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Just listen to God Bless this Town.Funny I moved out of this area when I was 18.Where I moved after 29 years they couldn't handle my wild Hillbilly Redneck ways so I left.
When I moved back here I was told I would fit right back in and wouldn't have any trouble because of Family and Friends in the area.I went back to the area I moved from for a visit,seems they still don't care for my style.
So here I am after 17 years here.Started going to Church everyone knows my past but they have forgave me as they are told couple months ago voted me in as Deacon.
Yes I'm Home where I will die and my ashes will be scattered in the river by the House where I was Baptized.
I listen to "Outlaw County" on Sirius/XM and my fondest wish is that Mojo Nixon and Shooter Jennings would get a station dedicated to them, so that I would never have to listen to either of them ever again.
Can't stand Mojo Nixon's on-air persona and it makes me turn the station every time I hear his voice. It's nice, I guess, that he is so enamored of drugs and alcohol and behaving badly in public, but I could live without hearing about it.
I'm a huge fan of alt-country - McMurtry (one of THE best songwriters), Keen, Alvin, Earle, Hubbard, Johnny Cash, old stuff from Haggard, Jones, Jennings, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams (the first, can't stand the other two) etc etc etc
I had to laugh when I read the thread about whether or not pop country adequately portrays rural small town life. I suggest the OP turn off the radio, switch off CMT/GAC, and listen to the other side of country music-the sometimes gritty, sometimes irreverent, sometimes hellraising, and always authentic and heartfelt side. I submit my list of some of the best Outlaw Country songs:
Country Boy Can Survive - Hank Williams, Jr.
Choctaw Bingo - James McMurtry
Longhaired Redneck - David Allen Coe
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
Conversation With the Devil - Ray Wylie Hubbard
We Can't Make It Here Anymore - James McMurtry
The Road Goes on Forever (And the Party Never Ends) - Robert Earl Keen
God's Gonna Cut You Down - Johnny Cash
The High Cost of Livin - Jamey Johnson
Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother - Ray Wylie Hubbard
Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand - Waylon Jennings
Cocaine Blues - (Most famously covered by) Johnny Cash
Whiskey, Weed, and Women - Hank III
Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound - Hank Williams, Jr.
Long Haired Country Boy - Charlie Daniels Band
Family Tradition - Hank Williams, Jr.
Gunpowder and Lead - Miranda Lambert
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
Sunday Morning Comin Down - Kris Kristofferson
Caleb Meyer - Gillian Welch
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
The Boys From Oklahoma - (Most famously covered by) Cross Canadian Ragweed
The Ballad of Uneasy Rider - Charlie Daniels Band
oh no, country songs about how tough and macho that southern men are, how they get drunk, and get into trouble, are not cliches at all.
"The Ballad of Uneasy Rider", sounds almost like some sort of parody or satire in a way.
Makes me think of those middle-aged, high-class, suburbia dudes who dish out $30,000 on a flashy Harley, and then lay it down.
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