Country music: Live at the Ryman Been watching this Ken Burns special with the best singers today. Right now it's Holly Williams, Hank's granddaughter. And just saw Marty, Vince and Ricky doing some wonderful blue grass music. Don't know if you all like old country but this stuff and blue grass is pure gold. I can write cowboy music but for the life of me not country. That's sinful, me being from Tennessee. But, such is life. Well, back to the good stuff on PBS. Thanks Ken Burns.
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Tennessee Dave
"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God" Author unknown
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Have it on DVD waiting to be watched. Just finished 7 1/2 hours of Old Oprey over the last week. Funny to see Willie in a suit and tie with a short haircut. :7
Les Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute of happiness you'll never get back..
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Les The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
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Yeah Willie went through some serious changes back in the day. I can just imagine him trying to find his way during those years in Nashville before he got fed up and left to go back to Texas. But, good Lord, he was some song writer! You know, it's really crazy the great songs writers had over the years that were passed up for a long time before someone saw their worth. But the fighters prevailed eventually, like LL did. But I do love that old music. Pure gold.😊
Tennessee Dave
"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God" Author unknown
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Saw Waylon Jennings there with his wife when he was in poor health...Not long after that it closed forever, but before it did President Nixon played the piano with a stellar cast watching... Country fan forever, but not too crazy with modern country, especially when they throw a little rap in there...Insane!
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Oh gosh....decades ago I went to the Civic Center in Baltimore, primarily to see a young man named Johnny Cash. The performers included Minnie Pearl, little Jimmy Dickens, The Carter Family, and anybody and everybody, including a young boy named Hank Williams Jr. Long story short...the stage went black except for a single spot, and from somewhere off stage there came a rhythmic clanging. Clang, clang, clang...and John stepped into the spot clanging two large metal rods together and sang John Henry. Wow! Freaking awesome.
"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN
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Yeah, the real thing is awesome. Went with my dad and sisters to the colosseum in Memphis in 1971. Saw the Statler Bros. Johnny Russell and Charlie Pride. Then the icing on the cake for that trip was when we came home and driving by the courthouse was Buford Pusser standing outside talking to our Sheriff. Quite a day, that.
But I've been lucky enough to see many famous folks, here and there. Bumped into Tompaul Glaser, literally, at Printers Ally in Nashville in 1985 and almost knocked him and me both down. Love the Glaser bros. Song loving her was easier. Started to kick Ray Benson out of our hotel late one night; thought he was a transient. My boss almost had a heart attack over that one. LOL
Tennessee Dave
"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God" Author unknown
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lol...it’s hilarious when you don’t realize who you’re talking to or with. The folks in show business I have had dealings with have all been great. One of the surprises for me was watching my Dad, late in life, having to interact with the public and celebrities because of working in a museum...B&O RR Transportation Museum in Baltimore. Actors, actresses, State, Local and National politicians all visited the museum. After he retired the new owners, CSX Transportation sold or gave the Museum to State and local governments to run. A really dumb move, but typical of a conglomerate owned business. The museum was at Mt Clare in Baltimore and has an unbelievable historical record...from Conestoga Wagon to modern Diesel locomotives. My family began work for the old B&O RR in the early 1840s with a husband and wife team that worked laying track from what at the time was western Virginia, and ended when the tracks were laid in Baltimore’s stockyards at the mid century mark. My family worked at Mt Clare for the B&O and continued until my nephew switched to work for the Maryland/DC Metro line a few years ago when the railroad got out of the passenger business...so 150 plus years. My Dad was happy I didn’t have to work with my hands when I went to work in the Telegraph Office, but none of us were surprised as my brother climbed the corporate ladder in signals and communications. It’s been a long ride over continuous rail.
"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN
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Man, I love my family history. Although there was nothing of mention among them. Just love family history. Do you ever feel you've left so very much Behind? But as they say, change is inevitable. ... I think we all MUST go forward. No choice really.
Tennessee Dave
"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God" Author unknown
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Oh yes...love family history. My maternal side is really something. Hunter Robinson began the journey in 1821. He was born in Pennsylvania, but was a drover/cattle agent. His wife, sister and mother in-law ran a store in Chambersburg, Pa. before moving to Baltimore in the late 1840s when the cattle industry moved into town. Hunter drove cattle from as far west as Iowa east to Baltimore. My paternal side basically have worked the railroad from the 1840s until today with a nephew who works on Amtrak...the first to break from freight traffic. My sons work for or at colleges. The youngest has drifted into human resource management while the oldest works in statistics at a college. His company recently found a cure for a childhood disease using statistics. The result was money to secure the company for another 20 odd years. Really crazy stuff for an old man to wrap his brain around.
"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN
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Just arrived in today's mail "Country Legends Greatest Hits" DVD 10 hours of 'mini concerts' 20 artists plus many more listed on the cover and it looks like four songs for each artist. A few I hadn't heard of down under but I think I'll be binging country again this weekend.
Les Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute of happiness you'll never get back..
:7
Les The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
