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RIP, Mr Charley Pride.
 

His life always hit close to home.

I held one of his grand kids, only a couple of months old, at San Marcos’ Eye of the Dog Art Center, and was afforded the feeling I was being helpful while doing so.

Good people.

 

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I was gutted to hear this. I just love his music. And while this might be an unpopular opinion, I think his version of "Me and Bobby McGee" is the best that has ever been recorded. He makes you feel like you're right there with him, inside the song.

Godspeed, Charley.

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My dad and I wore out an 8 track of his greatest hits while barbecuing chicken when I was 10 or so.  There are a couple of his songs that don't sound right to me without that 8 track "ka-chunk" in the middle of them.  Thanks for the memories, and RIP, Mr. Pride.

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2 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

Goddammit. Fuck 2020. Just saw it was covid. Fuck you Trump. And fuck anyone who says no cloakroom

Fuck you dumbshit, like any politician had anything to do with an 86 year old man dying.

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Fuck you dumbshit, like any politician had anything to do with an 86 year old man dying.

You sound like a fake virus tard.

I was reminded of how many #1 and top ten hits he had. Man, as a 70s hs kid, he ruled my radio.
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13 hours ago, Dilligas said:

Fuck you dumbshit, like any politician had anything to do with an 86 year old man dying.

L.O.L.

screenshotted.

sent to over a dozen Med professionals including community health professionals at the CDC. 
 

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10 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:

L.O.L.

screenshotted.

sent to over a dozen Med professionals including community health professionals at the CDC. 
 


Haha, buddy is actually concerned you are having an actual stroke right now. 

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Looking back through his catalogue to see where he got his songs.  Never knew Cowboy Jack Clement wrote this one.  Most of his 'hits' were by relatively unknown writers.  Some things I read were that Jack Clement didn't want him singing his songs at first.  I remember stories of him going to spring training with the Rangers a couple of times in the 70s.  

 

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I was looking at Surly on my phone, without my reading glasses (I'm a man damnit), and for some reason, two of the topics blurred together for a second:

Charlie Pride Has ‘First-Strike’ Capability To Melt U.S. Power Grid With Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon

 

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Danced at the VFW in Corpus to his music, saw him at Billy Bob's numerous times, and met him in person at Caravan of Dreams when I worked there.  Nothing pretentious about the man and willing to talk to everyone who spoke to him.  The world lost a wonderful human being as well as a great singer.  RIP Charlie.

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34 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

^^hold up. For real?

I assume the CMAs?  Yeah--that's been the speculation.  They invited an octogenarian to a maskless awards ceremony to give him a lifetime achievement award, and made damned sure he didn't have any more lifetime to garner additional achievements.

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37 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

I assume the CMAs?  Yeah--that's been the speculation.  They invited an octogenarian to a maskless awards ceremony to give him a lifetime achievement award, and made damned sure he didn't have any more lifetime to garner additional achievements.

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50 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

I assume the CMAs?  Yeah--that's been the speculation.  They invited an octogenarian to a maskless awards ceremony to give him a lifetime achievement award, and made damned sure he didn't have any more lifetime to garner additional achievements.

Bbbut everyone was tested!

Uh huh. Sure they were.

Tom Grieve was on the little ticket last week talking about him. 

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I heard an interview with him on NPR from some time back, tracing over his life history.

When his demos were first brought to record companies, they didn't know he was black, found out and signed him anyway.

So the interviewer was asking about his career in the negro leagues and being a black country star, and he just said, without any anger, just the impatience of listening to foolishness, something to the effect of "I was a baseball player, I am a country musician, black's got nothing to do with either one, the sooner we get over that business, the better."

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