Showing posts with label Roger Miller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roger Miller. Show all posts

Feb 6, 2024

AI Illustrated Country Songs: Texas & Red Dirt Artists

 Titles at the end if you can't figure some of these out.









Charlie Robison "Loving County"
Bleu Edmondson/Matt Powell "50 Dollars and a Flask of Crown"
Roger Miller "You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd"
George Strait "Amarillo By Morning"
Reckless Kelly "Crazy Eddie's Last Hurrah"
Robert Earl Keen "Feelin' Good Again"
Charlie Robison "Barlight"

Apr 6, 2022

Overly Politically Correct Country Songs

No serious commentary from either side of the aisle, please. Just having fun with language. 

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Birthing Person, My Partner is Mentally Ill - The Judds


Wichita Lineperson - Glen Campbell


C-O-N-S-C-I-O-U-S U-N-C-O-U-P-L-I-N-G - Tammy Wynette


Quing of the Road - Roger Miller


Good Hearted Adult - Waylon Jennings


Caucasian Tonkin’ - Hank Williams


Xe Stopped Loving Xir Today - George Jones


Seven Latinx Angels - Willie Nelson, Ray Charles


Parent Tried - Merle Haggard


Native American Person Impacted by the Justice System - Tim McGraw


If the Afterlife Isn’t a Lot Like the Southeastern United States - Hank Jr.


I Am a Person of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys


Folically Blessed Rural Resident - David Allan Coe


You Ain’t Womxn Enough - Loretta Lynn


Gestational Parents, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowpersons - Waylon & Willie


May 13, 2021

Exclusive Song Premiere / Bill and the Belles / "The Corn Shuckin' Song"

Photo by Billie Wheeler

Got a fun song premiere today from Bill and the Belles. It’s a plain goofy Roger Miller-esque double entendre of a song and I think you’ll get a kick out of it. It’s a welcome reprieve from the always raging storms of life. RIYL: Roger Miller, Pokey LaFarge, Carolina Chocolate Drops. More information about the band and their forthcoming album Happy Again (out May 21) below the song player.

QUOTE from Kris Truelsen about the song

"A lot of things can be shucked and this is a song about just that. It was written in about five minutes which is probably the most organic songwriting experience I’ve ever had. What came out is undeniably ridiculous and fun! And we all like fun. I tried to harness all my Roger Miller Chi for this one. This was initially written as a jingle to be performed on my show Farm and Fun Time following a story delivered by a local chef who talked about creamed corn and corn shucking parties. Sounds filthy." 




PRE-ORDER HAPPY AGAIN

lnk.to/happyagain


LINKS

https://www.facebook.com/BillandtheBelles

https://twitter.com/billandbelles?lang=en

https://www.instagram.com/billandthebelles/?hl=en


Happy Again isn’t exactly happy. But the delightfully deadpan new album from roots mainstays Bill and the Belles is full of life, humor, and tongue-in-cheek explorations of love and loss. Out May 21, 2021 on Ditty Boom Records (distribution and promotion by Free Dirt Service Co.), Happy Again marks a new chapter for the group by featuring eleven all-original songs penned by founding member Kris Truelsen. There’s no dancing around it: this album is about his divorce. But the group has a knack for saying sad things with a bit of an ironic smirk, pairing painful topics with a sense of release and relief. Anyone who’s been to one of their shows can attest that you leave feeling lighter and refreshed. The band often jokes that their setlists appear mournful and angry, but if you don’t listen to the words, you wouldn’t know it. “One of the darkest times of my life turned out to be one of the most creative,” says Truelsen. “I realized, ‘My life is chaos. I need to write about this shit.’” This personal loss turned out to be a creative boon for the band. Many of the songs were cranked out in just a few months, two were even written the night before they were recorded. This raw songcraft, along with the deft production touch of Teddy Thompson, son of Linda and Richard Thompson, who encouraged using only first or second takes, gives Happy Again an emotional punch that deepens with each listen.


The core of Happy Again is the foundational Bill and the Belles quartet sound featuring Truelsen on guitar, fiddler Kalia Yeagle, bassist Andrew Small, and banjo/banjo-uke player Helena Hunt, recently replaced by Aidan VanSuetendael. The album is also gently supported by Nick Falk on electric guitar and percussion and Don Eanes on piano and B3 Hammond. Early fans of the band were hooked by their singing, and Happy Again continues to deliver stellar vocal trio arrangements, honed by Yeagle, that nod toward groups like the Ronettes and The Shangri-Las. ​The band began as a project to explore the sounds between rural and urban music, between vaudeville and down home roots, but they’ve arrived somewhere wholly their own. They revel in the in-between: deeply engaged with the stringband tradition and eager to stretch those influences to contemporary settings. Happy Again is the latest chapter of that ongoing story: what happens when a stringband from East Tennessee lays down a session at Motown. It’s a welcome evolution that feels familiar and timeless.


