ANSWERS/POINTS LS C&W WEEKEND March 8-9

[ghostjmf]

Spoiler

1. There You Go Again/Dolly Parton?

6. I don't remember this from Counting Flowers on the Wall/Statler Brothers, but hey

8. Leaving Louisiana (In The Broad Daylight)/Emmy Lou Harris (at least that's the version I know); May be a Rodney Crowell song?

9. You Don't Even Call Me By My Name/Steve Goodman, who wrote it! OK, I know he rewrote it specifically for that country singer who it turns out lied about being a jailbird etc (that's not why he rewrote it; he rewrote it to put in the drunk/Mom/dog/prison references Coe pointed out were missing, & all in one verse, too)....David Allen Coe (dunno if I have right 1st or middle name)

10. think I know but can't get it

[ghostjmf]

Spoiler

The version of "Never Even Call Me" (great! I got that wrong too!) I know has the last verse going:

I got drunk the day my Ma got out of prison
Took my dog & went to fetch her in the rain
But before I could pick her up
In my trusty pickup truck
She went & got run over by a damned old train

Now, part of this is Steve Goodman's own in-performance rewrite I was happy to have seen/heard many times (a lot of people, myself included, would be way happier if he were still around to let you all see/hear it from him too) & part may be my own rewrite of Goodman's rewrite. I dunno at this point.

Was it really me who put the dog in?

[fantine33]

1. All you gotta do is smile that smile
And there go all my defenses
But just leave it up to you and in a little while
You’re messing up my mind and filling up my senses

HERE YOU COME AGAIN - DOLLY PARTON

Marley and ghost get half credit for being close on the title.

2. You always said that I have multiple personalities
I bounce around somewhere between my dreams and realities
But where’d you dig up the audacity to ask me
How we’ve all been doing since you broke our hearts

LUCKY FOR YOU - SHEDAISY

This must have been popular at the time I wrote the game, since I'd admitted I didn't know much country after around 1983 and was going to try and put in some current stuff. I think a few people got it at the time, but at the time they were supposed to be the next Dixie Chicks. I guess not. Ha!

3. Her brother was on the sofa eating chocolate pie
Her mama was in the kitchen cutting chicken up to fry
Her daddy was in the back yard rolling up a garden hose
I was on the porch with Charlotte feeling love down to my toes

SWINGIN' - JOHN ANDERSON

4. Would you go away to another land
Walk a thousand miles through the burning sand
Wipe the blood away from my dying hand
If I give myself to you

WOULD YOU LAY WITH ME (IN A FIELD OF STONE) - TANYA TUCKER or DAVID ALLAN COE

5. The judge he smiled as he picked up his pen
Ninety nine years in the Folsom Pen
Ninety nine years underneath that ground
I can’t forget the day I shot that bad bitch down

COCAINE BLUES - JOHNNY CASH

This is on my treasured "Live at Folsom Prison" LP

6. You might talk to my doctor
He comes by each day at two
Everyone I meet here in this place is pretty strange
If you hand me my crayons I’ll be glad to take your name

I DON'T REMEMBER LOVING YOU - JOHN CONLEE

7. Call someone who’ll listen and might give a damn
Maybe one of your sordid affairs
But don’t you come ‘round here handing me none of your lines

HERE'S A QUARTER - TRAVIS TRITT

8. This is down in the swampland anything goes
It’s alligator bait and the bars don’t close
It’s the real thing down in Louisiana

LEAVING LOUISIANA IN THE BROAD DAYLIGHT - EMMYLOU HARRIS or THE OAKRIDGE BOYS

I have both versions and prefer Emmylou. And, yes, I think it was written by Rodney Crowell. Who was married to Rosanne Cash! How did I miss the potential bonuses here with #5? I guess I figured that 5 1/2 years later, I could chap Confessor and TLITF's asses and thought that would be fun.

9. You don’t have to call me Waylon Jennings
And you don’t have to call me Charley Pride
And you don’t have to call me Merle Haggard anymore
Even though you’re on my fightin’ side

YOU NEVER EVEN CALLED ME BY MY NAME - DAVID ALLAN COE or STEVE GOODMAN

You Don't Have to Call Me Darlin, Darlin got half credit.

10. Yeah the only kind of man that you ever wanted
Was one that you knew you’d never hold very long
Sittin’ there crying like I’m the first one to go

JADED LOVER - JERRY JEFF WALKER

Possibly my most favourite song ever (so much so that my brother has this as the personalized ringtone for my number on his cell phone).

Bonus Instrumental: Following in the footsteps of Duane Eddy and Link Wray, this famous rock instrumental group had their first smash hit (it reached #2 in 1960) with this cover of a Chet Atkins number.

WALK DON'T RUN - THE VENTURES

I didn't mean to imply that Chet Atkins wrote the song (I will generally state clearly if someone was the writer), only that his was the known version before The Ventures blew it out of the water. Doesn't look like it confused anyone, though.

However, it DOES give me the chance to point out that it was written by Johnny Smith, who has lived here since forever. He used to own a guitar shop (creatively named something like "Johnny Smith's Guitar Shop") that I used to go to all the time with my dad when I was a kid. Urban renewal took over and I don't think it's there anymore, though.

Bonus Bonus: The recording artist of one song in today’s game also wrote another one of today’s songs. Which artist and which two songs are they? (No half credit on this one, you need both songs.)

David Allan Coe (#9) wrote #6.

[fantine33]

POINTS (Includes participation points for stoppin' in and givin' a howdy!)

TLITF 140
hermillion 130
Confessor 120
mrkelley 110
melly 100
tbone 80
mini 75
mntetn 60
sports fan 60
ghostjmf 55
earendel 20
elwood blues 20
etaoin 20
nelly 20
starfish 20
vadame 20
sir galahad 10
marley 5
kroxquo 1
KT 1
littlebeast 1

Original 2002 points:

Again, not a lot of overlap, tbone, ghost and etaoin retain their knowledge, while starfish learned a Dolly song in the interim!

RevDodd 145
Barbarella09 110
MACRAE1234 80
TBone0806 80
two_eagle_bdm 75
Eyegor 70
HF_Jai 60
ghostjmf 55
a1mamacat 30
vandalrmc 25
etaoin22 20
mikehardware 15
RJS102254 15
starfish1113 0

[mrkelley23]

Can't figure out why I wasn't playing these.

Maybe I was on vacation....

[fantine33]

Can't figure out why I wasn't playing these.

Maybe I was on vacation....

You only played one day, and got a perfect score (no, I'm not telling you which one, ha!). So maybe you were just discerning back then.

[littlebeast13]

I know I only submitted humor answers for this game, but shouldn't I get credit for nailing Johnny Cash on #5, which, if I'd ever bother to go back and read the rules, should be worth more than just the 1 participation point?

I'm beggin' here, I tell ya'! It may be the only C&W points I get all month....

lb13

[fantine33]

I know I only submitted humor answers for this game, but shouldn't I get credit for nailing Johnny Cash on #5, which, if I'd ever bother to go back and read the rules, should be worth more than just the 1 participation point?

I'm beggin' here, I tell ya'! It may be the only C&W points I get all month....

lb13

You know, I looked at that twice and didn't know why, maybe because I thought you were so close when you used Oakridge Boys for an answer, but not the right one.

You not only get your 10 points, you get an extra 2 points. One for actually reading the answers and another one for totaling your score.