Favorite Texas Country Song/Singer

[Mijo]

Well, you got the P part right.

He was born in Pearsall.

Negative.

George Strait Facts

[AlamoSpursFan]

Negative.

George Strait Facts

I stand corrected.

Perhaps he grew up in Pearsall then. I based my statement on the sign they used to have at the city limits proudly proclaiming Pearsall as the "Home of George Strait".

[Mijo]

Yeah, he was raised in Pearsall.

[Guru of Nothing]

RobbieFulks.com

I don’t need to stay around here and see the Pat Act. I’ve read his press. It’s hard to escape it. You can hardly pass a newsstand without gagging from the thick odor of righteous offense that his biological existence has bestirred in respectable places. Pat Green is a disgrace to the legacy of Texas music. He is not fit to bottomfeed in the waters where Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt swam. Pat Green is a fratboy turd in the punchbowl of Lone Star poetry. A dumbed-down Jerry Jeff Walker would have been unthinkable, until Pat Green. Pat Green – “Pat Green” for God’s sake! – has taken a thing of gossamer beauty and visceral delight and chopped it into mass-market suckerbait. He stinks worse than peanut butter stirred into pancake syrup. But not content with being merely vulgar, Pat Green is wildly popular. He is stomping up and down retail charts and trampling precious daisies – tinier, worthier musical voices – underfoot. He’s the Borders Bookstore of country music. Well, maybe that’s outside the bounds of decency, but he is a very, very bad man.

[Kdfelicity]

Pat Green went Nashville and most of his new stuff pales in comparison to his old songs. Songs like "Ruby's Two Sad Daughters" and "The Ballad OF Arkansas Dave Rutebaugh" are some of his best as well as the cover of Townes Van Zant's "Snowin' On Raton".


RK

I agree whole-heartedly that Pat Green's older stuf is MUCH better than the newer. I think he may have betrayed his fan-base by going in a little different direction. He's not a "very, very bad man" though.

As far as George Strait is concerned everyone knows he's from Texas but he's been mainstream country for some time, which doesn't fit him into the Texas Country category.

[Mijo]

Who made this Texas Country category you speak of?

[Kdfelicity]

Who made this Texas Country category you speak of?

No one made it. The category is made up of people who's music won't likely make it Nashville(mainstream country).

[Kdfelicity]

I am not considered a country music fan, but I like a wide variety of music.

Texas country is a genre unlike pop Nashville, Bluegrass or old school country. It is a specific type of music, that the sound is very distinctive. Do you ever watch to Austin City Limits on PBS?


Try it.

I thought Jim stated it quite well.

[Mijo]

So then because George Strait's music made it to Nashville he is no longer considered "Texas Country"? Success = Mainstream?

Or was he never considered Texas Country? I spent 4 years living in California and George Strait was every bit of my home to me whenever I heard his music.

[Kdfelicity]

I'm not sure on whether he use to be considered Texas Country because I'm only 21, and he first started making hits around when I was born. I just know what I've been introduced to by my fellow college friends, and George Strait, according to them, is not considered Texas Country.

[Mixability]

I hate country music.........
but I love me some George Strait music!!!!

[Ginofan]

Texas Country has more of the folk/blues/rock vibe to it than mainstream country. If you've never heard it, just listen to some of the artists that people have listed...you'll be able to tell the difference right away.

[Mixability]

Texas Country has more of the folk/blues/rock vibe to it than mainstream country. If you've never heard it, just listen to some of the artists that people have listed...you'll be able to tell the difference right away.

hmmm, kinda like the difference in the old westcoast/eastcoast rap? i guess you have to like the music in order to differentiate between the two. good to know!

[batman2883]

Words youll never hear in a country song

My girlfriend loves me and i am sober...

[Mijo]

Okay. Then I guess you could say since George Strait's music (at least his start), has Texas roots, that he is "Mainstream Texas Country".

[Mijo]

But, I do understand the difference between Texas Country and Mainstream after a little research.

[Mijo]

Words youll never hear in a country song

No doubt. Ever hear the lyrics to any Gary Stewart song? Dude is always drunk and alone or having some kind of woman problem in his songs.

[Michael]

I don't think they've been mentioned, but another great Texas band is The Old 97's.

[Guru of Nothing]

Post some of your favorite Texas Music lyrics.