With all their tongue-in-cheek quips, you’d think Bill and the Belles avoids the tough stuff, however, that’s far from the truth. “Never Be Happy Again” is a laundry list of existential woes, and “People Gonna Talk'' profiles some of the frustrations of small-town living. “Make It Look Easy” is both an anthem for apathy and a proper “fuck off” to those who’ve got something to say about your life choices. And of course there’s “Sobbin’ the Blues,” Truelsen’s homage to the ‘talking blues’ numbers of the past, neatly tied up with a moral-of-the-story twist. Tucked in amongst the grief and jubilation of Happy Again are some noteworthy oddballs, including two songs that began their lives as jingles on Farm and Fun Time (the band’s live variety radio show now syndicated on PBS, reaching over 20 million homes): “Bye Bye Bill” (a tale about a pale ale drinking whale) and the “The Corn Shuckin’ Song” (make of it what you will). The band presents these themes simply and playfully, inviting listeners to reframe their own burdens and look to the future. “This was one of the first times I felt like I was writing country songs like my heros that were actually from my own perspective,” says Truelsen. “I quickly realized it made sense for us to break the rules.” The group subverts expectations for a stringband, taking a page from some of the finest early country and rock songwriters that drifted happily between genres. Truelsen describes the band’s mission: “One of my ultimate goals is to write songs that are hard to classify in a certain time period. To transcend the now.”


Apr 5, 2018

WWE Country Reaction Gifs 29: Wrestlemania Week Edition

How Florida-Georgia Line hides its
lack of talent in concert
 

Toby Keith, circa 2029

"Honestly, Walker Hayes is
a modern day Roger Miller"

"But women don't like to listen
to women country singers"

Would you ever say something nice
about Sam Hunt's music?

When you decide to leave your
country band for the ministry

If you're f--king listening to The Lacs

How would you describe
Kacey Musgraves' Golden Hour?

Did you say Blackberry Smoke has a new album coming out this Friday?

When the person who played FGL
on the jukebox looks over at you










May 18, 2017

Game of Thrones: Country Reaction Gifs

You're a huge country fan too?
Like Old Dominion and Sam Hunt...


 To those who think FTM is crass and overly negative:

"Alan Jackson killed country music. And covered Akon in concert"

When a pop-country fan awakens to the wonders 
of country music they don't play on the radio

When Jon Snow says he knows his country, 
but can't name a Roger Miller song

You seriously think Thomas Rhett is 
a better vocalist than Chris Stapleton?

When you're late to the show and Isbell is about to go on...

Sep 2, 2016

Country Fantasy Football Team Names 2016


This is the last weekend for fantasy football drafts before the NFL season starts next week. 
Here are some ridiculous and punny, if not funny, country music related names you could 
use for fantasy teams. Or add your own in the comments!
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Are You Sure Peyton Done It This Way?

Band of Broncos

Odell Where Art Thou

Gurley in a Country Song

Rollerskating Buffalo Herd

Gronk on a Plane

Real Men Love Jameis

Jordy On My Mind

Beatin' Philly and Kickin' Ass

Different for Cowboys

Manning Doesn't Play Anymore

Devonta Wanna Tonight

Dez He Love You

Me and Bobby Griffin III

A Good Year for DeAndre

Finally Sunday

Better as Amari

Quaker City Seahawks

Dak Where I Come From

Le'Veon on a Jet Plane

Sep 3, 2014

If Dallas Davidson Had Written These Country Classics





Guitars, Cadillacs

And it's DJs, Chevys jacked, EDM music
Muddy, muddy fields that my tires roam
Yeah, my DJs, Chevys jacked, EDM music
And sexting hotties pictures of my dong


 
Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine

Old trucks drive you round the square even when you're drunk as hell
God bless little cutoffs them girls are shakin' so well
That's pretty much the deepest stuff that's ever on my mind
Yeah old trucks and cutoffs and Kroger cherry shine


 
King of the Road

Raptor with chromed out vents
Custom seat - leather bench
Bluetooth and intake kit
Brand new Powerplant winch
Yo, it's..four hundred horses strong
Drive your girl right out of her thong
I'm the man drivin' with a lean
King of the bros


 
Forever and Ever Amen

If you wonder how long we'll be grindin'
Well, just crank up R Kelly's 12 Play
I'm gonna tap it for minutes, and minutes and minutes, lil bae


 
Hello Darlin'

What's up baby
How you doin'?
Those jeans sure are tight
So shake that money
Like I love to see

Have a cold one
Are you horny
Like I am tonight
Drop the tailgate
And play some Aldean

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