Posted on 09/08/2017 4:05:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
OK, OK. Garth Brooks will be the 3rd. Happy now?
Thanks and...Amen.
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...”
“Yellow Moon” Always softens my heart.
A favorite. I saw him in concert...
Good Ole Boys like Me.
Best Don Williams song ever
Don Williams was the real McCoy.
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.
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”
RIP.
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.
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.
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?
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”.
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