Old time Country Music for Seniors Thread

I am a big fan of old time Country music, or what some call Classic Country. Here's a song that not everyone will remember. Hank Snow goes back a ways, that's for sure.

 
Conway Twitty. Gone too soon. I always urge every man over 50 to get the AAA test done. It's covered under Medicare. Conway died from having an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm.

 
Yes, I grew up with this music & it really never left me. I'm no great guitar picker but I play & sing every morning. I do well over 1,000 songs. A lot of those songs include Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins. They had style & songs with feelings. Don't really like the modern stuff; city slickers with torn jeans, under shirts, cowboy hats calling themselves country. Different tastes now but I stick with the good ole' stuff anytime. Used to go to many live performances. Saw Johnny Cash & June Carter 4 times. Also saw Hank Snow, Jim Reeves, the Statler Brothers, Hank Williams Jr., Marty Robbins. Sorry to have missed the real Hank; guess I was too young!
 
Packerjohn said:
Yes, I grew up with this music & it really never left me. I'm no great guitar picker but I play & sing every morning. I do well over 1,000 songs. A lot of those songs include Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins. They had style & songs with feelings. Don't really like the modern stuff; city slickers with torn jeans, under shirts, cowboy hats calling themselves country. Different tastes now but I stick with the good ole' stuff anytime. Used to go to many live performances. Saw Johnny Cash & June Carter 4 times. Also saw Hank Snow, Jim Reeves, the Statler Brothers, Hank Williams Jr., Marty Robbins. Sorry to have missed the real Hank; guess I was too young!
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My dad played the fiddle, banjo, guitar, piano and harmonica. I played a 4-string fiddle and banjo, but unlike my dad who picked the banjo with a thumb and two fingers, I just used one pick. I used to be OK on a harmonica, but I tried to play “Mary Had A Little Lamb” two years ago and couldn’t even get it started.

I should have been like you and played something everyday. However, after my dad died, I kind of lost interest in playing. My dad’s brother, (my uncle), my dad and I would play together at family events. We even played at the volunteer fire company and church bazaar to help raise money, but we only played Country music and some Blue Grass.

There is a Blue Grass Jamboree near where I live each summer, which I try to make and also a Fiddlers Convention near here, which I also attend, but don’t join in anymore.

I have also seen many of the old timers like: Johnny Cash, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Bill Monroe and I have been to the Grand ‘Ol Opry about six times, so I saw a host of performers there like: Ronnie Milsap, Charlie Daniels, Bill Anderson, Little Jimmy Dickens, Connie Smith, Reba, etc. Too many to mention.
 
oldman said:
My dad played the fiddle, banjo, guitar, piano and harmonica. I played a 4-string fiddle and banjo, but unlike my dad who picked the banjo with a thumb and two fingers, I just used one pick. I used to be OK on a harmonica, but I tried to play “Mary Had A Little Lamb” two years ago and couldn’t even get it started.

I should have been like you and played something everyday. However, after my dad died, I kind of lost interest in playing. My dad’s brother, (my uncle), my dad and I would play together at family events. We even played at the volunteer fire company and church bazaar to help raise money, but we only played Country music and some Blue Grass.

There is a Blue Grass Jamboree near where I live each summer, which I try to make and also a Fiddlers Convention near here, which I also attend, but don’t join in anymore.

I have also seen many of the old timers like: Johnny Cash, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Bill Monroe and I have been to the Grand ‘Ol Opry about six times, so I saw a host of performers there like: Ronnie Milsap, Charlie Daniels, Bill Anderson, Little Jimmy Dickens, Connie Smith, Reba, etc. Too many to mention.
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Yup! I have been to the "Grand Ole' Opry" twice; over a decade apart. The 1st time I saw Roy Acuff & Bill Monroe. The 2nd time these guys were gone & it was different. I guess I like the old music mainly because you could hear every word they sang. If you listen to Jim Reeves, Johnny Cash or Marty Robbins, I could easily understand every word. Today, things have changed. Often the band is so loud that you can hardly make out what the singer is singing about. Maybe that's the way they want it cause maybe they don't sound all that good. Then there are many singers today that sound "twangy" with some silly idea that this is the way that country people speak & understand. Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Marty Robbins, Jim Reeves, Tex Ritter & most of the other sang clearly & didn't sound twangy. I don't know where this twangy stuff comes from but it really turns me off. Perhaps it started with Dwight Yoakam from California way?
 
Just discovered this Thread and what a brilliant one it is and will slowly browse from page 1 of 8.👍 .
 

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