Mine too, that’s my kinfolk he’s talking about. I live on Lake Texoma and I have a teenage niece whose name was recently painted on the Denison water tower. 😆
There's not much on youtube that can hold my attention for close to 9 minutes but I listen to this alot. Every line is gold and you absolutely can not be in a bad mood with this on.
OMG, this IS Oklahoma! The highlight of going with my grandparents to see family in Arkansas and Missouri was getting to stop at the McDs and walk the tunnel across the turnpike! Back in the days when I rode in the back window of the Olds 88 or sat between my Papa's feet while he was driving. Hell, my Papa had me driving that 88 up and down the turnpike by the time I was 10. Eufaula, yep, me too. Friends in Choctaw, yep. Oklahoma anthem for sure!
First point, he mentions catching a blue cat on a drifting jug line, then mentions his cousin who coached a AA football team they were 2 time champions but they won't be this year. And he bought a .50 caliber"That's one big ol' pistol made by some badass Hebrews " If that's not America in a nutshell, I don't know what is!!
I adore James’ music, but I listen to the whole package- I never focus on particular lyrics, and when a fan focuses on a particular possibly offensive issue in his comments it annoys me, because it propitiates negativity and I don’t believe that was the intention of the song
So many story lines that don’t go anywhere. Just awesome observations lol. I love this song. There could be fifty songs wrote off of every situation put forth here lol. I think that’s why I love it so much
Someone uploaded this song to the internet and shared it on a UseNet group long before CZcams was a thing. I enjoyed it as a fun novelty song and forgot all about it. Years later James was featured on World Cafe, played this song and I was hooked!
Well, his father wrote Lonesome Dove and Terms of Endearment, so it would make sense. And this song? It's so country it literally needs translation for an urban dweller to follow. One does not learn about drifting jug lines or Bodock fence posts in the big city.
I live in Maine and we have Stephen King who is buddies with Larry McMurtry. Stephen owns several radio stations here and he is a big fan of James's music. They play alot of it and we wish everyone could hear this.
One of the great things about this version is that you get to hear McMurtry tear into the guitar. Although primarily known as a songwriter for a couple of decades now, my understanding is that in his early days he was primarily viewed as a touring guitarist, which is to say, dude's actually got some serious guitar chops.
I heard this a few months ago, every morning I wake up with it playing in my head. When I leave for work it’s always the first song to play, just can’t get enough
Thanks for posting this version of one of my favorite songs. This live recording by J.M. and this band is the best. The real capper is the montage of photo's to match the lyrics as this gem of a story/song rolls along. It's so good that I played it twice in a row! Nice work, Clay!
God I love this song. My mom was born in Levelland and my dad in Altus OK. They got married 3 days after my mom graduated high school and got out of the panhandle as fast as they could.
I love this song.. bad subject sorta, but I can identify with my dads side of the family. Fam reunions.. and whiskey on the pacifier... old as dirt uncles fighting in the yard over which was worse, the Vietnam war or the Korean war.. and grandma tearing out wires in an uncles harley so he wouldnt drive it drunk. driving with a maniac we called dad with no seatbelts cause cars didnt have them. traveling all over the place sleeping in the back window. Uncle Jimmy with PTSD ( no one knew the name of what vietnam did to him.. he was just nuts but we loved him) and a trashbag full of smoke in his trunk. Lord, memories. Now Im old and would die if my kids acted like we did! HAHA!
I hope my kids, all daughters, kick it in high gear and pass everything I'd done when I was young. I only want them to live through it and realize that being young is for cutting loose.
nothin' wrong with that at all...we all got our places and it was real neighborly of larry to sing about yers! i think i'll have to find my way through to have a look
When people say "flyover country", this is the type of epic shit they're flying over. I say this as a West Coast baby who spent a damn lot of time right between America's tits.
