Classic Track: Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music (Red Steagall)

[Jettvictery]

YeeeeHaaaaa!!! Hell yeah! Brings back memories!

[mikepgk]

also try some doug sahm 

[Flint3162]

I hope ththat you look up the musician named in the title....Bob Wills! He took Texas fiddle music and mixed it with swing, jazz, blues and was one the founders of Western Swing. Listen to some of the guitar work in his songs, and you'll understand why he is in the country AND rock halls of fame!

[mississippisheik1]

Sounds like he has Asleep at the Wheel backing him...used to drink Pearl Beer to this

[wa1ufo]

This is REAL!! Thanks!

[TheCINDYBATES]

SOOOOO GREAT!!!!!! WOW!

LISTEN TO THAT STEEL GUITAR

[roblok23]

should be pearl beer and it would be the perfect song. lol

[possumtail]

This remake is one of the best I've heard, but make no mistake, it is not the original recording from 1975. Notice when Steagall sings the word "beer" he stops the note abruptly and doesn't draw it out like on the original. He still sings it magnificently, though, and the musicianship is right there.

Remakes perfomed by original artists are annoyingly too common in the classic country genre you have to really be careful when purchasing CDs or downloads.

[lcnmezzetta]

As Jennings says, "when you cross the Red River, Nashville don't mean a thing".

[elc1960]

My mistake - Johnny Russell did "Rednecks, White Socks And Blue Ribbon Beer". I humbly beg forgiveness.

[elc1960]

By the way, I thought old Red was into "Rednecks, White Socks and BLUE RIBBON Beer"?

[elc1960]

As a kid, thanks to my Mom I learned to appreciate this style of country music. As an adult I listen to classic hard rock of the '70s, but I still have a warm place in my heart for this. I got started on Hank Williams (Senior), Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Porter Wagoner and Sonny James. Somewhere along the way, country became little more than pop music sung by Southerners. Dinah Shore was a Southerner who sang pop, but you wouldn't call her country, would you? I rest my case.

[deloufu]

It doesn't get any better than this wouldn't you agree?

[pedalhogg]

It's tunes like this that make people feel good! Too bad you can only hear it in a few places now...like Austin Texas!!

[ThePatula1]

Used to see them several times a year in the early 80s

Makes me wish for a cold longneck and a dance floor with sawdust

[gregzack1]

Great music from a great entertainer

[DeanSupernaturalFan]

I have tried to find a copy of David Wills song "There's a song on the jukebox" for I know 20 years. Thank you for posting it.

[jb92034]

@DeanSupernaturalFan --me too ! love that song

[moregearsnlevers]

Somewhere between the greed for money and sound judgment, the legends of country music were tossed aside for the outlandish sound they call country music today.

RJB Nashville, Tennessee

AGREED! Todays commercial driven, FM radio "country" consists nearly 100% of bad, cheesy, pop & rock that doesn't rock!(neutered rock!). Try some Dale Watson, Fred Eaglesmith, Redd Volkaert, Junior Brown, The Hollisters. Good country is indeed still alive people! Go see 'em live and in person, buy their CD's!

[BundyDOW]

ive seen junior brown live, great stuff! thanks for posting the names of these other musicians...you rock!

[diziamonddave]

@moregearsnlevers the trashville bullshit on the radio is nuthin but cheesy pops music with pedal steele and some fiddle mixed in. its crap. i remember in my teens saying i didnt like country. but then i heard COUNTRY. real raw shit rebel style not shania twain crap. yes a and dale watson kills it! i used to deliver to him when i werked for fedex! he lives in north austin!

[bug1965]

This is true Country and Western music.  I miss the good 'ol boys of yester year.

[Level9Lime]

Awesome!

Heard this song for the first time not long ago and I love it!

[Tom12x9]

My favorite song!

[marykmusic]

This is a classic! Thanks. My husband's been bugging me to find this song. --MaryK, Texas --Check out my music!

[23L]

Gerat tune, Flashbell!

Thanks for posting it!

Larry