Posted on 03/29/2020 2:40:07 PM PDT by John W
Country star Joe Diffie has died at the age of 61 following a battle with coronavirus.
The news was confirmed in a statement from Diffie's reps obtained by Fox News.
“GRAMMY-winning country music legend Joe Diffie passed away today, Sunday, March 29, from complications of coronavirus (COVID-19),” the statement read. “His family respects their privacy at this time.”
Diffie's rep offered a statement from Diffie last Friday, confirming his diagnosis with the virus.
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Worked out fine for George Jones (81 when he died) for decades.
Keith Richards will outlive all of us.
Kubota...pretty good machine..
Quite true.
The Lexus of small tractors!
“Drunken Angel” by Lucinda Williams has already been written.
Not particularly “western” but it nails the pattern perfectly.
“Shooting Star” by Bad Company covers the Western angle equally well.
I’ll stick with my Massey Ferguson red.
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Me too.
My dad and uncle went through enough red paint restoring and selling MF tractors.
They also have quite a collection. Large, medium and small.
Another color was not quite CAT yellow. Close enough for the average buyer of the equipment they bought/fixed/sold.
Statistics are a gamble. I am 74 with an enlarged prostrate. But the odds are that I will not get prostrate cancer because I do not use alcohol and do drink milk (and cottage cheese).
But it is odds, like the odds of Hillary being President.
Well, I didn’t even remember who he was, but rest easy country crooner.
General rule of thumb is that if a guy lives long enough, he’ll get prostate cancer. PSA test every year, monitor for increase and velocity of increase. Then try to calculate whether something else is highly likely to get you in the next 5 - 10 years.
As for the enlarged, they used to use a small roto-rooter, but 5 or 10 years ago a co-worker got a laser procedure. At some point you may need to look into that issue.
He put the bottle to his head and pulled the trigger.
Angels sang a whisky lullaby
Actually, one song was the beginning of the end of country music that seemed to reach a zenith in the late 90s. The song was This Kiss by Faith Hill. More pop than country, it started the trend to overly repetitive melodies, more pop sounding arrangements & banal lyrics.
In LA this whole trend for artists/producers/writers connected to producers writing everything that was being recorded, was killing independent pop song writers. So they moved to Nashville and brought their pop influences with them.
Today in Nashville that trends is how songs are written now, by artists, their producers and writers connected to the artists & producers. That’s why it all sounds the same.
Study the history of an artist like Kenny Chesney. He started in the late 90s, you see the songs that put him on the map were far more traditional country and great story songs, “There Goes My Life” for example. Then listen to recent projects and hear the how far he’s gone in the pop direction, the project Cosmic Hallelujah and the big song with Pink “Setting The World On Fire”. A decent lyric but the repetitive in your face melody that screams across country radio stations today.
My Aunt And Uncle sold and repaired Massey Ferguson equipment.
I have a Massey Ferguson denim jacket stuck away somewhere.
Interesting about the family MF collection. Hopefully one of my retirement years projects will be acquiring and restoring a MF 35 Diesel Deluxe. Tough little buggers, and the Perkins diesel merely sips fuel.
When I became a teenager I spent two summers helping a neighbor farmer, and my assigned beast of burden was their MF 35 Diesel...raking hay, fetching haywagons and even a few loaded silage boxes. The tractor had an upright exhaust stack with some sort of tiny car muffler. The assembly made the Perkins sound like a Twitter bird when throttling down.
Good times.
Large Prostrate, largest the urologist has seen. 15 years. No pain. No problem. Very few of us who don’t drink get Prostrate cancer. Very many of those who do drink get Prostrate cancer.... unless their liver, kidneys or other alcohol related problem gets them first. A tree got Sonny Bono first.
uh....that’s prostate not prostrate. :)
One of my favorites.
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