Oh, that's all right. This is sort of a break while waiting for any of the suggestions to work out, or someone else to offer a suggestion that does the trick. A bit of a palate cleanser, so to speak.
It's funny. I've been here more than thirteen years, and that byline has been here almost all that time. I've been yakking it up pretty good (some may say a bit too much, and they may be right), so a lot of eyes have seen it. And this is only the second time someone has mentioned it. It truly is a charming turn of phrase, and fairly apt description.
Don Williams may be mostly forgotten now, but he was great in his time. He came along at the right time for me, early 80s, when I had about given up on radio after all the disco, New Wave, and heavy metal they were pumping out. I got turned on to country, which I had looked down my nose at forever. But I came to understand it was very human - human voices singing about human concerns, using down-to-earth, very relatable words and phrases, and human hands playing real instruments, often doing some good picking and even stretching out, and plenty of killer hooks. A friend introduced to me a few artists - Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Don Williams, The Kendalls, The Judds - and I've never looked back. Some good stuff has happened over in the rock and pop worlds, too, since then, but country music saved my life ... in a way. And Don Williams was a good-sized part of that.
I'm glad stringalong said something, because otherwise I never would have gone looking for a video, and found that one of the writers doing it live - and learned John Prine co-wrote it!
And John Prine in a cowboy hat - what a hoot!
And for that matter, a hat as beat-up and rumpled as Don's own hat. I wonder what the story was with that hat? It sure wasn't a snazzy $500 Stetson, But it suited him to a T, and I think he wore it about his whole career. Hmmm ...
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