I was privileged to absorb some of this culture when I moved to Durant to work for the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers out of Kingston, OK on Lake Texoma. My patrol partner, supervisor, and other co-workers were all Bryan and Marshall County natives and provided me with an eye-opening education to help me transition from a damned Yankee to semi-local. Crazy times, I was there when Dennis and Lancaster were tracked down after they found one of their stolen cars in one of MY recreation sites up on the Washita River at Kansas Creek. That still gives me the heebie-jeebies. Who remembers that dark day? RIP Officers Summers, Grimes and Young. I even got to meet Ole Jim Crow when I rolled into Willafa Woods one Saturday afternoon in June to find it full of Blacks celebrating “Juneteenth, that I had seen nowhere else around the lake. When I asked about it, it was explained to me that WW was “their area.” After a few months I moved deeper into the Ozarks of Benton, County, Arkansas to a quieter venue at a Civil War park commemorating the “Largest Civll War Battle west of the Mississippi, but Durant still is a little part of me.
People always talk about their greatest rock n roll moments. I spent a fair amount of time in N.E. Oklahoma with my wife's family in the 70s,80s,& 90s. Lived in North Texas. Been to Baxter Springs to buy 3.2 beer at Johns Icehouse, driven by MacDonalds at the Big Cabin exit, Driven through the Eufala lake area, went past Choctaw Bingo. I liked James McMurtrys music, then I heard this on the radio before I bought the album. Life suddenly made sense. McIntyre HAD BEEN FOLLOWING ME AROUND! For years. You know the meth problem had been going on, and still does, but I have never heard any lyrics so accurately describe the whole thing of growing up like this. Now I gotta find a therapist to get me past the feeling James may STILL BE FOLLOWING ME AROUND! I admit to going up to the bookstores his father had in a town up towards Wichita Falls. But I am not following James. Life can be so confusing. By the way, saw James McMurtry with Jason Isbell at the Bomb Factory in Dallas 2019. I'm in my 60s, and I'm here to tell you they burned the place to the ground.
@Allen Kennedy i think he could have been following me around back then.... Just Sayin. My best friend lived N. of Blossom. If you know where I'm talkin about then you know.
😅🤣😂👍👍👍💃💃💃......Doin' my happy dance .....Thanks . Great FUN . Great day in TBILISI !.......You should come sing over here.......Georgians love all American music !
As someone who travels from Fort Hood Texas (The "Great" Place) to Fort Leonard Wood Missouri (Fort Lost In The Woods) all of the time, I (LOVE) that McDonald's over around Big Cabin!!!....
Just went through the panhandle a few days ago, went to go see my Grandson ride a bull. He did good for a 13 yr. old! Anyway, while I was driving, this song kept coming up in my head. Made me laugh...
man oh man I know what you're talkin about. I'm 58 years old but all my elders came here from Oklahoma Arkansas Texas and New Mexico where I'm living now used to be one hell of a damn place seems like everybody in this area used to talk with some type of southern accent that's long gone now too many Outsiders moved in fucked it up for the rest of us. Me and all my cousins and relatives and friends we're brought up this way. Good or bad I ain't ashamed of none of it! But that's all changed now the past 20 years sure did screw up my home but I tell you what any kind of people from the outside used to come around in the old days and tried to fuck with us we would tell them and show them what was what!!! This song pretty much tells the way it was when I was growing up and at least till my mid too late 30s. too bad them times had to go away.
Have any of y'all, who love this song, ever noticed that when you play it for your junkie friends/customers /best friends /employees; they don't seem to love it quite as much as We do. I think is just sooo adorable!
Because for a song to get the airplay to chart, it needs to run about 3:30 in length. The had to chop the Beatles Hey Jude nearly in half to get radio play.
I like this song! I heard it for the first time about a month and a half ago, April 2014, featured in the movie, 'Beer For My Horses'. It rocks! Thank you for sharing, clay foster!!! : )
@@videodudeX Its actually Bois d' arc fence post (pronounced bordarch in Texas) also known as the osage orange. Super hard wood that makes fence posts that last forever.
Suggy1970 that cracked me UP! I love your post about how this song rings to your family.....We ALL have family like this. It is just soooooo TRUE and REAL. I am still giggling.....You made my day dearest!
Saw him open for Rodney Crowell May '11. Solo acoustic 12-string. Songs made a deep impression. A new favorite in class with Rodney, Darrel Scott, John Hiatt, Ryan Bingham, Patterson Hood. to name a few.
oh i don't know...i was in a bar in east st louis in the early 80's with a brand new expensive panama 5" brim i was kinda proud of, & i walked across the empty dance floor towards the men's room, & one of the front men in the band made a remark over the mic about my hat, so i calmly stopped, backed up & asked if he'd been talking to me, & as he bent down from the stage about 4 ft up, i grabbed his shirt collars & faceplanted him, guitar & all...& i am a musician.....-went on to the bathroom......he was white(& black & blue), & i'm white (still have the hat), & i love east st louis. -love this song.
Lol! My Choctaw wife's uncle designed the arched restaurant at Vinita OK in the late 1950s when the Will Rogers Turnpike was built! We are from the Joplin MO area and know all of these places well! Baxter Springs! Great stuff!
The longest & best run-on sentence in music. Period.
💯🤙🏻😎
North Rocky Mountains
UssA
McMurtry's got a helluva damn nerve, singing about my family that way.
Mine too, that’s my kinfolk he’s talking about. I live on Lake Texoma and I have a teenage niece whose name was recently painted on the Denison water tower. 😆
Your family? You mean mine!
I’m related to him
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@sonder6434 so
There's not much on youtube that can hold my attention for close to 9 minutes but I listen to this alot. Every line is gold and you absolutely can not be in a bad mood with this on.
Same here, listen to it quite a bit!
Especially, while you're playing it and listening to it at the same time! Amen!
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Same
Many mornings, to get started, we rev up the job site with this. It sort of sets a mood….
Came for uncle Slayton's whiskey, stayed for Ruth Ann and Lynn.
And them surplus tracers for that ol’BAR!!
@@7mm08man Bad ass Hebrews!
Jesus, I wanna get between em'.
It would be nice to get betwixt them!!
@@jameshudson3651Do some sister twisters til the cows come home.
OMG, this IS Oklahoma! The highlight of going with my grandparents to see family in Arkansas and Missouri was getting to stop at the McDs and walk the tunnel across the turnpike! Back in the days when I rode in the back window of the Olds 88 or sat between my Papa's feet while he was driving. Hell, my Papa had me driving that 88 up and down the turnpike by the time I was 10. Eufaula, yep, me too. Friends in Choctaw, yep. Oklahoma anthem for sure!
I can't think of a better example of a song that captures American culture.
First point, he mentions catching a blue cat on a drifting jug line, then mentions his cousin who coached a AA football team they were 2 time champions but they won't be this year. And he bought a .50 caliber"That's one big ol' pistol made by some badass Hebrews "
If that's not America in a nutshell, I don't know what is!!
Americana...I now live amongst these people...one of the best songs ever written
Roscoe tried to miss 'em, but he didn't quite. That and the badass Hebrews line never fail to crack me up.
There's an old indian term for him. It's called "wannabe."
I adore James’ music, but I listen to the whole package- I never focus on particular lyrics, and when a fan focuses on a particular possibly offensive issue in his comments it annoys me, because it propitiates negativity and I don’t believe that was the intention of the song
So many story lines that don’t go anywhere. Just awesome observations lol. I love this song. There could be fifty songs wrote off of every situation put forth here lol. I think that’s why I love it so much
I like "with a great big hard-on like a bodark fence post you can hang a five rail gate from".
The details about the SKS and the cheap steel eastern European ammo is delicious as well
This should be our national anthem
If you’re from this part of the country it might as well be...
Yeah yeah yeah
Haha, it kinda is - at least for me.
The rest of the country wouldn't get it.
Only if yer from OK
As America descends into the pit this song just keeps getting better and better. James, you are truly a genius.
I’ve been hooked on this song since I heard it. Each time I hear it I appreciate it that much more
Same here!
This is basically the entire southern Midwest. This was the fringes of society in the 90's
Someone uploaded this song to the internet and shared it on a UseNet group long before CZcams was a thing. I enjoyed it as a fun novelty song and forgot all about it. Years later James was featured on World Cafe, played this song and I was hooked!
Gets better every time you hear it. I have listened to this song probably 325 times.
That's so specific and relatable 😂😂
a lil sister twistin'
When ever I go to Oklahoma , I always play this song!!! Because it makes oklahoma kinda fun......for minute.....😄😄👍🏻
James McMurtry's lighthearted tune about crystal meth, incest and good old fashioned family reunions. Great song!
