lol out of all those names you first listed i recognised seven of them, and like only three out all of them lol Brooks and Dunn are about the ONLY reason i still bother with country anymore. i like the stories that come with their CD's, Slim and Howdy.. and i like their New Mexico, western dessert style... which is something else i REALLY dig... old timey WESTERN music... Bob Wills, Gene Autry, Rex Allen and Rex Allen Jr.... i used to listen to their records (yes old fashioned 33 1/3 rpm records) when i was a kid. i stil have them too a lot of my art is inspired by the "Wild West" and their music.... Gun fighters, Cowboys, etc.... i love all of it

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I like some of the new ones because they are starting to go back to their roots. I love the old western songs like "El Paso", "Big Bad John", "A Boy Named Sue", and "Happy Trails", we have the original 8-tracks, yup! I wore out the Johnny Cash and C.W. McCall one.

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Big bad John was done by Jimmy Dean, you should check out two other songs by him... Oklahoma Bill (a RARE song about a War Dog who saves his handlers life) and Grasshopper Maclean(about an exsailor who adopts an abanonded boy) they're both sad songs but they give you chills..... and yeah some singers today are going back to their roots, like Paisley, but.... so few and far between. i dont like having to weed through all the stuff i dont like to find the good stuff. most times i listen to Boston Pete's Western Music station on Window's Media Player.. they play all the western stuff i love.

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sorry i sent that too soon.... helping clean up my grandmother's old place we found a couple boxes full of eight tracks... OUTSIDE!!! ruined of course..... along with an eight track player... Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, etc etc so on so forth... i was livid.... i could have killed the person who threw them out there.....

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A song I NEVER hear that I love is Ira Hayes (about the Native American guy who helped raise the flag on one of the Japanese islands (at the moment fatigue clouds my mind) and how the United States Government used him and how he died in a ditch drunk) by Johnny Cash, I really like that song, brings tears to the eyes and sadness to the heart but beautiful...

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Awwwwwwwwww that sucks! I have an eight track player that I helped my dad fix up and we have A LOT of them, because my mom joined that stupid club thing, we have over 100 of them.

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If you take a horses head & you gaze into their eyes, what do you see? You see a whole new person who doesn't judge you by your looks or how you dress. They see a friend who they can trust and love with their whole hearts.
We'll miss ya Barbaro & Admiral

Iwojima, i know that song by heart. There was a movie made about him too. I think it came out in the 50's, or maybe JUST as the war ended. but yeah, like most Native Americans, he had zero tolerance for alcohol, but in America, we celebrate our heros by.... getting them drunk... nice way to say thanks, eh?
the movie was as sad as the song too. i dont know any of the actors in it, and i'm pretty good at remembering that kind of stuff. I get to hear that song as often as i request it there's a radio station in a nearby town that plays all the old country western music and they usually do what ever their listeners tell them, so that's pretty cool in my book. most radio stations rarely answer their phones let alone play a request within minutes of you calling them.

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i dont know if this player can be saved. Allen might be able to work his magic on it, but... after being left out in the rain... i'm not so sure. my grandmother was always ordering stuff from all kinds of clubs lol she's got books still in the boxes they were shipped in because she never had time to read them all

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Do be do be do - Sinatra

Being part Native American, well, not part, more like a penny, but I look it in a way, it really hurts to see the disrespect that people have towards the people who they killed and stole from just because they were red. Stupid asses.

I wish our radio station did that but they are owned by a company and they have to follow their rules. I listen to the radio a lot but I really don't like DJ's that much. There is one who if I had the chance to, I would tell him what I think of him. He insulted what I am and was really obnoxious about St. Patrick's day and would play any half decent Irish tunes

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If you take a horses head & you gaze into their eyes, what do you see? You see a whole new person who doesn't judge you by your looks or how you dress. They see a friend who they can trust and love with their whole hearts.
We'll miss ya Barbaro & Admiral