Magazine named Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone as the number one rock and roll song of all time. Dylan said he got the idea for the song from listening to Hank William's Lost Highway.
Lost Highway starts out "I'm a rolling stone all alone and lost." And Dylan's big line is "Like a rolling stone." Dylan had some pirate in him.
And it's a lonely thing
But, it's the only thing
To keep a foolish man in love
Hangin' on...
This is a great song obv. but there is an interesting story behind it. Just heard this on Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast. The song as written has a soliloquy midway and Elvis could not get past it. He's been recorded numerous times screwing up the spoken content.
In that podcast Gladwell visits Jack White and discusses the song and gets him to play it with
some interesting results
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcas...=1000416138101
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In 1968 I was the 15 year old rack boy at the Town Tavern in Gonzales, Louisiana. They had 4 regulation pool tables. Conway Twitty was big at the time. The drunks at the bar would play this song several times a day:
Pretty cool YouTube channel -- a trucker putting up country music to his dashcam of driving in scenic areas (though there's a lot of general trucking videos there, too.)
This was recorded on I-90 in Montana, near the town of Bonner.
Bonner is just east of Missoula. It's one of my stops because there is a casino in the truck stop. The river on the right is the Clark Fork River. He passes East Missoula about midway of the video. As the video ends he's about to enter Hellgate Canyon. On the other side of the canyon is Missoula.
I always liked the outlaw sound over the nashville sound. Today's country music is country pop shit. But there is a sort of outlaw sound out there that don't get much airplay. I can listen to kid's like Colter Wall:
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George Strait was the epitome of '80s country music
Sadly this song isn't about a woman George dated. It was said to be about his 13-year-old daughter, Jenifer, who died in an automobile accident in 1986.
This 1979 song by Hoyt Axton made it onto the top 20 country chart in 1979 at one point.
It was best known for appearing at the end of "WKRP in Cincinnati" in an episode where Axton guest starred.
Here he is best known for "Greenback Dollar". The Kingston Trio popularized that song in your end and the first remake/cover here came out in 63. Well into the eighties most covers were translated to Finnish here. That meant usually that they had to be recomposed as well. That remake/cover from the sixties spawned 6ish other well known versions.
Covid got my man Charlie Pride today.
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