{"id":8811,"date":"2013-05-04T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T17:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/04\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-country-to-rock-crossovers\/"},"modified":"2013-05-04T17:27:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T17:27:42","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-country-to-rock-crossovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/04\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-country-to-rock-crossovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Country to Rock Crossovers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been listening this last week to George Jones.  I was pretty much unaware of his work until his dying brought it to my attention.  I linked to a couple of his tunes last week.  Here are a couple more.  A Girl I Used to Know.<\/a>  Am I That Easy to Forget?<\/a>  Here<\/a> is an essay on Jones by Jim Goad. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the interests of full disclosure: I am not now, and never have been, a southerner or a redneck.  Worse than the redneck, however, is the librul who mocks him.  Trying mocking him to his face.<\/span><\/p>\n

As far as I know, Jones never had a crossover hit, but they were the way I learned about country music back in the day.  Here are some of my favorite crossover numbers first heard via KRLA, KHJ, and KFWB, Los Angeles.  My Favorite DJ?  B. Mitchel Reed!<\/a> (one 'l.')<\/span><\/p>\n

Jim Reeves, He'll Have to Go<\/a>, 1959.  Ry Cooder's Tex-Mex version,<\/a> 1977,  is oddly fetching.<\/span><\/p>\n

Floyd Cramer, Last Date<\/a>, 1960 <\/span><\/p>\n

Don Gibson, Sea of a Heartbreak<\/a>, 1961<\/span><\/p>\n

Bobby Edwards, You're the Reason<\/a>, 1961<\/span><\/p>\n

Patsy Cline, She's Got You<\/a>, 1962.  A very funny parody<\/a>.  That such a heart-felt tune invites and receives parody is an illustration of the collision of Nagel's two standpoints.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bobby Bare, Detroit City<\/a>, 1963<\/span><\/p>\n

Roger Miller, Dang Me<\/a>, 1964<\/span><\/p>\n

Roger Miller, King of the Road<\/a>, 1965<\/span><\/p>\n

Buck Owens, Tiger by the Tail<\/a>, 1966<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been listening this last week to George Jones.  I was pretty much unaware of his work until his dying brought it to my attention.  I linked to a couple of his tunes last week.  Here are a couple more.  A Girl I Used to Know.  Am I That Easy to Forget?  Here is … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Country to Rock Crossovers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}