[CH] Music (Credit where Credit's Due)
Nels Peterson (npkp4jp@polarcomm.com)
Tue, 05 Jan 1999 21:44:16 -0600
Don't forget Merle Haggard's "Drink Up and Be Somebody"
>From: "Eggert, Len" <leggert@sysplan.com>
>To: "'Chile-Heads Digest'" <chile-heads-digest@globalgarden.com>
>Subject: [CH] Music (Credit where Credit's Due)
>Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:05:45 -0500
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>For the record, the late Steve Goodman penned the entire song, "You Never
Even Called Me by my Name," not just the last verse. David Allen Coe
recorded the song much later. According to the tongue-in-cheek commentary
Coe provides in his version, Goodman wrote the extra verse only after Coe
informed him that it wasn't the perfect country and western song because it
didn't say anything about "momma, trains, trucks, prison, or gettin' drunk."
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>Three other "musts" for any list of definitive honky-tonk songs are the
Seldom Scene's version of "Through the Bottom of the Glass," with backup
vocals by Linda Ronstadt, in her kickass prime; James Taylor's song about
the bartender, in which he is joined by the incredible George Jones, who
knows a thing or two about bars; and, of course, Jimmy Buffett's classic
"Why Don't We Get Drunk (and Screw)."
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>Len Eggert
>leggert@sysplan.com
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