Yep
Love it
good times! and dammit...fun for the whole family
Best comment I've seen today lol
@@dmc4795 right on.
If this isn't an actual account of a family reunion, then this man needs to write movies for Hollywood, cuz those folks are out of ideas. #classic
We've all got folks like this. Or close.
He could write him a badass Cohen Bros. Movie for sure😀
Should be the national anthem
Well, his father wrote Lonesome Dove and Terms of Endearment, so it would make sense. And this song? It's so country it literally needs translation for an urban dweller to follow. One does not learn about drifting jug lines or Bodock fence posts in the big city.
His daddy wrote some pretty famous books that were made into movies….. it’s clear writing’s in the blood with this father and son.
Dad's a great writer of novels. Sons a wordsmith also but puts music to it. What a gifted family.
Lonesome Dove is one of my favorite novels. Choctaw Bingo is one of my favorite songs.
I live in Maine and we have Stephen King who is buddies with Larry McMurtry. Stephen owns several radio stations here and he is a big fan of James's music. They play alot of it and we wish everyone could hear this.
@@masyelraf We all support the team!
Walk between the raindrops
I LOVE LARRY!! "The Last Picture Show" & "Texasville" are my favorites. But I had no idea he was James dad. Certainly talent in their genes.
One of the great things about this version is that you get to hear McMurtry tear into the guitar. Although primarily known as a songwriter for a couple of decades now, my understanding is that in his early days he was primarily viewed as a touring guitarist, which is to say, dude's actually got some serious guitar chops.
He's reworked Chuck Berry's "You can't catch me" in a masterful fashion and made it his own.
He's phenomenall !
@@IanSinclair11021949I had to hear it, but you’re 100% right! Nailed it.
Me too. This came 2 me on a long bus ride
I love his playing on this.
I heard this a few months ago, every morning I wake up with it playing in my head. When I leave for work it’s always the first song to play, just can’t get enough
Thanks for posting this version of one of my favorite songs. This live recording by J.M. and this band is the best. The real capper is the montage of photo's to match the lyrics as this gem of a story/song rolls along. It's so good that I played it twice in a row! Nice work, Clay!
That's definitely the sound of rock in America thats gone MIA in the last few years. Great song.
Wild Bill
Love the line, "Do some sister twisters, til the cows come home"! LOLOLOL
This needs to be a Guy Ritchie movie, something like Snatch.
Somebody needs to make a movie based on this song ;)
They made a TV show. Justified.... lol
It's called beer for my horses
Moonshiners reunion
I made the movie, I just forgot to put film in the damn camera. Most people from North Texas lived this stuff in the 80s.
As long as it has a political slant i guess a lrodution company would pick it up. If just entertaining , forget it
This is my " ima do dishes " song. I can get the kitchen done & the dishes done faster & my hips are happy wiggling
ditto..cant help but move when u hear it..always pits me in a good mood when im down lol
For real!
Lol, there's something sexy about that.
Next time your sinks full of dirty dishes I'll bring the shine
Post a video or it didn't happen.
My wife said "this song is a run on sentence."
It has punctuation!
T900BadBot
It is a speed rap
That's almost a line from the song.
That's what the judge gave him.
LMAO
From Sherman, TX. This sums up my childhood
I am from Oklahoma but live out of state now. This song makes me homesick. LOL
I bought "Too long in the Wasteland" when Mellencamp endorsed him 30 years ago. John wasn't lyin'
Saw him in Nashville last weekend. Wine bar, not sure what they thought of this song.
I was glad to hear him do this one.
A fav for sure
I love this song...Never gets old. Makes me laugh......
Me too
627 people never got a little bit of vodka with their cherry coke as kids.
Meth, a browning automatic rifle, tracer rounds and pretty girls. Good times
Some day I’m gonna have to get myself a FFL and a nice BAR
'Pretty' girls? Yeah right nod nod wink wink
Sounds like the last time of some peoples lives unless someone that knows what’s up squeezes that bad puppy off
This Man knows!
