[Billie]

March 3, 2009

[Billie]

Good morning! Continuing our Music Week at Amy's, today's genre is Country & Western, and I have a dozen or so country songs & artists I'll be posting throughout the thread. However, so as not to clutter up all your "Comments" pages, I won't be using the ping list every I post them. If you like Country music, please be sure to browse the whole thread today to hear each of the artists.

I hope you enjoyed Johnny Cash's "I Walk The Line" in the opening just above, and now here's one of my all-time favorite country artists, singing one of my all-time favorite songs:

"Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain"
Willie Nelson

[Mama_Bear]

Thank you for this pretty musical opening for Tuesday. I am listening to that country legend, Johnny Cash, as I type. Music Week at Amy’s was a great idea!

[jaycee]

Beautiful opening picture and I have “I Walk The Line” playing right now...LOUD! I love Johnny Cash and Country Music!

In our old record collection, I have a cabinet full of those old 33’s and Johnny Cash’s old 33 is one I have. I got it out after I bought one of those record players (the ones that look like the old ones)...for my downstairs. It also plays C.D.’s, cassettes, and has AM/FM radio. I play my CD’s on my computer though....love the sound.

Thanks for the music I will be enjoying as I work.

[yorkie]

Great opening - and what better voice to open Country music day, than Johnny Cash! Thank you!

[Pippin]

GOOD MORNING!

HAPPY MARCH!!!

HAPPY TUESDAY!!!

I've a riddle for y'all

What do you call a cross between a Tolkien fan and a Doctor Who fan?..............

.............Wait for it!

..............A Time Lord of the Rings!!!

LOL!

Have a GREAT DAY!!!

[yorkie]

He Stopped Loving Her Today
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“He Stopped Loving Her Today”

Single by George Jones
from the album I Am What I Am
Released March 1980
“He Stopped Loving Her Today” is a song by country music artist George Jones that has been named in some surveys as the greatest country song of all time.[citation needed] It was a single on the album I Am What I Am. Released in 1980, the song was Jones’s first #1 single in six years. The melancholy song was written by Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman.

It is about a man who was betrayed by his lover. Despite her actions, he never stopped loving her the rest of his life – the day he stopped loving her turned out to be the day he died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27jzHHN97gI

[Majie Purple]

Oh I love the song “Walk The Line” & I really Love the movie by the same title...& about Johnny Cash!!:)

[StarfireIV]

A man in black
a man who struggled
a brother who died much too young
and by horrific means

Addictions
pills
nothing seemed to chase the demons away
the father who said "The Lord took the wrong son
Pictures of a life
pictures transformed by music
One of the few popular ones to whom the word
Gravitas
is correctly applied

He embraced old age
as if it were the mile marker
telling him home was near

Opposite Andy Griffith in a movie about crime
Playing an illiterate farmer
reduced to "lumpin"

The lean years
the slow burn years
and the feverish pace of composition
He still had things to do
despite the distant wail of the whistle
The 309 finally came
and we mourned
knowing all the while he was rejoicing

"Johnny Gravitas" 03/04/09