Posted on 10/17/2015 4:42:14 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck
I am gradually hunting them all down, right now I own I think 26 versions of this tune.
Don't know for sure why it means so much to me, but I can listen to this song a thousand times and not get tired.
Bob Wills: If that ain't a purty nice a version I'll take you back to Tulsa.
Leann or Patsy: The power of my gal from Garland, or the precision and sense of timing of that lady who left us too soon?
Elvis: oh, and I can't write down the sound, but "as I look at the letters ..." and you all know what I am talking about :)
Conway and Loretta: yeah, nice, but not stellar.
Willie and Ray; respectable, for sure, another fellow Texan with a mighty smooth voice.
All the Bluegrass versions, from Wiseman to the unknowns: nobody has the fiddles like them. Bluegrass musicians understand the entry to the tune and the rests, yeah.
The Texas bands like Asleep at the Wheel, all the homers: I wish I could two-step, because HELL YEAH!
And the seemingly random stuff like Flying Burrito Brothers: Way to go hippies!
I guess it's really all good. What say ye?
Doug Sahm, one of the Texas homies
Oooh oooh, carp, forgot to mention that Texan.
Oh, yeah, and good catch!
I have Bob Wills and Patsy Cline versions. Those are the 2 I prefer.
I also have a Lyle Lovett/Asleep at the Wheel one, but I don’t care for it.
Willie Nelson & Ray Price had an okay version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESeyLLz82mE
Ray Price and Willie
I cannot disagree with any of what you say.
Interesting tale: one time I was in Dallas riding my bike around White Rock Lake and I kept hearing the song “Crazy” over and over. I finally got down to the part along the Arboretum and it was strong. Leann was there doing sound checks for a show, I later found out.
As long as I live, I will never forget that.
HD’s rules of country and western music, #7: if Bob Wills did it, then it’s not up for discussion.
Well worth mentioning is Lee Ann Womack crooning Heart To Heart Talk on the same CD. Fabulous.
Patsy Cline.
Dude, Ray Price actually does a real nice version solo.
Yepper.
Add Tompall and the Glaser Brothers to the list. Here’s their very good version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0shsRdB5mg
No contest, Patsy Cline.
That gasp for air at the end (3:30) is sublime and from the heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCCKFmdNvRg
The songs been done Patsy
And Lord knows many more.
But son if you like The Stones attempt
I’ll show you the door.
The one by Ray Price is nice
It’s good to hear him sing.
But if you want my opinion Hoss
Bob Wills is still The King.
PS. I just sang that verse for Mrs p6.
She didn’t get it...sigh.
Prolly few other as well.
By the way, Chuck, you sound like a guy who knows the score. I’m going to Austin in a few weeks for the first time - any advice of where I can catch some good live, real (read: non-bro) country and/or swing?
Just to let you know that I got it. My first choice is always Bob Wills, second would be Patsy with the Ray Price & Willie version very close behind her. After that, it begins to not matter that much to me.
Ray Price
Wall of Voodoo.
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Just kidding - it’s Patsy Cline.
Nobody else ever sang like the Cherokee Cowboy.
TY! You must be ... Hmmm...older than mrs p6. She is 6 years younger than me and doesn’t remember anything from the 40’s or 50’s.
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