Yet another gift given to me by my granddad. Funny to have 250+ MB of MP3's on a tiny PocketPC from a 50 year old album

Anyone else only like "real" country?

Quoted: Yet another gift given to me by my granddad. Funny to have 250+ MB of MP3's on a tiny PocketPC from a 50 year old album Anyone else only like "real" country?

I do.

Do you have any Roger Miller or Tom T Hall?

hell yeah!!!M.R. kicks ass!!  

Quoted: Quoted: Yet another gift given to me by my granddad. Funny to have 250+ MB of MP3's on a tiny PocketPC from a 50 year old album Anyone else only like "real" country? I do. Do you have any Roger Miller or Tom T Hall?

Yep, got a few cuts from each in "traveling mode" as well.

I can't stand the new country stations, but the old-timey stuff is good memories.

 oh yea!!  it don't get no gooder than them ole hank snow songs as well as  carl smith, ray price, web pierce, bob wills, roy acuff, bill monroe, hank sr, kitty wells, ernest tubb, lefty frizzell.hank thompson, porter waggoner, jeannie shepard, buck owens, merle haggard, jim reeves, john r. cash,eddy arnold, marty robbins, stonewall jackson, the string bands of the 1920's, the brother duets of the 1930's, jimmie rodgers, the carter family, great old bluegrass of the 1950's and the honky tonk steel sound of the 50's, gene autry, and gov. jimmie davis.  man-man that stuff has some awesome pickin and harmony singin the likes of which can't be duplicated by todays rockers or pop singers, and i don't mean maybe!!!!  like roy acuff used to say, " until you've plowed 40 acres lookin at the backside of a mule, you ain't lived". it's music that tells of dedication to hard work, family, home, god and country.

"Out in the west Texas town of El Paso..."

Big Iron

To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip for the stranger there amongst them had a big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip It was early in the morning when he rode into the town He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around He's an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each lip And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip big iron on his hip In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty four And the notches on his pistol numbered one an nineteen more One and nineteen more Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around Was an Arizona ranger wouldn't be too long in town He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red After Texas Red Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead Twenty men had tried to take twenty men had made a slip Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip The morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street Folks were watching from their windows every-body held their breath They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death About to meet his death There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about to-day Texas Red had not cleared leather when a bullet fairly ripped And the rangers aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground Oh he might have gone on living but he made one fatal slip When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip Big iron Big iron When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip