As they should be. Lefty and Sheb were awesome.
But we may be fighting over Roger Miller because he was born in Ft Worth. How about we both claim him and call it even? (The "Bakersfied" in the text up was especially for you, btw.)
Ok, people... Tell me some Roger Miller stories! I never saw him in person, just on my 33/45 rpm record player.
Unfortunately, my memory is fogged by an excess of drink -- so I can't recount a single one of them.
A long-term project of mine has been compiling "The Top 150 Country & Western Songs of All Time...In My Opinion". If forced to cut it even finer, "King of the Road" is a clear Top Ten. And "Dang Me" is on there somewhere.
Thanks for the post. Roger is fun to remember.
There's a great story in Johnny Cash's memoir ... JC and Roger Miller were driving across the desert somewhere like Arizona, on the way to a show (and no ac in those day!), and suddenly, Roger Miller said, "Stop! Man, you gotta stop the car!" Johnny Cash figured he had to (ahem) go, so he pulled over and Roger got out and walked out of sight.
He didn't come back for a while, so Johnny Cash leaned back and dozed off. Roger Miller came back a couple hours later and woke him up, and Johnny asked, "What happened? Did you get lost? Are you sick?" and Roger Miller said, "No, I just had to write a song real quick!"
He'd walked off into the desert and written, "Dang Me"!
Ummm...wouldja like to see the shack Corsicana, Texas, shows off as the home of Lefty? LOL--- I'd like to get to the bottom of this!