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Don Williams, Laid-Back Country Legend, Is Dead At 78
NPR ^ | September 8, 2017

Posted on 09/08/2017 4:05:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: dinodino

OK, OK. Garth Brooks will be the 3rd. Happy now?


41 posted on 09/08/2017 4:54:05 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: ZinGirl

Thanks and...Amen.


42 posted on 09/08/2017 4:59:06 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: HonkyTonkMan

It’s hard for me to pick a fave. A fun song of his I always enjoy hearing is LOOZIANNA SATURDAY NIGHT (Sic). “...Git down the fiddle and git down the bow; kick off yer shoes and throw em on the floor...”


43 posted on 09/08/2017 5:05:45 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: chasio649

“Yellow Moon” Always softens my heart.


44 posted on 09/08/2017 5:26:24 PM PDT by crabpott (' we are living in the strangest, most perilous, and unbelievable decade in modern memory' VDH)
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To: wally_bert

I like "Tulsa Time" too.   "Tulsa Time" - Don Williams (RIP)


45 posted on 09/08/2017 5:36:16 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: nickcarraway

A favorite. I saw him in concert...


46 posted on 09/08/2017 6:38:23 PM PDT by marron
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To: nickcarraway

Don Williams - Till the Rivers All Run Dry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdZuodp3ZZM


47 posted on 09/08/2017 7:32:58 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: HonkyTonkMan
Good Ole Bo,yes like me.
Love that song
48 posted on 09/08/2017 7:48:31 PM PDT by hillarynot (I play in Peoria)
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To: hillarynot
Let's try that again.

Good Ole Boys like Me.

Best Don Williams song ever

49 posted on 09/08/2017 7:51:09 PM PDT by hillarynot (I play in Peoria)
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To: nickcarraway

Don Williams was the real McCoy.


50 posted on 09/08/2017 7:57:24 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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To: Tucker39

Ha, that’s a Mel McDaniel song. Good song none the less.

Don Williams like many singers of the past could actually sing without auto tune unlike many of the new “talent” on “country” stations.

So many unique voices there once was.


51 posted on 09/08/2017 9:54:11 PM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: HonkyTonkMan

My favorite Don Williams song.

I was able to hear him twice in concert - the first time was at the Bama Theater here in Tuscaloosa. The second time was just before he retired, over in Georgia. Going to hear him in person was like being invited into his den, or to sit on his back porch. He was very personal, very engaged with his audience.

“By the light of the radio by my bed, with Thomas Wolfe whispering in my head”


52 posted on 09/08/2017 10:18:51 PM PDT by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch ( I would LOVE to have my old "substandard" insurance back. It didn't mean $24K annual out of pocket)
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To: nickcarraway

RIP.


53 posted on 09/09/2017 2:17:23 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch

Awesome story. He had the smoothest voice and his simple illustrations really embraced growing up in the South. Wish I could have seen him perform. He’s a legend and one of my favorites. So much different than the Hick-pop garbage Nashville promotes today.


54 posted on 09/09/2017 7:18:45 AM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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To: nickcarraway

Some Broken Hearts Never Mend

Coffee black, cigarettes,
start this day, like all the rest,
First thing every morning that I do,
Is start missing you

Some broken hearts never mend,
Some memories never end,
Some tears will never dry,
My love for you will never die

Rendezvous in the night,
A willing woman to hold me tight,
But in the middle of love’s embrace,
I see your face

Some broken hearts never mend,
Some memories never end,
Some tears will never dry,
My love for you will never die

He was my favorite country singer ever. I have all his albums.


55 posted on 09/09/2017 9:29:27 AM PDT by ladyellen (Campaigning)
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To: nickcarraway

Why was he in Alabama

He had a farm across the river at Bells Bend off that dead end part of Old Hickory boulevard by the old ferry that’s closed

It’s a rural part of Nashville that’s in close but inaccessible

Maybe his children’s?


56 posted on 09/09/2017 9:42:13 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: HonkyTonkMan

There’s no “story” in most of what are called “country” songs any more. My dad and I were talking about this a few weeks ago - his favorite is Willie Nelson. (Going to hear him in a few weeks here - not the same as 30 years ago, unlike DW who never lost his voice.)

Today’s music — something about pickup truck, short skirt, wash rinse repeat = “hit song”.


57 posted on 09/09/2017 2:51:21 PM PDT by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch ( I would LOVE to have my old "substandard" insurance back. It didn't mean $24K annual out of pocket)
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