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He Was A Great Guy (Texas and Red Dirt Country #4)

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Back on Tuesday the 17th, we lost visionary singer-songwriter Guy Clark. He was a huge figure not, only in Texas and Outlaw Country, but also writing songs that achieved popular success with singers such as Ricky Skaggs, The Highwaymen, Brad Paisley, John Denver, Alan Jackson, John Conlee, and many others.

His catalog is quite extensive, and any tribute I could try to do would be inadequate to the task. Nevertheless, I will endeavor to put something together.

I have chosen five of my favorite Guy Clark songs. I could have added others (“Texas 1947″ comes to mind), but I do need to limit it. I have chosen “Desperados Waiting For A Train,” “LA Freeway,” “My Favorite Picture Of You,” “The Guitar,” and “Dublin Blues.” Continue reading “He Was A Great Guy (Texas and Red Dirt Country #4)”

I Are A Star (Texas and Red Dirt Country #3)

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This post originally appeared in BattleRedBlog as a FanPost.

For this week’s installment, we have a song from one of the big names in Texas Country as well as a major songwriter for Outlaw Country (including some of Waylon Jennings’ hits): Billy Joe Shaver.

He has had an impressive career as a songwriter, with the following titles to his credit: Honky Tonk Heroes, You Asked Me To, Live Forever, Georgia On A Fast Train, I’m Just An Old Chunk Of Coal, just to name a few. At some point, if I continue this series, I’m sure I will get to one or more of those songs. However, in this post, I have selected Slim Chance And The Can’t Hardly Playboys, featuring fellow Texas Country artist, Kevin Fowler. This song tells the story of a very bad band, the Can’t Hardly Playboys, until Slim Chance came along and “played the songs that stick right in your head.” That’s not necessarily to say he was any good either. The band continues to play in Walmart parking lots, for instance. They still dream of getting dressing rooms when they play. It’s a very silly song, with a number of puns in the lyrics.

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That Itch…. (Texas and Red Dirt Country #2)

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This post originally appeared in BattleRedBlog as a FanPost

In the comments to my first post in this series, JFMC said that this is the time of year that he starts getting into this genre of music. This got me to thinking that Texas Country is not really a genre, but a collection of related genres that also have a geographical relationship, principally Texas but also Oklahoma.

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