Pretty *cousins
This song is an 8 minute smile.
Your comment is a one second smile!
You got that right brother!
nodrip1 you’re breathtaking!
Not when you put it on repeat
That's no lie
I do like that I've been everywhere he mentions. Lol.
"Breaking Bad" meets "Justified".
God I love this song. My mom was born in Levelland and my dad in Altus OK. They got married 3 days after my mom graduated high school and got out of the panhandle as fast as they could.
I’m from Altus.
Altus!!! Which exit??
I love this song.. bad subject sorta, but I can identify with my dads side of the family. Fam reunions.. and whiskey on the pacifier... old as dirt uncles fighting in the yard over which was worse, the Vietnam war or the Korean war.. and grandma tearing out wires in an uncles harley so he wouldnt drive it drunk. driving with a maniac we called dad with no seatbelts cause cars didnt have them. traveling all over the place sleeping in the back window. Uncle Jimmy with PTSD ( no one knew the name of what vietnam did to him.. he was just nuts but we loved him) and a trashbag full of smoke in his trunk. Lord, memories. Now Im old and would die if my kids acted like we did! HAHA!
suggy1970 This comment is better than the song. Check out Sam Stone by John Prine if you havent yet.
lmao. no shit Lucky to be alive.
I hope my kids, all daughters, kick it in high gear and pass everything I'd done when I was young. I only want them to live through it and realize that being young is for cutting loose.
Back when your folks smoked in the car with the windows closed. Yep.
Memories are golden!! God bless o yea BOOMER SOONER!!!
This is some gangsta shit.
This song is one of the main reasons I bought the Beer For My Horses soundtrack. Toe tappin' good tune.
Basically what goes through my head every time it comes up on my playlist. Feels like a song about my family, and where I grew up.
the true voice of America....
Agree 100%!!!! LOVE him!!!!
OMG YES!!!!
is it wrong that I know every place he's singing about. Lol. South East Oklahoma born and raised
what about that Mc Donald's?
Lived there for 14 years. Grew up in Durant before there was Choctaw bingo. Can't believe how much it's changed.
I think it's KOOL!!!
nothin' wrong with that at all...we all got our places and it was real neighborly of larry to sing about yers! i think i'll have to find my way through to have a look
@@ensinitas true dat
How the HELL did I go sooo many years with not being aware of this diamond...
I love this song it's literally describing my entire family and I was born and raised in oklahoma too 😂😂 guess we ain't got much to live up too
Wow. This was meant for Boomhauer to sing!!
I didn’t know how great he is as guitarist. When I saw him live, it was a bass guitar, drums, and him. He could crank some licks on Guild guitars.❤
I LOVE this song. James McMurtry has SO MANY awesome songs.
We use to catch catfish on a floating jug drift line. Collected the catch aboard a drum float pontoon boat.
EXCELLENT imagery that makes this song even better. Thank You Clay!
Made me jones
Very true.
I love this version of this song
Great lyrics! Song reminds me of a Chuck Berry tune from 70 years ago, You Can’t Catch Me
Lol. So many memories. I now live by Toronto but grew up In Tulsa. That smoke shop is the Cherokee Smoke Shop on N. Sheridan
David Rochon
Peoria Utica Lewis Harvard Yale SHERIDAN - them streets of Tulsa are memorable .
I’ve heard the okie state song..
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, & tattoo... :-) McMurtry nailed it !!!
When people ask about life in Oklahoma I show them this song
Thank you James for bein REAL!!!!!From what my 92 yr old grandpa tells me your daddy was REAL TOO!!!!
Read up you’ll be glad you did!!
Got an Army buddy from Baxter Springs. First time I heard this song way back it brought one hell of a smile to my face. Great song!
Feel like this song was written about my life. NE Oklahoma 4 life! We are America lol
I tell people this is the anthem to the Midwest.
Yes indeed....sadly
When people say "flyover country", this is the type of epic shit they're flying over. I say this as a West Coast baby who spent a damn lot of time right between America's tits.
I live in DFW but got a little place down in Texoma. Okie and Texas proud. This song is truth.
Sand Springs Oklahoma buddy
Can't get enough of this song! Dang, it's good! The slide show was perfect!
