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Saturday Morning Country: George Jones

Saturday, 4th September 2010

I've been listening to George Jones a lot, lately. So here's video of a younger Possum singing, in his usual style, Things Have Gonel to Pieces which is, I suppose, a decent-enough summary of an entire school of country music.


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Baron

September 4th, 2010 9:26am Report this comment

better than last week, also more relevant and not only to country music.

and now for something completely different, going in the opposite direction, too, a folk song from Bohemia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lrgGmKBKsE&feature=related

Frank P

September 5th, 2010 5:20pm Report this comment

Nice - but try this for size:

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/citizens/something_wonderful_never_1.php

Snowman

September 6th, 2010 11:28am Report this comment

Frank P @ 5.20:

powerful stuff, but could it be too late what with many ndms around?

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