Requisite Danger

Today is a melancholy day – meaning it is a day to listen to my country playlist

• Johnny Cash
• Kenny Rogers
• Alison Krauss
• Charley Pride
• Charlie Daniels
• Conway Twitty
• Dennis Agajanian
• Confederate Railroad
• Hank Williams, Jr.
• Ronnie Milsap

And of course, King George

It was one of his songs that stood out to me this morning as the ones and zeros flipped files into my ears – If You Ain’t Lovin’ (You Ain’t Livin’)

In a nutshell, the song states that money and fame isn’t worth squat if there is no one there with you. Good words… Continue reading A Melancholy Day…Music

You got to hand it to them good old boys – they knew how to spin a yarn and play a bass.

Just pop in a little Johnny Paycheck, loosen up your vocal chords and start taping your feet

Take this job and shove it
I ain’t working here no more.
I been workin’ in this factory
For ‘nye on fifteen years….
I’d give the shirt right offa’ my back
If I had the nerve to say.
Take this job and shove it

From there, move on down the road with C.W. McCall’s Convoy

Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin’ logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin’ hogs
We is headin’ for bear on I-one-oh
‘Bout a mile outta Shaky Town
I says, “Pig Pen, this here’s the Rubber Duck.
“And I’m about to put the hammer down.”

Of course, you can’t forget Stonewall Jackson’s Waterloo Continue reading Good Bass and Classic Country

It is an old song, as far as radio music goes.

Yet, as I pulled up to work this morning, the song Chicken Fried came on the radio and I couldn’t help but think about the words:

Cold beer on a Friday night A pair of jeans that fit just right And the radio [...]

What is the “good life”?

It is a question that can be answered multiple ways by a single person over the years.

Today, for me, on this calm winter Monday – the “good life” is a glass of Los Vascos 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon, slices of soft-ripened Brie cheese and beef summer sausage, crackers and [...]

Not sure why, but I picked up a collection of John Lennon songs at the library the other day. I was feeling a tad down as I had some cavities filled earlier that day… I don’t know…

Either way, I enjoyed listening to some of the classic anti-war / peace songs of the 1970′s: [...]

  [@more@]Way back on the radio dialA fire got lit inside a bright eyed childEvery note just wrapped around your soulFrom steel guitar to Memphis all the way to rock and roll

Woah I can hear 'em playingI can hear the ringing of a beat up old guitarWoah I can hear 'em sayingKeep [...]