Greatest song I’ve ever heard. Church groove with thoughtful lyrics. Brilliant
Hey! I grew up just south of Baxter Springs in Parsons! Had a couple of cousins... I almost never... Wait.... Never mind. Nailed it.
I was privileged to absorb some of this culture when I moved to Durant to work for the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers out of Kingston, OK on Lake Texoma. My patrol partner, supervisor, and other co-workers were all Bryan and Marshall County natives and provided me with an eye-opening education to help me transition from a damned Yankee to semi-local. Crazy times, I was there when Dennis and Lancaster were tracked down after they found one of their stolen cars in one of MY recreation sites up on the Washita River at Kansas Creek. That still gives me the heebie-jeebies. Who remembers that dark day? RIP Officers Summers, Grimes and Young. I even got to meet Ole Jim Crow when I rolled into Willafa Woods one Saturday afternoon in June to find it full of Blacks celebrating “Juneteenth, that I had seen nowhere else around the lake. When I asked about it, it was explained to me that WW was “their area.” After a few months I moved deeper into the Ozarks of Benton, County, Arkansas to a quieter venue at a Civil War park commemorating the “Largest Civll War Battle west of the Mississippi, but Durant still is a little part of me.
Loved his lyrics from day 1 , keep it coming , he's a rare treat in Canada to see live , awesome!! come back to Alberta the south of the north!!!
Imma listening to this in 2020. Perhaps, perhaps one of the greatest songs ever written.
Give this one a listen every year when we're rolling out to go work Rocklahoma. Hit a lot of those landmarks on the way. Won't say which ones.
People always talk about their greatest rock n roll moments. I spent a fair amount of time in N.E. Oklahoma with my wife's family in the 70s,80s,& 90s. Lived in North Texas. Been to Baxter Springs to buy 3.2 beer at Johns Icehouse, driven by MacDonalds at the Big Cabin exit, Driven through the Eufala lake area, went past Choctaw Bingo. I liked James McMurtrys music, then I heard this on the radio before I bought the album. Life suddenly made sense. McIntyre HAD BEEN FOLLOWING ME AROUND! For years. You know the meth problem had been going on, and still does, but I have never heard any lyrics so accurately describe the whole thing of growing up like this. Now I gotta find a therapist to get me past the feeling James may STILL BE FOLLOWING ME AROUND! I admit to going up to the bookstores his father had in a town up towards Wichita Falls. But I am not following James. Life can be so confusing. By the way, saw James McMurtry with Jason Isbell at the Bomb Factory in Dallas 2019. I'm in my 60s, and I'm here to tell you they burned the place to the ground.
@Allen Kennedy i think he could have been following me around back then.... Just Sayin. My best friend lived N. of Blossom. If you know where I'm talkin about then you know.
I Always play this when I go to Oklahoma. Oh , I try not to go up there more than needed. JUSSAYN
Its just may be the finest bit of American music ever recorded? Damn Hilliby goat fer
Rosco tried to miss him but he didn't quite. Story of my life. I have LOVED this song for years and always will .
Still makes whiskey cuz he still knows how
He cooks that crystal meth because the 'shine don't sell.
There is a poetic beauty to this song. Love it
😅🤣😂👍👍👍💃💃💃......Doin' my happy dance .....Thanks . Great FUN . Great day in TBILISI !.......You should come sing over here.......Georgians love all American music !
As someone who travels from Fort Hood Texas (The "Great" Place) to Fort Leonard Wood Missouri (Fort Lost In The Woods) all of the time, I (LOVE) that McDonald's over around Big Cabin!!!....
I never thought anyone else gave the kids benadryl. Saw the McDonalds in Ok. I love this rendition, Hell ya!! Saw him is St Louis Loved him
+janette sturma dude i live down here i see all these places all the time its great in OK
You can't just make that shit up! Thanks James, love it!
That right and its still True today. That place is a wholenothercountry....
Love county, Oklahoma. All rolled into one great song.
Yes!! Great guitar playin. Nailed all three states and the folks in them in the lyrics and photo slide. Born in Oklahoma raised in North Texas.
James sure inherited his daddy's talent for storytelling! Love it.
