Even as a young buck who hated on the outlaw country music my folks played, I dug this back in the day. And I gained even more respect for it as a budding music nerd in my early 20s who collected all sorts of stupid genres of music in all sorts of obsessive compulsive manners. And really, even at this point in my life where I've obsessed over, indulged in, studied and nerded out upon, and ultimately abandoned 39,000 microgenres of music, the album this song comes from is still one of the all-time five best albums I've ever heard. Fuck, people don't even know the concept of having an album anymore. If you make a mixtape where you name all the songs after colors or some shit, you're considered a creative genius by 2010 standards. If I get vegetatively injured and mangled and am on life support, I hope they play this shit over and over to try and coax me back to the living world. That's what sucks about older artists. Like, if someone acting for me was saying, "Raven liked Willie Nelson," and someone else brought in like Willie Nelson's Greatest Hits to play on a CD player, and it was crap like "Always on My Mind" and that song with Julio Inglesias and some of that Highwaymen bullshit (far overrated, perpetually, because it's a collection of four people that are supposed to be awesome, therefore it must be awesome, but that's faulty logic, and don't equate in real life), I'd just end up wanting to die anyways.
STEAL "Red Headed Stranger"
NEXT UP: More bass than Magic Mike, but now with whiteboys!
1 comment:
This was a big one for me in high school, and a big one for my intro into the world of country music. The IRS Tapes though are my favorite Willie recordings, so good.
Reading your blog I now must pull out my country collection. Gonna jam some George Jones I think.
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