kudos for podcast and 2 music questions

[salvadlj]

Michael,

I enjoy your podcast every week - your knowledge and audio delivery are quite entertaining.

Music question #1:  A couple of years ago (or so) you played a song about a guy who had a champion rooster in cock fights.  What was that song?

Music question #2 (may be more difficult):  Many years ago I heard a country song that had lyrics pertaining to Hank Williams Sr.  The story of the song was about a guy who was hitchhiking and got picked up by Hank Williams Sr (words may not have stated his name outright - do not recall).  I think it ended with the hitchhiker getting out and the driver going back to Birmingham in the cadillac. - Something like that.

Thanks for any info.

Lincoln

Florida east coast

[Michael Bane]

1) Tom Russell, "Gallo del Cielo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMJkMA7EW9E

An absolutely wonderful song! I believe Sheriff Jim Wilson turned me onto it. Did I ever tell you guys I once did the definitive magazine article on big-time cockfighting? Had a Bowie knife thrown at me in some Cajun bar out in the bayou? Hell, there's a story for you!!!

2) My brother-from-a-different-mother David Allan Coe, "The Ride"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1IoLMqpRY4

This song can still raise the hair on the back of my neck...it perfectly captures the almost mythic/Gothic quality of some of the best Southern music...there are times when I'm getting ready to go on camera and I'm all tired and beat up from the road, when I sort of spontaneously think of David Coe playing in a biker bar north of Austin, all sweat and crazy and eyes wild and playing the guitar like Ole Scratch himself was on his ass...

"He said, "Drifter, can you make folks cry when you play and sing?
Have you paid your dues?
Can you m-o-o-oan the Blues?
Can you bend them guitar strings?"
He said, "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
'Cause if you're big-star bound, let me warn you it's a long, hard ride."

That is the truth music brings...

Michael B

[PegLeg45]

"He said, 'You don't have to call me Mister, Mister.....the whole world called me Hank.'"

Tossed off that tune many a time with my compañeros around the campfire.

[ExurbanKevin]

For the record, I did not, nor have I ever, lobbied for more "nasty-ass hip-hop" on the podcast.

As far as I'm concerned, hip-hop as an art form died once gangsta became ascendent over more jazz-influenced groups like De La Soul or Tribe Called Quest.

Michael will be hearing from my lawyer about this.

[jaybet]

You don't have to call me Wayon Jennings. And you don't have to call my Charlie Pride.

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[craig_henry]

Mr. Bane

Since you brought up the Gothic element in Southern music--- you might be interested in this new piece on Bobby Gentry and 'Ode to Billie Joe'

http://spectator.org/articles/61990/ode-bobbie-gentry

[jaybet]

Music is like candy....you throw out the (w)rappers.