I literally just found out Larry was his Daddy. My mind is fucking blown.
Just went through the panhandle a few days ago, went to go see my Grandson ride a bull. He did good for a 13 yr. old! Anyway, while I was driving, this song kept coming up in my head. Made me laugh...
Never heard of James McMurtry before.
He is great. Thanks 👍
I've listened to this many times
Not quite sure how any living soul could dislike this vid/ song.
Me too! I don't know how anyone could possibly not want to get up and move to this song!!!
One of my favorite Trucking songs
People are to soft now and days. It's talking bad about some Okies and thats why.. but I love this shit! I know everywhere he is talking about!😂
man oh man I know what you're talkin about. I'm 58 years old but all my elders came here from Oklahoma Arkansas Texas and New Mexico where I'm living now used to be one hell of a damn place seems like everybody in this area used to talk with some type of southern accent that's long gone now too many Outsiders moved in fucked it up for the rest of us. Me and all my cousins and relatives and friends we're brought up this way. Good or bad I ain't ashamed of none of it! But that's all changed now the past 20 years sure did screw up my home but I tell you what any kind of people from the outside used to come around in the old days and tried to fuck with us we would tell them and show them what was what!!! This song pretty much tells the way it was when I was growing up and at least till my mid too late 30s. too bad them times had to go away.
They ain't American.
A masterwork of wordsmithing. Art, man, art.
Have any of y'all, who love this song, ever noticed that when you play it for your junkie friends/customers /best friends /employees; they don't seem to love it quite as much as We do. I think is just sooo adorable!
This tune describes every small town in the USA 😂
Holy smokes, how is this song not a top 100, pretty damn good!
Because for a song to get the airplay to chart, it needs to run about 3:30 in length. The had to chop the Beatles Hey Jude nearly in half to get radio play.
I like this song! I heard it for the first time about a month and a half ago, April 2014, featured in the movie, 'Beer For My Horses'. It rocks!
Thank you for sharing, clay foster!!!
: )
Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Kansas----lots to learn here about all four of 'em.
Many mornings, to get started, we rev up the job site with this. It sort of sets a mood….
Ruth Ann and Linda sound like my kind of people...
" like an old bull yard fence post.
you could hang a five rail gate from"
@@videodudeX Its actually Bois d' arc fence post (pronounced bordarch in Texas) also known as the osage orange. Super hard wood that makes fence posts that last forever.
Suggy1970 that cracked me UP! I love your post about how this song rings to your family.....We ALL have family like this. It is just soooooo TRUE and REAL. I am still giggling.....You made my day dearest!
This is my anthem
I love this ole honky tonk sound!!! This makes you wanna dance!!!❤
Great song,video..Love The lyrics and pics are cool:-)
Saw him open for Rodney Crowell May '11. Solo acoustic 12-string. Songs made a deep impression. A new favorite in class with Rodney, Darrel Scott, John Hiatt, Ryan Bingham, Patterson Hood. to name a few.
oh i don't know...i was in a bar in east st louis in the early 80's with a brand new expensive panama 5" brim i was kinda proud of, & i walked across the empty dance floor towards the men's room, & one of the front men in the band made a remark over the mic about my hat, so i calmly stopped, backed up & asked if he'd been talking to me, & as he bent down from the stage about 4 ft up, i grabbed his shirt collars & faceplanted him, guitar & all...& i am a musician.....-went on to the bathroom......he was white(& black & blue), & i'm white (still have the hat), & i love east st louis. -love this song.
I ain't never heard something describe where I'm from better than this and I ain't even from there.
Uh, yeah - I want to get between Ruth Ann and Lynne too!!
Do some sister twisters
Great big ole hardon
Till the cows come home
Cousins are great for practice
As much as I love Jimmy. Ray Wylie Hubbard does a version of this song which is also kick ass!
Yeah, gotta love his Crawlin' King Snake beat, and he sings it like he owns it.
Lol! My Choctaw wife's uncle designed the arched restaurant at Vinita OK in the late 1950s when the Will Rogers Turnpike was built! We are from the Joplin MO area and know all of these places well! Baxter Springs! Great stuff!
Leflore County Oklahoma representing!