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the top 50 classic Texas songs
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:08 am
by sgt.null
according to Texas Music
50)
Gary P. Nunn - London Homesick Blues
the song
aka, the theme song for
Austin City Limits since 1977.
oddly enough the song did not debut on a Nunn album, instead it debuted on a Jerry Jeff Walker album. (
Terlingua)
and here are Nunn and Walker doing the song...
them doing the song
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:24 pm
by Cagliostro
I have always loved that song. Heard it first at some small little bar in Colorado with my dad in the 80's at a time when I didn't like country music (my dad did), but we both dug that song. It was one of those bonding moments.
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:54 pm
by sgt.null
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:54 pm
by sgt.null
48]
Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
a live version
my choice at #48
I would have picked
Traveling Soldier instead. written by Texas native
Bruce Robison, his brother
Charlie was married to
Emily of the Dixie Chicks at the time.
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:58 am
by sgt.null
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:00 am
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:32 am
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 5:36 pm
by sgt.null
44) Caroline Herring - Mistress
voted one of the 100 greatest songs of the south by the Atlantic Journal-Constitution
the Brazos River she mentions runs through Angleton, the town I live in. General Santa Anna lost Texas about hour from where I sit right now.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Jacinto
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 6:02 pm
by Vader
43 to go - where's the rest?
What about Waylons Luckenbach, Texas or DAC - Longhaired Redneckj? Maybe W.A.S.P. with Blind in Texas? ZZ Top?
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 4:38 am
by sgt.null
43) billy joe shaver - i'm just an old chunk of coal
at my second favorite record store in texas
i'm going to live forever
our favorite billy joe song
honky tonk heroes
we have been fortunate to see Billy Joe live twice now, and to meet him after each show. i could easily post another dozen songs by him.
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 3:17 am
by sgt.null
42) George Jones - Why Baby Why
the original version
much later at the Opry
the original was recorded in Beaumont, Texas.
now my favorite George song. and maybe the greatest country song ever.
He Stopped Loving Her Today
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:26 am
by sgt.null
41) Leadbelly : Midnight Special
John and Alan Lomax, in their book, Best Loved American Folk Songs, told a credulous story identifying the Midnight Special as a train from Houston shining its light into a cell in the Sugar Land Prison. They also describe Ledbetter's version as "the Negro jailbird's ballad to match Hard Times Poor Boy. Like so many American folk songs, its hero is not a man but a train." The light of the train is seen as the light of salvation, the train which could take them away from the prison walls. It is highly reminiscent of the imagery of such gospel songs as Let the Light from your Lighthouse Shine on Me. Carl Sandburg had a different view. He believed the subject of the song would rather be run over by a train than spend more time in jail.
"if you ever go to Houston, boy, you better walk right."
Midnight Special - Leadbelly
Midnight Special - CCR
the prison that Leadbelly was in here in Texas is about an hour from where I sit right now. the Sugarland Prison was later named the Central Unit. it just recently shut down, the land having been sold to the airport.
I was only ever once there. never made it inside. Julie had a job interview onground outside the fence. (with utmb)
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:19 am
by sgt.null
40) ZZ Top - La Grange
a song about a brothel outside of La Grange, Texas. the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is based on the brothel. and you must learn about Marvin Zindler, the newsman who broke the story. an institution in Texas that man was.
the song in all it's glory
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Zindler
btw - just the second artist on th elist, so far, that I have seen live. Billy Joe Shaver being the other.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:26 am
by rdhopeca
ooooooo....I hope WASP's "Blind In Texas" makes this list...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVt9_l3b7WU
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:03 am
by sgt.null
39) Johnny Bush - Whiskey River
better known as the song that Willie Nelson opens every show with. Johnny lost his voice due to a neurological disorder as the song was climbing the charts, setting his career back twenty years.
Johnny's version circa 1973
Willie's version
to be honest, i prefer Willie's version. having seen him live twice now.
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 3:57 am
by sgt.null
38} Sam Baker - Odessa
never heard this song before today.
his sister singing Odessa with him
and now I am sorry I having been listening to Sam Baker before.
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34) Ray Price - Heartaches by the Number
Ray doing the song at Live Aid in 2011
we say Ray Price live. at the rodeo the line up was Connie Smith, Marty Stuart (her husband), Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakum.
but Buck was ill so Ray Price filled in for him.
how Heartache sounded all those years ago
Crazy Arms
Night Life with Willie Nelson and friends