George Jones is hanging it up.

UNLIKE.

I dunno man, he had a good ride. Most of it drunk.

If there were no more 'possums how would you eat?

Never had 'possum or coon. But I'm betting you've eaten your share of the latter.

Nope. You would think with all the fried fatty foods they eat they would taste good, but the sickle cell anemia puts a bad taste in your mouth.

They say you have to eat both with a Coca Cola. It cuts the grease that coats the roof of your mouth.

The people I know who eat either of those or snapping turtles prefer to trap them live and feed them out in a pen on grain for a couple weeks to purge the meat.

Who the fuck is George Jones.

I like it. I wanna put on my shit kickers and fly the Stars and Bars.

How about Hank Williams Sr. or Jr? You heard of them? Or Merle Haggard or Conway Twitty or Johnny Cash or Patsy Cline?

I want to know just how ignorant you are of Country Music (ignorant is not an insult in this context- look it up) so I know from what point you;re coming from.

To answer your question, George Jones has long been considered one of the leading voices in "Country Music". He's also a notorious drunkard with the nickname "George No-Show Jones". I'm not a fan of Country but am a fan of those mentioned above.

I don't know any of those fuckin' people, man. Johnny Cash... didn't he invent KFC?

Coca Cola is too esspensive.

You don't feed out a coon for two weeks on grain and waste it by drinking RC Cola.

He'll have much more time to devote to taking pills and driving drunk now.

Somehow this thread gave me the greatest product idea in the history of mankind.

Menthol flavored Newport Water. And it won't be spring water, just tap water (to save money) with menthol flavoring. And one bottle in every 50 cases will be gold and have fake diamonds on it, ensuring brisk sales. If it's cheaper we could use Vicks Vapor Rub for flavoring.

Panzer when you read this figure out some costs. I'm gonna be rich.

^^^Sounds like something I want to pour on my balls.

His last show here was not good. He really struggled to hit notes and seemed out of it.
The Grand Tour is probably one of my favourite songs of all time. Meat , you gotta be fucking kidding us. He is a legend.







And Bornyo, what the hell are you doing reading the CBC news?

They're all on my iTunes.

I know Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash. I have never heard of the others. I'm from New York, dude.

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I had a good friend in New York City
He never called me by my name, just hillbilly

My Grandpa taught me how to live off the land
And his taught him to be a business man

He used to send me pictures of the broadway nights
And I'd send him some homemade wine

But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife
For forty three dollars, my friend lost his life

I'd love to spit some beechnut
in that dude's eyes
And shoot him with my ole 45
Cause a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive
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Jerkules, I got the article link from a different site that led me there. I don't read CBC.

The old-school Country stars really laid it out there. While the Summer of Love was going on the Country folks were partying even harder. Advanced even, because they wouldn't take the pot but would swallow anything in a pill bottle.

Charin I hope you've had the experience of a Conway Twitty concert. He opened with "Hello Darlin'" and every woman in the house got wet.

Uh, OK. At least this time you mention me, when I was no where to be found in the thread, you aren't trying to argue with me. You must just see me in the shadows.

Not a George Jones fan. Nothing against the guy, stuff just didn't click with me like Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, or Alabama.

I crossed you up with TattyPatty. Not the same people at all. Both snippy/snappy with responses.

My mistake. I was wrong. It's no offense to either of you.

Freakin' hicks.

We obviously need a country thread.

Bornyo is totally on about the old school country guys. Motley Crue had nothing on a late 60's Johnny Cash tour. Hank Sr drank himself to death at 24, IIRC. Who the fuck drinks themselves to death that early?

Has George "retired" before? Like Cher? Will he start actually showing up when he retires? My sister and brother in law went to a show in the late 70s that he No Show Georged.

He looks really old in his cameo in Aaron Lewis' video, but his voice is as strong as ever. Charlie Daniels is looking pretty rough too.



My favorite Possum:



Terrible acting, but a great song.

Someone mentioned Conway:



The hair, the sideburns, the lapels, the polyester. But that voice. That fucking voice. Total proof that God exists.

I saw Merle like a month ago at an Indian casino. Pill popping fucker really rocks, hoss.



Love the bass player. No wasted movement at all. The guitar player at 1:11. You'd think he was Yngwie Malmsteen the way that polite Republican audience reacts.

America. Fuck yeah.

Nice.

As a kid growing up in Atlanta in the 60s, I absorbed a shitload of old Hee Haws and other bits of subliminal hickdom. Here's some of my favs:


















This clip with Patsy Cline has Hank Garland on guitar, one of the pioneers of the style that came to define classic country. When I first saw this TV clip in the Country Music Hall of Fame, I sat and watched it over and over for about half a day. I just kept coming back to that exhibit every time it would replay.

You left out this one by the Gentle Giant:

Jones gets a lot of respect from the old rockers too.






Technically a Johnny Horton song but Jones version is the most well known.

I worked for a couple of years at a country radio station in central Washington just out of high school. It gave me a healthy appreciation of both kinds of music: both country and western. We programmed a lot of the newer (at the time) acts: Sawyer Brown, Marty Stewart (is that a person?), Travis Tritt, Roseanne Cash. But I turned on to the older acts.



The only time I know
I'll hear David Allen Coe
Is when Jesus has
His final Judgement Day

That clip of him getting arrested is just incredible. It's also pretty amazing he's outlived so many guys.

Don't forget Glenn Campbell if you are gonna mention all those dudes. Don Williams always slips my mind. Underrated performer.

I really liked Don Williams. Great voice. Campbell has Alzheimer's I understand. My sister saw him at a casino maybe 2 months ago. She said you'd never know. He was spot on and fluid as a 25 year old.

John Anderson. Bad facial hair. Fantastic voice.

everlast was just on rogans and he made me think of this thread...

All day long I've had that stupid Marty Robbin's "El Paso" song stuck in my head. Even worse, when reading news stories and other stuff, I'd find myself reading it in my head using the lilting cadence of the song.

Marty Robbins was a motherfucker. He actually got younger looking as he got older. Watch the vids if you don't believe me. Woulda killed to have seen him live.

George Jones RIP.

Well, all good things must come to an end. I was three for three on seeing George Jones in concert and we were going for four as he was scheduled to play our city this summer. Guess I'll catch him on the other side.

All the dope, booze, women and who knows what else...and made it to 81. Who's going to fill those shoes?

Lindsay Lohan.

I was going to say Charlie Sheen.

Maybe he and Lindsay can have a kid.

i bet tmz would pay for the in vitro on that deal.

a quote from another board marking the passing of mr. jones...



too soon?. the joke that is...

I saw one on another board declaring he was just playing dead.

It's never too soon for sister raping.

I'm sure he did often with his piss. I know ...poor taste...but hey ...it's me.

Grew up listening to him on my dad's records.