Amarillo By Morning

[El Diablo 4232]

Heard this song yesterday at a charity event I was attending. DJ eventually moved on to hip-hop dance tunes but I found myself singing along to this one. One of my nephews has spent most of his career in Nashville as a studio musician, songwriter and producer. He got his start in Houston in the early 70's as somewhat of a child prodigy pedal steel player, as a 13 y/o he once shared the stage with Roy Clark at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. He was recently bemoaning the frequent absence of the pedal steel as a staple of the country music that he grew up on, the sounds that drew him into the business.  Sigh. Times change.

[Cajun 11705]

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Loretta Lynn declares country music is 'dead': 'I'm getting mad about it'

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/loretta-lynn-declares-country-music-dead

Edited February 2, 2020 by Cajun

[Gil Bang 25907]

6 hours ago, El Diablo said:

Heard this song yesterday at a charity event I was attending. DJ eventually moved on to hip-hop dance tunes but I found myself singing along to this one. One of my nephews has spent most of his career in Nashville as a studio musician, songwriter and producer. He got his start in Houston in the early 70's as somewhat of a child prodigy pedal steel player, as a 13 y/o he once shared the stage with Roy Clark at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. He was recently bemoaning the frequent absence of the pedal steel as a staple of the country music that he grew up on, the sounds that drew him into the business.  Sigh. Times change.

does he appreciate how fucking awesome it is to play with Roy Clark?

[El Diablo 4232]

11 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

does he appreciate how fucking awesome it is to play with Roy Clark?

I think so. Over the last 30+ years he's sat in on sessions with many of the luminaries of C&W and gospel music as well. He played with Willie and Merle on David Letterman's show for their "Band of Brothers" album a few years back. He knows he was given an amazing talent and that's allowed him to rub shoulders with others as equally talented. I'll have to ask him if he ever played with Strait but I don't recall him ever mentioning it.

[noharleyyet 2838]

Another good tune for a two step deal closer...

 

[hullabelew 3723]

On 1/23/2020 at 12:37 PM, texashorne said:

Amarillo was trying to decide on a name for their minor league baseball team a while back.. someone here said they should call them the "By Mornings"

Sod Poodles Holla!

[Bearlyhangingon 27]

The fiddle is tremendous.  I great Strait pedal steel song is Nobody in His Right Mind Would Have Left Her.  Another timeless song.

[Lat22 4010]

On 1/27/2020 at 8:12 PM, tx 3 putt said:

 

his team roping event in kingsville was part of an agreement made after a rather large coke bust in kleberg county 

And because of that, I got to see him 8 or 9 times in that little JK Northway coliseum. 

[tx 3 putt 76859]

1 minute ago, Lat22 said:

And because of that, I got to see him 8 or 9 times in that little JK Northway coliseum. 

 

same 

[Hornius Emeritus 12448]

Check this out.  Released just a few months ago, George Strait singing "Amarillo by Morning"  at the venerable Gruene Hall. Too good:

 

 

Edited February 10, 2020 by Hornius Emeritus

[Lat22 4010]

On 2/4/2020 at 2:35 PM, noharleyyet said:

Another good tune for a two step deal closer...

 

Somewhere Down The Line was a good deal closer on the Dallas Night Club dance floor.

[Cajun 11705]

Yup.

Ooph, I can still smell those Kamikaze shots.

[noharleyyet 2838]

40 minutes ago, Cajun said:

Yup.

Ooph, I can still smell those Kamikaze shots.

And Jontue perfume.

[Cajun 11705]

Is that what that was?  I thought someone had a urinal cake in their pocket.

[noharleyyet 2838]

11 hours ago, Cajun said:

Is that what that was?  I thought someone had a urinal cake in their pocket.

didn't matter....

[ScottS 1061]

"Amarillo By Morning" covered by a Chinese bluegrass band.

 

[Jerry Callo 8694]

I'm done with my 30 minute rabbit trail learning about playing bluegrass in China.  He made a pretty interesting video explaining how he learned of and to play country and bluegrass.