Charley Pride is gone

[cactusflinthead 27606]

 

[TwiceHorn 31552]

RIP sir.  My mom loved your music.

[Newdoc 3453]

Country music icon. He definitely made his mark on country music and handled the race issues with class.

[Stella Link 534]

Very sad news.  RIP.  What a great entertainer.

[Longhornstampede 3186]

RIP Mr. Pride. The great ones are fewer and fewer.

He will be kissing an angel in the morning tomorrow

[atomheartbevo 89824]

Damn, fuck 2020.  He had an amazing voice.

[atomheartbevo 89824]

 

[RPM 26360]

Had dinner with him at The Keg in Ft. Worth in the early 80's. He was the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet.

[Willfully Horn 8054]

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.

 

[ChickenSandwich 9853]

Met him and earl campbell at a party in the holiday inn next to the dome when I was 12. 
 

RIP to a fucking legend. 

[Sawbonz 27595]

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

Edited December 13, 2020 by Sawbonz

[Sandman 3415]

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.

[Anastasis 23491]

f2020. 

[Scheiss Meister 8413]

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.

[miguelito 11313]

Charley Pride is gone

 

Question is, did he make it to San Antone, or Phoenix Arizona?

[Dilligas 666]

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.

[fattyflattie 4638]

RIP.  One of the greats. Been a tough year for country music greats.  

[Sawbonz 27595]

1 hour ago, Dilligas said:

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

Eat a dick fuckface

[Pato del Muerto 52616]

Today he kissed an angel good morning. 

[Gatorubet 30321]

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.

[Doc Reeves 6434]

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. 
 

[Doc Reeves 6434]

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. 

[Sawbonz 27595]

Strokes aren’t real man they are demonic possessions. We need an exorcist stat

[TwiceHorn 31552]

3 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Strokes aren’t real man they are demonic possessions. We need an exorcist stat

Come from sleepin with the debbil.  That ol demon semen.

[phdhorn 6224]

My favorite country artist ever. Man I loved his voice. Truly sad to hear of this.

RIP

[Anastasis 23491]

 

[hullabelew 3724]

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.  

 

[RPM 26360]

This hit close to home.

[Jiggy-Z 3437]

God bless Charlie Pride:

[SHOOTER12 8833]

Gone?   To San Antone?

RIP Mr. Pride, you were one of the great ones.

[atomheartbevo 89824]

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

 

[pch 1261]

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.

[Ghost of LL 15544]

So are we all pretty convinced that the CMAs killed Charley?  Because if so, that's real shitty.

[Zepol87 9195]

^^hold up. For real?

[Ghost of LL 15544]

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.

[RPM 26360]

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.

[cactusflinthead 27606]

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. 

[TwiceHorn 31552]

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."