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REB BEER 
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| re: Help me understand the attraction to country music (Posted on 11/29/12 at 8:44 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
Downshift, do you know the story behind that song?
If not, here goes. Vern Gosdin and George Jones were on tour together. They boarded a private plane at 8 in the morning and both fixed a vodka and orange juice. Vern claims he looked at George and said something to the effect.."look at us, it's only 8 in the morning and we're already drinking."
I think it was George who said, I'll bet you $1000 I can quit drinking, then just a couple minutes later looked at Vern and said frick it, it's only $1000 and took a drink.
Then Vern said "we must've been drunk when we said we'd stop drinking." They sat there and wrote the song... 
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MiNd DrIpS 
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| re: Help me understand the attraction to country music (Posted on 11/29/12 at 9:19 am to REB BEER)
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Downshift, do you know the story behind that song? If not, here goes. Vern Gosdin and George Jones were on tour together. They boarded a private plane at 8 in the morning and both fixed a vodka and orange juice. Vern claims he looked at George and said something to the effect.."look at us, it's only 8 in the morning and we're already drinking." I think it was George who said, I'll bet you $1000 I can quit drinking, then just a couple minutes later looked at Vern and said frick it, it's only $1000 and took a drink. Then Vern said "we must've been drunk when we said we'd stop drinking." They sat there and wrote the song..
Aesthetically beautiful
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GreatLakesTiger24
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ignore username, i hate the north
Member since May 2012
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| re: Help me understand the attraction to country music (Posted on 11/29/12 at 10:53 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
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What's there not to like about something like this?
Must've been drunk
That's one of my favorite songs of all time.
And I don't get how someone wouldn't like this.
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Slickback
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| re: Help me understand the attraction to country music (Posted on 11/29/12 at 12:16 pm to GreatLakesTiger24)
Drinking and Dreaming - Waylon Jennings
Even if you don't like country music you should like this song and br able to relate to it.
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Tiger in Texas 
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| re: Help me understand the attraction to country music (Posted on 11/29/12 at 9:21 pm to quail man)
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there's a strong strong strong difference between country of the past and modern nashville pop.
There really is very little 'country' music today...just fluffy pop that is crap.
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Alahunter 
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| re: Help me understand the attraction to country music (Posted on 11/29/12 at 9:40 pm to quail man)
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there's a strong strong strong difference between country of the past and modern nashville pop.
This. Country really is hardly country anymore.
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Alahunter
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| re: Help me understand the attraction to country music (Posted on 11/29/12 at 9:54 pm to WarSlamEagle)
Try some of these:
Chiseled in stone
That's my job
Ghost riders in the sky
God's gonna cut you down
My home's in Alabama
I'm no stranger to the rain
Coward of the county
I'd be better off in a pine box
Just a very small sampling of actual country music
This post was edited on 11/29 at 10:23 pm
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15sammy34 
Auburn Fan
Auburn, AL
Member since Oct 2011
12442 posts
| re: Help me understand the attraction to country music (Posted on 11/30/12 at 2:11 am to Alahunter)
Great list, even though I wouldn't put any of Alabama's songs up there with the others.
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Pilot Tiger 
Georgetown Fan
Washington DC
Member since Nov 2005
50343 posts
| re: Help me understand the attraction to country music (Posted on 11/30/12 at 6:23 am to TheDoc)
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Pop music with fiddles isn't real country music
see I only like this kind of country 
I hate old country music with a passion
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Tilco Baller
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| re: Help me understand the attraction to country music (Posted on 11/30/12 at 7:00 am to WarSlamEagle)
Try these if you're serious...if not idgaf gtfo ead diaf
Justin Townes Earle - Halfway to Jackson
Band of Heathens - Nine Steps Down
Devil Makes Three - All Hail
Reckless Kelly - Crazy Eddie's Last Hurrah
Ryan Bingham - Sunshine
Trampled by Turtles - Wait So Long
Wrinkle Neck Mules - Catfish and Color TV's
Punch Brothers - Rye Whiskey
there's more but i'm not sure if serious so evs
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