Johnson Grass Farm

I'm gonna live on marijuana
and I ain't gonna work at all

I'm gonna find me a house in the country
and grow that 'bout ten feet tall

I'm gonna plant, alongside Johnson Grass
which I pray grows, a little taller

If ya slide by the house -
and the lights are out -
you will hear me hoop 'n holler

(Chorus)
Lord Jesus, I'm stoned
ain’t doin' nobody no wrong

Doin' a little bit 'a
front porch thinkin'
some star-studded dreamin'
and singin' those gospel songs

Ain’t doin' nobody no harm
livin' on a Johnson Grass farm
I'm not guilty
of a crime
I'm just havin' me a time
and waitin' on the harvest to come


When the sun, in the evenin'
slowly slithers down
You will find me in my backyard
diggin' them plants up outta the ground

Naked as a newborn baby
and carefree as your local bum
Down on my hands 'n knees
prayin' for a rain shower to come

(Chorus)

[AlamoSpursFan]

Crazy Eddie's Last Hurrah
Willy Braun

Well it sure didn't take too long
I woke up one mornin', she was gone
And the note that she wrote didn't say "Dear John"
It said, "Goodbye, sucker, I'm gone!"


She was a home-grown mountain girl
Raised in a different world
I was a wanna-be rocker, she was more into Merle
And I couldn't see it just wouldn't work


And now I'm double fisting longnecks
and grapefruit and Stoli
But I'm never gettin' over Jolie


Well I poured myself in my car
I drove it on down to the bar
But they wouldn't let me in, 'cause I ain't a movie star
So I went to the Horseshoe on Lamar


The bouncer threw me out at two
And I didn't know what to do
So I picked up the phone and I called guess who
But the call block wouldn't let me through


And now I'm wishin' for some drugs
Or a shrink to console me
But I'm never gettin' over Jolie


Well I gathered up all of my guns
And a pipe bomb just for fun
And I drove to her house and parked on the lawn
She's right, I always was a crazy one


Well her boyfriend was sure nice to me
He said, Calm down, would you like a drink?
And then I shot him full of holes from his nose to his knees
And I polished off my little sweet pea


And now I'm cryin' on my knees, feelin' dirty and unholy
But I'm never gettin' over Jolie
Now I'll prob'ly get life and serve at least forty
But I'm never gettin' over Jolie

[SpursWoman]

I've heard most of them. I tried to like it, but it really annoys me. Any music with any sort of country influence doesn't appeal to me for some reason. I've always been like that.

I hate the Beatles and Elvis too. So maybe I'm just unusual

Me too.


I actually used to like country at one point though...but right around the time I was getting divorced and life wasn't so great, the only thing it did is make me want to slit my wrists. That is just too damn depressing.

And now, several years later of not really listening to it...it all just sounds the same--redneck.

[Goliadnative]

Goliad
Brian Burns - (C)opr. 2001 - Brian Burns Music (BMI)

I am proud to be in your presence tonight,
fellow Texians, lend me your ear;
was the grace of God brought us through the fight,
and it is destiny now brings us here.

Let us take off our hats to our brothers in arms
and the chances that they never had.
We are blessed in the bounty of Texas tonight,
let us drink to those who marched that road to Goliad.

Oh, I see the toil on each weary brow,
but I know better days lie ahead
where great men will build empires from the soil
where the blood of our compadres was shed.

So let us send out our hearts to our brothers in arms
and the choices that they never had.
We are blessed in the bounty of Texas tonight,
let us drink to those who marched that road to Goliad.





For obvious reasons.

[Kdfelicity]

Texas Country has more of the folk/blues/rock vibe to it than mainstream country. If you've never heard it, just listen to some of the artists that people have listed...you'll be able to tell the difference right away.

Thank you. I was trying to get that across but I guess I wasn't making enough sense.

[Kdfelicity]

Me too.


I actually used to like country at one point though...but right around the time I was getting divorced and life wasn't so great, the only thing it did is make me want to slit my wrists. That is just too damn depressing.

And now, several years later of not really listening to it...it all just sounds the same--redneck.

Honestly, I think there's more positive songs these days. Everybody always assumes they'll be about your wife leaving, dog dying, blah blah blah. Texas Country, as this thread is intended for once again, covers all kinds of different topics.

[Kdfelicity]

Pat Green concert fantastic, no surprise there...

Shooter

Kevin

Cory

The tailgating was funtastic too, they need to do that at more concerts...

People dancing in the middle of the sections....good times...