Country songs about Country Music

Subject: Folklore: Country songs about Country Music
From: GUEST,Dad Perkins
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 05:34 PM

Hey gang.

I was hoping all you brilliant listeners and rememberers would help me compile a list of country songs about: Country Music, Bein' Country, Doin' Country stuff, Country Artists....

Tom T. Hall- Country Is
D.A.C         - If That Ain't Country
??????          - Country is Country Wide (that's a new one)

You get the idea.

Peel Out!

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: GUEST,remmi
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 05:43 PM

I was country before country was cool

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 05:51 PM

Fred Wedlock's "Talking Folk Club Blues"

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 06:21 PM

Are you sure hank done it this way? -Waylon

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: Arkie
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 06:33 PM

Murder on Music Row

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 06:40 PM

"Best Country & Western Song" by David Allen Coe...

And good song, GUEST... I loved Waylon's song... Still play it now and then but "Waylon didn't do it this way"...lol...

B~

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: Arkie
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 06:44 PM

and

"Joe Don't Let the Music Kill You"
Tom T. Hall's song which was supposedly written for Billy Joe Shaver.

"Roy Lee"
about Roy Lee Centers who once played in Ralph Stanley's band

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: GUEST,Dad Perkins
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 08:08 PM

Keep'm comin Mudders. This is great!

I love Waylon's song too Bobert. It's a strange one though. Just saw a youtube video where Johnny Cash describes the tune as a response to Nashville always saying..."Hank's rolling in his grave at the state of country music"...but the way I read the song Waylons sort of saying exactly that. With nudie suits and cadilacs etc...sort of an extention of Lukenbak TX...
What do yall thnk?

MORE SONGS PLEASE

Tonight i've found some damn doosies in NEW NEW country:

this is country music- brad paisley

what country is- luke bryan

a little more country- easton corbin

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 08:18 PM

great one Arkie

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 08:33 PM

Who's Going To Fill Their Shoes

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: Midchuck
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 09:52 PM

I love David Allen Coe's "Longhaired Redneck."

Country DJs say that I'm an outlaw.
They'd never come to see me in this dive,
Where bikers stare at cowboys
Who are laughin' at the hippies
Who are prayin' they'll get out of here alive...

Peter

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: Stewie
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 10:12 PM

Here's a good'un:

16th Avenue.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: GUEST,saulgoldie
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 10:22 PM

"Country Must be Country Wide" Brantley Gilbert.
"This is Country Music" by Brad Paisley

Fer starters.

Saul

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: Midchuck
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 10:29 PM

Stewie - You got that right!

Also, "Old Soldier," which is linked to that page...

P

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: Uncle Phil
Date: 13 Nov 11 - 09:47 AM

Leonard by Merle Haggard
"He soon became a famous entertainer,
but Leonard was a name he never used."

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: Arkie
Date: 13 Nov 11 - 11:12 AM

16th Avenue, Leonard, Old Soldier; great songs. Should have thought of them myself, and would have eventually.

Also add "Dolly" by Elizabeth Cook.

and possibly, though a bit of a stretch, "It Takes Balls to be a Woman" by Elizabeth Cook because of the line:

Look at Dolly and Loretta, they still live it to the letter
Oh, sometimes it takes balls to be a woman

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: Mavis Enderby
Date: 13 Nov 11 - 12:52 PM

Hank Williams III - Country Heroes

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: Nancy King
Date: 13 Nov 11 - 12:57 PM

Red Steagall -- Three-Chord Country Song

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 13 Nov 11 - 02:28 PM

Hank Williams, you wrote my life (sung by Moe Bandy)
Hony Tonk Music written by George Hawke recorded by Hoyt Axton and Jerry Jeff Walker (on separate occasions - and in my opinion the best song about being a gigging musician ever written.

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: oldhippie
Date: 13 Nov 11 - 08:43 PM

"I Had Loretta's Next Big Hit" - Anne Romaine

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: GUEST,Dad Perkins
Date: 15 Nov 11 - 10:34 AM

Mudders, You're awesome!

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: banjoman
Date: 16 Nov 11 - 05:46 AM

Heard a song many years ago with the lyric "I like country music and I know I'll never switch" May be the title but not sure

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: EllenV
Date: 16 Nov 11 - 07:48 AM

I didn't read the whole thread, so my apologies if I'm repeating previous suggestions.

Keepin' It Country -- Jake Owen
Everything Is Fine -- Josh Turner
Made In America -- Toby Keith
These Are My People -- Rodney Atkins
Where I'm From -- Jason Michael Carroll
Country Boy's World -- Jason Aldean
Fly Over States -- Jason Aldean
What Country Is -- Luke Bryan
We Rode In Trucks -- Luke Bryan
This Is Country Music -- Brad Paisley (I'm sure someone else has mentioned this one)

These are all of the "new" country music strain...

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: EllenV
Date: 16 Nov 11 - 07:51 AM

Oh, and "Pledge Allegiance to the Hag", by Eric Church, feat. Merle Haggard. Can't believe I forgot that one.

"they say country's fading / but we're still waving / that flag 'round here"

Subject: RE: Country songs about Country Music
From: Crowhugger
Date: 16 Nov 11 - 08:16 AM

Country Music by Marie-Lynn Hammond, recorded by Stringband, I think in the 1970s. Still a favourite of mine.