Why is every country song about horses, broken relationships, or substance abuse?
“Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
And he told me it was the perfect country & western song
I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was not the perfect country & western song
Because he hadn’t said anything at all about mama
Or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting’ drunk
Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent it to me
And after reading it I realized that my friend had written the perfect country & western song
And I felt obliged to include it on this album
The last verse goes like this here
Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got run over by a damned old train”
“Why is every country song about horses, broken relationships, or substance abuse?”
I have never really heard a country song about horses, and I don’t think you have either. Actually, never about substance abuse. Yes, broken relationships, and that crosses all genres.
This country song is about California and concepts asssociated with it.
Because when you’ve lived like this what else is there?
I can vouch for the fun in a lot of this.
Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley — Just Good Ol’ Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkRt9LrvXDY